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I'm such a tease and you're such a flirt Routines and schedules A drug that'll kill you -- Thom Yorke
It was true; always had been. Friendships were like marriages in that way. Routines and patterns were poured early and hardened like cement. -- Kristin Hannah
Workers develop routines when they do the same job for a while. They lose their edge, falling into habits not just in what they do but in how they think. Habits turn into routines. Routines into ruts. -- Robert J Kriegel
In today's globalized world nothing is sure. Routines are falling; stereotypes are breaking. Life has never been as piquant as it is now. So go out of your way; leave your cocoon. Do that crazy thing and be happy you did it. -- Ogwo David Emenike
Routines are normal, natural, healthy things. Most of us take a shower and brush our teeth every day. That is a good routine. Spiritual disciplines are routines. That is a good thing. But once routines become routine you need to change your routine. -- Mark Batterson
there must be a routine to life, a framework to hang life on. Routines were what kept you sane, gave you something to do at this moment and at that, definite places to go, positive things to do. Abandon it and that way madness lies. -- Ruth Rendell
Routines may include taking a warm bath or a relaxing walk in the evening, or practicing meditation/relaxation exercises. Psychologically, the completion of such a practice tells your mind and body that the day's work is over and you are free to relax and sleep. -- Andrew Weil
Every athlete acquires routines as a way to help control nerves. -- Hope Solo
My routines come out of total unhappiness. My audiences are my group therapy. -- Joan Rivers
I always tried to do things by example, even though I was not a very good mother regarding routines and family life. -- Vivienne Westwood
Investing in management means building communication systems, business processes, feedback, and routines that let you scale the business and team as efficiently as possible. -- Fred Wilson
I love to go to the gym for a couple of hours daily. Besides, I love my dancing routines; dance helps me unwind, de-stress, and introspect. -- Terence Lewis
I was depressed as a child. I found it hard to make friends. My favourite thing was locking myself in the bathroom and practising comedy routines. -- David Walliams
Soldiers and peasants lived together on friendly terms; they knew each other and their everyday routines, and trusted each other; they shook their heads together over the war. -- Ernst Toller
Dancing was always part of my culture growing up in Barbados. When I shot my 1st video I worked really hard with my choreographer to perfect the routines. -- Rihanna
I love the comfort of daily life's routines: things like being able to read a paper on the subway. It's no accident that my favourite word is 'quotidian.' -- Elizabeth Strout
When I started, I was doing all the good comedians I'd ever seen. Then I developed my own voice. My routines are my natural way of looking at the world. -- Bob Newhart
I used to be more of a sporty girl. I love outdoor activities. I haven't been doing much since living in Vancouver. I have my routines down in L.A. -- Lana Parrilla
One of the huge imbalances in life is the disparity between your daily existence, with its routines and habits, and the dream you have within yourself of some extraordinarily satisfying way of living. -- Wayne Dyer
Receiving far less attention are the working class heroes, who go about their solitary work routines with quiet dignity, come home from another grueling day, yet still find time to interact with their children. -- Armstrong Williams
I found that dance, music, and literature is how I made sense of the world... it pushed me to think of things bigger than life's daily routines... to think beyond what is immediate or convenient. -- Mikhail Baryshnikov
That's what I've wanted to do my whole life, just act. When I was younger, I loved to entertain people. I always used to make up dance routines, do little plays. I love to perform, basically. -- Cara Delevingne
Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting. -- Nancy Gibbs
Getting organized in the normal routines of life and finishing little projects you've started is an important first step toward realizing larger goals. If you can't get a handle on the small things, how will you ever get it together to focus on the big things? -- Joyce Meyer
Who wouldn't like to give up normal life? I mean, normal life, you know, is the second worst thing to death itself. I think normality is something that makes everything very static, and I try to make my days, my daily routines, as uneven and rich as possible. -- Vik Muniz
When I first started doing my comedy act, I just desperately needed material. So I took literally everything I knew how to do on stage with me, which was juggling, magic and banjo and my little comedy routines. I always felt the audience sorta tolerated the serious musical parts while I was doing my comedy. -- Steve Martin
It's important to be gentle about my routines. I've learned that the hard way. When I'm really stressed out, I can take it out on my body and hurt myself. Sometimes I need to be as loving and soft with myself as possible. I've had to learn how to pay attention. It's a kind of mind-set. -- Lisa Edelstein
