Quotes About Routine

I was always a great believer in buttered toast.

Oh, no!" she exploded. "Only on weekdays, Saturdays, and Sundays!

It was half past six and the hands were quietly moving forwards.

How many days have again gone silently by; today is 28 May. Have I not even the resolution to take this penholder, this piece of wood, in my hand every day? I really think I do not. I row, ride, swim, lie in the sun.

All he wanted to do now was to get up quietly and undisturbed, get dressed, and, most important, eat breakfast, and only then consider what to do next, because, as he was well aware, in bed he could never think of anything through to a reasonable conclusion.

He slid back into his previous position. 'Getting up so early,' he thought, 'makes one entirely stupid. People must have their sleep.

And there shouldn't be anything to stop you carrying on with your usual life.

This getting up early," he thought, "makes a man quite idiotic.

It is always the same, always the same

Dann aber kehrte er zu seiner Arbeit zurück, so wie wenn nichts geschehen wäre.« Das ist eine Bemerkung, die uns aus einer unklaren Fülle alter Erzählungen geläufig ist, obwohl sie vielleicht in keiner vorkommt.

À force de se lever tôt», pensa-t-il, «on devient complètement stupide.» L'être humain a besoin de sommeil.

These early mornings,' he thought, 'are very bad for the brain.

This evening out of boredom washed my hands three times in succession in the bathroom.

We are not in general a music-loving race. Tranquil peace is the music we love best; our life is hard, we are no longer able, even on occasions when we have tried to shake off the cares of daily life, to rise to anything so high and remote from our usual routine as music.

It was quite nice having a routine, going to the studio every day and finishing off 'Wild World'.

Each day I wake up and check the news. Nearly every day it's merely to make sure I did not miss anything wildly controversial. Who said what, what are the implications of that comment, what was the context of what was said? Some days are slow, which is great. We can focus on a particular policy issue or piece of legislation.

I like to cook for myself or others, so I cook. I always read at night. Sometimes I go to the movies. I don't go out wildly during the week.

When I agreed to do the Blink shows, I said that I'd do it as long as they were willing to practise every day.

Successful weight loss takes programming, not willpower.

Epic production has less to do with your willpower and more to do with the routines you install. Get those right, and you'll enjoy exponential results automatically.

We can use decision-making to choose the habits we want to form, use willpower to get the habit started, then - and this is the best part - we can allow the extraordinary power of habit to take over. At that point, we're free from the need to decide and the need to use willpower.

If I've gone to the market on Saturday, and I go another time on Tuesday, then I'm really prepared. I can cook a little piece of fish; I can wilt some greens with garlic; I can slice tomatoes and put a little olive oil on. It's effortless.

The most special Slam is Wimbledon, of course. But where I feel the best is Melbourne. And you're happy that you're playing. When you get to the middle of the season, everything is week after week, and it's all routine. But when it's Melbourne in January, you are fresh and you want to play. It's nice.

The moment the alarm goes off is the first test; it sets the tone for the rest of the day. The test is not a complex one: when the alarm goes off, do you get up out of bed, or do you lie there in comfort and fall back to sleep? If you have the discipline to get out of bed, you win - you pass the test.