Quotes About Routine

I do not eat before I perform.

But, you know, they don't enjoy the dinner hour together. It's just not as much of a ritual at night and it's interesting. I think the ritual is taking place perhaps more in the morning.

The critical period of matrimony is breakfast-time.

I go through periods where I don't really care what I look like, because I feel more focused on the work that I'm doing, and I don't want to think about it. And then sometimes it feels like the biggest part of my day is getting dressed.

I love grocery shopping. It's one of my favorite things. I don't want to become an ordering-food-online person.

I'm just an ordinary person who has an extraordinary job.

Nulle dies sine linea.

nulla dies sine linea.

Character is simply habit long continued.

The early morning is mine and I'm glad of it. Back home, I bumble about in my vest and shorts, tipping water from the icebox into a bucket to swab the floor, pushing the new block into place. I boil coffee on the Primus and sing to myself as I start clearing away last night's dinner things, carefully observing our systems for the conservation of water.

Playing football in the morning is like eating cabbage for breakfast.

Break the leg of a bad habit.

As soon as you awake, in order lay the actions to be done the coming day

My mom will make me walk the dogs or take out the trash when I go home.

When acts have become instinctive, they have become invincible.

A real New Yorker likes the sound of a garbage truck in the morning.

I thought I'd be reading a new book today, but it doesn't feel right, or I don't feel like it. Some days are not new-book days. After

I feel at home in my rituals.

I do 280 episodes of TV a year, write 15 recipes for the magazine, and publish an annual book. With all of that, we try to get one weekend a month with Isaboo at our home in the Adirondacks to relax and recharge.

My daily beauty regimen consists of washing my face before bed and putting on moisturizer.

Supermarket shopping had become a newly dangerous business, not to be undertaken on a whim, still less without a plan.

My writing routine is this: 1) Have a job. I can't do shit if I don't know where the rent is coming from--I tried the thing where you just declare yourself a writer and live on unemployment/savings/the kindness of strangers but that resulted in clinical depression. (interview with Amy Guth, Bigmouth Indeed Strikes Again)

Eventually I had to get up and go downstairs, and there were all the usual chores to do and all the enacting of oneself that living with other people requires

He had got into this habit, which more or less dispensed with the necessity for remembering anything, not because he tended to be forgetful but because his capacity for holding on to information, however useless or trivial, would otherwise have kept him in a state of constant distraction.