End-of-the-world stories tend to ring true. I've always been drawn to them, but as I wrote my own, I found surprising pleasure in creating a world that is so radically changed, yet where there's so much meaning and value in every small and ordinary thing we have, and take for granted: hot showers, enough food, friends, routines. -- Karen Thompson Walker
We all fall into our habits, our routines, our ruts. They're used quite often, consciously or unconsciously, to avoid living, to avoid doing the messy part of having relationships with other people, of dealing with a person next to us. That's why we can all be in a room on our cell phones and not have to deal with one another. -- Andrew Stanton
I like a lot of things about yoga - its an intro to good music; with each good teacher you study with, you learn a lot about them personally; it's not just about specific technique or poses. I also like Shavasana - not too many exercise routines let you nap at the end of them. You don't see nap pods in CrossFit gyms. -- Charles Michael Davis
There are always things I find difficult - being in crowds, remembering faces. I do like routines. I always travel with someone. My life in Avignon is a very quiet one. I have an apartment that looks over the whole city. I can drop into town, but a lot of the time I write from home. In some respects I still live a very quiet, simple life. -- Daniel Tammet
Yesterday's adaptations are today's routines. -- Ronald A. Heifetz
When you make mistakes during routines, it's not easy getting through them. -- Alicia Sacramone
Because of our routines we forget that life is an ongoing adventure. -- Maya Angelou
The routines of tourism are even more monotonous than those of daily life. -- Mason Cooley
Over time, as the daily routines become second nature, discipline morphs into habit. -- Twyla Tharp
I do like routines. Waking up the same time, go to bed the same time. -- Andrew Luck
These are the routines that originally 'put me on the map' in the magic world. -- Jay Sankey
My occupation doesn't really allow for routines, but I'm pretty consistent about tea in the morning. -- Asher Roth
Everyone can feel the nothingness, the void, just beneath the surface of everyday routines and securities. -- John Zerzan
Some of the routines come back very easily. We do it off the top of our heads -- Jerry Stiller
Along with bathing and eating your veggies, releasing emotions needs to become part of our daily routines. -- Jude Bijou
Namby-pamby little routines that don't speed up your heartbeat and make you sweat aren't worth your while. -- Jane Fonda
Instead of relying on expensive marketing, habit-forming companies link their services to the users' daily routines and emotions. -- Nir Eyal
Nuclear war would mean abolition of most comforts, and disruption of normal routines, for children and adults alike. -- Willard Libby
I don't think women's prisons are environments for dance routines, and I don't think mass murder is humorous." -- Natalie Merchant
Creativity doesn't just happen - you make it happen. Changing daily routines is one way to access creativity. -- Nita Leland
I don't think women's prisons are environments for dance routines, and I don't think mass murder is humorous. -- Natalie Merchant
The number one problem in the classroom is not discipline; it is the lack of procedures and routines. -- Harry Wong
User habits are a competitive advantage. Products that change customer routines are less susceptible to attacks from other companies. -- Nir Eyal
I do better with routines and predictability. I don't react well when there's a sudden change in the schedule. -- Gretchen Rubin
[To] me organized religion, the formalities and routines, [is] like being marched in formation to look at a sunset. -- John D. MacDonald
The ordinary routines of life are never chronicled by the historian, but they make up almost the whole of experience. -- Peter Ackroyd
I'm a golf junkie. I watch every tournament pretty much. I watch interviews. I watch warm-up routines. All that stuff. -- Stephen Curry
If you meditate you will be able to find new ways to utilize your career and the routines of daily life. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
I've always thought people would find a lot more pleasure in their routines if they burst into song at significant moments. -- John Barrowman
Like flossing, frequent engagement with a product, especially over a short period of time, increases the likelihood of forming new routines. -- Nir Eyal
I don't have time for any special skin routines. Many a night I go to bed with the gloppy mascara and all. -- Keri Russell
As a kid, I remember wearing a checkered suit and appearing on-stage in the routines worked out by the 'baggy pants' comedians. -- Seymour Cassel
Darwin paid particular attention to disconfirming evidence. Objectivity maintenance routines are totally required in life if you're going to be a great thinker. -- Charlie Munger
Over the centuries, religion has become institutionalized, and in the process encrusted with elaborate hierarchies, top-heavy bureaucracies, highly specialized roles and reflexive routines. -- Gary Hamel
Whenever a climber leaves the known paths, he enters an area without rules or routines... The only advice comes from deep inside the self. -- Wojciech Kurtyka
I used to get so comfortable running the hurdles, I was just like a ballet dancer going out there and going through the routines. -- Rod Milburn
