Quotes About Routine

I don't believe in writing at night because it comes too easily. When I read it in the morning it's not good. I need daylight to begin. Between nine and ten o'clock I have a long breakfast with reading and music.

You want to come home to a nice firm bed with the corners tucked in so you start over, like each night is like a new night.

Intimacy doesn't have all that much to do with backseats of cars. Real intimacy is brushing your teeth together.

The real gift of the holiday season, A.J. thinks, is that it ends. He likes the routine. He likes making breakfast in the morning. He likes running to work.

clogged up the toilet, too), then deals with the receipts, a task as depressing as it sounds. Finally, he goes upstairs to the attic apartment where he lives. He pops a carton of frozen vindaloo into the microwave. Nine minutes, per the box's instructions. As he's standing

He pulls on a bathrobe and throws on his running shoes, which haven't gotten much mileage on them of late.

How is it that he gets to do so many things and he never changes? How is it that you have done so little and you change like a second hand on a clock?

I never really drank coffee in college, but now I'm on my feet all day and out all night and can't believe it hasn't always been in my life. When morning comes I crave it.

Because I travel so much, I bring my workout clothes and shoes wherever I go. That way I can always do some exercise.

A minister has to be able to read a clock. At noon, it's time to go home and turn up the pot roast and get the peas out of the freezer.

What's your least favorite thing to do? Why?

The advantage of a permanent emergency for the executive is that even trivial things can routinely be accomplished by the crisis presidency. If everything is an emergency, all power is emergency power.

Mrs. Windemere always had a cup of hot coffee waiting for me. Black, which, she said, was the only way to drink it if you wanted to be awake to serve the god of Creativity

hour in a twenty-four hour period. If you find your child is

When we know something that needs to be done but isn't currently getting done, we often say, "I just need more discipline." Actually, we need the habit of doing it. And we need just enough discipline to build the habit.

Give each habit enough time. Stick with the discipline long enough for it to become routine. Habits, on average, take 66 days to form. Once a habit is solidly established, you can either build on that habit or, if appropriate, build another one.

If you are what you repeatedly do, then achievement isn't an action you take but a habit you forge into your life.

The trick to success is to choose the right habit and bring just enough discipline to establish it.

When you discipline yourself, you're essentially training yourself to act in a specific way. Stay with this long enough and it becomes routine—in other words, a habit. So

The results suggest that it takes an average of 66 days to acquire a new habit. The full range was 18 to 254 days, but the 66 days represented a sweet spot—with easier behaviors taking fewer days on average and tough ones taking longer.

Dweck points out that mindsets can and do change. Like any other habit, you set your mind to it until the right mindset becomes routine.

When you discipline yourself, you're essentially training yourself to act in a specific way. Stay with this long enough and it becomes routine—in other words, a habit.

The right discipline goes a long way, and habits are hard only in the beginning.

The goal in life is not to be a disciplined person but to be a person of selected disciplines.