Routines Quotations

Routines are normal, natural, healthy things. Most of us take a shower and brush our teeth every day. That is a good routine. Spiritual disciplines are routines. That is a good thing. But once routines become routine you need to change your routine.

It's so easy to get caught up in the demands of life. And we all take refuge at times in routines and recliners and 'usual' anything!

I think we get stuck in routines so easily that when an absurd moment in life seems to be there for no reason, it wakes you up out of your everyday pattern. You pull back and look at life a little bit wider because of that one weird thing you weren't expecting.

When I started, I was doing all the good comedians I'd ever seen. Then I developed my own voice. My routines are my natural way of looking at the world.

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

In the same way I am addicted to puddings - the sweeter the better - I have become addicted to the daily routines my Pilates and Gyrotonic guru, Nada, puts me through.

Our pride is tied up in being right. We tend to favor data that confirm our beliefs, so we don't see alternatives. Too often, leaders practice defense routines that become self-reinforcing.

I do better with routines and predictability. I don't react well when there's a sudden change in the schedule.

I guess I feel I'm masquerading as an adult when I don't have the kind of friendships and routines that I thought you were supposed to have as an adult. It's the 'Friends' lied to me! syndrome.

Some comics have long routines to get them in the mood - I just prefer to sit down, write out the same jokes in a different order and then have a little prayer that I won't be met by silence.

More than anything, it has been trusting and having confidence in our kids. It has been a lot of fun this year. Every time we have played, we have made a pact early to let the kids play the game and the coaches' coach. That is really what we did all year long. We have changed up some routines to enjoy it more. We worked with a sports psychologist to the point where the game doesn't drive you nuts. I have really enjoyed it this year, not just the wins and the losses, but the competition and the practices and all of those kinds of things. It's a learning process that we all go through.

Obviously these kids have been through a lot. Anything we can do to help them get back in their life routines is what we want to do.

Right from the beginning, ... he said, 'You should do all your routines in that voice.' And I said, 'But I can't stand that voice.' And he said, 'But it's funny. It makes people laugh.'

I have little routines in the theater. Once I've established something, like the order of putting on makeup and a costume, I have to invariably do it in the same order every time, even if I only did it by chance the first time round.

For Yvette to win she would have to hit her routines without mistakes.

Getting back in little routines create a great deal of safety so just getting up in the morning and packing their backpack, coming to the same place, seeing the same people.

I enjoy every second I'm in the gym. I love to challenge myself, push myself; obviously there's a lot of different routines and a lot of different stuff we do - love cycling, and again, it's part of my lifestyle.

For the team, it's been a gradual process. We're still in the thick of it, and we have better routines and better form than most of the teams out there.

I have absolutely no rituals or routines other than I work obsessively and think constantly about my work, to the dismay and discomfort of everyone I employ. And my family.

Having Karen in the gym has been such a huge plus for us because she is so good at the choreography and dance and the look of the routines on beam and floor. She is a also a Level 10 judge, so she is able to tell the girls what the judges look for and where certain deductions come.

We have three weeks to focus on details, final matching of the routines and improving our lift height.

There aren't too many teams out there that we can't compete with, if we hit all our routines as well as we can. There are teams that are clearly ranked higher than we are, but all you can do is go in and throw out the best game that you can throw out there and see how that ranks up against everyone else.

We've been training our bodies to get ready for routines for two days and maybe even longer.

I said all along I felt all along it would come down to the last rotation and we would have to go out and hit our floor routines exceptionally well to win the meet. This Stanford team is a great team. They just beat UCLA and they tied us two years ago at nationals.

People in third-world countries are less eager to see movies full of angst over existential problems, and who can blame them. They've got other fish to fry. They'd rather see a few great dance routines and the guy end up with the girl.

Last weekend really showed that our team can put things together. It's just really early in the season and we're still working out kinks and changing routines around a little bit. But we're really starting to figure out what we need to do to be competitive.

Last week we missed seven of the last twelve routines of the day between beam and floor. I know that the people who missed want another shot.

Our focus was to just go in there and hit our routines and replace our lowest scores of the season. That was our initial goal and if we won, that was an added benefit and we did and it was just unbelievable!

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I think habit is a big part of the game, and we go through all these routines as a team. I think coming back here, we feel like we know this facility. We know the locker rooms probably as good as anybody.

It feels great, even though I had a mistake on the floor. Mostly all my routines are new compared to the World Championships, so I think I just need a little more time to get consistent.

I think we are going to do really well. We've got great routines and a lot of experience.

