Routine Quotations | Page 6

It's the stuff that happens right in front of your face when there's no routine and everything is unexpected. That's what I want to write about.

I'm not someone who has a lengthy attention span, and that applies to my exercise routine as well.

Pain is my daily routine. As long as I don't go to the hospital, it's nothing for me.

I developed a routine where if I didn't get into the gym and shoot every day, it felt kind of awkward; it felt like I was letting myself down.

I definitely made it a point this week to not let up because in the past sometimes when I have won, the next week I have not quite played as well. I was maybe a little lazy, so this week I wanted to keep the routine normal.

I come here wanting to win ... and I think it's great preparation for next week because you are getting into your routine so it becomes second nature.

I could see a screening breath test as part of a routine medical exam,

I don't think that's anything I need to think about. I was 37 last season, and I'll be 39 next season. I think since coming back from arm surgery (in 2000) I've shown I can pitch and bounce back, and that my routine has made me stronger.

I'd say that's a pretty routine play for him.

I don't think any of them understood (college basketball) until they got used to the incredible focus it take, the scouting reports, all the film. It was a challenge, and now it's become routine for them.

I don't think this is an inordinate amount of time for the jury to be out. Even in a routine felony case, the jury might be out four or five days, and this is anything but a routine case.

I do have the same routine in the on-deck circle ? I do the same stretches. But I don't listen to or wear the same thing. Actually, yeah I do. Against Western I wore my Snoopy boxers and I finally got two hits. I hadn't done that in a week or so. So I had to wear them against Belmont and I went 4-for-4, so I guess that's my my superstition, now. So I might be wearing my Snoopy boxers for a while.

Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine.

health workers are overwhelmed by injured and routine work is disrupted.

How easily the routine of sin establishes itself.

I felt my face stretch in a victorious smile. The potion had worked. I was inside. I had to suppress an urge to break into a soft shoe routine. Sometimes being able to use magic was so cool.

People who are genuinely involved in life, not just living a routine they've contrived to protect them from disaster, always seem to have more demanded of them than they can easily take on.

What I like is a life that is full of surprises and [that has] no routine.

Fatigue can make it hard to have faith. Too much busyness can make it hard to have faith. Too much of too little solitude can impact faith. For that matter, so can a bout of hunger or overwork, anything carried to an extreme. Faith thrives on routine. Look at any monastery and you will see that. Faith keeps on keeping on.

I marvel again at the nakedness of men's lives: the showers right out in the open, the body exposed for inspection and comparison, the public display of privates. What is it for? What purposes of reassurance does it serve? The flashing of a badge, look, everyone, all is in order, I belong here. Why don't women have to prove to one another that they are women? Some form of unbuttoning, some split-crotch routine, just as casual. A doglike sniffing.

The label of tasteful or tasteless is so often used to silence people and to maintain the status quo. It's used to shame people for not following the commonly accepted routine, for not aligning themselves with the status quo.

A new calling can beckon us away from comfortable routine and from competencies already acquired.

I knew that good like bad becomes a routine, that the temporary tends to endure, that what is external permeates to the inside, and that the mask, given time, comes to be the face itself.

There are players that try to imitate others, but at free-kick time it is a personal thing. Every person has their own technique and routine when they stand over the ball and I have mine, I am not trying to copy anyone.

In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.

I always liked routine. I suppose I never found boredom very boring.

My days had a pleasant identicalness about them. I had always liked that: I liked routine. I liked being bored. I didn’t want to but I did.

Routine is the death to heroism.

Hospitalizations in general are blurry. The days are the same, precisely the same. Nothing changes. Life melts down to a simple progression of meals. They become a way of life fairly quickly. You may welcome this transition. It may seem inevitable to you. You have been removed from the world. It is all right, in a way, because there is nothing so sure, so safe, as routine.

Consistency is a human word, but it certainly expresses nothing human.

As someone pointed out, you could have an attribute that says 'optimize the heck out of this routine', and your definition of heck would be a parameter to the optimizer.

When you're very successful, you become careless and try to turn many things into routine.

Repetition comforts me for a time, then closes in.

The same old thing--even if it's champagne--is still the same old thing.

The Ordinary Life: the misery seems planned, the happiness accidental.

The magic of procedure: do this after that and thus before so; then your wish will be granted.

Which is the supplement? Fantasy or daily routine?

You can be the most beautiful person on Earth, and if you don't have a fitness or diet routine, you won't be beautiful.

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...

That sense of happiness just out beyond my reach - I'm not sure I'd grasped that exactly, but I'd got something close to it, contentment maybe, or at least a functioning routine with regular rewards.

Anyone who is desperate or alone will agree there is comfort in routine.

I think she was the love of his life. When you've got one of those, it does stuff to you. It makes you think about them even when you're doing routine things. It makes you want to protect them, to make them happy and safe.

My beauty routine stays the same; I try to be well hydrated and rested. Most importantly, I always try to make a little time for myself!

I can't change your life till I can get you to change your daily routine.

Physics is the only profession in which prophecy is not only accurate but routine.

There is comfort in routine.

Routine is not a prison, but the way to freedom from time.

A body without bones would be a limp impossible mess, so a day without steady routine would be disruptive and chaotic.

Well, probably having to be away from home. When I come back I kind of feel like there's a routine going on that I'm not a part of, so that can be difficult.

One of the funniest lines in my show was written for me by Alan Bursky. I really want to learn this routine!

We must intend to live [the new spiritual awareness], to integrate each increased degree of awareness into our daily routine. It only takes one negative interpretation to stop everything.

You come in, you know the setup, it feels like home. You get into your routine and it definitely helps.

