Quotes About Routine

Habit is the beneficent harness of routine which enables silly men to live respectfully and unhappy men to live calmly

In the big city, if the man next door happens to be a slum landlord, a Mafia bag man, or a long distance runner, what does it matter, as long as he puts his garbage out on Tuesdays?

How use doth breed a habit in a man.

The life of every man is an endlessly repeated performance of the life of man.

Most men are prisoners at best, Who some strong habit every drag about Like chain and ball.

Americans are like Pac Man. We just eat our way through the day. There's always something going into the mouth.

Ordinary life goes on--that has saved many a man's reason.

The average man gets his living by such depressing devices that boredom becomes a sort of natural state to him.

Resolve can take many forms. It can flourish within a daily routine, a list prepared each night and answered each day. Or it can take a more organic form, a desire formed and kept in view, something to move toward as time and circumstance allow.

Thing was, after the hurricane, life went on. You had to buy milk, fix the broken windows, play some Warhammer, discuss some girls. Wow!

Outside of a teapot life is but thousands of dusty affairs.

Though the circular round-and-round of routine be the bulk of life's affairs, make an occasional jutting diversion — of fun, love, or something that will outlast you — so the shape and motion of your life shall resemble the round lifegiving sun with bright rays shining forth from all directions.

I orchestrate my mornings to the tune of coffee.

The best kind of alarm clock is the purring kind.

The secret of your success is hidden in your daily routine."[1]

You change yourself by changing something you do each day.

I wake up every morning singing 'The Star-Spangled Banner.'

Pleasure has turned into habit much more quickly than I should have ever thought possible.

Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.

Abwechslung ist des Lebens Reiz, eine Wahrheit, die freilich jede glückliche Ehe zu widerlegen scheint.

I'm sorry," Rose repeated as she kicked the fridge door closed with a bare foot and carried a carton of orange juice to the counter. She was dressed in folded up jeans, boots, and a black tank top. Her eyes were puffy; she hadn't been awake long either.

Une poussière de petits souvenirs insignifiants qui traçaient malgré tout, en s'enchevêtrant les uns aux autres, la trame d'une vie. Celle de Dimeglio, inspecteur principal à la Brigade criminelle, indice 320. Une vie sans histoires.

Tu as compté les heures, observant avec ravissement la course des aiguilles. Le temps était fictif : était-il dix heures ou vingt-deux heures, mardi ou dimanche ? Cela n'avait pas d'importance ; de nouveau tu pouvais régulariser ta vie, à midi j'ai faim, à minuit sommeil. Un rythme, quelque chose à quoi se raccrocher.

The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is.