Routine Quotes

623 Routine quotes by 528 unique authors

The process of socialization is nowhere near complete at age five or six, when modern children start spending up to half their waking hours taking… — Quinn Cummings
I did a play called 'On Golden Pond' in a dinner theater in Maine and then went to New York for a talent competition having… — Patrick Dempsey
My fave routine is The Roller Coaster. First of all it's a great way to get into a card trick, without stating it's a card… — Steve Valentine
I've always wanted to sail to the South Seas, but I can't afford it. What these men can't afford is not to go. They are… — Sterling Hayden
To be truly challenging, a voyage, like a life, must rest on a firm foundation of financial unrest. Otherwise, you are doomed to a routine… — Sterling Hayden
This is the great challenge: to maintain passion for the everyday routine and the endlessly repeated act, to derive deep gratification from the mundane. — Thomas Keller
Good habits are developed in the workshops of our daily lives. It is not in the great moments of test and trial that character is… — Delbert L. Stapley
Bureaucratic solutions to problems of practice will always fail because effective teaching is not routine, students are not passive, and questions of practice are not… — Linda Darling-Hammond
Traveling provides occasions for shaking oneself up but not, as people believe, freedom. Indeed it involves a kind of reduction: deprived of one’s usual setting,… — Nicolas Bouvier
Some very famous directors have started in the mail room, which is just getting inside the studio, getting to know people, getting to know the… — Kenneth Anger
In marriage, the occasional catastrophic crisis is easier to manage than the daily routine. — Edward Abbey
The world of A.D. 2014 will have few routine jobs that cannot be done better by some machine than by any human being. Mankind will… — Isaac Asimov
You always think, 'Oh, if only I had a little chalet in the mountains! How great that would be and I'd do all this writing'… — Margaret Atwood
God, how pointless and empty the world is! Days filled with cheap and tarnished moments succeed each other, restless and haunted nights follow in bitter… — Malcolm Lowry
Perfection is a theory. You cannot be a perfect human being, perfect artist. You cannot be a perfect husband, you cannot be a perfect father… — Mikhail Baryshnikov
I learned not to go in the sun early on in my career. A tan lasts for a week or two before it fades, and… — Heidi Klum
One of the most destructive forces in the world is love. For the following reason: The world is a conglomeration of objects, no, of events… — Kathy Acker
I didn't want to repeat my parents life. I saw in their lives a routine and a lack of dreaming, a lack of the possibilities,… — Hugh Hefner
Organizations, by their very nature are designed to promote order and routine. They are inhospitable environments for innovation. — Theodore Levitt
How could any entrepreneur, confronted by such amazing opportunities to help transform the world and to do so with such extraordinary colleagues, be tempted to… — Bill Drayton
There happen to be whole large parts of adult American life that nobody talks about in commencement speeches. One such part involves boredom, routine, and… — David Foster Wallace
Personally, I'm tired of hearing the whole have-you-no-decency routine from people who have made quite clear that they possess none themselves. — Glenn Reynolds
The working of great institutions is mainly the result of a vast mass of routine, petty malice, self interest, carelessness and sheer mistake. Only a… — George Santayana
Artists lead unglamorous daily lives of discipline and routine, but their work is full of passion. Each has a vision and feels responsibility to that… — Unknown Author
Mathematics is much more than computation with pencil and a paper and getting answers to routine exercises. In fact, it can easily be argued that… — John A. Van de Walle

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