Quotes About Routine

I'm always amazed by writers who say, "Oh you know I had a half hour so I sat down and wrote a little bit." I just need a real big chunk of time to sit down and focus. That's my process.

I would play music every day from the time I was about 4 or 5 years old. Every time I would go from one end of the house to the other, I would pass the piano and play a few notes.

I think that if you haven't been to the grocery store in a really long time, it's really easy to get very out of touch.

I really like putting the kids to bed. Everyone is cozy and snuggly. Nobody is giving anyone a hard time, and everybody reads.

With enough time, you can get used to almost anything.

I used to weigh myself every day at a certain time of day. Then I would write down the number and measure my body fat. It wasn't a healthy way to live.

Every girl on the planet was familiar to one-last-time e-mail checks.

I romanticized domesticity for a while, and loved having a shopping list of groceries stuck to the fridge for the first time.

Carrying those double tanks around all the time got to be a little rough on me. I had to put that damn wetsuit on and take it off, sometimes three or four times a day.

I'm structured with time.

I know if I did that [career as painter] all the time I would get tired of it.

Going on tour, you don't have a lot of time to mull things over. You're just kind of, "Another beer, another show, another song."

The mind becomes accustomed to things by the habitual sight of them, and neither wonders nor inquires about the reasons for things it sees all the time.

Routine is really important. However late you went to bed the night before, or however much you had to drink, get up at the same time each day and get on with it.

I will say that the prison regime is rather a good one for a writer because you have plenty of time to write.

Repetition comforts me for a time, then closes in.

Routine is not a prison, but the way into freedom from time.

I get up at the same time every morning.

I was thinking that maybe when everything around you changed all the time, it was nice to know that something would always be the same

No matter how tired I am, I can only sleep for four hours at a time.

I spend a lot of time obsessing about getting a dignified eight hours' sleep.

A quarter past three," she exclaimed, catching sight of the bedside clock. "What a time to be drinking tea!" "Anytime," Harold told her, "is time to be drinking tea.

It's important that I get time to run, to just go for a jog for about 30 minutes. It helps with my voice, but it also kind of gives me a little bit of time to myself - and you get to see a city.

A lot of the time nothing happens in a day.