Quotes About Routine

But people don't change their beliefs easily. Even when their deepest convictions are challenged - by the failure of the world to end, for example - they continue on their way, sticking to the old routine: they get back on their weird bikes and ride again.

I shall keep my book on the table here, and read a little every morning as soon as I wake, for I know it will do me good, and help me through the day.

They always looked back before turning the corner, for their mother was always at the window to nod and smile, and wave her hand to them. Somehow it seemed as if they couldn't have got through the day without that, for whatever their mood might be, the last glimpse of that motherly face was sure to affect them like sunshine.

Have regular hours for work and play, make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well.

The great novelist vibrated between two decanters with the regularity of a pendulum.

Pan ácimo, gachas y agua para desayunar; pan, verdura y agua para almorzar; y pan, fruta y agua para cenar conformaban el repertorio de alimentos visado por los venerables. No había teteras que profanaran los fogones sagrados, ni filetes sangrientos que chillaran estertóreos pidiendo venganza desde las castas parrillas, pues los únicos sacrificios que se ofrendaban en aquel altar doméstico eran el apetito, el tiempo y el humor de una mujer valiente.

Women don't realize how much store men set on the regularity of their habits. We absorb their comings and goings into our bodies, their rhythms into our bones. Our pulse is set to theirs, and as always on a weekend afternoon we were waiting for my mother to start us ticking away on the evening.

This is how the world ends, I think, everything crazy yet people doing normal things.

Ever since I understood this life was to be mine, I have wanted only for it to continue in its precious routine.

Nothing could keep him from his morning game.

When he exhausted his list, he simply started over from the top and visited several firms two or three times.

He did not deviate from this routine by one jot, regardless of the weather.

The next day is Saturday. Like that matters. Like every day isn't just about identical for somebody like me.

And it gets so gloomy and so monotonous. Probably the casino---

A veces tengo la sensación de que uno se mueve en la vida dando siempre vueltas por los mismos lugares

Tal vez las rutinas nos cieguen y sólo veamos lo que creemos que debemos ver.

For he was drinking too much. Not uncontrollably nor offensively, but still he seldom seemed to have a glass out of his hand.

That trains mostly stay on rails, that the streets are mostly peaceful, that the square continues green and quiet below my window is more than I have any right to expect, and it happens every day.

The typical Japanese swing of mood is from intense dedication to intense boredom

believe it doesn't matter what it is, as long as you can find something concrete to keep you busy while you are living your meaningless life.

I remembered reading in a hard-boiled detective novel that if you drink in the same place two nights in a row, the bartender and waiters will remember your face.

When I get up in the morning, I go right back to bed again. I feel best in the evening the moment I put out the light and pull the feather-bed over my head. I sit up once more, look around the room with indescribable satisfaction, and then good night, down under the feather-bed.

When I get up in the morning I go straight back to bed again. I feel best in the evening, the moment I dowse the candle, pull the eiderdown over my head. I raise myself up once more, look about the room with an indescribable peace of mind, and then it's goodnight, down under the eiderdown.

Let the thunder of a hundred cannon remind you three times daily to resist the force of habit.