Quotes About Routine

One of the simple but genuine pleasures in life is getting up in the morning and hurrying to a mousetrap you set the night before.

As a photonic being, I could easily follow Captain Eden at a brisk run and likely overtake her in the next hour. Were you inclined to take better care of yourself—and maintain a routine of rigorous exercise, like most Starfleet officers—you might be able to keep pace with me. However, I suspect even a light jog would have you panting for mercy in less than four hundred meters.

Over time, however, the tranquillity, the dry warmth, and the way in which the activity forced them out of their routine became more of a draw than their respective skills.

We follow protocol in our entire lives, nothing doesn't follow protocol

the snail gets up and goes to bed with very little fuss

Our habitual, daily routines appear merely as common, everyday battles. People strive to protect themselves against the encroachments of others, dropping a Venetian blind over their faces and fastening it tight.

up on time every day, something I hadn't

I think about baseball when I wake up in the morning. I think about it all day and I dream about it at night. The only time I don't think about it is when I'm playing it.

For decades, you get up every morning knowing who you are, what you're expected to do that day. Maybe you like the accolades that come with the job, but it's the routines, the boundaries and the sense of accomplishment you miss when the work's not there any longer.

I am a morning writer I am writing at eight-thirty in longhand and I keep at it until twelve-thirty, when I go for a swim. Then I come back, have lunch, and read in the afternoon until I take my walk for the next day's writing.

The only thing that has ever made me feel old is those few times where I allow myself to be predictable.

Even with the anxiety over her first day of work at her new job looming, Lexie Parker still took the time to count out the brightly colored pills and filled the plastic holder, labeled by individual days and divided

It is easy to slip into autopilot mode when you are distracted or have too much to do.

go to sleep, before eating, before an important

I was distracted all the way home, thinking that you always move in the same circle of people no matter how many turns you seem to make.

You always move in the same circle of people no matter how many turns you seem to make

Cuántos días sin importancia! Los días sin importancia [ … ] me pesaban como una cuadrada piedra gris en el cerebro.

La rutina no está tanto en las cosas como en nuestra incapacidad para crear a cada momento un vínculo original con ellas, en nuestra tendencia a leerlas por la falsilla de lo rutinario, de lo ya aprendido. Hay que seguir dejando siempre abierta la puerta al cuarto de jugar.

Because of her hospital schedule, she was either not around at all, or sleeping, or around a lot.

I hear how kids wise up to the Santa Claus routine but pretend otherwise because the goods seem connected to keeping their parents' fantasies flowing. I've seen the parents trying to pretend for the same reason -- not because otherwise the gifts stop, but to maintain the innocence a little longer -- even when both sides know the other side knows.

One should not allow untoward events to interfere with one's regular habits or social obligations.

and Lynn is dead inside, like a corpse. She Instagrams methodically, clinically, as if she's gathering evidence for defense, like her entire life is dedicated to proving that she has a life.

Whoever said running in the morning gives you energy never had a day job that involves customer service.

I hate it here... ...Everyday is actually three days, a freezing morning, a blistering day, and a cool night. You need a lot of clothes. And every day is the same day, which is why it's important to hang a calendar. I see why people move here and wake up one day scratching their heads, wondering when they turned forty or what year it is.