Quotes: Routine

I’ve worked for four presidents and watched two others up close, and I know that there’s no such thing as a routine day in the Oval Office.

One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm.

Special-interest magazines are dangerous places for writers to start out in because the writing quickly falls into a routine and people are likely to find themselves artistically exhausted when they want to work on something of their own.

Hire people who are better than you are, then leave them to get on with it. Look for people who will aim for the remarkable, who will not settle for the routine.

We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed.

Most of life is routine – dull and grubby, but routine is the momentum that keeps a man going. If you wait for inspiration you’ll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.

Too many would-be executives are slaves of routine.

I think we were all frustrated with our daily routine.

Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy.

Well, probably having to be away from home. When I come back I kind of feel like there’s a routine going on that I’m not a part of, so that can be difficult.