Routine Quotes - Page 10

Without wonder, men and women would lapse into deadening routine and little by little would become incapable of a life which is genuinely personal.

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

Think about Mann's own daily routine (ascribed to Aschenbach), read the extant diaries and the letters in which he discusses the novella's themes, and it won't be so obvious that the attraction to Tadzio is completely unprecedented; it also won't be obvious that what Aschenbach wants is full sexual contact.

I have a very set routine. I work six days a week, but only half days. I work from 9 in the morning till 1 in the afternoon, without any interruptions, a fair slug.

Of course. My sadness has become a routine that no one notices anymore.

I like to make big decisions when I am at home living a routine life, getting up, walking my dog, having breakfast, when I have no pressure. I do not like doing it when I making a film. It is too stressful.

For a person that's on tour, the environment is difficult. I don't want to come off sounding like, "Oh, it's so hard!," but it gets tough, after awhile. You need to take care of yourself. You need to sleep and you need to eat. Those things are hard to keep on any kind of routine.

You need a routine, to be able to spend some time with a person, and my lifestyle is constantly on the move.

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

I love not having a daily routine, just having the things I need with me and going anywhere in the world.

Had he known his death was imminent, he might have gone somewhere else. Instead, he did what we all do. He went about his dull routine as if all the days in the world were still to come. ~pg 4

You cannot merely expect culture to be a natural occurrence; it has to be taught and made a part of your everyday routine.

I don't have a routine, but I have used meditation to just decompress and focus.

The beatings, the beatings were so normal to me. The abuse was just routine. I didn't wake up the next day and say, 'Dre, why did you hit me?' We never talked about it the next day. Never.

There's nothing routine about 'Boardwalk Empire.' It's like being in some secret society where they call you up and tell you where to go: 'Meet us at the corner of such and so.'

Precipices are the routine routes of the unroutine men.

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

Repetition comforts me for a time, then closes in.

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

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

Definitely routine is the bedrock of our relationship.

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.

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.

Routine is part of coping.

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