Routine Quotations

The only routine with me is no routine at all.

Whether I'm doing a routine where I want to move people, or if I want to feel moved myself, I definitely tap into those moments where it's not just dancing or movement. It might just be a hand gesture or just a slow look, or even just the way you slightly tip your head forward. These subtleties speak volumes.

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

Fashion and wearing clothes is a daily routine for everybody. What better way to spread the word of giving back and philanthropic ways of life than to wear something that gives back to charity?

The dull routine of our daily job takes on a new significance, assumes a beauty and importance undreamt of before, if we consider it from the angle of service to God.

You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

I eat healthy when I can; I eat a burger when I want, and I work out. You have to live with the routine that keeps your body the healthiest, and that's what I do - I don't change it for a swimsuit shoot. You have to figure out what works with your body the best.

Soldiers and peasants lived together on friendly terms; they knew each other and their everyday routines, and trusted each other; they shook their heads together over the war.

I do a lot of mixed martial arts - it's like unlimited fighting. I do Brazilian jujutsu, beach volleyball. I don't like my routine to get stale, so I also lift kettle bells and push cars.

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

It wasn't until I had been writing on and off for maybe ten years that I started to establish any kind of routine, thought I couldn't put a finger on an exact date, and this routine relates simply to the aphorism 'How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time.'

I initially signed up for Twitter just to do jokes I wasn't going to do in my stand-up routine.

Ironically, it is only when disaster strikes that the shuttle makes the headlines. Its routine flights attracted less media interest than unmanned probes to the planets or the images from the Hubble Telescope. The fate of Columbia (like that of Challenger in 1986) reminded us that space is still a hazardous environment.

It isn't that I don't tackle issues; it's just that they're secondary to giving somebody an escape route from the banal routine of everyday life.

Having - and keeping to - a regular exercise routine is crucial. And forget about those extreme diets - they aren't healthy.

I think what's dangerous about being an actor who does action movies is you think, 'Well, I can totally handle myself now.' But if my opponent didn't know the other half of the routine, I don't know how well I'd do.

When I was a kid, my daily routine was playing make-believe, and I kind of created these stories throughout the day. And when it came time to go to preschool, my English wasn't really so great because my mother wanted me to learn Ukrainian, so she signed me up for these children's theater groups.

My son is my routine and priority, period!

Some very famous directors have started in the mail room, which is just getting inside the studio, getting to know people, getting to know the routine.

Love of, and respect for, the humble routine of everyday life and its creatures was the only moral commandment which carried conviction when I was a child.

We were doing the dance routine and I dislocated my knee. I've been doing stunts for a long time and it's kind of weird that I'd dislocate my knee just dancing.

I travel often, so my routine is always getting scrambled. But on a standard sort of day, I get up at 6, pack lunches, hustle the kids off to school, then brew a pot of coffee and head downstairs to the dungeon, as I call it: my cobwebby office in the basement.

I have to tell you I enjoy Jon Stewart. That's the truth. I actually think he's very funny. I've paid to see him do his stand-up routine.

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.'

Prayer is a privilege and the soul's sincere desire. We can move beyond routine and 'checklist' prayers and engage in meaningful prayer as we appropriately ask in faith and act, as we patiently persevere through the trial of our faith, and as we humbly acknowledge and accept 'not my will, but Thine, be done.'

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

As experimentation becomes more complex, the need for the co-operation in it of technical elements from outside becomes greater and the modern laboratory tends increasingly to resemble the factory and to employ in its service increasing numbers of purely routine workers.

The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine.

In gymnastics, the longest routine you do is a minute and a half, and that's pretty tough to get through

As a busy working mom I'm always pressed for time, so a quick and easy beauty routine is key!

The career of politics grants a feeling of power. The knowledge of influencing men, of participating in power over them, and above all, the feeling of holding in one's hands a nerve fiber of historically important events can elevate the professional politician above everyday routine even when he is placed in formally modest positions.

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.

Camp life is demanding, and even the simplest daily routine becomes a chore in a climate with 90 per cent humidity, not to mention the bugs.

