Quotes About Routine

Ce n'est pas possible d'éplucher des pommes de terre et de gratter des carottes en combinaison.

They often keep turning the handle of the grinder after the coffee is ground.

Even when my parents were together, they both had to travel and work, and it wasn't like they had nine-to-five jobs. In that way, it wasn't a normal family life.

Sometimes you have to get out of your routine so God can speak to you in a non-routine way." 9

It is by sitting down to write every morning that one becomes a writer.

The difference between a rut and a grave is the depth.

Spontaneity is the quality of being able to do something just because you feel like it at the moment, of trusting your instincts, of taking yourself by surprise and snatching from the clutches of your well-organized routine a bit of unscheduled pleasure.

Rise with the lark, and with the lark to bed.

It is not true that life is one damn thing after another- it's one damn thing over and over.

It's good to play, and you must keep in practice.

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home that answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog that growls every morning, a parrot that swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night.

After dinner, rest a while, after supper walk a mile.

Do not shorten the morning by getting up late; look upon it as the quintessence of life, and to a certain extent sacred.

He'd jolt up in bed every morning, sit quietly for a moment, and you could feel those wheels spinning in his mind as he planned his day. Then he'd hit the floor almost on the run.

He who every morning plans the transactions of the day and follows that plan carries thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.

The organized person ... makes the most of his time and goes to his bed for the night perfectly relaxed for rest and renewal.

He who every morning plans the transactions of the day and follows out that plan carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life. ... If the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident, chaos will soon reign.

The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions that we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it; and habit fills up the rest.

The moment we pass out of our habits we lose all sense of permanency and routine.

It is too bad if you have to do everything upon reflection and can't do anything from early habit.

Most of life is routine-dull and grubby, but routine is the mountain that keeps a man going. If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.

Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them, either; they keep you.

Quality is not an act. It is a habit.

It is not in novelty but in habit that we find the greatest pleasure.