Quotes About Routine

What is an organization actually, even in organization theory, even in the most classical sense in management, if not a serial redescription which starts again (and it's true) every morning.

Boldness, at first a stranger to be treated with caution, soon becomes a friend, then a partner, and finally taken for granted, as is the daily relationship between married people.

I learned that the greatest camouflage of all is consistency. If you do something often enough and at the same time in the same way, you become invisible.

The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.

If you walk into a woman's apartment and nothing's out of place, you know she's not going to want to stay in bed all day and order in Chinese food and eat it in bed. She's going to make you get up and eat toast at the kitchen table.

Detective Karl Rolvaag belonged in the Midwest. This he knew in his heart, and he was reminded of it every day when he went to work.

Underwood." Normally

When things don't change, their sameness becomes an accretion.

It's more habit than stupidity when I laugh at these things. I laugh at them to stay a sane man.

It's Sunday morning. My wake-up routine has been completed. What am I now to do? Here is my answer. Do what the Scriptures require and what Christians have done for 2,000 years. Go to the public assembly, gathered under the discipline of Christ's appointed officers to be ministered to by the word read, preached, sung, prayed, and displayed in the sacraments.

YOU FEAR TO DIE? It's not that I don't want... I mean, I've always...it's just that life is a habit that's hard to break...

Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off.

Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it's just another job.

It was turning out to be one of those days. The sort you got every day.

Nanny Ogg usually went to bed early. After all, she was an old lady. Sometimes she went to bed as early as 6 a.m.

Of all the forces in the universe, the hardest to overcome is the force of habit.

They think they want good government and justice for all, Vimes, yet what is it they really crave, deep in their hearts? Only that things go on as normal and tomorrow is pretty much like today.

In life, as in breakfast cereal, it is always best to read the instructions on the box.

Tomorrow here is just like yesterday, warmed over.

It was eight in the morning, a time when drinkers are trying either to forget who they are or remember where they live.

What we're going to do is keep the peace. That's our job. We're not going to be heroes, we're just going to be ... normal.

No, when it came to avoiding going to church, the church he stolidly avoided going to was St. Cecil and All Angels, no-nonsense C. of E., and he wouldn't have dreamed of avoiding going to any other.

Sister Mary was a nurse and nurses, whatever their creed, are primarily nurses, which had a lot to do with wearing your watch upside down, keeping calm in emergencies, and dying for a cup of tea.

I guess it's that time of month.