Quotes About Routine

I wake up on time for four days in a row, get on the bus four days in a row, ride home after school. I want to scream. I think I'll need to take a day off every once in a while.

I rode to the fourth floor, poked around until I found the stairway, and walked down a flight. I almost always do this and I sometimes wonder why. I think someone must have done it in a movie once and I was evidently impressed, but it's really a waste of time, especially when the elevator in question is self-service.

myself was increasingly early to bed and early to rise, though I can't say the effects were as the adage promised.

Now I say two prayers a day. I say please in the morning and thank you every night.

A drink? No, whatever for? He used the downstairs lavatory because one really didn't want the nuisance of a full bladder in media res, poured himself a glass of Evian water because one didn't want a dry mouth, either, and mounted the stairs to the master bedroom.

What is known for certain is dull.

Normal science does not aim at novelties of fact or theory and, when successful, finds none.

A life spent in the routine of science need not destroy the attractive human element of a woman's nature.

Much public thinking follows a rut. The same thing is true in science. People get stuck and don't look in other directions.

The most visceral science fiction always takes place in the past and focuses on the humdrum

We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and as carefully guard against the growing into ways that are likely to be disadvantageous.

In order to be a better writer, one must always write.

Three weeks hadn't changed Cop Central. The coffee was still poisonous, the noise abominable, and the view out of her stingy window was still miserable.She was thrilled to be back.

Stability, " insisted the Controller, "stability. The primal and the ultimate need. Stability. Hence all this.

Mundane, boring stories--not interesting ones--are the ideal in an operating room.

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

We live in a society where we wake up our kids for school but not Fajr.

All certainty that comes after the 'original sin' of dismantling the matter-of-fact world full of routine and short of reflection must be a manufactured certainty, a blatantly and unashamedly 'made-up' certainty, burdened with all the inborn vulnerability of human-made decisions.

People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.

Laundry Day

If you were to look into our apartment in the late morning, or early afternoon, or toward suppertime, you might find us together sleeping. Of course a good rainy day is preferable, but even on sunny summer days, the dogs and I get into bed.

La vie est une routine et la routine est la résistance à l'émerveillement.

Can't repeat the past? We do it every day. We build a life, or try to, of pleasures and duties that will become routine, so that every day will be the same day, or nearly so, the day of our life, Randall Jarrell called it.

Lia had mentioned staleness, and I wondered if this was it. Growing old in this town, with these women you've known your entire life, eating cucumber and cream cheese sandwiches, and rehashing the same gossip week after week. As comfortable as I was in my routine, in my sameness, I could see how that might seem terrifying.