People hold an image of you and project that image when they feel you are changing. Disappear for a while. Break up your routines. -- Frederick Lenz
I took literally everything I knew how to do on stage with me, which was juggling, magic and banjo and my little comedy routines. -- Steve Martin
I aim for weekly routines with clear goals but make sure I do some stuff that I think I'll value in the long run. -- Jose Gonzalez
That's what life is: repetitive routines. It's a matter of finding the balance between deviating from those patterns and knowing when to repeat them. -- Joseph Gordon-Levitt
For any budding cricketers listening, do you have any superstitious routines before an innings, like putting one pad on first and then the other one? -- Tony Lewis
When you have kids, I think it makes them feel safer and be in a space to grow more and recognize patterns when routines exist. -- Michael Adam Hamilton
For me, personally, it is very important that the days are exactly the same, so I have routines. I do the same thing every day. -- Karl Ove Knausgard
I read about writers who have routines. They write at certain times of the day. I can't do that. I am always writing-but in my head. -- Jamaica Kincaid
Walking back and forth also helps by creating the illusion that you are thinking of the routines on the spot, giving your performance a more spontaneous feeling. -- Franklyn Ajaye
I want to spend as much time as possible with my children, so I always like to keep my beauty and fashion routines effortless... but still chic! -- Liya Kebede
I don't think I'd ever get thin, but I don't see why I should necessarily think that I couldn't You can't live your life for your routines. -- Alexei Sayle
I want to spend as much time as possible with my children, so I always like to keep my beauty and fashion routines effortless but still chic! -- Liya Kebede
I don't think I'd ever get thin, but I don't see why I should necessarily think that I couldn't... You can't live your life for your routines. -- Alexei Sayle
The secret to being alone is to organize your time; to develop habits and routines and gradually elevate their importance to where they seem almost like normal, healthy activities. -- Daniel Clowes
After so many years, I've learned that being creative is a full-time job with its own daily patterns. That's why writers, for example, like to establish routines for themselves. -- Twyla Tharp
The best agencies understood the importance of routines. The worst agencies were headed by people who never thought about it, and then wondered why no one followed their orders. -- Charles Duhigg
As a kid, I loved leading 'dance camp' in my garage for the neighborhood kids. I would choreograph really intricate routines for us to perform. It was so much fun! -- Daniella Monet
Writing about why you write is a funny business, like scratching what doesn't itch. Impulses are mysterious, and explaining them must be done with mirrors, like certain cunning slight-of-hand routines. -- Patricia Hampl
Old dogs can be a regal sight. Their exuberance settles over the years into a seasoned nobility, their routines become as locked into yours as the quietest and kindest of marriages. -- Gail Caldwell
People need routines. It's like a theme in music. But it also restrictsyour thoughts and actions and limits your freedom. It structures your priorities and in some cases distorts your logic. -- Haruki Murakami
Our pride is tied up in being right. We tend to favor data that confirm our beliefs, so we don't see alternatives. Too often, leaders practice defense routines that become self-reinforcing. -- Nina Easton
I feel like I've always been in love with dance. When I was little kid I would always be the one who would be like, okay let's make up some dance routines. -- Stephen Boss
In the same way I am addicted to puddings - the sweeter the better - I have become addicted to the daily routines my Pilates and Gyrotonic guru, Nada, puts me through. -- Ben Elliot
How much you discipline your mind to step out of its routines and look into new ways of doing things that you haven't yet adopted, is what will determine your economic potential. -- Paul Zane Pilzer
If organized religion has become less relevant, it's not because churches have held fast to their creedal beliefs - it's because they've held fast to their conventional structures, programs, roles and routines. -- Gary Hamel
Like an athlete, [dance] is an everyday job. You have to stay in shape - unless you just want to loaf through a couple of hoofing routines. But that just didn't satisfy me. -- Gene Kelly
I feel I have proved myself just as much as everybody else does. I usually don't think about the past too much. I just try to perform the routines I have been practicing. -- Jordyn Wieber
I'm very lucky. I have a really supportive husband in Henry, and there's my mum, too. I couldn't have a career and manage the kids' routines and household thing single-handedly. I'd just go crazy. -- Sophie Kinsella
The power to change is already within you, ready to be discovered. Find new methods to deal with old routines. It is up to you to make the conscious choices that bring a better future. -- Lynn C. Tolson
I found that dance, music, and literature is how I made sense of the world... it pushed me to think of things bigger than lifes daily routines... to think beyond what is immediate or convenient. -- Mikhail Baryshnikov

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