“ The regularity of a habit is generally in proportion to its absurdity. ”
- Marcel Proust- Copy
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“ By and large the literature of a democracy will never exhibit the order, regularity, skill, and art characteristic of aristocratic literature. Formal qualities will be neglected or actually despised. The style will often be strange, incorrect, overburdened, loose, and, almost always, strong and bold… ”
- Alexis De Tocqueville- Copy
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“ The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. Beethoven, Wagner, Bach and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand with as much regularity as an accountant settles down each day to his figures… ”
- Ernest Newman- Copy
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“ Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing. ”
- Thomas Fuller- Copy
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“ The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal. ”
- Andre Breton- Copy
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“ We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity… what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
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“ The species has no sting, and does not display active resistance when interfered with. I once imagined they exercised a sort of superintendence over the others; but this function is entirely unnecessary in a community where all work with a precision and regularity resembling the subordinate parts of a piece of machinery. ”
- Henry Walter Bates- Copy
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“ In 1904 my first novel, 'Cap'n Eri' was published. Other novels have followed with fairly annual regularity. They have all centered about Cape Cod and its people, for having thoroughly mastered the psychology of a type of American that was known, appreciated, though through an economic law, fast becoming extinct, it seems better to keep on picturing these people. ”
- Joseph C. Lincoln- Copy
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“ A building can be designed to satisfy by the month with the regularity of a provider. Or it can give satisfaction in a very different way, by the moment, the fraction of a second, with the thrill of a lover. ”
- Richard Neutra- Copy
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“ Method is the very hinge of business, and there is no method without punctuality. ”
- Richard Cecil- Copy
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“ The only good thing about punctuality is that it usually gets you an apology. ”
- Unknown- Copy
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“ I am a believer in punctuality though is makes me very lonely. ”
- E. V. Verrall- Copy
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“ Chelsea's consistency is beyond us. We want to be the nearest team to them, just in case they have a Devon Loch moment and collapse. ”
- Alex Ferguson- Copy
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“ Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates. ”
- Don Marquis- Copy
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“ The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it. ”
- Franklin P. Jones- Copy
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“ If I have made an appointment with you, I owe you punctuality, I have no right to throw away your time, if I do my own. ”
- Richard Cecil- Copy
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“ The simplest single-celled organism oscillates to a number of different frequencies, at the atomic, molecular, sub-cellular, and cellular levels. Microscopic movies of these organisms are striking for the ceaseless, rhythmic pulsation that is revealed… ”
- George Leonard- Copy
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“ A great factory with the machinery all working and revolving with absolute and rhythmic regularity and with the men all driven by one impulse, and moving in unison as though a constituent part of the mighty machine, is one of the most inspiring examples of directed force that the world knows. ”
- Thomas Nelson Page- Copy
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