#routine

Stop walking through the motions of a conditioned routine and start consciously taking action on your visualized intent. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#intent #routine #success #experience

There is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate incredible dulness. I need only suggest what kind of sermons are still listened to in the most enlightened countries. There are such words as joy and sorrow, but they are only the burden of a psalm, sung with a nasal twang, while we believe in the ordinary and mean. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#religion #routine #religion

I went along doing the one-salad-a-night routine for a year. And I remember feeling so tired and depressed and irritable. I had no personal life. I was always flying someplace - weekends, holidays, vacations. Dinners at night were no fun because I couldn't eat. ↗

— Carol Alt

#always #because #depressed #dinners #doing

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

— Tori Amos

#down #get #routine #shut

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. ↗

— John Desmond Bernal

#co-operation #complex #elements #employ #experimentation

I guess I forgot we were going out tonight." "We always go out on Fridays." "It's Thursday, Alvis." "You are so tied to routine. ↗

— Jess Walter

#humor #routine #beauty

My life revolves around my child's routine. ↗

— Shania Twain

#child #life #my life #revolves #routine

I did a play called 'On Golden Pond' in a dinner theater in Maine and then went to New York for a talent competition having put together a three-man juggling routine and some one-liners and I got myself an agent from that. ↗

— Patrick Dempsey

#called #competition #did #dinner #golden

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. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#am #analysis #atmosphere #crave #dull

Companies like I.B.M. have offered women scholarships to study engineering for years, and women engineers routinely get higher starting salaries than men. ↗

— Warren Farrell

#engineering #engineers #get #higher #i