One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm.
Ella Maillart
Habit is the beneficent harness of routine which enables silly men to live respectfully and unhappy men to live calmly
George Eliot
You have to be displaced from whats comfortable and routine, and then you get to see things with fresh eyes, with new eyes.
Amy Tan
Be regular and orderly in your life, that you may be violent and original in your work.
Clive Barker
Nothing will sustain you more potently than the power to recognize in your humdrum routine, as perhaps it may be thought, the true poetry of life.
Sir William Osler
Let what is irksome become habitual, no more will it trouble you.
Ovid
Its a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it
John Steinbeck
Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.
Oscar Wilde
The Ordinary Life: the misery seems planned, the happiness accidental.
Mason Cooley
Do routine things routinely well. Handle problems right now. Do something on every project every day. Be brave. Be kind. Be bold.
Bill Purdin
Wake up as an artist; be an artist each day. Do what is before you to do. Be still, open, and willing.
Aliye Cullu
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.
Ben Nicholas
Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to achieving your dreams.
Og Mandino