Quotes About Routine

Documentation says, "This is how we do it here.

What you do in your model is not nearly as important as doing what you do the same way, each and every time.

Orchestration really is, Sarah: a habit. A way of doing something habitually.

Existe una cosa muy misteriosa, pero muy cotidiana. Todo el mundo participa de ella, todo el mundo la conoce, pero muy pocos se paran a pensar en ella. Casi todos se limitan a tomarla como viene, sin hacer preguntas. Esta cosa es el tiempo. Hay calendarios y relojes para medirlo, pero eso significa poco, porque todos sabemos que, a veces, una hora puede parecernos una eternidad, y otra, en cambio, pasa en un instante.

Existe un misterio muy grande que, aun así, es totalmente cotidiano. [...] Ese misterio es el tiempo.

Aber es ist eine seltsame Tatsache, dass das Entsetzliche seine Schrecken verliert, wenn es sich immer wiederholt.

Novelty in creative endeavors usually arises from routine -- you have to be familiar with something before you know what is novel.

The ecstasy of creation is when, as an artist, you are one with and totally absorbed in the act. It is the same experience whether it is the act of painting, making music, or writing. The experience really obliterates all other considerations at that moment. The act of re-creating the visual experience o the models in front of me is absolutely absorbing, leaving no room for extraneous thoughts, sexual or otherwise. My routine is my way of controlling hysteria.

That's what happens when you're thirty-seven years old: you do the things you always did but the result is somehow different.

He wore the same shorts and t-shirts to work for days on end. He refused to wear shoes with laces. He refused to wear watches or even his wedding ring. To calm himself at work he often blared heavy metal music.

If you grow up with uncertainty you deal with people only on a daily basis, to be even safer on an hourly basis. You do not concern yourself with what you must or should remember about them.

S policy: "no snacks, no seconds, no sweets—except on days that begin with the letter S.

Howlett speculated that the human cannabinoid system evolved to help us endure (and selectively forget) the routine slings and arrows of life "so that we can get up in the morning and do it all over again." It is the brain's own drug for coping with the human condition.

Nu am f?cut operaÈ›ia suficient de mult timp pentru ca t?ierea puilor s? devin? o rutin?, dar munca a început s?-mi dea senzaÈ›ia unei proceduri mecanice, iar aceast? senzaÈ›ie, poate mai mult decât oricare alta, m-a tulburat: cât de repede te poÈ›i obiÈ™nui cu orice, îndeosebi atunci când cei din jur nu cred nimic despre ceea ce faci.

Habits are undeniably useful tools, relieving us of the need to run a complex mental operation every time we're confronted with a new task or situation. Yet they also relieve us of the need to stay awake to the world: to attend, feel, think, and then act in a deliberate manner.

What matters is not the special occasion but the everyday practice—the default habits that govern your eating on a typical day. "All things in moderation," it is often said, but we should never forget the wise addendum, sometimes attributed to Oscar Wilde: "Including moderation.

I continue to do something I've done since I was 18, and that is read a chapter of Proverbs every day as part of my daily devotion. I still maintain that.

I've been meditating since February 2019, and it's something I do every night.

The two hours onstage is great. But I can only play a show and then take a night off. I have to sing for two hours, and then I've gotta rest it for a night. So it's the other 46 hours that are just boring as heck.

Being a singer now I have to get all fussy... I must have my ginger and lemon and all that.

I don't like singing before noon.

There is nothing more boring than doing singing exercises.

Excellence is not a single act. You are what you repeatedly do.

I love the game and played from 13 to 35 for almost every single day.