Quotes About Routine

I have to make an effort about things like going to the grocery store. That stuff reminds me that I don't live in the real world, and you know what? I'm thankful.

Work is hard, and jobs can be dull. But you can't just take a holiday when you feel like it. You turn up because it is the right thing to do.

You've got to get a certain amount of sleep. You've got to eat the right thing. You've got to train in the right manner. You've got to behave in the right manner.

I have little routines in the theater. Once I've established something, like the order of putting on makeup and a costume, I have to invariably do it in the same order every time, even if I only did it by chance the first time round.

The beauty of making theater is that you have to go and do it the next day. Making a show nightly is a really difficult skill. It's something every theater actor and every theater maker is challenged with.

I used to work in a hotel kitchen at night and do theatre in the morning. After finishing my night shift - I did it for two years - I used to come back and sleep for five hours and then do theatre from 2-7 P.M. and then again hotel work from 11-7 in the morning.

I arrive at the theatre four hours before the beginning of the performance. I must get accustomed to the hall even if I know it well.

I pretty much have no life outside of the theatre. I go home every night, and I put the TV on, and I veg out and order food.

When I'm getting ready to go out, I always watch 'Law & Order' in the bath. As soon as I hear the theme music, I just get all goose-pimply. I know I've been in the bath too long if I start watching a second one.

After I quit being a lawyer in '95, I was having a lot of trouble writing. Then I read somewhere that Willa Cather read a chapter of the Bible every day before she started work. I thought, 'Okay, I'll try it.' Before each writing session, I started to read the Bible like a writer, thinking about language, character, and themes.

In the morning when she woke, the coffeepot was on the woodstove, which had burned low as usual. There was a note on the table. Don't light the Coleman stove unless you're sure you know how. And it made her laugh. *

Every night that I eat at home I set a proper table and make a civilized meal. Single women—especially old ones—tend to skip meals or eat out of opened cans. Louise is especially guilty of this.

Qué raro que todo hubiera cambiado tanto pero los cartones de leche siguieran siendo los mismos.

Estaba haciendo lo mismo que hacía siempre: agachar la cabeza, trabajar duro, hacer planes de futuro e ignorar el presente.

How strange, for everything to shift so drastically, but for the milk cartons to stay the same.

night when I go to bed and every morning when I wake up, I use a method called the Heart Lock-in." "Really? Heart Lock-in?" "Don't knock it until you've tried it." "Okay, okay," I said. "How does it work?" "It can take from five to fifteen minutes, and you need to find a nice quiet spot

She's a pot-of-tea-before-I-say-boo-to-you woman. There's always a pile of warm teabags in the sink when I come down, like what a horse would leave behind.

Most people are in a factory from nine till five. Their job may be to turn out 263 little circles. At the end of the week they're three short and somebody has a go at them. On Saturday afternoons they deserve something to go and shout about.

I lived on the top of one hill and the school was at the top of another hill. Nobody ever went to school by car - we didn't have any cars during the war. So that to and from school was itself a training.

Of all the things a man may do, sleep probably contributes most to keeping him sane. It puts brackets about each day. If you do something foolish or painful today, you get irritated if somebody mentions it, today. If it happened yesterday, though, you can nod or chuckle, as the case may be. You've crossed through nothingness or dream to another island in Time.

next, showed up for work in the morning, washed the dishes, fed the dog, settled down in front of the TV to gaze at the lives of others, imaginary and real, as we plodded along toward old age. On

no combination of one-week or ten-day vacations will truly take you away from the life you lead at home.

Certain activities—sleeping, eating, reading, socializing, wandering—will become a fixture of each day. This is good and well (routines make your day more efficient, after all), but you should be careful not to let your days or destinations blur together. Once this begins to happen—once you feel yourself getting jaded to the long haul—it's time to mix your travels up a bit.

Aristotle once said, "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act,