Quotes About Routine

I train and I go home, and when I'm home, I think about training. That's my life every day, and that's it.

The day I died was just like any other idle Thursday.

It's not what we do once—it's what we do once a day…day in and day out…every day that brings lasting change into our lives.

...as we mature, we begin to realize that life in the Box remains the same, with few deviations from this norm.

The real troubles with living is that living is so banal.

A difference between the sane and the insane is not just about appearance or attitude but the usage of time.

People seem to be doing different things, but in reality they do the same thing: They just rush about without having any outstanding universal goal!

Sometimes, all it takes to change your life is to change your routine.

You might plan how to sleep but you can't plan how to wake up. He who plans how to sleep is a Planer, he who plans out to wake up is a Dreamer.

Shake off the cloud of mere routine to find tranquil rustic joys and peace that serve to fuel audacious power and passion.

He found himself inhabiting the vast, empty plateau where most people live, between boredom and contentment.

Life becomes involuntary repetitive when you suffer from short term memory loss.

Happy people do not wake up for breakfast.

larks report being most alert around noon and feel most productive at work a few hours before they eat lunch. They don't need an alarm clock, because they invariably get up before the alarm rings—often before 6:00 a.m. Larks cheerfully report their favorite mealtime as breakfast and generally consume much less coffee than non-larks. Getting increasingly drowsy in the early evening, most larks go to bed (or want to go to bed) around 9:00 p.m.

The discipline to rise early is not as difficult as the discipline of going to bed. This did not used to be so. Before electricity and radio and television and the Internet, going to bed soon after dark was not so difficult. There was not much to do. Today the strongest allurements to stay up and be entertained are against us. Therefore, the battle against weariness, which makes us drowsy as soon as we open our Bible in the morning, has to be fought in the evening, not just in the morning.

The only break I ever took was to eat. That's all I did. Work, and then quickly eat something. It became my main pleasure, having access to my comfort food.

Ordinary exploration begins in the juiciest sort of indecision, in deliberate, then routine fits of absence of mind... Exploring requires the cloak of invisibility bicyclists and walkers take for granted.

Grade school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.

It is best to call it the 3 2 2 Regimen. It is a 7 step morning routine that is grouped into 3 sets: 3 - Reflect, Read, and Write 2 - Plan and Prepare 2 - Exercise and Eat

You love her, even if you don't believe you do. You're used to her, and a lot of love is nothing more than habit.

Once a response becomes a habit, you stop learning. Theoretically, you could act differently, but in practice you do not. Habits are extremely useful, they streamline the parts of our lives we do not want to think about...But there is an art to deciding what parts of your life you want to turn over to habit, and what parts of your life you want to continue to learn from and have choice about. This is a key question of balance.

Consistency is the quality of a stagnant mind.

Commonplace wisdom is the best kind of wisdom for common needs and every-day occasions.

The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine.