Quotes About Routine

both success and failure are largely the results of habit!

Writing has become a habit with you.

The best and most abiding success is that which is made before eight o'clock in the morning.

It should be remembered also that the outlook from the bottom is not so very bright or encouraging. It has a tendency to kill off ambition. We call it "getting into a rut," which means that we accept our fate because we form the HABIT of daily routine, a habit that finally becomes so strong we cease to try to throw it off.

HOW TO FORM HABITS

Through habit, an act repeatedly performed in the same manner has a tendency to become permanent, and eventually we come to perform the act automatically or unconsciously.

We form habits based on the degree of reinforcement we receive.

Habits make no moral judgments; they can be either good or bad. Both are formed through repetition.

rules through which you may form the habits you desire:

The doorknobs open the doors. The windows are always either open or shut. We are always either upstairs or downstairs in this house. Everything is the same as it always was.

he defined stalking as the art of using behavior in novel ways for specific purposes. He said that normal human behavior in the world of everyday life was routine. Any behavior that broke from routine caused an unusual effect on our total being. That unusual effect was what sorcerers sought, because it was cumulative.

La gente iba y venía de sus vidas en busca del metro, la compra o el olvido.

Desde que no vendemos una escoba se pasa los días emparedado en la trastienda con ese libro egipcio de los muertos. -Es el libro de contabilidad - corregí.

her face, less well-chiselled than it used to be, had that slightly defeated expression that comes with routine and disappointment.

Pasamos la vida como dos extraños que se han visto todos los días y se saludan por cortesía.

Routine is the housekeeper of inspiration.

As the months went by, I learned to confuse routine with normality.

The men, her husband and sons, leave for the quarry at seven o'clock sharp and return at five. What do they imagine she does all day? It makes her shiver to think of it, how not one pair of eyes can see through the roof and walls of her house and regard her as she moves through her dreamlike days, bargaining from minute to minute with indolence, that tempter.

His father, that austere, unfeeling and untutored man, had insisted his sons polish their boots every evening. Flett has learned to be grateful for this early discipline. It kept him breathing as a boy, provided a pulse, gave order to vast incomprehension. Later he found other ways.

Whenever I meet anyone new, I don't say, Tell me about your belief system. I say, Tell me about your average day.

He got out in a middle-aged kind of way, locked the car, and ambled along.

Wake up every morning and eat a bullfrog first thing, and the rest of the day will go just fine.

It was part of her ritual. In December she always got a new calendar at the grocery store and used the old one to write all the important dates on it." "And she probably didn't want you to forget, right?

And by habit they shortened their thoughts so that they would not wander out into the darkness beyond tomorrow.