Quotes About Routine

It's jam every other day: to-day isn't any other day, you know.

And ever since that, the Hatter went on in a mournful tone, He wo'n't do a thing I ask! It's always six o'clock now.

Pues la regla es: mermelada mañana y mermelada ayer... pero nunca mermelada hoy.

I hear they feed you in Sing Sing," Evie muttered. "Three squares a day." "Evangeline," Will said with a sigh. "Charity begins at home." "So does mental illness.

The citizens rise and wash, shave and brush. They don stockings and dresses, pants, shirts, and suspenders. They button up their need. Affix their aspirations. Tuck histories neatly inside drawers, creating themselves as they go, a rhapsody of reinvention.

Insanity, the saying went, was doing the same thing over and over again and expecting to get different results.

Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.

The gym is always open, except when it's closed.

People had been working for so many years to make the world a safe organized place. Nobody realized how boring it would become.

I go through the motions of living in society

Habit is the great flywheel of society.

The only things that really need to be accomplished in the home are daily scripture study and prayer and weekly family home evening.

You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It's just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.

One of our fundamental spiritual problems is this: we want God to do something new while we keep doing the same old thing.

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

One of the truest tests of spiritual maturity is seeing the miraculous in the monotonous.

If you want to win, do the ordinary things better than anyone else does them day in and day out.

Someone who wants to write should make an effort to write a little something every day. Writing in this sense is the same as athletes who practice a sport every day to keep their skills honed.

Excellence is not an act, but a habit.

You visualize [pitches]. You see it in your head; you think it...I used to play every pitcher in my mind before I went to the ballpark. I started getting ready for ever game the moment I woke up.

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.

If you go to school and practice for five days a week, it still gives you two days you can go and see your friends, you can go to the movies, you do whatever you like to do.

You need to enjoy yourself and just get into the routine of keeping fit and enjoying being active. That's always easier once you've made friends in the sport.

The only thing that would change would be the year, the names. It just got to be a repetitious life.