Quotes About Routine

Write about daily life as you would write history.

Lisez, et ne rêvez pas. Plongez-vous dans de longues études. Il n'y a de continuellement bon que l'habitude d'un travail entêté. Il s'en dégage un opium qui engourdit l'âme… Read and do not dream. The only thing that is continually good is the habit of stubborn work. It emits an opium that numbs the soul…

Madame Bovary Konversasjonen var platt som et fortau. Der promenerte de mest banale av tanker, i hverdagsklær og uten å vekke følelser, latter eller drømmer.

Writers should be orderly and predictable in their lives, so that they can be ferocious and sinister in their work.

On a farm, you can get very bored.

The lives of those such as Charles Darwin and Albert Einstein are plainly of interest in their own right, as well as for the light they shed on the way these great scientists worked. But are 'routine' scientists as fascinating as their science? Here I have my doubts.

I might actually get a calendar just to cross them down to feel like the days are going faster.

I start every morning at 7 or 7:30 in the same place - my little office where it's dark and cozy - with a cup of the same really strong black coffee. It's my little cocoon. There's no phone or fax or Internet. And no music.

We want to be as routine-oriented as we can, but it's just not always feasible.

I have a very angular face, so my makeup routine is focused around softening my features, and I've finally learned how to contour to my advantage.

I'm fed up of doing run-of-the-mill stuff.

My morning ritual is to get up and feed the dogs, take my daughter to school, and come home.

I like doing drills and when coaches take you through drills and stuff, but I don't like counting shots and things like that. I just shoot until I feel good.

Sometimes 15 minutes of putting in a deep conditioner or doing my makeup are all I need to feel good.

I never really drank coffee in college, but now I'm on my feet all day and out all night and can't believe it hasn't always been in my life. When morning comes I crave it.

I still play the fiddle every day. I'm afraid if I don't, it won't know who I am.

I went to school in the afternoon and worked in the morning. Sometimes I went out into the fields with my granddad.

Let us dig our furrow in the fields of the commonplace.

Every day is a major balancing act that I have to figure out and coordinate.

I just go to lunch. And I never know when something is going into the file and something is not.

When you go to a film set, of course you're going to do your job, and you're excited about being there, but you somehow feel fatigued that you are just doing this day in and day out.

I'm up at the crack of dawn. If I'm filming, then I'll wake at 5 A.M. so that I can get on set and made up before the cameras start rolling.

When I'm filming, I always have to have breaks to eat.

I would always drink iced teas and lemonades and sodas while filming. Now it's only water and coffee.