Quotes About Routine

Too much free time is certainly a monkey's paw in disguise. Most people can't handle a structureless life.

I, unfortunately, take the subway a lot. It's not my preference, but it is my lot in life.

Life, within doors, has few pleasanter prospects than a neatly-arranged and well-provisioned breakfast-table.

The problem is a lot of people don't think. The general bloke just goes through life, gets a job, gets married and all that, and that's it.

I meditate. Daily practice is essential to my life.

For the last 12 years, I've felt really privileged to be living such a normal life. It's so a part of who I am.

The minutes of white-collar workers' lives were tapped out by typewriters and adding machines. They had the cheerfulness of robots, having lost the capacity to feel anything except boredom.

Never drink black coffee at lunch: it will keep you awake in the afternoon.

The benefits of a sustained fitness program decrease significantly after just one week of inactivity—and disappear altogether in as few as four weeks.

As Aristotle said: "We are what we repeatedly do." Or as the Dalai Lama put it more recently: "There isn't anything that isn't made easier through constant familiarity and training. Through training we can change; we can transform ourselves.

Rituals also help us to create structure in our lives.

A growing body of research suggests that as little as 5 percent of our behaviors are consciously self-directed. We are creatures of habit and as much as 95 percent of what we do occurs automatically or in reaction to a demand or an anxiety.

Dead animals were routinely tossed into this soup, where everything decayed and sent up noxious bubbles to foul the air.

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day...

Kent's knock came at 4:30 on a Thursday while Derek was having a cup of coffee, smoking a joint, and eating a piece of sponge cake.

Kenneth was a sitting duck. In fewer than three years he would kneel alone in this very room, on the exact spot where he now stood, emptying the contents of his desk into cardboard boxes from the liquor store while his gaunt bitter wife reviled him in the Goldbergs' living room and choked the Goldbergs' big brass ashtray with with unfiltered cigarette butts, and if anyone were then to ask him for the secret of a happy life, he would answer: Stasis.

The more deeply the path is etched, the more it is used, and the more it is used, the more deeply it etched.

For many years, it seemed as if nothing changed in Norway. You could leave the country for three months, travel the world, through coups d'etat, assassinations, famines, massacres and tsunamis, and come home to find that the only new thing in the newspapers was the crossword puzzle.

Vai assim, vem outro café, se pita um bom cigarro.

COOK'S TIP: Bake every day. If you have to leave town fast, you'll always have something good to eat in the car.

Scrubbing, for me, is the greatest exercise in the world. It gives me rosy cheeks, and I just have a ball.

I've described one of my favorites for keeping the ankles slim – rolling a Pepsi bottle under the arch of the foot. Another simple exercise is to stick your leg out straight and, not moving it, rotate your foot in wide circles in both directions for a minute or two. Then push your foot up and down for a couple of minutes.