Quotes About Routine

There's no magic formula where you're going to get everything done in one day. I think it's about establishing and building the right habits to be successful.

If you start working out a few days a week, if you start eating better, it does become easy and habitual eventually.

People aren't religious because it's easy not to be. Like anything, it's habitual, and once it's a habit it's no longer hard.

In the U.S., people are habitual about drinking coffee in the morning. In China, many are drinking coffee in the afternoon.

I honestly don't think I can hack it in the 9-to-5 world, though I've never actually tried.

When you've got four people to get dressed to get out the door you don't really spend a lot of time on yourself. But that's the way I roll anyway. I was never one to do my hair and make-up just to go to the market, so it's not that much different. If I get a little eye cream on, I feel I'm ahead of myself.

Before every show, I eat half a rotisserie chicken.

I'm not a real Halloween kind of guy, because Halloween is every day.

OKAY. So I was going to the library every Saturday. So what? So what? It's not like I was reading books or anything.

what oral historian Studs Terkel called "a Monday through Friday kind of dying.

People do not decide their futures, they decide their habits and their habits decide their futures." —F. M. Alexander

There's nothing wrong with bad habits...Where would we be without our bad habits? They're what separates us from the dreary souls amongst us.

He decided to stop every hour for ten minutes. Derek had told him once that that was what the military did on long marches—a ten-minute break every hour

Clouds sink down the hills Coffee is hot again. The dog Turns and turns about, stops and sleeps.

We are what we repeatedly do. Aristotle

Consciousness rejuvenates everything, giving a quality of beginning to the most everyday actions.

let me remember to pay attention to the ordinary, not just to the extraordinary.

I didn't wash today. I wasn't dirty. If I'm not dirty, I don't wash. Some weeks I don't have to shower at all. I just groom my three basic areas: teeth, hair, and asshole. And to save time, I use the same brush.

Why do so many people need help?! Life is not that complicated. You get up, you go to work, eat three meals, you take one good shit and you go back to bed. What's the fucking mystery?!

Do we not wile away moments of inanity or fatigued waiting by repeating some trivial movement or sound, until the repetition has bred a want, which is incipient habit?

For the most glutinously indefinite minds enclose some hard grains of habit...

What have you been doing lately?' 'I? Oh, minding the house–pouring out syrup–pretending to be amiable and contented–learning to have a bad opinion of everybody.

the direct external calls on his judgment and sympathies brought the added impulse needed to draw him out of himself. It was not simply that beneficent harness of routine which enables silly men to live respectably and unhappy men to live calmly - it was a perpetual claim on the immediate fresh application of thought, and on the consideration of another's need and trial.

I used to think I could never bear life if it kept on being the same every day, and I must always be doing things of no consequence and never know anything greater.