Starting at age 10, my personality and my identity all stemmed from employment. I had a set to be at. I was a certain way with the cameraman, a certain way with the makeup lady - a normal, routine environment.

I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very little original thinking to do.

I used to be very routine-based and the new thing in my life is not having a clear, full-time existence.

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

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

I'm definitely up in weight. I'm looking forward to getting an exercise routine again. It's like a daily decision.

No one pretends anymore that the Olympics are just about sports. It's routine to talk about what effect holding the Games in this or that capital will have on the host country's international reputation, how a nation's prestige can be raised by its medal count.

Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine.

My everyday beauty routine is always rushed and pretty simple.

Governmental aid is a drawback rather than an assistance, as, although it may facilitate in the routine of artistic production, it is an impediment to the development of true artistic genius.

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

I drove right into the music with the same sort of attitude as I went into the football stuff with. Just found a routine and hard work, and it helped me progress a lot faster.

Men of routine or men who can do what they are told are not hard to find; but men who can think and plan and tell the routine men what to do are very rare.

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.

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.

The stage is a routine. It keeps you grounded, like a metronome. I find that soothing.

The domestic lives we live - which may be accidental, or not entirely of our making - help to make possible our writing lives; our imaginations are freed, or stimulated, by the very prospect of companionship, quiet, a predictable and consoling routine.

The most important thing about technology is that it can seamlessly work its way into your routine and your life.

I have a routine for a day I'm in the office and not really physically active. Or a day when I'm in the gym once or in the gym twice. Then I've got a road course routine and an oval routine because they're different physically.

There's steps that I've taken already, and each week, talking with the sports psychologist on a routine basis and working with the different programs that we're going through. This is all stuff that you can say you're going to make a difference, but I'm putting it into action.

There was a time when researchers imagined that Plan B, or the morning-after pill, might become not an emergency form of contraception but a routine one; women would take it once a month to induce a period and never even know whether they had gotten pregnant.

I'm a big sleep guy. I think my schedule sorta starts with sleep and making sure I get enough of it. I'm an eight-plus hours guy. I would love to sleep more. I definitely try to create a routine and not stray from that routine at all, but I will take advantage of having an off-morning. And I really have become a fan of the 20-minute catnap.

Scheduling down time as part of your routine is hard but worth it, personally, even professionally.

I don't have a daily routine, beyond brushing my teeth. It changes every day.

You can't enter the Olympics unless you do your routine to get in shape for it. The idea of going out on stage on a tour without having prepped for it would be suicide, literally.

As with most things in my life, I believe you should try to enjoy yourself and never feel like you are a slave to a routine.

In mid-July 2007, after a routine mammogram, I was diagnosed with breast cancer. As cancer diagnoses go, mine wasn't particularly scary. The affected area was small, and the surgeon seemed to think that a lumpectomy followed by radiation would eradicate the cancerous tissue.

Let what is irksome become habitual, no more will it trouble you.

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.

Yoga is at the core of my health and wellness routine; even if it's only for 10 to 15 minutes I find it helps me to re-center and to focus as well as improve my overall core strength.

It gets harder every day to get out of bed. I don't feel like it loads of the time. It is only my exercise routine which wakes me up.

Too many would-be executives are slaves of routine.

My normal routine is pretty much putting out fires all day.

It feels wistful to imagine a time when people didn't go about their daily routine with the assumption that at any moment another massive media technology will be dumped on us by some geek in California.

There are ways to stimulate being prolific, and part of that is making pilgrimages, and being open to listening, changing up the routine.

The highest of highs is to have a new routine that you're just breaking in and that's working, and that's - you're one step removed doing a situation comedy because you have a live audience there.

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

When we get in a routine we can become zombie-like and shut down.

People spending more of their own money on routine health care would make the system more competitive and transparent and restore the confidence between the patients and the doctors without government rationing.

Dentists seem to me very orderly, businesslike people who appear to become somewhat bored with the routine of their work after a period of time. Perhaps I'm wrong.

