Quotes About Routine

Yoga is invigoration in relaxation. Freedom in routine. Confidence through self control. Receiving strength from letting go. Energy within and energy without.

I don't always do yoga — but when I do, it's because I'm trying to reach a new roll of toilet paper while sitting on the toilet.

The trouble with living alone is that it's always your turn to do the dishes.

So the little thing grew bigger. He was healthy and normal, ate regularly, slept long hours, and yet the growing little thing was becoming an obsession. WORK PERFORMED. The phrase haunted his brain.

Tutte le cattive maniere sono abitudini; ed anche le buone, però. Dipende da noi che le abitudini siano buone o cattive.

It sneaks up on you, Anne-the habit. And after all emotion is gone and logic takes over, the habit is still there. For the rest of your life

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: "A man can stand anything, except a succession of ordinary days." When she

Though there was the occasional supper engagement, so often her evenings were spent alone, her staple diet being the large pan of soup she made at the beginning of the week. And later, as she donned her flannel pajamas and pulled a pillow

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: "A man can stand anything, except a succession of ordinary days.

Wolfgang von Goethe: "A man can stand anything, except a succession of ordinary days.

How do you begin each day? At what hour do you rise? How do you commence your duties? In what frame of mind do you enter upon the sacred life of a new day? What answer can you give your heart to these important questions? You will find that much happiness or unhappiness follows upon the right or wrong beginning of the day, and that, when every day is wisely begun, happy and harmonious sequences will mark its course, and life in its totality will not fall far short of the ideal blessedness.

Habits. It's the 5x5 rule. You are not just the average of the five people around you. You're the average of the five habits you do, the things you eat, the ideas you have, the content you consume, etc.

The idea muscle must be exercised every day. Even if you've come up with ideas every day of your life, it will atrophy if you give it a two-week rest.

Prominent behavioral psychologist Dan Ariely has done research that tells us that the peak productivity period in a person's day is 2-5 hours after they wake up. After that, he says, there are declining returns on the work you put in.

As Nassim Taleb mentioned to me on our podcast, "many people drive two miles to the gym in order to walk two miles on a treadmill." Just walk.

This was all part of the American Dream. Get a checkup once a year. Get blood tests. Live your life. But protect yourself. Don't step out of the box. Take care of yourself. Life is hard. But then life is easy if you follow the rules.

The real troubles with living is that living is so banal.

Whenever we ate breakfast, and wherever we walked, when we got home we were always too tired to sleep right away. We made coffee and sometimes drank cognac with it; we sat on the bed and talked and smoked.

The question is banal but one of the real troubles with living is that living is so banal.

When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.

SMaC" is the essence of consistent tactical excellence. SMaC (pronounced "smack," with a very hard "k" sound at the end . . . SmmaacK!) stands for "Specific, Methodical, and Consistent.

1:52 a.m. His favorite nightcap—coffee and Benzedrine.

Conform and be dull.

Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.