Quotes About Routine

Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs one step at a time.

she makes me wash, they make me comb all to thunder; she won't let me sleep in the woodshed... the widder [widow] eats by a bell; she goes to bed by a bell; she wakes up by a bell-everything's so awful reg'lar a body can't stand it

Health is a habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.

Monday morning always found him so—because it began another week's slow suffering in school.

One of his favorite jokes was about a guy who was smuggling wheelbarrows. Every day for years and years a customs agent carefully searched through this guy's wheelbarrow. Finally, when he was about to retire, the customs agent asked the guy, We've become friends. I've searched your wheelbarrow every day for many years. What is it you're muggling? My friend, I am smuggling wheelbarrows.

I need to get in line,' I said. 'Should I walk up with you?' 'No,' I said, 'because we'll start this routine all over.' 'What if I want to?' 'I'd like that,' I said. 'But don't.

Come morning I found the day as I have found every other day--without relief or explanation.

No gunfire, famine, or flies. Just lots of toothpaste, gardening and people stuff.

Wake & Bake. More like Wash & Bake. Half a bowl of cereal and a shot of bourbon later, I'm there, my friendly haze having finally arrived. I'm ready for work.

I did it because you are the epitome of ordinariness.

There are just people going about what they always do. Talking. Parking crooked.

You are the epitome of normal.

Yeah,' I said and started smoking another cigarette. Unless I inform you otherwise, I'm always smoking another cigarette.

Addictions do come in handy sometimes: at least you have to get out of bed for them.

Yet now he felt that perhaps he had missed one of the few chances life offered to step off the wheel of routine and familiarity and duty to discover if there was joy somewhere beyond its turning.

Crime is commonplace, existence is commonplace, and no qualities save those which are commonplace have any function upon earth.

we were forced to raise our minds for the instant from the routine of life and to recognise the presence of those great elemental forces which shriek at mankind through the bars of his civilisation

we were forced to raise our minds for the instant from the routine of life and to recognise the presence of those great elemental forces which shriek at mankind through the bars of his civilisation, like untamed beasts in a cage.

But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation. That is why I have chosen my own particular profession,--or rather created it, for I am the only one in the world.

We human beings have a remarkable way of growing accustomed to things.

It's a measly manner of existence. To get on that subway on the hot mornings in summer. To devote your whole life to keeping stock, or making phone calls, or selling or buying. To suffer fifty weeks of the year for a two week vacation, when all you really desire is to be outdoors, with your shirt off. And still-that's how you build a future.

Humans are animals of habit.

human beings were creatures of habit, and it was amazing the kind of things they could get used to.

All involve risk, uncertainty, and complexity — and therefore steps that are worth committing to a checklist and testing in routine care. Good checklists could become as important as doctors and nurses as good stethoscopes (which, unlike checklist, have never been proved to make a difference in patient care). The hard question — still unanswered — is whether medical culture can seize the opportunity.