Quotes About Routine

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. The

it is the things that occur every single day that truly make up our lives, and time spent the same way over and again adds up at an alarming rate.

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.

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.

I have had many clients whose anxiety was reduced to subclinical levels merely because they started to sleep on a predictable schedule and eat breakfast.

Finally the kitchen clock said 5:17. It was time to roll out. I shouted for my mom, woke Jeffrey up, ran upstairs, changed into my concert clothes, put on my shoes, and was standing by the door to the garage by 5:19—chanting "Let's go! Come on!" (Feel free to try that at home, by the way; moms love it!)

Assim é o mundo, povoado de céticos e negativistas, amarrados, como bois na canga, à ordem e à lei, aos procedimentos habituais, ao papel selado.

Eram assim as noites de amor desses bons esposos, com seguro bis aos sábados, facultativo às quartas-feiras.

Dona Flor via o torso forte do esposo sob o pijama, as largas omoplatas, o cangote rijo, os músculos do braço. Mordendo os lábios, tratou de desviar o pensamento, pois sendo segunda-feira não era dia dessas coisas. Sistemático, o doutor mantinha nisso e em tudo a mais perfeita ordem.

Estos burócratas quincenales, pensé, no piensan más que en cerrar expedientes.

Hoy la ciencia ya ha demostrado que «el hábito es la gran herramienta de la memoria y, por lo tanto, también del talento, que es su criatura» (José Antonio Marina dixit).

Persons of good sense are necessarily dull, because they revolve over and over again the tedious topics of everyday life.

Neither the next day, nor the day after that, did M. Folantin's unhappiness dissipate; he simply let himself drift, incapable of resisting this crushing feeling of depression. Mechanically, under a rainy sky, he would make his way to his office; then he would leave it, eat, and go to bed at nine, only to resume the following day the exact same routine; little by little he slid into complete spiritual apathy.

Las cosas que terminan dan paz y las cosas que no cambian comienzan a concluirse, están siempre concluyéndose. Lo terrible es la esperanza. Voy a ir a Talca como todos los lunes a depositar en el Banco. Y voy a volver después del almuerzo con las compras para la semana, lo de siempre, azúcar, mate, fideos, sal, ají de color, lo de siempre.

La Rutina, síntesis de todos los renunciamientos, es el hábito de renunciar a pensar.

La continuidad de la vida social sería posible sin esa compacta masa de hombres puramente imitativos, capaces de conservar los hábitos rutinarios que la sociedad les transfunde mediante la educación?

Temerosos de pensar, como si fincasen en ello el pecado mayor de los siete capitales, pierden la aptitud para todo juicio; por eso cuando un mediocre es juez, aunque comprenda que su deber 60 es hacer justicia, se somete a la rutina y cumple el triste oficio de no hacerla nunca y embrollarla con frecuencia.

El hombre mediocre es una sombra proyectada por la sociedad; es por esencia imitativo y está perfectamente adaptado para vivir en rebaño, reflejando las rutinas, prejuicios y dogmatismos reconocidamente útiles para la domesticidad.

Childhood awakens in meaningless routine; youth lives its best years without an ideal; and maturity, sterile maturity, serves no other purpose than to corrupt youth by its example. I am glad I'm dying. Claudite jam rivos, pueri. Ring down the curtain, boys.

I get up in the morning, do my e-mail, I check my e-mails all day. I'll go online and I'll buy my books at Amazon.com, but I don't want to buy all of them because I want to go to Duttons and I want to buy books from another human being.

How many people eat, drink, and get married; buy, sell, and build; make contracts and attend to their for-tune; have friends and enemies, pleasures and pains, are born, grow up, live and die ? but asleep!

He had lost his meticulous sense of the passing of time ever since he had given up several old habits. For after all, the hours and the days were meant precisely to maintain those habits, and now the hours and the days resembled empty vessels that could no longer be filled and need not be bothered with anymore.

Our living room had a clock in it that used to clear its throat before striking the hours. He is that harrumphing.

My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car.