Physics is the only profession in which prophecy is not only accurate but routine.
You can start any 'Monty Python' routine and people finish it for you. Everyone knows it like shorthand.
Routinize the routine. The things that aren't important to you, whether it's breakfast or your commute, try to do them with the least energy possible so that leaves you with more energy for other things.
Nothing is more limiting than a closed circle of acquaintanceship where every avenue of conversation has been explored and social exchanges are fixed in a known routine.
Try to think of working out and healthy eating as a lifestyle. Rather than go on a diet or try a crazy exercise routine, try making them something you do every day.
Life, for the most part, inevitably becomes routine, the random confluence of timing and fortune that configures its components all but forgotten. But every so often, I catch a glimpse of my life out of the corner of my eye, and am rendered breathless by it.
Routine is worry's sly assassin.
Revolution has become a sort of violent and hollow routine.
I initially signed up for Twitter just to do jokes I wasn't going to do in my stand-up routine.
But time passes. Fear becomes a memory. Terror becomes routine; it loses its grip.
Resolution without routine is like a Ferrari without gas. . . it might look real good but it will get you no where.
The empiric easily degenerates into the quack. He does not know where his knowledge begins or leaves off, and so when he gets beyond routine conditions he begins to pretend-to make claims for which there is no justification, and to trust to luck and to ability to impose upon others-to "bluff. "
The earth itself is slightly resistant to routine.
Simple rules guide innovative, intelligent responses. Comprehensive rules guide rote, routine responses.
It is the leisured, I have noticed, who rebel the most at an interruption of routine.
Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order.
People are easily shocked when their routine is disrupted and their ease of travel is restricted. We are dealing with a complete new face of terrorism - killing for the sake of killing.
Once you find a warmup routine that works, repeat it as habitually as possible.
In other words, the barbaric acts carried out in this building were probably almost a matter of routine.
Athletes today get into a single-minded, one sport routine. I can't stand it.