Routines And Procedures Quotes & Sayings

I know, I know, I'm being a girl. — Gillian Flynn

You don't get better as you get older in your career. It's not natural to have your best years late in your career. So I'm trying to do whatever I can to keep my body feeling good for as long as I can. — David Ortiz

The number one problem in the classroom is not discipline; it is the lack of procedures and routines. — Harry Wong

To think of abstraction as an end in itself is undoubtedly letting oneself be led into a cul-de-sac and can only lead to exhaustion and impotence. — Jacob Epstein

where all is known, no narrative is possible. — Cormac McCarthy

No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys the writing, even if he doesn't get paid for it. — Irwin Shaw

On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters. — Gustave Flaubert

The worse the country, the more tortured it is by water and wind, the more broken and carved, the more it attracts fossil hunters, who depend on the planet to open itself to us. We can only scratch away at what natural forces have brought to the surface. — Jack Horner

Swallows The peppered sky chimes in the key of swallows. Arcing northward from Central America, dual citizens of the torn world, though native to the unity, wonderful yet I find myself dispossessed of wonder. Like the birds, we all sleep under bridges of one kind or another. When the core competency of a culture is strategic judgmentalism many things go rancid into the mean and meaningless. The routines set in, the procedures, the long, slow death-drone of sameness. The occasional lone hawk feathers up a bit of mild novelty here and there, then gets wing-clipped by celebritism, homeless in a cage. If my faith was real, I would abandon my luxurious pursuit of a mythopoetic identity and go fetch water for the dying. We are each and all the dispossessed if one child stands at our gates unwelcome. — James Scott Smith

I think stuff on the radio is mostly good, but it's just not what I'm into. I'm not into rap metal. — Jon Crosby

What everyone on this path shares is the inspiration to rest in uncertainty - cheerfully. The root of suffering is resisting the certainty that no matter what the circumstances, uncertainty is all we truly have. Pema's teachings encourage us to experiment with becoming comfortable with uncertainty, then see what happens. What we call uncertainty is actually the open quality of any given moment. When we can be present for this openness - as it is always present for us - we discover that our capacity to love and care for others is limitless. — Pema Chodron

Go learn the language. Go take some acting lessons. Start from zero like everybody else. — Roselyn Sanchez

I wrote about the Thai sex industry and people ask me how many bar-girls I slept with. I've just completed a short story about a High School shooting but nobody thinks I shot anyone. — Matt Carrell

Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight. For it is the only suffering that we endure without ever becoming used to it. — Colette

The best thing you can give yourselves ... is the gift of possibility. And the best thing you can give each other is the pledge to go on protecting that gift in each other as long as you live. — Paul Newman