Routine Quotes - Page 12

Those things which now most engage the attention of men, as politics and the daily routine, are, it is true, vital functions of human society, but should be unconsciously performed, like the corresponding functions of the physical body.

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 smoke occasionally, but it's not a part of my routine. I mean, I don't need it.

Every congresswoman surely endures the same strains that drive some of her male colleagues to have affairs: lots of travel, families far away, heady work that makes a domestic routine seem distant and boring. But the stakes are much higher for women, because they are still judged by a different standard.

It's easy to get into an easy routine but the problem with that is you can tend to write the same song over and over again.

As estimated, you died. Things marched, sufficient, to that end. Just so much Zyklon and leather, patented terror, so many routine cries.

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

A technique I developed quite naturally to help me make smooth transitions was to use a word or phrase from the next routine in the preceding one.

I'm very low-maintenance when it comes to my beauty routine.

I have a regular cleansing, toning and moisturising routine.

For the scientific acquisition of knowledge is almost as tedious as the routine acquisition of wealth.

I have come to the belief that there is not merely an accidental relationship between bad writing and routine sociological research, but a wonderfully pure, integral relationship; the awkwardness is necessary and inevitable.

Writing should not be routine; writing should actually be the opposite of procedural because otherwise the written word would become a routine word.

In marriage, the occasional catastrophic crisis is easier to manage than the daily routine.

I don't mind releasing - I'm under a routine audit. And it'll be released.

Life becomes a lot simpler for a creative person when he or she finds the routine that works best. ... get in the habit of going through the routine every day, and on some of those days, you're going to be lucky and have done some good work. ... Go to your study, close the door, invent your confidence.

You have to have a strong sense of humor to date me, and also know that you're probably going to be a part of the routine quite a bit.

I'm a very routine-oriented guy.

As John Kerry sails toward the Democratic nomination, new questions are emerging about President Bush's service in the National Guard, like where he was for six months in 1972 and why he refused to take a routine physical. President Bush has vowed to get to the bottom of this right after Election Day.

My son is my routine and priority, period!

Your house is all about routine, not the unexpected events of your life.

There are very few distinctions between el bueno and el malo en la prisión militar. Instead of the good and the bad, there is the boring and la repetición - the repetitive. The routine is as endless as it is numbing.

Day-to-day life is as simple as it is routine - though my days are often long and very busy.

The laboratory routine, which involves a great deal of measurement, filing, and tabulation, is either my lifeline or my chief handicap, I hardly know which.

Rather, to change a habit, you must keep the old cue, and deliver the old reward, but insert a new routine.