Definition of Routine

	Add the "Quote of the Day" to Your Site or Blog Now!
Home - Quote Topics - Quotes of the Day - Quote Keywords - Author Types - Quotation Trivia Authors: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Routine

A round of business, amusement, or pleasure, daily or frequently pursued; especially, a course of business or offical duties regularly or frequently returning.

Any regular course of action or procedure rigidly adhered to by the mere force of habit.

Related Definitions:

Action, Adhered, Amusement, Any, Business, By, Course, Daily, Duties, Especially, Force, Frequently, Habit, Mere, Of, Or, Pleasure, Procedure, Pursued, Regular, Regularly, Returning, Rigidly, Round, The, To

Routine Quotations

The only routine with me is no routine at all.
Jackie Kennedy

Hire people who are better than you are, then leave them to get on with it. Look for people who will aim for the remarkable, who will not settle for the routine.
David Ogilvy

Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.
J. Paul Getty

I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very little original thinking to do.
Roald Dahl

To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self.
Charles Horton Cooley

Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl's clothes off.
Raymond Chandler

As long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of living, new dimensions of the soul will not emerge.
Henry Van Dyke

The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine.
John Stuart Mill

I've worked for four presidents and watched two others up close, and I know that there's no such thing as a routine day in the Oval Office.
Dick Cheney

My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.
Arthur Conan Doyle

Routine Translations

routine in Dutch is sleur, routine
routine in French is routine
routine in German is Ausdruck {m}, Routine
routine in Portuguese is rotina
routine in Spanish is rutina
routine in Swedish is slentrian, rutin

Quotes