Quotes About Routine

I mean, the question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again night after night, but God knows the answer to that is, don't we all anyway; might as well get paid for it.

When I'm exhausted, I need sleep. Even when I seem totally wide awake. A regular schedule and a calm routine before bed are important to me. Otherwise, I will lie awake in bed all stirred up for hours. I need a lot of time in bed, even if I'm lying awake. I may need it in the middle of the day, too. Please let me have it.

Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you.

dull things of every day, she was afraid of the silence of

His meals were always punctual. Whether she cooked well or badly he did not know; it was a matter of total indifference to him. During his meals, which he ate at his writing desk, he was busy with important considerations. As a rule he would not have been able to say what precisely he had in his mouth. He reserved consciousness for real thoughts; they depend upon it; without consciousness, thoughts are unthinkable. Chewing and digestion happen of themselves.

I can't find my car keys in the morning. Trying to get out of my house is a nightmare. 'Where's my wallet? Where are my keys? I have to go find a missing person.'

You cannot wait to be in the mood of prayer; you have to use the spur of your Prayer Rule to force yourself to pray," as Sergei Fudel writes in his excellent book Light in the Darkness.[xliii

There are but two states to the primitive mind: warring and boring.

It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives. It's what we do consistently.

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

You become what you do most of the time.

It had at this time become my custom… to write with my watch before me, and to require from myself 250 words every quarter of an hour. I have found that the 250 words have been forthcoming as regularly as my watch went.

A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.

To have her meals, and her daily walk, and her fill of novels, and to be left alone, was all that she asked of the gods.

"It's a question of discipline," the little prince told me later on. "When you've finished washing and dressing each morning, you must tend your planet."

Stop thinking. From the moment one enters the airport, one is subject to a host of procedures and mechanisms designed to get one from point A to point B. Stop thinking and be the cargo.

I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.

Epictetus has this to say about the role of habits: 'Generally then, if you want to make something a habit, practise it; and if you do not want to make it a habit, do not do it, but get in the habit of doing something else. It is the same in relation to things of the mind.

I do yoga every morning, then I run for half an hour and take a sauna.

Perché in fondo l'abitudine è un rito, si crede di fare qualcosa come se fosse un piacere e in realtà si sta ubbidendo a un dovere che ci si è imposti. O anche uno scongiuro, pensò, forse l'abitudine è anche una forma di esorcismo, e poi la si sente come un piacere.

Now a days, we don't say SUNDAY, MONDAY or any week day but this or that day and celebrate it.

The best exercise is doing with pleasure all physical labour of own work along with the house chore daily.

The oldest story around: Instinct, Emotion, and Habit get the better of human beings.

After dinner, rest after dinner walk a mile.