Routine Work Quotes:

You see, the Foreign Service of the United States has grown so unbelievably in the last twenty years, and the requirements for admission are so high, and yet an awful lot of the work, I'd say fully 50-percent of the work in the Foreign Service abroad, is really routine work. All this is something that no one has licked.... You get a certain amount of discontent. It's bad for morale.

- Charles E. Bohlen

topic: Years, Routine Work, Twenties, Foreign Service

Goering got into endless arguments with other officers [and] he did not like routine work.

- Richard Overy

topic: Routine Work, Goering, Argument

In order to find balance, I feel very strongly about two things in particular in terms of routine. Work out, and eat well.

- Kamala Harris

source: "The Lenny Interview: Kamala Harris, the Senate Hopeful, Going After Revenge Porn". Interview with Doreen St. Félix, www.elle.com. October 23, 2015.

topic: Order, Two, Routine Work

I feel that opiates - I include opium and all its derivatives, such as morphine, heroin, pantopon, etc. - are quite useless for any sort of creative work, useful though they may be for routine work. Much of the hard physical work in the Far East is done by opium addicts.

- William S. Burroughs

source: Source: www.stopsmilingonline.com

topic: Routine Work, Creative, May, Morphine

If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal.

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Life, Happiness, Travel, Routine Work, Adventurer

If you think you can't, you're right.

- Carol Bartz

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Smart, Thought Of The Day, Best Success

We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed.

- Lawrence Clark Powell

source: Lawrence Clark Powell (1985). “Books are basic: the essential Lawrence Clark Powell”, Univ of Arizona Pr

topic: Children, Book, Reading, Routine Work, Reading Books

We need some imaginative stimulus, some not impossible ideal such as may shape vague hope, and transform it into effective desire, to carry us year after year, without disgust, through the routine-work which is so large a part of life.

- Walter Pater

source: Walter Pater (2006). “Marius the Epicurean: Easyread Large Edition”, p.233, ReadHowYouWant.com

topic: Years, Desire, Needs, Routine Work