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Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order. -- Arthur Helps
Routine kills creative thought. -- Scarlett Thomas
Routine is worry's sly assassin. -- Leif Enger
Routine is part of coping. -- Lorene Scafaria
The less routine the more life. -- Amos Bronson Alcott
Routine feeds the illusion of safety... -- Christopher Moore
Routine is the death to heroism. -- P. G. Wodehouse
The only routine with me is no routine at all. -- Jackie Kennedy
Routine, in an intelligent man, is a sign of ambition. -- W. H. Auden
Leaks and whispers are a daily routine of news-gathering in Washington. -- William Greider
Routine is not a prison, but the way to freedom from time. -- May Sarton
As long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of living, new dimensions of the soul will not emerge. -- Henry Van Dyke
Routine is a declivity down which many governments slide, and routine says that freedom of the press is dangerous. -- Jose Rizal
Routine is supposed to be the great deadener of souls; how much worse is the half-completed task, the broken round, the unfulfilled routine? -- Richard Brookhiser
Routine is a ground to stand on, a wall to retreat to; we cannot draw on our boots without bracing ourselves against it. -- Henry David Thoreau
Routine is the one thing the can get you killed. It tells the enemy where you're going and when you're going to be there. -- Anthony Horowitz
Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl's clothes off. -- Raymond Chandler
For an adult, the world is constantly trying to clamp down on itself. Routine, responsibility, decay of institutions, corruption: this is all the world closing in. -- Bruce Springsteen
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If we wish to have a beautiful, peaceful and safe home, we need healthy expanding roots that go deep into the ground. These roots are our Routine, our Stability, our Structure. -- Natasa Pantovic Nuit
Hire people who are better than you are, then leave them to get on with it. Look for people who will aim for the remarkable, who will not settle for the routine. -- David Ogilvy
Routine is really important. However late you went to bed the night before, or however much you had to drink, get up at the same time each day and get on with it. -- Mark-Anthony Turnage
Routine is the god of every social system; it is the seventh heaven of business, the essential component in the success of every factory, the ideal of every statesman. The social machine should run like clockwork. -- Alfred North Whitehead
My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
Out of routine comes inspiration. -- Mark Kostabi
Most people can't handle a structureless life. -- Douglas Coupland
The quiet people just do their work. -- Joyce Carol Oates
I like routine. It enables me to improvise. -- James Nares
The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine. -- Mike Murdock
If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal. -- Paulo Coelho
Man's usual routine is to work and to dream and work and dream. -- Raymond Queneau
If I don't paint for one day, I don't feel well physically or mentally. -- Raphael Soyer
One of the most meaningful things we can do as parents is teach our children the power of prayer, not just the routine of prayer. -- Tad R. Callister
Nothing will sustain you more potently than the power to recognize in your humdrum routine, as perhaps it may be thought, the true poetry of life. -- William Osler
The cumulative power of doing things the same way every day seems to be a way of saying to the mind: You're going to be dreaming soon. -- Stephen King
Each time we bring to routine activities an awareness of 'now,' we raise our vibratory frequency and cause the freshness of the moment to fall upon us. -- Michael Beckwith
To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks. -- Irving Kaufman
For the past eighty years I have started each day in the same manner... I go to the piano, and I play preludes and fugues of Bach... It is a sort of benediction on the house. -- Pablo Casals
I saw my mother in a different light. We all need to do that. You have to be displaced from what's comfortable and routine, and then you get to see things with fresh eyes, with new eyes. -- Amy Tan
Voluptuaries, consumed by their senses, always begin by flinging themselves with a great display of frenzy into an abyss. But they survive, they come to the surface again. And they develop a routine of the abyss: It's four o clock. At five I have my abyss... -- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
I'm remembering how this works. How life doesn't have to be only anxiety about what's gone wrong or could go worng, and complaints about the world around you. How a person you're excited about can remind you there's stuff going on beyond... routine oil changes and homework. Stuff that matters. Stuff to look forward to. -- Sara Zarr
The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine. -- John Stuart Mill
Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings. -- William Arthur Ward
Personalized beauty is about each woman being able to create her own makeup routine that complements her coloring and style. -- Bobbi Brown
Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying. -- J. Paul Getty
So, to come In with a set routine it's something I've never believed in. It should depend on how you feel, because you play what you feel. -- Buddy Rich
Nobody ever becomes an expert parent. But I think good parenting is about consistency. It's about being there at big moments, but it's also just the consistency of decision making. And it's routine. -- Sebastian Coe
We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed. -- Lawrence Clark Powell
It's incredibly liberating to spend an hour talking to someone and not caring about what you sound like. It's about understanding myself. Sometimes I'll speak to my therapist for an hour a day. It's become part of my routine. -- Shakira
There are many reasons our prayers may lack power. Sometimes they become routine. Our prayers become hollow when we say similar words in similar ways over and over so often that the words become more of a recitation than a communication. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
The important thing is to build up my cardiovascular system, so I have the stamina to do stunts. To me, stepping over the line, taking a chance and succeeding is the ultimate freedom, be it in rock and roll or when executing a really challenging routine. -- Wendy O. Williams
And costume is so important for an actor. It absolutely helps to get into character; it's the closest thing to you, it touches you. Some actors like to go into make-up and then put their clothes on, but I like to dress first; that's my routine. -- Gary Oldman
