Quotes of Routine - somelinesforyou

“ First we form habits, then they form us. Conquer your bad habits, or they'll eventually conquer you. ”

- Dr. Rob Gilbert

“ Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice. ”

- Nora Roberts

“ Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death. ”

- Arthur Schopenhauer

“ The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds. ”

- Walter Bagehot

“ A rut is a grave with no ends. ”

- Alan Lampkin

“ Habits change into character. ”

- Ovid

“ In every age of well-marked transition, there is the pattern of habitual dumb practice and emotion which is passing and there is oncoming a new complex of habit. ”

- Alfred North Whitehead

“ Make good habits and they will make you. ”

- Parks Cousins

“ Successful people are simply those with success habits. ”

- Brian Tracy

“ The regularity of a habit is generally in proportion to its absurdity. ”

- Marcel Proust

“ Vanity is what makes the man in a rut think he's in the groove. ”

- Evan Esar

“ If we use common words on a great occasion, they are the more striking, because they are felt at once to have a particular meaning, like old banners, or everyday clothes, hung up in a sacred place. ”

- George Eliot

“ I would advise you to keep your overhead down; avoid a major drug habit; play every day, and take it in front of other people. They need to hear it, and you need them to hear it. ”

- James Taylor

“ It's just like magic. When you live by yourself, all your annoying habits are gone! ”

- Merrill Markoe

“ The creative processes are so mysterious. ”

- Jimmy Webb

“ Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are done by ordinary materials. ”

- Benjamin Haydon

“ No one is ever ordinary. ”

- Tanith Lee

“ There is immunity in reading, immunity in formal society, in office routine, in the company of old friends and in the giving of officious help to strangers, but there is no sanctuary in one bed from the memory of another. The past with its anguish will break through every defense-line of custom and habit; we must sleep and therefore we must dream. ”

- Cyril Connolly

“ Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking; where it is absent, discussion is apt to become worse than useless. ”

- Leo Tolstoy

“ The less routine the more life. ”

- Amos Bronson Alcott

“ Habits… the only reason they persist is that they are offering some satisfaction. You allow them to persist by not seeking any other, better form of satisfying the same needs. Every habit, good or bad, is acquired and learned in the same way — by finding that it is a means of satisfaction. ”

- Juliene Berk

“ Habits are formed by the repetition of particular acts. They are strengthened by an increase in the number of repeated acts. Habits are also weakened or broken, and contrary habits are formed by the repetition of contrary acts. ”

- Mortimer J. Adler

“ In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry of idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train your children. Teach them right habits then, and their future life is safe. ”

- Lydia Sigourney

“ It's just as easy to form the habit of succeeding as it is to succumb to the habit of failure. Habits aren't instincts; they're acquired reactions. They don't just happen; they are caused. Once you determine the original cause of a habit, it is within your power either to accept or reject it. ”

- Unknown

“ The individual who wants to reach the top in business must appreciate the might of the force of habit and must understand that practices are what create habits. He must be quick to break those habits that can break him and hasten to adopt those practices that will become the habits that help him achieve the success he desires. ”

- J. Paul Getty

“ Constantly practice the habit of inwardly gazing upon God. You know that something inside your heart sees God. Even when you are compelled to withdraw your conscious attention in order to engage in earthly affairs, there is within you a secret communion always going on. ”

- A. W. Tozer

“ Every political system is an accumulation of habits, customs, prejudices, and principles that have survived a long process of trial and error and of ceaseless response to changing circumstances. If the system works well on the whole, it is a lucky accident — the luckiest, indeed, that can befall a society. ”

- Edward C. Banfield

“ It is generally recognized that creativity requires leisure, an absence of rush, time for the mind and imagination to float and wander and roam, time for the individual to descend into the depths of his or her psyche, to be available to barely audible signals rustling for attention… ”

- Nathaniel Branden

“ The stricter standards and independent, often conclusive, evidence in the physical sciences cannot be generalized to intellectual activity as a whole, even though the aura of scientific processes and results is often appropriated by other intellectuals. ”

- Thomas Sowell

“ I don't have the exact number, but we didn't lose much in regular competition. The conference, I'm assuming, will be tough as usual. Sandwich, Reed-Custer and Seneca will be very good and tough to beat. ”

- Adam West
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