I thought we were good, but we had a few areas we could have just done better. I think we had a couple key routines that weren't really solid. There were some teams that were a little better than us tonight.

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We were here last week. I am really proud of this team. We were picked sixth and won the conference. We made it to the finals of the conference tournament. I think habit is a big part of the game. We go through routines as a team. We know the facility. We know the locker rooms better than anyone. We know the altitude. We hope to get fans from the conference. We feel really comfortable here.

Those are two very good and extremely talented teams. Our main concern is sticking our routines though. I'm not concerned about who wins the meet. We just need to score well.

We have a lot of cheerleaders who come because they can better their routines with the practice they get here with the classes.

We have changed our training a little this year; our routines have gotten longer. To get prepared for this season, which is unusual because of the new rules making routines longer, we have done far more conditioning. We have been working with the strength and conditioning coach more this year than in previous years.

We do more routines as the regional gets closer.

Whoever hits their routines will take it. I still say the beam will determine it.

We've been working very hard on our routines for quite a while. It was really hard to put it all together and still be there for all the basketball games.

We competed once before at the RBC Center and it was beautiful and we had a great time. It is more work in setting it up and such, but it is worth it cause we get the video highlights of routines and just get to go out and compete somewhere else. Everybody at NC State does such a great job in preparing for our regular meets in Reynolds, and I'm sure everybody will be just as excited to pull off a great meet at the RBC Center.

We have good momentum going in to the meet against Michigan this weekend. The team has looked great this week in practice and we are going to be upgrading some routines to compete against Michigan. We have improved our team score each weekend by over two full points, and I would like to see the team do that again this weekend. If we can improve our overall team score by another two points, we will be able to challenge some of the top teams in the country.

Things went really well. We did all our routines the best we could.

The staff has been encouraged to recognize that this is a transitional period in which old routines probably should be questioned because what has been perfectly acceptable may become dramatically less so.

The three girls in our top rotation seem to be taking turns at the top spot. The best thing would be for all three to hit their top zones Saturday. They have the potential to do that. The other girls are contributing and continuing to build. They're cleaning up their routines and things that cost you 10ths (of a point).

The team as a whole had a solid performance. We just had a few bobbles, but we had fairly consistent routines on the balance beam and the uneven bars.

While I was very pleased with our consistency, hitting 23 of 24 competitive routines and 6-for-6 in exhibition routines, our execution still needs work. We gave away far too many deductions for missed handstands on bars and steps on landings on all four events.

Adam's workouts and routines are kind of legendary. This is probably one of the best trained athletes on the league. He's extremely serious about football. We never talked any business until he felt comfortable about seeing how he would fit in with us.

But, then again, we had a break on floor. It was just a little bit untidy. We almost finished the meet off. It could have been (a great meet) with a couple more floor routines a little more solid, and a couple more bar routines a little more solidly performed.

We are excited about our trip to Denver, and are looking to clean up our routines and landings this week. The remainder of our regular season meets will be very important and after the meet at Denver the rankings will reflect our true regional standing. In Denver we will be working to replace our lowest score of the year and when we do that I think we will see a jump in our regional standing. Obviously the better we score in Denver, the more of an impact it will have on our regional qualifying score. Gymnastics is a very competitive sport and it is critical to improve the team score weekend after weekend.

You write values questions people can agree or disagree to, and then you use some fancy statistical routines to be able to characterize who's in what group.

All of her routines start at a 10.0. We worked long and hard during the summer to develop that.

Even as we get older, we get in these routines - and routines are nice and comfortable - but I think that it's important to live life to its fullest and try different things. Because you never know what you're going to learn. You might not like it, you might like it.

I'm very lucky. I have a really supportive husband in Henry, and there's my mum, too. I couldn't have a career and manage the kids' routines and household thing single-handedly. I'd just go crazy.

I'm not really nervous yet. There is nothing to be nervous about - just train your routines so that you're ready for the competition.

I'm excited for the girls, they were both real solid tonight. We'll work on polishing up our routines this week for the state meet.

I just want to do my personal best, whether or not I win, and stick all my routines and make it as perfect as I can.

I just want to go out there and hit the routines like I know I can hit them. Last year, it was crazy watching all the teams around me, trying to figure out what was going on. This year, I feel like we've seen most of the best teams in the nation, and I get to see them again, and I know what to expect.

I'm not happy about the time of year we're playing the WBC. It's going to make me change my plans to get ready for the season, especially a player like me, who's played 15 years, and players who have routines we follow every spring. I wish we played after the World Series.

