Quotes About Routine

I was still enjoying coaching, but there was a repetitious manner about it.

How many people are trapped in their everyday habits: part numb, part frightened, part indifferent? To have a better life we must keep choosing how we're living.

Die reinste Form des Wahnsinns ist es, alles beim alten zu lassen und zu hoffen, dass sich etwas ändert.

Creativity always comes a surprise to us; therefore we can never count on it and we dare not believe in it until it has happened. In other words, we would not consciously engage upon tasks whose success clearly requires that creativity be forthcoming. Hence, the only way in which we can bring our creative resources fully into play is by misjudging the nature of the task, by presenting it to ourselves as more routine, simple, undemanding of genuine creativity that it will turn out to be

Creativity always comes as a surprise to us; therefore we can never count on it and we dare not believe in it until it has happened... Hence, the only way in which we can bring our creative resources fully into play is by misjudging the nature of the task, by presenting it to ourselves as more routine, simple, undemanding of genuine creativity than it will turn out to be... We are apparently on the trail here of some sort of invisible or hidden hand that beneficially hides difficulties from us.

Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.

Our civilisation being what it is, you've got to spent eight hours out of every twenty-four as a mixture between an imbecile and a sewing machine. It's very disagreeable, I know. It's humiliating and disgusting. But there you are. You've got to do it, otherwise the whole fabric of our world will fall to bits and we'll starve. Do the job then, idiotically and mechanically; and spend your leisure hours in being a real complete man or woman.

Familiarity breeds indifference.

Habit is as fatal to a sense of wrongdoing as to active enjoyment.

Death conditioning begins at eighteen months. Every tot spends two mornings a week in a month in a Hospital for the Dying. All the best toys are kept there, and they get chocolate cream on death days. They learn to take dying as a matter of course.

Time and habit had taken the wrongness out of almost all the acts he had once thought sinful. He performed them as unenthusiastically as he would have performed the act of catching the morning train to the city.

If you want to write, keep cats.

La familiaridad engendra la indiferencia.

ObiÈ™nuinÈ›a naÈ™te dispreÈ›, iar supravieÈ›uirea pretinde nu atât gesturi imperioase, cât mai degrab? lente, plicticoase È™i chinuitoare. Lumea din afar? este ceea ce ne întâmpin? la trezire, în fiecare diminea?? a vieÈ›ii noastre, nu-i aÈ™a? Locul în care, vrând-nevrând, trebuie s? încerc?m s? obÈ›inem cele necesare traiului. În lumea interioar? nu exist? nici munc?, nici monotonie.

Early to bed and early to rise Makes a man healthy and wealthy and wise: But late to watch and early to pray Brings him across The Abyss, they say.

Encuentro que la vida es aburrida y estúpida por falta de imaginación. Demasiada razón, demasiada disciplina en todo.

When loneliness mastered him he would go up to the cemetery...The rest of his time was taken up with a liturgy of habits that succeeded in warding off sadness.

Il resto del suo tempo lo consumava in una liturgia di abitudini che riuscivano a difenderlo dall'infelicità.

El resto de su tiempo lo consumía en una liturgia de costumbres que conseguía preservarle de la infelicidad.

El resto de su tiempo lo consumia en una liturgia de habitos que conseguian defenderlo de la infelicidad

It was time for tea as it so often was.

Lists, she thought, are the stories of our lives; they give a picture of who we are and what we do every day. The

Lists, she thought, are the stories of our lives; they give a picture of who we are and what we do every day.

His two young mechanics lived in a completely different world, it seemed to him. This was not the world that he and Mma Ramotswe inhabited - a world in which people went about their business in an orderly way, drank tea at regular intervals, and retired to bed before nine-thirty at night.