Routine Quotes - Page 2

Raise your quality standards as high as you can live with, avoid wasting your time on routine problems, and always try to work as closely as possible at the boundary of your abilities. Do this, because it is the only way of discovering how that boundary should be moved forward.

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

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.

Everyone can feel the nothingness, the void, just beneath the surface of everyday routines and securities.

Leaks and whispers are a daily routine of news-gathering in Washington.

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

The only routine with me is no routine at all.

How easily the routine of sin establishes itself.

I'm a big believer in anesthesia. I think it should be used for every medical procedure, indlucing routine physicals.

Will capitalist economies operate at full employment in the absence of routine intervention? Certainly not.

With Django Unchained, when you're dealing with slavery, it's like a gymnastics routine with the highest amount of difficulty. Quentin Tarantino is not going to do a movie that's just going to lay there and be safe. There's going to be twists and flips.

Superficial people are those who simply go along without a question in the world-asking nothing, troubled by nothing, examining nothing. Whatever people around them do, they do, too. That's a sad and plastic life-routine and comfortable, maybe, but still sad.

If you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow -- you are not understanding yourself.

I hate going to the gym and doing it the old-fashioned way. I hate anything that's too straightforward, too routine, too familiar. I get bored really, really quickly.

With every adversity comes a blessing because a shock acts as a reminder to oneself that we must not get stale in routine.

Realists are, as a rule, only men in the rut of routine who are incapable of transcending a narrow circle of antiquated notions.

I must write each day without fail, not so much for the success of the work, as in order not to get out of my routine.

I'm not a fan of routine.

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

It is not labor that kills, but the small attritions of daily routine that wear us down.

Over time, as the daily routines become second nature, discipline morphs into habit.

For I now realize that what overcame me that evening was a sudden awareness of the power of intuition, the supra-logic that cuts out all routine processes of thought and leaps straight from problem to answer.

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.

I have been writing in spurts, bit by bit. It is incredibly difficult. Everything is corroded, broken, dismantled; everything is covered with hardened layers of accumulated insensitivity, deafness, entrenched routine. It is disgusting.

Resolution without routine is like a Ferrari without gas...it might look real good but it will get you no where.