I have a personal little routine that I do in my dressing room just to kind of get myself mentally prepared to go on stage, and part of that is a poem that I read to myself.

I was relaxed, went through my routine and knocked them down. I wanted them to keep fouling me.

I worked very hard to prove myself to them at camp. We drilled from one end of the gym to the other end, had to teach a routine to the class in front of Billy and pass a written and physical test. I had never been so sore.

I was sitting in ninth place overall and went into that last event thinking I was going to go all out, ... If I messed up really bad, it wouldn't make any difference, but I really hit the routine . . .

I was pleased with the score. We all knew our routine wasn't as difficult as some of the other squads competing. It took a lot of courage for our cheerleaders to go out on the mat knowing that.

My goal for both individual and team is: keep improving. It's hard to not get caught up in the routine of being considered the top of the MAC. We always need to make ourselves better and strive for the next tier of competitiveness. Never be satisfied.

One snap shot of me walking down the street from a camera above, sure that's not really an invasion of privacy, but when you're able to connect the dots of my entire routine throughout the day, that's another story. Our laws haven't kept up with that, and yet technology is creating those problems for us.

One staff member is missing after going on a routine mission to check the water temperature of the lake.

Monday will be a big, big game for us but we are going to continue to take it one game at a time and stay with the routine that we know and trust right now.

Of course, any product can be overused ... so people should listen to their own bodies and adjust their routine if necessary. But I would caution against confusing rare examples of overuse with the typical experience.

Maybe it was too routine a play. He's saved us so much through the course of the year.

Potentially, there are 1 to 2 million people in the population who could be diagnosed using this criteria, ... We think that many will be diagnosed, since it's a relatively easy test to perform on routine blood work done in a doctor's office.

No Palestinian official should talk about or threaten bloodshed, but yet it is a routine pattern in this region for the Palestinian Authority to, in effect, incite violence,

Right now, everybody's kind of locked in a little bit. They have a little routine that they're doing every day. If I have to say something I've just got to tell them, 'You're out in front,' or 'You're behind,' just little stuff. Right now those guys are in good position.

I'd love to be able to get my hands on Oliver, the sooner the better. I'd like to get him a routine and stretched out for the start of the season.

I don't know a kid who worries about their future and what they are going to do afterward who plays well at this point. You've got to be routine in what you've done thus far and keep that focus.

I didn't ask him to do a lot. I just wanted him to manage the offense, get the guys in and out and make simple, routine throws. I wanted him to feed the ball to those young backs.

I'd like to be able to recall every J. Lo music video dance routine ever, naturally.

I didn't go through my normal routine and it happened so fast because it was for double bogey. It was just one of those things and I'm not sure exactly what happened,

If we're not there on the routine basis, some will get relaxed a bit. They'll lean toward getting away from (meeting standards). We just don't have the manpower to be there as often as we should.

If we receive a request under that legislation, then we would handle it in the routine way we would handle any such request, and routinely we have granted the request for an investigation if asked by the appropriate council,

We're concerned not only because animals suffer during these routine castrations but also because of the message it sends to students who are still forming opinions about treatment of animals in our society.

Much of education is out of touch with the value of practical experience compared to academic experience when it comes to technical trainer positions. When I spoke to ASE about this, I used our newsletter as an example. It had seven ads in it for automotive faculty and six out of the seven required at least a bachelor's degree. In reality, when it comes to automotive degrees, an associate's degree is pretty much the routine degree that technicians would secure.

(Mindy) has been working hard all year, and today everything fell into place. The team played good, solid defense behind her and made all the routine plays.

She loved it; she's already so much more comfortable with the water. At 6 months, if a baby takes the class continually they get into the routine of the class.

Maintaining a predictable routine is critical to helping your pet adjust to changes in life. Most issues that come up between babies and pets can be prevented with a little advanced planning.

She wants to get better. You walk into our gym before practice starts, you'll always find Jess at a basket working on her strengths and weaknesses. She starts every day with a routine that allows her to maintain her excellence.