Quotes About Routine

Life, for the most part, inevitably becomes routine, the random confluence of timing and fortune that configures its components all but forgotten. But every so often, I catch a glimpse of my life out of the corner of my eye, and am rendered breathless by it.

THERE IS NOTHING more pathetically optimistic than the morning erection. I am depressed, unemployed, unloved, basement-dwelling, and bereaved, but there it is, every morning like clockwork, rising up to greet the day, poking out of my fly cocksure and conspicuously useless. And every morning, I face the same choice: masturbate or urinate. It's the one time of the day where I feel like I have options.

At some point, loneliness becomes less a condition than a habit.

The only difference between a rut and a grave is depth.

keeping her wild-honey-and-chamomile-soaked hair from falling into her oatmeal-and-yogurt face mask

Up 5.15 a.m. thinking, packpackpack. I appear to have accumulated more things. How did this happen? I haven't shopped. Think my bath oils have bred.

When I wake up in the morning, I just can't get started until I've had that first, piping hot pot of coffee. Oh, I've tried other enemas.

After dinner sit awhile, after supper walk a mile.

The easier it is to do, the harder it is to change.

Orden en el horario. Esta es la base.

Entre semana, fatigado por la jornada laboral, Luis Mario nunca estaba de humor para jugar con sus hijos. Entraba a casa con la mirada ausente, como un autómata esquivo, y a duras penas les dirigía la palabra, salvo en sus crudas dominicales, cuando necesitaba que alguien le cambiara los canales del televisor.

Tal vez el impulso heroico sea hoy en día algo completamente vulgar y corriente.

Será que lo doméstico -ese veneno que acaba con las pasiones y que también llamamos cotidianidad- lo arruina todo? [...] ¿Es el genio, como insisten algunos, una persona insoportablemente normal en la vida cotidiana? ¿Se puede ser genial todo el rato?

When I go on the plane to fly home, I'm literally capable of forgetting what I do for a job. That also comes about because I choose to take massive breaks between projects, and because I choose to do this ridiculous thing of keeping home, home.

The eternal problem of the human being is how to structure his waking hours.

The essential and similar feature of both procedures and rituals is that they are stereotyped. Once the first transaction has been initiated, the whole series is predictable and follows a predetermined course to a foreordained conclusion unless special conditions arise.

The greatest cruelties of our century have been the impersonal cruelties of remote decision, of system and routine, especially when they could be justified as regrettable operational necessity.

She submitted patiently to all the handling of Hynes, as if she knew there were no use making any protest – but each day, just before four o'clock in the afternoon, something waked in her, and the training of a lifetime called her. She would tear against the wires of her pen or dash at the fence and try to leap it. She had not forgotten.

At home in L.A., Sunday is lazy. It's the wife and me lying in bed with coffee, watching 'The Soup' or something funny on TiVo. The kid will occasionally join us. Eventually, breakfast is at a place down the street called Paty's. And we always have some kind of great dinner - my wife makes a great roast beef.

in general management, a failure to deliver results is due to either a failure to plan adequately or a failure to execute properly. Both are significant lapses, yet new product development in our modern economy routinely requires exactly this kind of failure on the way to greatness.

after just having finished a breakfast of soft-boiled eggs, toast, and coffee. Her room was huge, more like a

Un homme, ça passe sa vie dans seulement deux endroits: soit son lit, soit ses chaussures.

Generals, on the average, are far less bellicose than journalists or patriotic housewives: They know the horrors of a war and they dislike any break in the routine

I work out twice a day, once in the morning and once before bed. I'll start with half an hour of running and then some yoga to stretch everything out so everything is warm.