Quotes About Routine

I love to roll out of bed and throw something on. I had this roommate in college who would get up almost 2 hours before class to do hair and makeup. That's not for me.

I don't let the computer into my bedroom. It would get in the way of life, sleep. And I really can't let that happen.

I usually have about four books on the go - a bedside book, a lavatory book, a downstairs book, and the book in my study that I read sneakily while I should be writing. Short stories for the lavatory, obviously.

I'm the alpha parent most of the time, but bedtime is a completely different animal.

I've been through the routine so many times that I genuinely don't even think about a big fight very much beforehand.

My day begins early in the morning when I go for a morning walk and ends when I feel that I am tired.

From 8 to 10 o'clock, practice music.16 From 10 to 1, dance one day and draw another. From 1 to 2, draw on the day you dance, and write a letter the next day. From 3 to 4, read French. From 4 to 5, exercise yourself in music. From 5 till bed-time, read English, write, etc.

You wonder sometimes how our government puts on its pants in the morning.

And now it's time for tea. Teatime is teatime. And look who's here, in time for tea.

Os carros são como as pessoas. Movemo-nos em círculos todos os dias, corremos daqui para ali, passamos a centímetros uns dos outros, mas há muito pouco contacto real. Tantos desencontros. Tantos «podia ter sido». É assustador, quando pensamos nisso. Provavelmente, o melhor é não pensar.

advancing through my schedule without volition, feeling more and more like the graphical lozenge on a media player's progress bar.

Il primo minuto della giornata lavorativa ci ricorda tutti gli altri minuti di cui è fatto il giorno, e non è mai bene pensare ai minuti come entità singole.

what do you do all day?" "Actually, FYI," his mother said, "that can be a somewhat awkward question to ask a person.

the weekly thirty minutes of sexual stress was a chronic but low-grade discomfort, like the humidity in Florida

Never been a washcloth user, no.

Sometimes I get so excited thinking about my morning coffee," Mr. Söderblad said, "I can't fall asleep at night.

All happy mornings resemble one another, as do all unhappy mornings, and that's at the bottom of what makes them so deeply unhappy: the feeling that this unhappiness has happened before, that efforts to avoid it will at best reinforce it, and probably even exacerbate it, that the universe is, for whatever inconceivable, unnecessary, and unjust reason, conspiring against the innocent sequence of clothes, breakfast, teeth and egregious cowlicks, backpacks, shoes, jackets, goodbye. Jacob

All happy mornings resemble one another, as do all unhappy mornings, and that's at the bottom of what makes them so deeply unhappy: the feeling that this unhappiness has happened before, that efforts to avoid it will at best reinforce it, and probably even exacerbate it, that the universe is, for whatever inconceivable, unnecessary, and unjust reason, conspiring against the innocent sequence of clothes, breakfast, teeth and egregious cowlicks, backpacks, shoes, jackets, goodbye.

From this time my constant practice was, as soon as I rose, to perform that business in open air, at the full extent of my chain; and due care was taken every morning before company came, that the offensive matter should be carried off in wheel-barrows, by two servants appointed for that purpose. I

frequently exercised in my sight, to accustom themselves to me.

De esta combinación letal sale la falsa conclusión: si tenemos todo para ser felices y no lo somos, lo que no funciona está en otro lado, debe de ser la pareja, sin darnos cuenta de que lo aburrido es la rutinaria vida que llevamos. No es un asunto fácil. Cumplir con logros económicos, avanzar laboralmente o escalar en la posición social da cierta satisfacción, pero ese bienestar es superficial.

in one's memory, all days tend to be the same, but that there is not a day... which does not bring surprises

El presente está solo. La memoria Erige el tiempo. Sucesión y engaño Es la rutina del reloj. El año No es menos vano que la vana historia. (The present is singular. It is memory that sets up time. Both succession and error come with the routine of the clock. A year is no less vanity than is history.)

Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.