You can't get complacent and forget your routine. We've been in the same routine the past 16 weeks. I've never been to the playoffs, so this is my first time to guard against complacency.

You can't. Routine tests will not show inadequate intake.

Their issue is separation. The father works in Kansas City, and the mother is home looking after the triplets. They need a more consistent and actual routine in their lives. The children have aggressive behavior and no discipline.

These kind of festivals can be massive for an economy, ... You don't need to build new stadiums, pass tax levies to fund development. You utilize existing facilities, the stuff that's there. Once you get a routine down, it's healthy for everyone involved and people know it's a destination city

All I tried to do was make the routine plays and get on base for the big guys.

The greatest cruelties of our century have been the impersonal cruelties of remote decision, of system and routine, especially when they could be justified as regrettable operational necessity.

The hardest part for any ballplayer is to get into a routine, stick with it and believe this routine is going to get him to the next level. He just has not played that much baseball in his career. Once we get a grasp on his game, hopefully, sooner than later, we'll see where he is.

The growing tip is a small proportion of mankind. They will carry on. As a matter of fact, that is what is happening with the whole humanistic synthesis now; the groundbreaking is done by a few people, and most of the stuff is just routine or mediocr

A healthy body requires a daily routine of physical exercise and eating balanced meals. It's time for adjustment before we become adults.

A good manager identifies ways to mitigate routine problems and respond quickly to unexpected ones, freeing up more time for bigger-picture issues.

You want to make all the routine plays, but frankly that ain't quite enough. You've got to go beyond your limit every once in a while. I don't know how capable of that we are. Only time will tell.

You've got to make the routine plays, especially late in extra innings. It's frustrating.

All we want to do is get (the soldiers) out of their daily routine of what they're doing, ... But I'm sure they're going to play hard.

All we had to do was cut down on mistakes. We were making mistakes at the wrong time. We were averaging five or six errors that were routine balls.

The case at the MPSC is a routine process for determining our costs for 2004.

The company got notification from the IRS that Michael McDermott had been delinquent on his taxes and in a fairly routine procedure they asked the company to assist with garnishment of his wages, taking a percentage but obviously not all to pay off his back taxes,

I like having a routine, because everything else is so unpredictable.

Life, for the most part, inevitably becomes routine, the random confluence of timing and fortune that configures its components all but forgotten. But every so often, I catch a glimpse of my life out of the corner of my eye, and am rendered breathless by it.

The discovery in 1846 of the planet Neptune was a dramatic and spectacular achievement of mathematical astronomy. The very existence of this new member of the solar system, and its exact location, were demonstrated with pencil and paper; there was left to observers only the routine task of pointing their telescopes at the spot the mathematicians had marked.

The media day, it's pretty wild. They get their fill of that and they settle into a practice routine on Wednesday.

Early, as well as late, Rise with the sun, and set in the same bowers

The routine promotion of condoms through advertising has been stopped by networks who are so hypocritically priggish that they refuse to describe disease control as they promote disease transmission.

A champion doesn't become a champion in the ring, he's merely recognized in the ring. His “becoming” happens during his daily routine.

The left-hand modulator valve was changed the Saturday prior to the accident. It's a routine maintenance type thing. It modulates bleed air from the engine that's used for air-conditioning and pressurization of the aircraft.

The overall physical demand that Iraq has is pretty amazing. It's 130 degrees, and the soldiers are carrying about 100 pounds of extra gear. It's a pretty rigorous schedule and routine for them.

In other words, the barbaric acts carried out in this building were probably almost a matter of routine.

I have a timetable, but no routine.

Routine is part of coping.

Look for magic in the daily routine

Man is about to be deprived of a great pole - work routine. The nightmare of capitalist society is unemployment; the nightmare of cybernetic society will be employment.

The quiet people just do their work.

I've come down in the world. I've slid to a place where the ceiling is low and there isn't much room for me to move.Most of the time I'm good. I accepted my sentence and do not brood or look back. But sometimes a shift makes me remember. Routine is ruffled and a new start makes me suddenly conscious of what I've become -

I don't do well with changes in my routine. I read at least three newspapers a day, for example. I'm frustrated if for some reason I can't get ahold of all three.

The hardest thing about being an actor, and especially when you're a woman trying to also have a family and a relationship, is to maintain some sort of normalcy. With television, you might not be home a lot, but you have a routine.

Here's a tip...If you leave a girl crying you're probably not doing your Don Juan routine right, asshole.

There are substantial rewards for adopting a regular routine of investing and following it no matter what, and additional rewards for buying more shares when most investors are scared into selling.

Be still. In that focus, all else comes into focus. In that rift in my routine, the universe falls into alignment.

Most people are so constituted that they can only be virtuous in a certain routine; an irregular course of life demoralizes them.

Your future is found in your daily routine. Successful people do daily what others do occasionally!

It is the leisured, I have noticed, who rebel the most at an interruption of routine.

Routine kills creative thought.

My life revolves around my child's routine.

Every time a fellow golfer gives me a piece of advice I have thought about it. A different thing is that this advice can be introduced into my golfing routine.

A pre-putt routine helps you stay nice and relaxed so you can make the best stroke possible.

Don't mistake routine for commitment, just showing up is not enough.

Nothing had changed in my routine, except that when I went down the chippy and got me special fried rice, it would be wrapped in a newspaper that had my picture all over it.

I am afraid of getting married. Spare me from cooking three meals a dayspare me from the relentless cage of routine and rote.

My most cherished desire is to help our women come out of their routine chores and infuse in them the indefatigable spirit of adventure.