Quotes About Routine

He had become a character in a play, same story, over and over.

Asking a teenager to get up at 7 a.m. is like asking me to get up at 4 a.m.

Newborns (0–3 months): 14–17 hours Infants (4–11 months): 12–15 hours Toddlers (1–2 years): 11–14 hours Preschoolers (3–5): 10–13 hours School-age children (6–13): 9–11 hours Teenagers (14–17): 8–10 hours Young adults (18–25): 7–9 hours Adults (26–64): 7–9 hours Older adults (65+): 7–8 hours

A friend of mine has a ritual: He writes a poem every day with his morning coffee.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.

I say that habit's but a long practice, friend, and this becomes men's nature in the end.

As our acts vary, our habits will follow in their course.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act by a habit.

un traje decente, una taza de café, al teatro los sábados y a los conciertos los domingos de primavera.

Here are a few things to keep in mind when you're getting ready to read: • Select a regular place for reading. • Set aside a regular time, when you will be able to devote your full attention to the baby and the book. Just before or just after a nap is usually good. • Try to read for at least fifteen minutes each day.

The greatest job I ever had was working on my family farm. Each morning my father would come into my bedroom around 4:30 am and command me to get up and work the fields. I would spend the next two hours before school slopping pigs and cropping tobacco.

The proper, wise balancing of one's whole life may depend upon the feasibility of a cup of tea at an unusual hour.

The proper, wise balancing of one's whole life may depend upon the feasibility of a cup of tea at an unusual hour.

The man who begins to go to bed forty minutes before he opens his bedroom door is bored; that is to say, he is not living.

My body is like breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I don't think about it, I just have it.

I'm addicted to exercising and I have to do something every day.

I do the same exercises I did 50 years ago and they still work. I eat the same food I ate 50 years ago and it still works.

We had a strict routine that nothing could change: we'd get up at six, and it would be my job or Meinhard's to get milk from the farm door. When w were a little older and starting to play sports, exercises were added to the chores, and we had to earn our breakfast by doing sit-ups. In the afternoon, we'd finish our homework and chores, and my father would make us practice soccer no matter how bad the weather was.

His answer to life was discipline. We had a strict routine that nothing could change:

The more you do it, the more automatic it becomes, and the less effort it takes.

Nadat de afwas is gedaan, haalt ze een bosje rozen uit haar boodschappentas. Ze snijdt de rozen af en spoelt de vaas om. Het is geen antidepressivum, een bosje rozen, maar het is iets. Het begin van een beetje kleur in zijn leven brengen.

Many mornings upon waking, my first thoughts are about my old work and friendships in Washington. I rub the sleep from my eyes, get up, and cast my line into the falling tide of the new day.

I get up and cook for my kids, who really like my scrambled eggs. Or we make pancakes and the requisite bacon. The kids either play or watch cartoons, and Daddy gets to read the 'New York Times' and do his puzzle.

I come home from work, and depending on the day or depending on what was going on, if I needed to adjust, I'd just meditate or play guitar or watch some 'Monty Python.'