Quotes About Routine

So true is that unnatural generally means only uncustomary, and that everything which is usual appears natural.

lest the habit of work should be broken, and a taste for idleness acquired

The lesson of bells is that no work is worth finishing, so why care too deeply about anything? Years of bells will condition all but the strongest to a world that no longer offer important work to do. Bells destroy the past and future, rendering every interval the same as any other, as the abstraction of a map renders every living mountain and river the same, even though they are not. Bells inoculate each undertaking with significance.

School is a twelve-year jail sentence where bad habits are the only curriculum truly learned.

A escola é uma sentença de prisão de doze anos em que maus hábitos são o único currículo verdadeiramente aprendido.

Well, I get my subject on Wednesday night I think it out carefully on Thursday, and make my rough sketch on Friday morning I begin, and stick to it all day, with my nose well down on the block.

Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went.

Roll call. (We have to start every day with this just to check nobody has run away or died in their beds.)

Stories are not made from common and routine occurrences. Impressionist tales suggest that we learn more from the exceptional than from the topical. In some quarters this is heresy.

This came to be a ritual, more and more meaningless as it was repeated, but a ritual which nevertheless gave his life the only shape it now had.

The clock is the most sacred thing in a hospital

When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off by sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere.

Who can begin conventional amiability the first thing in the morning?

Sunday was like Monday. If you wanted to live on the sea, that was how you lived, and it was a good life. But nothing changed, and you didn't know how many years had passed until it came to you that you were tired at the end of the day, and that was the only way you knew you were old. (The Queen of the Ivsira)

One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm.

You'll be surprised at the number of table mats, napkins, curtains, and sport things that have to be ironed, even with only two in the household….

So many people prefer to live in drama because it's comfortable. It's like someone staying in a bad marriage or relationship - it's actually easier to stay because they know what to expect every day, versus leaving and not knowing what to expect.

woken up by houseboy Mañuel 10:00:07 a.m.—Quietly utter the word "snooze," letting Mañuel

Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.

The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.

The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.

The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions.

Her life, she knew, was becoming simplified into an unbreakable chain of habits, a series of orderly actions at regular hours. Vaguely, she thought of herself as a happy woman; yet she was aware that this monotony of contentment had no relation to what she had called happiness in her youth. It was better perhaps; it was certainly as good; but it measured all the difference between youth and maturity.

The only differnce between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.