I was a big disco-dancing child really. My friend and I were constantly making up routines and flinging ourselves around and doing the splits.

The last thing you want to do is to re-engineer the core workflows to such a degree that hardly any employee can follow it, or document it. Especially with small businesses, where routines are sometimes entrenched, knocking over the sacred cows all at once can be disorienting.

Their routines are prepared because they're the routines they used at sectionals. This week we might upgrade them, or we may not. You have to give it your all at the state competition. There's no holding back.

Their floor routines were clean and they did what they needed to do. I knew what we scored on the first three events, but I didn't let the girls become aware of what they needed. I wanted them to focus and just do the best they could do.

It's inevitable that I'll think about it but it's a case of going through the same routines and rocking up tomorrow to take each ball as it comes and, hopefully, each run as it comes.

It went more smoothly than it did last year. We had a year to learn the routines of the building, the entrances and exits. It was less hectic than last year because parts of the building had been closed off last year.

They came out of there with a swagger I haven't seen before, and they've kept it all week. Our goal is for us to hit 24 routines and be close enough to put pressure on Georgia when they're on the last event on the balance beam.

I just tell them they've got to hit for themselves. The more routines they hit, the more confidence they'll get.

I hope I can get in the door with that. He's been fun to talk to. I get an enjoyment out of talking to him, just getting to know his routines and what I'm going to need to do to make him as good as he can be.

Before the routines were not as aerobic. Now we need to train more.

Homework routines are important. A mistake that many parents want to make is that all their children have exactly the same routine for homework. And any parent with more than one child can tell you that children learn differently from each other.

It was pretty similar to last week, but the mistakes were in different events. Pretty much all of us brought out our routines (from practice), which all of us had trouble with in competition.

Its hard to break out of Routines there, If I wasn't in this band, I'd probably be stuck doing some retail job. We lived near malls, and that's just what you would do. A lot of people I know ended up as, like, a manager at the Gap.

It was like a perfect meet. They stuck all of their routines and I was really happy.

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The girls are excited to go out there and have a last crack at their routines and end on a great note. We feel fortunate that we all qualified ... and can do it together.

It's the same as last weekend and the weekend before. It doesn't matter who we're competing against because our routines are the same. That's the approach I want them to take. It shouldn't feel harder because it's Georgia. It's the same routine they do every day in the gym.

That's quite a few routines for a freshman class.

That's the first time the entire band practices together. Everything comes together then. The kids learn the drill (their individual places and movements on the field) and put that together with the music or (colorguard) routines they've been working on all summer.

As a kid, I loved leading 'dance camp' in my garage for the neighborhood kids. I would choreograph really intricate routines for us to perform. It was so much fun!

As a kid, I remember wearing a checkered suit and appearing on-stage in the routines worked out by the 'baggy pants' comedians.

They didn't even know they were missing. Apparently they were going about their normal daily routines and it never occurred that someone might be looking for them.

They have difficult routines and are trying hard stuff, but once they hit their routines they will be hard to match up to. It could end up being one of our strong points.

They are really competitive. They have some cleaning up of their routines to do before then, but they should be ready by the time we leave for Las Vegas.

It was disappointing to lose to Pittsburgh tonight. We were sloppy tonight and didn't have the clean landings like we did at West Virginia, so those tenths added up in the team score. We always want to see the team constantly improve but there were no major mistakes. We just need to get the routines cleaner and move on to Denver next week.

We are up against an extremely talented Stanford team next weekend. The fans are going see a meet that is going to come down to the wire. It's going to come down to who hits the final two routines of the meet. It will definitely be a sit on the edge of your seat type of meet and an awesome display of gymnastics.

We go to college, live together or marry, and have kids - often with little more thought to the daily routines of raising children than our grandparents gave them, when women by and large stayed at home.

It's about getting their feet wet. That's why you want players who have a chance to win a job next year, guys who can start learning the routines at this level.

We had three strong events today. We looked good on vault, bars and beam. On floor, the training caught up to us. Our legs weren't there. I am extremely proud of the way we competed out of the blocks to start the season. We still have a long way to go. We watered down some routines as far as difficulty and skill.

I came in here just jaded from the meet. The team did so great but you want a title. I had four chances and I was lucky enough that I had some routines good enough to do that.

I figured it would be really close. I told the ladies coming into the meet that we would have to really hit our floor routines to win.

I couldn't have asked for any better way to go out. Obviously making it to Super Six would have been great, or making it as an individual would have been great, but I went out and hit the best routines that I have hit all year.

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