Quotes About Routine

I found that people typically have the most routines in the morning. This makes morning fertile soil for cultivating new habits.

Other lives are more unpredictable. No matter how haphazard your day might seem, I guarantee that you already have many routines that occur consistently enough to be used as an Anchor.

Location is the most important factor when you pair Anchors and new habits.

I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.

Certainly custom is most perfect, when it beginneth in young years: this we call education; which is, in effect, but an early custom.

Another precept is to practise all things chiefly at two several times, the one when the mind is best disposed, the other when it is worst disposed; that by the one you may gain a great step, by the other you may work out the knots and stonds of the mind, and make the middle times the more easy and pleasant.

I'm kind of a boring person. People think I get to travel the world and I rap or whatever, but I'm pretty boring. My life is pretty crazy enough, and when I'm not on the road or doing something, I'm kind of boring.

Once I get into the locker room, I turn on stuff to get me hyped up. Mainly, it's a lot of rap music.

I have the rare privilege of talking to my dad every night at 10 p.m. and hearing about what he did that day.

Rarely does an interviewer ask questions you did not expect. I have given a lot of interviews, and I have concluded that the questions always look alike. I could always give the same answers.

My goal is to get in bed by 11. That rarely happens. But I celebrate when it does happen.

Saturdays have become like, you know, the Boomtown Rats - 'I Don't Like Mondays.' I don't like Saturdays.

I don't have anything fresh in terms of raw foods or salad after 4 P.M. And no food after 7 P.M.

When I get started each day, I read through and correct the previous day's 2,000 words, then start on the next. As I reach that figure, I try to simply stop and not go on until reaching a natural break. If you just stop while you know what you're going to write next, it's easier to get going again the next day.

First thing in the morning, it's very important to eat quickly. So I'm reaching for eggs.

I always have to poop right before I do a concert. I don't feel nervous, but I think that must be my body reacting.

At readings, audience members sometimes ask if I keep writing past the two hours if I'm on a roll, but I don't. I figure that if I'm on a roll, it's partially because I know I'm about to stop.

I prefer writing in the mornings, so to that extent I have a routine. I do reading and other things in the afternoon.

Just go out there and play every day. Every day is a new day. Every day is the same day. You've got to just be ready to play.

I take the longest to get ready of anyone. I've been going in two hours before the show every performance.

You're playing games every two or three nights, so there's no real time off.

Because I'm training so much, I always have a lot of energy. Once I've finished training, I come home and have some down time, and then I realise it's 12:30 A.M. and I should have been in bed 2 hours ago. That can get annoying.

My mum used to tell me when I was a kid that I had to go to bed at 7.30 P.M., and when I'd ask why, she'd say, 'Well, you do get a bit grumpy when you don't have routines'. Then I realised, when I was a bit older, that's actually true.

My routine is very simple because I realised that the more complicated the exercise sessions are, the less likely I am to make it for them. They have to be simple and doable in my daily routine.