If you ever have a mistake, you try to just kind of forget about it because if you carry that with you for the rest of the routine, then the rest of your routine might not go as planned. So you just kind of shake it off, and you just continue your routine like you didn’t fall.
I had a longing for ritual, something I could cling to, a routine to make me feel well and contented. I hoped that reading Bible commentaries and theological critiques would nudge me closer to some kind of absolute that I could hold up as a torch to light my way.
In gymnastics, the longest routine you do is a minute and a half, and that’s pretty tough to get through.
As a footballer you’re so in a routine, and you do the same things every day.
There’s a weird contrast between my usual daily routine and then my book coming out. It’s like someone’s just suddenly opened the curtains in a dark room, and everyone’s looking at you.
The abuse was just routine. I didn’t wake up the next day and say, ‘Dre, why did you hit me?’ We never talked about it the next day. Never. I can’t think of any time we had a discussion about the aftermath of what happened the night before.
Whether I’m doing a routine where I want to move people, or if I want to feel moved myself, I definitely tap into those moments where it’s not just dancing or movement. It might just be a hand gesture or just a slow look, or even just the way you slightly tip your head forward. These subtleties speak volumes.
At the time I just was like, I can’t believe I am on the show, and the first thing I have to do is an entire song and dance routine for the whole cast of ‘Mad Men.’
People expect you to play your best, so I go through a routine to prepare myself so that I know I’m physically and mentally ready – prepared for the game.
I seem to get motivated a few months at a time, and then something stressful breaks the routine, and I just fold.
I don’t want to do sing-and-dance routine. I believe script is the king, so I would go for powerful stories.
The only routine with me is no routine at all.
Keeping well groomed is a big part of my routine.
Ambiguity is our permanent state, isn’t it? We don’t like it being so. Most of us crave order and routine, and yet yawning before us is our future, as frightening as it is thrilling.
My day typically starts with an early-morning walk through Central Park. It’s a nice moment of calm before my routine starts.
We should be extremely cautious about continuing to increase sentences as a routine response to concerns over crime.
My routine is very simple because I realised that the more complicated the exercise sessions are, the less likely I am to make it for them. They have to be simple and doable in my daily routine.
Celebrate life in all its glory – challenge yourself to let the routine sing, and the new dance.
In the morning when I wake up, I’ll exfoliate. Then at night when I shower, I’ll also use an exfoliating scrub. My routine is easy, and I just get clean skin.
While we play for the club we are focused on usual routine, but when we are with the national team and the new kit is unveiled we feel closer to the World Cup.
I think it doesn’t really matter what you do for a career, that breakfast routine – get the kids ready, off to school and out the house – if you can have something in the fridge that you know and trust, and that you know your kids enjoy it then it makes your life so much easier.
I’m a creature of routine. When the regular season ends I immediately dedicate myself to getting game ready for the opener of the next campaign in the fall.
So, to come In with a set routine it’s something I’ve never believed in. It should depend on how you feel, because you play what you feel.
The first record with an artist oftentimes can be the most exciting. When it’s not routine for them, when it’s really new is the best moment in their careers.
My preparation and my routine are the foundations to my success.
Luckily I’m blessed with decent genes. But, that can change anytime. I know that it’s just not healthy to eat unhealthy. I do workout, and have gotten into quite a fixed routine of Pilates and strength training. And it’s not so much about the weight, but also about being healthy.
I make 18 three-footers after every round. It’s just something that helps me focus on routine, and helps me hear the ball go in the hole. It’s something I do every day.
I like to stretch myself and push the envelope, so anything that’s new or different or not of my daily routine, I am so for.
Children crave routine and find listening to the same stories over and over again soothing. If you’ve grown weary of the holiday books you’ve read your kid 7,883 times, try adding ‘dude’ to the end of every line of dialogue.
You can totally have a great little yoga routine in 20 minutes: 10 sun salutations and five or six standing poses and five minutes of stretching.
I can’t live just being content. I can’t have a routine. I can’t be settled because then I just get really frustrated.
I follow a routine on a daily basis, which comprises dance class, gymnastics, and going to the gym. I also spend about half an hour on yoga, too.
I thought of Jordan Spieth when I was putting, when he used to look at his target, he was reacting. That’s all he does. He takes a couple quick looks, if you look at his pre-shot routine, a couple quick looks, doesn’t stand over it too long, but he’s committed and he just reacts to the target.
My grandmother has strongly influenced my approach to beauty. She has always cared for her skin by cleansing and washing her face with warm water in the morning. At all times, she has lipstick on and her face is immaculately powdered – she follows the same routine to this day and looks great at 94.
I believe in singing to such an extent that, if I were asked to redesign the British educational system, I would start by insisting that group singing becomes a central part of the daily routine. I believe it builds character and, more than anything else, encourages a taste for cooperation with others.
Every single year, I have a routine of setting goals and there is only so much you can do at youth level.
My most cherished desire is to help our women come out of their routine chores and infuse in them the indefatigable spirit of adventure.
My idea is to bring out the inner child that my generation has inside, which does not go to sleep because of so much angst over the day-to-day routine. With so much going on, you start tuning out emotions and surprises.
I have a routine for a day I’m in the office and not really physically active. Or a day when I’m in the gym once or in the gym twice. Then I’ve got a road course routine and an oval routine because they’re different physically.
I need to keep my ad-libbing skills honed and make sure I’m able to banter with people and treat topics a bit more light-heartedly. But as a stand-up, first and foremost, my job is to make sure that I can write the routine that hopefully people will talk about when something big happens.
The lives of those such as Charles Darwin and Albert Einstein are plainly of interest in their own right, as well as for the light they shed on the way these great scientists worked. But are ‘routine’ scientists as fascinating as their science? Here I have my doubts.
Working in an underdeveloped land for two or three years, the volunteer will often find that his work is routine and full of frustration.
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.
I am into my routine and I believe in the following: exercise, adequate amount of sleep and a good diet.
Our education system has succeeded so far in teaching generations to do different routine tasks. So when tractors displaced farming labor, we taught the next generation to work in factories. But what we’ve never really been good at is teaching a huge number of people to do non-routine creative work.
I would watch ‘The Ed Sullivan Show’ and borrow a few lines here and there from guests like Red Buttons and Buddy Hackett to create a routine. Then I started getting invited to do political functions like the governor’s birthday ball or mayor’s dinner.
90 percent of the time I follow my usual healthy eating routine, but if it’s a date night or girls’ night out I’ll go for that slice of pretzel bread or dirty martini and not torture myself over it.
Mountaineering is one of the most difficult sports – we are away from routine life for days, living in tents, and it requires high degree of physical and mental strength.
I think what’s dangerous about being an actor who does action movies is you think, ‘Well, I can totally handle myself now.’ But if my opponent didn’t know the other half of the routine, I don’t know how well I’d do.
I recommend that people try new stuff or take new fitness classes all the time. It’s important to mix up your routine, not only for your body, but also for your mental state.
You can freak when you are at the Olympic Games. There are millions of cameras. Everyone is watching every move. Some people will trip where they would never trip in a routine. It’s the small thing that nerves really bring out in people.
Doing the sword fighting is like picking up a dance routine… I think dancing really helps with the picking up of it.
