Quotes About Routine

Ironically, it seems that it is by the means of seemingly perfunctory daily rituals and routines that we enhance the personal relationships that nourish and sustain us.

Things are truly baggage, our impedimenta, which must be maintained with work that is menial, steady and recurring.

If one knocks oneself out of one's routine—and in so doing knocks others gently out of theirs—then one can now and again create these momentary opportunities to be better than one is.

as I unwrapped my daily meal of two hard-boiled eggs

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. - Jim Ryun

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit. - Aristotle The

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit. - Aristotle

How's work?" I asked. Mind-numbing. Isort crap, Xerox crap, research crap. Now and then I file crap at the courthouse. Those jaunts through the halls of justice really get the old adrenaline pumping.

But of course when people watch morning television, Terry, it's a very different animal. You know, they're running around, they're getting their kids ready for school, they're probably doing eight million things, they're brushing their teeth.

But, you know, they don't enjoy the dinner hour together. It's just not as much of a ritual at night and it's interesting. I think the ritual is taking place perhaps more in the morning.

These people whose lives are so orderly that they can rise early enough to find a whole other human body just dumped on the ground...

home is less a location than a discipline. It is a way of being, a domestic, considered attention to familiar routines and the small, essential details of everyday life. From now on, I promised myself, home would be wherever I was, not the place that I one day hoped it to be. I would create it by being present. I would try to do better.

I could lay here and read all night. I am not able to fall asleep without reading. You have the time when your brain has nothing to do so it rambles. I fool my brain out of that by making it read until it shuts off. I just think it is best to do something right up until you fall asleep.

I am a great believer in variations on the routine.

That's what happens when you free people from the restraints of time. They make their own rigid schedule.

laundromats . . . like a waiting room for people who didn't go anywhere

How many men does it take to change a toilet roll? Nobody knows – it's never been done before.

Compare these accomplishments with the premature resignation of people you know in their thirties or forties, who behave as if their lives have settled into a dull routine and who see little opportunity to change and evolve.

I'm bored with the routine of a late breakfast of mangos and toast, a long day lying hot and sweaty under a palm tree, and an evening of 'African cultural dance' staged for the tourists by disenchanted locals, followed by a nightly poolside barbecue of big hunks of dead zebra and antelope. This is the Hotel Intercontinental's idea of the African coastal experience. I have to get into town.

But even as I talk about working out for 20 minutes in these most effective aerobic activities, I should mention that that's only a minimum. The optimum workout would be more like 30 minutes, three to four times a week.

People headed off to bed earlier than usual, no doubt exhausted by watching the crew work all day.

Carrying water and chopping wood are just as much spiritual practices as reading scriptures.

I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits.

that the only difference between a rut and a grave is the depth.