Quotes About Routine

Sept.17 (1780). When we call loudly thro' the speaking-trumpet to Timothy ( the tortoise), he does not seem to regard the noise. Sept.18. Timothy eats heartily. Oct.3. No ring-ouzels seen this autumn yet. Timothy very dull.

When a dog has slept in the same corner for so many years no one is likely to enquire into its pedigree.

Routines without ongoing assessment lead to stagnation and mediocrity.

Confrontation was the stuff of daily life.

Here we go round the prickly pear Prickly pear prickly pear Here we go round the prickly pear At five o'clock in the morning.

For I have known them all already, known them all— Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

It's not like I just have to go to Washington and go to the White House everyday, and go to the same press conference at 10 in the morning and then be briefed at 4 in the afternoon, and then get a story on at 6.

Ah? A small aversion to menial labor?" The doctor cocked an eyebrow. "Understandable, but misplaced. One should treasure those hum-drum tasks that keep the body occupied but leave the mind and heart unfettered.

It won't kill you to wear that same pair of socks one more day.

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In Aristotle's words, "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

My house has one integral living space and I am sitting on the couch facing the TV, while she is perched on a stool at the breakfast bar in the kitchen, my laptop open in front of her. We have adopted these same positions so many times over the years, it's like we have worn a groove in time. I imagine us suspended here for ever, like tiny figures in a doll's house.

If you just do what you're doing, you're going to do what you do. Time to interrupt patterns.

Days dragged on in this town like they were getting paid by the minute.

He ached with weariness, but it became part of him; he scarcely noticed now that he was weary, he might always have been thus, it was so familiar to him.

The usual time, he'd said. The usual time.

left. If you drive to work or school along the same route every day, intentionally vary the way you go, exploring different streets and unfamiliar territory. This sounds simple, almost innocuous. But when we do a familiar task in a novel way, we stir a fresh awareness.

Our daily trance can feel ordinary and familiar,

The sound of the blades on the ice in the morning is like smelling fresh coffee.

She explained that convenience, habit, comfort, obligation—these are all things that wear the same clothing as love sometimes.

Bunny arrived in the mornings and left in the evenings after the supper dishes were washed

Jay Leno is not a guy who likes change. He eats the same food every day.

We all keep spare sets of full lungs in our homes, but when one is alone, the act of opening one's chest and replacing one's lungs can seem little better than a chore.