Quotes About Routine

I worked hard to create such nests of habit, as everybody does, for without habit life would be too abrasive and too long to live.

I'd been to see our family doctor for chronic stomach pains several times that semester. I didn't have an ulcer yet, so he prescribed Tums, stress reduction, and no more Diet Coke. My mother remarked that when she was a child, there was no such thing as stress. Back then, she said, it was just called life. It's good that the doctor gave us multiple options, because stress and Diet Coke were not leaving my routine any time soon.

dette drikker kongen av det første han gjør om morgningen og det siste han gjør om kvælden, bare idelig sjampanidrik. (Jul i Åsen, Stridende liv)

Om morgningen gik hun ikke igjen og hele dagen gik hun heller ikke igjen, men var til nytte og mælket gjeiterne og skuret kjørler med fin sand og fik dem rene. Hun gik aldrig mere. Inger hette hun. Isak hette han.

Men dagene gik igjen og det skedde intet galt fordi dagene gik.

School field trips had always been a welcome escape from routine, particularly when they'd involved aquariums or grown-ups dressed in colonial costumes.

I don't really know how to relate to a long-term day-in day-out kind of comfortable relationship.

Definitely routine is the bedrock of our relationship.

That was the trouble with formulating a system: what could you do but repeat it?

Well I live in Vienna with my wife and son, and I teach in Hamburg, there will be no changes in that respect.

He'd been going out with his right hand for so long they were practically common law spouses.

Most of the world goes through the motions of life in general, blissfully unaware of anything beyond their lives.

It's remarkable how we go on year after year, doing the same old things. We get tired and bored, and ask when they'll come for us

Everything will again be simple, regular and limited like a circle.

Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you'll start to see a big difference in your life.

Habit is a horrible thing. I repeated the kiss for which I had so repented.

A man who has to be punctually at a certain place at five o'clock has the whole afternoon from one to five ruined for him already.

every routine is an invitation for disruption, every hierarchy an invitation for revolution.

A consistência é o parque de diversões das mentes entorpecidas.

In fact, Harold had never once paid attention to his watch other than to find out the time. And, honestly, it drove his watch crazy.

poza tym jak zwykle handel i kopulacja

It's terrible to allow conventional habits to gain a hold on a whole household; to eat, sleep and live by clock ticks.

I work best without distractions. Do Not Disturb signs are made for someone like me. I'm baffled by writers who prefer to write in Starbucks.

Motivation gets you going and habit gets you there.