Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying. – J. Paul Getty
Routine is a declivity down which many governments slide, and routine says that freedom of the press is dangerous. – Jose Rizal
Will capitalist economies operate at full employment in the absence of routine intervention? Certainly not. Are deviations from full employment a social problem? Obviously. – Janet Yellen
I’m almost a vegetarian. I have a very rigid exercise routine. I’m up at 6 A.M.; I take a lot of ginseng. – John Tesh
I prefer writing in the mornings, so to that extent I have a routine. I do reading and other things in the afternoon. – James Fenton
With ‘Django Unchained,’ when you’re dealing with slavery, it’s like a gymnastics routine with the highest amount of difficulty. Quentin Tarantino is not going to do a movie that’s just going to lay there and be safe. There’s going to be twists and flips. – Jamie Foxx
I initially signed up for Twitter just to do jokes I wasn’t going to do in my stand-up routine. – Jim Gaffigan
On average, since 9/11, the FBI reckons that just over 100,000 terrorism leads each year have come over the transom. Analysts and agents designate them as immediate, priority or routine, but the bureau says every one is covered. – Barton Gellman
In 12 or 15 years, there will be routine, affordable space tourism not just in the U.S. but in a lot of countries. – Burt Rutan
I’m not a compulsive writer. I wish I could be compulsive about something. I have no regular writing routine. – Cynthia Voigt
I miss the simplicity of college, with specific due dates, a consistent schedule, and a solid routine. – Chris Wood
You can’t enter the Olympics unless you do your routine to get in shape for it. The idea of going out on stage on a tour without having prepped for it would be suicide, literally. – Paul Stanley
Physics is the only profession in which prophecy is not only accurate but routine. – Neil deGrasse Tyson
One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm. – Ella Maillart
The stage is a routine. It keeps you grounded, like a metronome. I find that soothing. – Michael Shannon
A lot of white-collar work requires less of the routine, rule-based, what we might call algorithmic set of capabilities, and more of the harder-to-outsource, harder-to-automate, non-routine, creative, juristic – as the scholars call it – abilities. – Daniel H. Pink
I do things that are very uncharacteristic of a normal workout routine. I hate cardio. Absolutely hate it. I grew up as a wrestler, so it was constant cardio, cardio, cardio. – Mike Vogel