Quotes About Routine

Before, I would go out and get my hair blow-dried or my nails done but now that I'm a mum my 'me time' happens when the boys go to bed. I'll jump in the bath and put a leave-in conditioner on my hair and paint my nails.

I live with an 18-month-old Jack Russell named Chicken. He moved in about 15 months ago, and it was very hard at first because I work a lot and he doesn't.

My nanny usually leaves around 6 P. M. I take my kids, I give them a bath, I put them to bed.

My wife cooks, I clean. Then I go to practice, come home, and take a two hour nap. I wake up, shave my head, then it's time to ball.

I try to get eight or nine hours of sleep a night, and if I don't, I'll make sure to take a nap.

I get at least six hours each night, meaning I am generally in bed at 9pm. Then, to top up my sleep, I take a nap as soon as I get home from the studio each morning at 9.30am. Although my sleep is broken into two chunks, this makes up a seven-hour total that keeps me going.

I write at home. I like to be able to take a nap, watch TV, make a sandwich, and if I wake up and don't feel like working, I'm not going to bang my head on my desk all day: I'll go out and do something else.

I would work a morning shift at the gym, nap, then go do a comedy show or class.

I drink coffee 30 minutes before I want to nap. I think that really helps.

Sleep is important; I try and get about 9 hours if I can at night, but I don't tend to nap during the day.

I am very in favour of children having a nap after lunch because then they're not whiney and grizzly by six o'clock.

With my babies, if I wanted to go pick them up I would just go in the room in the middle of the night, but Nicky is very much on a schedule. This is nap time, this is tummy time, so I'm just kind of like, 'Okay.'

I was never one to think about why I need to go running or go to the gym - it just came naturally to me.

Custom is second nature.

They'll be working through until it's done, so Janice has gone to KFC for a bargain bucket. They're dining al desko.

Try your hardest to combat atrophy and routine. To question The Obvious and the given is an essential element of the maxim 'de omnius dubitandum' [All is to be doubted].

Bad habits have brought me this far: why change such a tried-and-true formula?

Wassertorstrasse one week was much like another. Our leaky stuffy little attic smelt of cooking and bad drains. When the living-room stove was alight, we could hardly breathe; when

Routine feeds the illusion of safety...

I was seven before I realized that you could eat breakfast with your pants on.

Sie kam im schlichten Morgenmantel zur Tür, mit zerzausten Haaren und dem ungenierten Gähnen eines Menschen, der sich gezwungenermaßen mit einem Geisteskranken auseinandersetzen muss, welcher unerklärlicherweise den Morgen als Beginn seines Tages betrachtet, statt – wie es rechtens wäre – als dessen Ende

As the story of Reserve Police Battalion 101 demonstrates, mass murder and routine had become one. Normality itself had become exceedingly abnormal.

Segmented, routinized, and depersonalized, the job of the bureaucrat or specialist—whether it involved confiscating property, scheduling trains, drafting legislation, sending telegrams, or compiling lists—could be performed without confronting the reality of mass murder.

Remember that everything you do teaches your baby. Therefore, when you put him to bed by cuddling him on your chest or rocking him for forty minutes, in effect you're instructing him. You're saying, "This is how you get to sleep." Once you go down that road, then you'd better be prepared to cuddle and rock him for a long, long time.