Quotes About Routine

Even the coolest jobs get stultifying with repetition, and the only way to break that cycle is to bring another job into the mix.

Repetitions - I think that's one of the best ways during the season to maintain something or get better at it, is just to do it over and over.

There are very few distinctions between el bueno and el malo en la prision militar. Instead of the good and the bad, there is the boring and la repeticion - the repetitive. The routine is as endless as it is numbing.

A sense of morality makes a person repetitive in thought and action. Such a person will obviously not get anywhere.

No doubt, every job has repetitive aspects.

The difference between an amateur and a professional is in their habits. An amateur has amateur habits. A professional has professional habits. We can never free ourselves from habit. But we can replace bad habits with good ones.

I get used to my fountain pens and my clothes, and I can never throw them away. I replace them only when I see that they are broken or embarrassing to wear.

Usually I go to bed around midnight and wake up around 6, unless I have to do TV, in which case I get up at 5. I grab my phone, check my email, check Twitter. I have push alerts for the president and some other reporters.

Activities that seem to represent choices are often inert reproductions of accepted practice.

I actually hate it when I forget to put on perfume. It's become a part of my routine and something that represents who I am. Not visually or vocally, it's another level. If I forget, it feels like some part of me is missing.

I always have to have breakfast before I leave the house, even if it's 4 A.M. and I'm not hungry.

Even though I am not hungry when I get up, I try to eat to get me ready for the day. Within an hour of getting up.

For my kids, I cook everything. We have dinner every night, pretty much, just the four of us: my husband and me and our two kids.

Every day's a hustle.

My mom is at my house every day, and she nags me about everything, especially hygiene.

I'm hyped up when I'm working. Some people eat when they're hyped up and some people don't. I'm the 'don't.'

I don't get hyped when I see stars now because it's like second nature to me.

The sound of the blades on the ice in the morning is like smelling fresh coffee.

Before I go to bed at night, I ice my face, because it closes your pores and makes a difference in the morning.

In the morning, I always use a cube of ice on my face - it gives me a natural lift.

I'm not an idiot; I can make adjustments to my life. But I like having a schedule.

My mom said I was not going to be an idle child, so I had things to do every day after school.

When I was in third grade, I would run home - literally run home from school - and if I could make it in time, I could get home and the put the TV on in time to catch the answering machine message at the start of 'The Rockford Files.'

I love doing the dishes... not for the act of cleaning but because I get to put my headphones in, listen to music, and ignore the world for an hour, and it's totally acceptable because I'm cleaning.