Quotes About Routine

why I like timetables, because they make sure I don't get lost in time.

Y un horario es un mapa del tiempo

Christopher explains that he ranks the day according to the number and color of the cars he sees on his way to school. Three red cars in a row equal a Good Day, and five equal a Super Good Day. Four yellow cars in a row make it a Black Day. On Black Days Christopher refuses to speak to anyone and sits by himself at lunch.

A mí me gustan los horarios, porque son la garantía de que no te vas a perder en el tiempo.

Zrobimy to, co zawsze robiÄ™ w takich sytuacjach, co robiÅ'em ju? sto razy, co automatycznie robi ka?dy, kto naprawdÄ™ zna góry. – To znaczy? – KatapultÄ™.

First we form habits, then they form us.

Good habits are hard to form and easy to live with. Bad habits are easy to form and hard to live with. Pay attention. Be aware . If we don't consciously form good ones, we will unconsciously form bad ones.

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives

I make two cook like you in the toilette each morning! You are deezgusting!

What most people don't get about professional-level cooking is that it is not all about the best recipe, the most innovative presentation, the most creative marriage of ingredients, flavours and textures; that, presumably, was all arranged long before you sat down to dinner. Line cooking - the real business of preparing the food you eat - is more about consistency, about mindless, unvarying repetition, the same series of tasks performed over and over and over again in exactly the same way.

The tone of the repartee was familiar, as was the subject matter, a strangely comfortable background music to most of my waking hours over the last two decades or so - and I realised that, my God... I've been listening to the same conversation for twenty-five years!

Todos os dias acordava, ficava um bocadinho na cama, chegava ao trabalho – onde o serviço já ia a todo o vapor – e procurava alguém para ser despedido.

You got used to a bit of peace and you got used to a bit of extra pretty polly.

not required to stay late in the Whitehall area, I used, as a general routine, to come straight back from duty to a nearby pub, dine there, then retire to bed with a book. At that period the seventeenth century particularly occupied me, so that works like Wood's Athenae Oxonienses or Luttrell's Brief Relation opened up vistas of the past, if not necessarily preferable to one's own time, at least appreciably different. These historical readings could be varied with Proust.

The beginning of a habit is like an invisible thread, but every time we repeat the act we strengthen the strand, add to it another filament, until it becomes a great cable and binds us irrevocably, thought and act." —ORISON SWETT MARDEN

The law of familiarity says that if we are around anything (or anyone) long enough, we tend to take things just a little bit for granted.

We first make our habits, and then our habits make us." —JOHN DRYDEN

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.

He has gone, Mamma,' she said, as she entered the breakfast-room. 'And now we'll go back to our work-a-day ways. It has been all Sunday for me the last six weeks.

Wir sind das, was wir wiederholt tun.

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

It is impossible, or not easy, to alter by argument what has long been absorbed by habit

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. ~ Aristotle Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. ~ Aristotle

Excellence is not an act, but habit.