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Quotes About Routine

Go brush your teeth, comb your hair, put on dry clothes, and get the guns. We're going to Wal-Mart
~ Ilona Andrews
I wonder how it is that we go along year after year never questioning the routines we've set for ourselves, never wondering if it could be different. I feel as if I've opened a door and discovered a way of life that makes so much more sense to me. A slower pace that allows me to actually see the beauty around me. Hear the song in the sounds and feel appreciation for it all.
~ Inglath Cooper
The division of one day from the next must be one of the most profound peculiarities of life on this planet. It is, on the whole, a merciful arrangement. We are not condemned to sustained flights of being, but are constantly refreshed by little holidays from ourselves.
~ Iris Murdoch
Without this kickstart to my day, I'd be lost. A day without a morning run is a day you fumble through, rather than one you attack.
~ Irvine Welsh
The City was the acme of efficiency, but it made demands of its inhabitants. It asked them to live in a tight routine and order their lives under a strict and scientific control.
~ Isaac Asimov
Even Magnifico was put to work on the calculating machine for routine computations, a type of work, which, once explained, was a source of great amusement to him and at which he was surprisingly proficient.
~ Isaac Asimov
Su vida estaba hecha de ruinas encadenadas sin variantes, salvo aquellas marcadas por las estaciones. Sólo existía trabajo y cansancio para ella
~ Isabel Allende
Qué enciende la pasión? La propia fantasía, supongo. ¿Qué la apaga? La rutina, si uno se descuida, y la pobreza.
~ Isabel Allende
Me gustan las telas, los colores, el maquillaje y la rutina de arreglarme cada mañana, aunque paso la mayor parte del tiempo encerrada en el ático escribiendo. «Nadie me ve, pero yo me veo a mí misma», como decía mi madre filosóficamente, sin referirse
~ Isabel Allende
Pasaban las tardes con la boca abierta y la vista fija esperando alguna revelación que cambiara el curso de sus vidas, pero nada ocurría, sólo el cuadrado, el círculo y la misma majadera melodía
~ Isabel Allende
escondían las horas? Se me escurrían como sal entre los dedos, vivía en un compás de espera, pero no había nada que esperar, sólo otro día exacto al anterior, aletargada frente a la televisión con Freddy.
~ Isabel Allende
I like fabrics, colors, makeup, and the routine of putting myself together every morning, even though I spend most of my time locked away in the attic writing. "No one sees me, but I see myself," my mother would comment philosophically
~ Isabel Allende
Imi plac tesaturile, culorile, machiajul si rutina de a ma aranja in fiecare dimineata, cu toate ca majoritatea timpului il petrec inchisa in mansarda si scriind. Nu ma vede nimeni, dar ma vad eu spunea filozofic maica-mea, si nu se referea doar la aspectul fizic, ci si la trasaturile profunde de caracter si comportament.
~ Isabel Allende
Ce face sa se aprinda pasiunea? Propria fantezie, presupun. Si ce o stinge? Rutina, daca o neglijezi, si saracia. (din "Viata si spirit")
~ Isabel Allende
Qué enciende la pasión? La propia fantasía, supongo, ¿Qué la paga? La rutina, si uno se descuida, la pobreza. (De biografía Vida y espíritus)
~ Isabel Allende
I moved out to New Zealand to live as I thought the warmth and peace and quiet would help me. I went away and changed my whole life routine.
~ Michael Crawford
Basically, when I get home I just do emails for around three hours, which stinks. I have a thing about getting into your inbox every night before going to bed. I'm usually working from my laptop or my phone, desperately trying to get my inbox to zero before I fall asleep.
~ Ivanka Trump
Like, my whole life I've been right here in this zip code, 90059. Regardless of wherever I go I always end up in the same spot.
~ Jay Rock
I miss the common things, the things that used to really annoy me, like an alarm clock. The sound of your zipper as your fly is being pulled up so that you know it actually is up. The sound of the door as it closes, to know that it's really shut.
~ Mandy Harvey
Everyone told me to sleep when the baby sleeps, but she sleeps during the daytime, and that's when I have to get stuff done! I've been a zombie.
~ GloZell
I don't like to be out of my comfort zone, which is about a half an inch wide.
~ Larry David
I always go to sleep on the plane. Then I try and stay up whenever I get where I'm going to and get straight into the time zone I'm in.
~ Kate Moss
I was deep in the zone of practicing almost constantly.
~ Pat Metheny
Sticking to a routine helps you get in the zone for the match. I always put my left shinpad on before my right. When I go out onto the pitch, I take three hops on my left leg - but I don't know why I started. I must have seen Messi do it or something.
~ Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain