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"I keep to this routine every day without variation. The repetition itself becomes the important thing; it's a form of mesmerism. I mesmerize myself to reach a deeper state of mind."
"All the daily routine of life, our dressing and undressing, the coming and going from our work or carrying through of its various operations, is utterly without mental reference to pleasure and pain, except under rarely realized conditions."
"Let what is irksome become habitual, no more will it trouble you."
"The quiet people just do their work."
"Personalized beauty is about each woman being able to create her own makeup routine that complements her coloring and style."
"[Camila] was quite incapable of establishing any harmony between the claims of her art, of her appetites, or her dreams, and of her crowded daily routine. Each of these was a world in itself."
"Voluptuaries, consumed by their senses, always begin by flinging themselves with a great display of frenzy into an abyss. But they survive, they come to the surface again. And they develop a routine of the abyss: It's four o clock. At five I have my abyss."
"With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable."
"Try to find pleasure in the speed that you're not used to. Changing the way you do routine things allows a new person to grow inside of you. But when all is said and done, you're the one who must decide how you handle it."
"A child wants some kind of undisrupted routine or rhythm. He seems to want a predictable, orderly world."
"I never believed in a set routine. It should depend on how you feel, because you play what you feel."
"I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum routine of daily life."
"All individuals are different. Some of us just wouldn't be satisfied with just carrying out a routine job and being happy."
"We were doing the dance routine and I dislocated my knee. I've been doing stunts for a long time and it's kind of weird that I'd dislocate my knee just dancing."
"In gymnastics, the longest routine you do is a minute and a half, and that's pretty tough to get through."
"The renewed use of lobotomy today is particularly applicable to women: Because they do routine things, it is possible to take away their spirit of revolt, of debate, of criticism, and still leave them perfectly capable of making stews or washing dishes. It's terrible, this tendency to consider women something dangerous to society."
"The cumulative power of doing things the same way every day seems to be a way of saying to the mind: You're going to be dreaming soon."
"Most people are so constituted that they can only be virtuous in a certain routine; an irregular course of life demoralizes them."
"Too many would-be executives are slaves of routine."
"The natural rhythm of human life is routine punctuated by orgies."
