Quotes About Routine

Now, whenever I need to go online, I confine myself to a tight circle: Gmail, MLB.com, NYTimes.com, Slate and maybe Facebook.

As a television actor, I was held to a tight, rigid structure.

I keep a really tight schedule.

I really didn't realise until I got back the work that goes into a performance. You're like an athlete - if you haven't been practising things tighten up. I had to do a lot of practice work, but I got through it. Even when I was 21 I would have a 40-minute nap on the day of a show, and I will still do that.

you become so good at doing something that it prevents you from ever doing anything new.

If only the entire week was Thursdays..." ~ Yuu

Meditation and running are essentially addressing these two kinds of pain. Of course, we cannot run all day and all night, and it is difficult to meditate all day and all night. However, when we include these two disciplines in our daily routine, we are making our body and mind more livable.

First you must come to the conclusion that the activity is important. Then you should make it a daily occurrence, in which every day you motivate yourself in a different way.

The tiger incorporates meditation and running as a natural part of the daily routine, for these endeavors can bring health of body and mind only if we are consistent in practicing them.

If your motivation when you get up in the morning is to have very little contact with anyone, come home, and go to bed as soon as you can, almost everything that occurs during the day will make you feel brittle and irritable, because it's in your way.

In other words, your habits are not you. They are you on autopilot.

Habit is a great deadener.

So it is with most of us: that which we observe to be taken as a matter of course by those around us, we take as a matter of course ourselves.

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

Daggers ever at the ready, I went about the day: children fed, linens mended, bedclothes aired. In little ways one conquers fear.

Breaking bad habits is like training a dog, you got to be consistent.

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Give children a clock to live by," Mrs. Lee said. "So they know what's coming, when it's coming, how long it will last. They'll take comfort in that knowing.

Early to bed, early to rise, leaves me cranky with rings under my eyes.

We rush through our days so quickly and have so many little rituals that we do, day in and day out, but then a moment like the last day of school comes along.

You became the sum total of where you lived, where you shopped, which church you went to, how many kids you had and which taxi company you used, and you only associated with people who had the same responses on their list.

So much of what we do every single day is the result of habits that we have formed over time.

First thing, I throw on some jeans, a T-shirt and my Keds sneakers and make coffee. That is actually my favorite time of day. That is when I do my songwriting, when I am in writing mode.

These walls are funny. First you hate 'em, then you get used to 'em. Enough time passes, you get so you depend on them. That's institutionalized.