Quotes About Routine

Physics is the only profession in which prophecy is not only accurate but routine." —Neil deGrasse Tyson

Another curious thing about the slow progression out of depression: you begin to crave routine.

I'm pretty much a 9-to-5 kind of guy. I usually get to work about 8 in the morning, and I work until 4 or 5, and sometimes I work on Saturday and Sunday mornings. Pretty much I keep the same hours as an accountant or clerk or whatever.

How is it possible to live like a machine and bear fruit like a tree?

The hidden recipe of success is detected by anyone's diurnal plans...

Coffee has two virtues: it is wet and warm.

On the average, I don't spend more than 15 minutes in the car - to go to the golf course or the gym. And that's the only time I listen to the radio.

But emotion, for most people, too often is like some sort of slumbering giant, lulled to sleep by preoccupation with the dead facts of that outer world we call objective. When we look at a painting, we see a price tag. A trip is logistics more than pleasure. Romance dies in household routine. Yet life without feeling is a sort of death.

I've pretty much always had the same haircut my entire life.

As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.

Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.

Let's have a day in the life of Gerard." Going to get coffee! Going to get coffee!' That's all it would be.

How do you live a long life? "Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast."

We always know which is the best road to follow, but we follow only the road that we have become accustomed to.

Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.

Most people can't handle a structureless life.

But what I want most of all is a normal life.

The nobility danced for the sake of social grace, to exhibit their finery...peasants danced to make themselves happy, to escape the routine of their life, and to meet their future wives and husbands.

Because of our routines we forget that life is an ongoing adventure.

I discovered early in life that if you take gym first period, you can go into the wrestling room and sit in the corner and sleep.

Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same.

I live in a room and I go to work and I play a game called getting through the day while you wait for the night.

Any deviation from the ordinary course of life in this quiet town was enough to stop all progress in it.

Life without zazen is like winding your clock without setting it. It runs perfectly well, but it dosen't tell time.