I did study the art of being a barber because I wanted to figure out what my routine would be. Do you start in the front or back? Top or bottom? Swivel the chair or walk around? What I did discover is there's no such thing as the perfect haircut! -- Sean Patrick Thomas
I had a longing for ritual, something I could cling to, a routine to make me feel well and contented. I hoped that reading Bible commentaries and theological critiques would nudge me closer to some kind of absolute that I could hold up as a torch to light my way. -- Jack Dee
Ironically, it is only when disaster strikes that the shuttle makes the headlines. Its routine flights attracted less media interest than unmanned probes to the planets or the images from the Hubble Telescope. The fate of Columbia (like that of Challenger in 1986) reminded us that space is still a hazardous environment. -- Martin Rees
I developed my training routine going into my senior year at Jackson State. I found this sandbank by the Pearl River near my hometown, Columbia, Miss. I laid out a course of 65 yards or so. Sixty-five yards on sand is like 120 on turf, but running on sand helps you make your cuts at full speed. -- Walter Payton
Prayer is a privilege and the soul's sincere desire. We can move beyond routine and 'checklist' prayers and engage in meaningful prayer as we appropriately ask in faith and act, as we patiently persevere through the trial of our faith, and as we humbly acknowledge and accept 'not my will, but Thine, be done.' -- David A. Bednar
I was always a clown. In the eighth grade I won a city speech contest by doing an Eddie Murphy routine. I'm no good at public speaking, but if I can assume a role and speak as that person, then I'm fine. When I had to give a book report, I always did it in character. -- Jason Wiles
There is comfort in routine. -- John Steinbeck
I'm a very routine-oriented guy. -- Curt Schilling
I'm not a fan of routine. -- Conor McGregor
My routine is all about preparation. -- Victor Cruz
... caprice is as ruinous as routine. -- Edith Wharton
Look for magic in the daily routine -- Lou Barlow
I have a timetable, but no routine. -- Lucian Freud
My life revolves around my child's routine. -- Shania Twain
The earth itself is slightly resistant to routine. -- Rebecca West
Definitely routine is the bedrock of our relationship. -- Masiela Lusha
Too many would-be executives are slaves of routine. -- James Cash Penney
Which is the supplement? Fantasy or daily routine? -- Mason Cooley
My son is my routine and priority, period! -- Cory Hardrict
How easily the routine of sin establishes itself. -- Gunter Grass
I don't like routine and I don't like rules. -- Dominique McElligott
Precipices are the routine routes of the unroutine men. -- Mehmet Murat ildan
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I was never a fan of Barack Obama's bipartisanship routine. -- Thomas Frank
My everyday beauty routine is always rushed and pretty simple. -- Cate Blanchett
With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable. -- Harper Lee
Sports should not become routine. It should be about passion. -- Kapil Dev
I'm very low-maintenance when it comes to my beauty routine. -- Eva Green
Revolution has become a sort of violent and hollow routine. -- Wyndham Lewis
The key to personal development lies in your daily routine. -- Idowu Koyenikan
Free your mind from routine, keep your brain somewhere else -- Benny Bellamacina
There is hope in extravagance, there is none in routine. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am a great believer in variations on the routine. -- Kaye Gibbons
Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine. -- Jacques Barzun
The natural rhythm of human life is routine punctuated by orgies. -- Aldous Huxley
Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy. -- Henri de Lubac
Simple is boring, challenging is routine, impossible takes a little longer. -- Kathleen Robertson
Don't mistake routine for commitment, just showing up is not enough. -- Tommy Amaker
Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine. -- Honore de Balzac
I tired of the routine of eight years in one afternoon. -- Charlotte Bronte
The discipline of fasting breaks you out of the world's routine. -- Jentezen Franklin
My normal routine is pretty much putting out fires all day. -- Vera Wang
I like having a routine, because everything else is so unpredictable. -- Jordana Brewster
The final result of too much routine is death in life. -- Gertrude Atherton
My daily routine is to make every day the best day. -- David Wolfe
Authors and uncaptured criminals are the only people free from routine. -- Vachel Lindsay
Simple rules guide innovative, intelligent responses. Comprehensive rules guide rote, routine responses. -- Jim Highsmith
The human spirit lives on creativity and dies in conformity and routine. -- Vilayat Inayat Khan
To the elitist hedonist, life is the avoidance of boredom and routine. -- Timothy Leary
My beauty routine is basically plenty of sleep and lots of water. -- Rebecca Gayheart
I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine. -- Caskie Stinnett
I always liked routine. I suppose I never found boredom very boring. -- John Green
As far as activities go, having a regular exercise routine is a must. -- Josie Ho
When we get in a routine we can become zombie-like and shut down. -- Tori Amos
Athletes today get into a single-minded, one sport routine. I can't stand it. -- Jack Nicklaus
Physical therapy is part of my offseason routine. That has helped me greatly. -- Jamie Moyer
It is only habit and routine that makes the void look like purpose. -- Jeanette Winterson
When God becomes routine rather than revival, it's time to switch things up. -- Lysa TerKeurst
Listen, sharing my life with people is just part of my daily routine. -- Rita Ora
Your house is all about routine, not the unexpected events of your life. -- Chris Van Allsburg
Of course. My sadness has become a routine that no one notices anymore. -- Paulo Coelho
Anyone who is desperate or alone will agree there is comfort in routine. -- Simon Van Booy
But time passes. Fear becomes a memory. Terror becomes routine; it loses its grip. -- Bernard Beckett
Physics is the only profession in which prophecy is not only accurate but routine. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
When intervening becomes routine, meaning there is no reason for it, only risks remain. -- Henci Goer
In marriage, the occasional catastrophic crisis is easier to manage than the daily routine. -- Edward Abbey
Once you find a warmup routine that works, repeat it as habitually as possible. -- Ted Corbitt
A man practices the art of adventure when he breaks the chain of routine. -- John W. Peterson

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