Routine Quotes

My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.

My weight fluctuates depending on my mood and my current devotion to my fitness routine.

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

And I not only inherited an aversion to the nine-to-five routine, but the sense from my parents that being bored and boring is the worst thing that you can be.

Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy.

In 12 or 15 years, there will be routine, affordable space tourism not just in the U.S. but in a lot of countries.

I go for my completely routine mammogram and then I get a call from my gynecologist. And she says, 'Well, I have some - it's not such great news, but here it is, but it's very small and we're just going to get in there and take it right out, right away, and then you'll probably have radiation.'

I think we were all frustrated with our daily routine.

You can start any 'Monty Python' routine and people finish it for you. Everyone knows it like shorthand.

Later on when it became a routine it was not as exciting I'll admit that. The first three years were wonderful, the rest were just money making and having fun.

I've worked for four presidents and watched two others up close, and I know that there's no such thing as a routine day in the Oval Office.

Close your eyes and place your finger on a map. Wherever it lands, that's the theme of the evening. So many times we settle for routine dishes. This forces you to try new cuisines.

The FBI, to its credit in a self-serving sort of way, rejects the routine use of the polygraph on its own people.

One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm.

Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order.

To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks.

Hire people who are better than you are, then leave them to get on with it. Look for people who will aim for the remarkable, who will not settle for the routine.

Once you get into a routine of eating healthy, it hurts twice as much when you fall off the wagon.

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

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

Some men like a dull life - they like the routine of eating breakfast, going to work, coming home, petting the dog, watching TV, kissing the kids, and going to bed. Stay clear of it - it's often catching.

Preventive medicine isn't part of a physician's everyday routine, which is spent dispensing drugs and performing surgery.

I saw my mother in a different light. We all need to do that. You have to be displaced from what's comfortable and routine, and then you get to see things with fresh eyes, with new eyes.

Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl's clothes off.

Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine.

So, to come In with a set routine it's something I've never believed in. It should depend on how you feel, because you play what you feel.

From my experience, politicians are much more uncomfortable being made fun of than they are being preached at and screeched at - you know, and the soapbox routine. They're much more uneasy knowing they're a target of ridicule.

I wasn't losing my focus but I was getting tired of focusing. What I was focusing on was becoming too routine, too ritual, not something that was interesting, new and exciting.

The less routine the more life.

As long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of living, new dimensions of the soul will not emerge.