Quotes About Routine

The conversation at dinner hadn't been successful either; it bore the marks of an old married couple who had very little left to say to each other.

Keep Your Design Modular Modularity's goal is to make each routine or class like a black box: You know what goes in, and you know what comes out, but you don't know what happens inside.

One indication that a routine needs to be broken out of another routine is deep nesting of an inner loop or a conditional. Reduce the containing routine's complexity by pulling the nested part out and putting it into its own routine.

Avoid duplicate code. Undoubtedly the most popular reason for creating a routine is to avoid duplicate code. Indeed, creation of similar code in two routines implies an error in decomposition. Pull the duplicate code from both routines, put a generic version of the common code into a base class, and then move the two specialized routines into subclasses.

As William James pointed out, humans are habit machines.

People can say what they like about the eternal verities, love and truth and so on, but nothing's as eternal as the dishes.

I love how you just make coffee and then somehow something gets done.

You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one.

Habit: Often mistaken for love.

I love cereal. I eat several bowls a day, mostly a few late at night.

habit, a particularly insidious thug who chokes passion and smothers love. Habit puts us on autopilot.

I'd love to be approached to do ordinary things more.

Running in Central Park is my favorite thing to wake up and do. I have my own specific path that I have to run every single time. There's a little bit of OCD involved, but I love it.

What I love about cooking is that after a hard day, there is something comforting about the fact that if you melt butter and add flour and then hot stock, it will get thick!

Bored with the same type of misery over and over and over again.

I love pilates and yoga but don't do them regularly.

In the classroom, though, the water rains down on us as Phillip grabs what's left of the joint, still lit, and swallows it whole, with the confidence of someone for whom joint swallowing is a routine practice.

It is the things that occur every single day that truly make up our lives.

We require routine and tradition. That's order. Order can become excessive, and that's not good, but chaos can swamp us, so we drown— and that is also not good. We need to stay on the straight and narrow path.

The body, with its various parts, needs to function like a well-rehearsed orchestra. Every system must play its role properly, and at exactly the right time, or noise and chaos ensue. It is for this reason that routine is so necessary. The acts of life we repeat every day need to be automatized. They must be turned into stable and reliable habits, so they lose their complexity and gain predictability and simplicity.

Maybe you're even just a collection of bad habits.

Anxiety and depression cannot be easily treated if the sufferer has unpredictable daily routines.

Uma transformação voluntária de morte e renascimento – a mudança necessária para a adaptação em face de coisas terríveis – é por isso uma solução para a rigidez, potencialmente fatal, da falsa certeza absoluta, da ordem em excesso e da rotina.

It doesn't matter so much if they go to bed at the same time each evening, but waking up at a consistent hour is a necessity. Anxiety and depression cannot be easily treated if the sufferer has unpredictable daily routines. The systems that mediate negative emotion are tightly tied to the properly cyclical circadian rhythms.