Quotes About Routine

Monday is a lame way to spend 1/7 of your life.

Look at the bright side — at least Mondays only happen once a week.

I do my work at the same time each day — the last minute.

The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off.

Most people are in a factory from nine till five. Their job may be to turn out 263 little circles. At the end of the week they're three short and somebody has a go at them. On Saturday afternoons they deserve something to go and shout about.

I'm addicted to this exercise — I never skip a day!

You know you're a skydiver when you'll wake up at 6:30 am on the weekends to get to the drop zone, but you can't seem to get up by 7:30 on the weekdays to be at work by 8:00.

Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between two.

The best cure for insomnia is a Monday morning.

A nonsmoker is forced to find food, but for a smoker breakfast can be a cigarette and a cup of bad coffee.

Good work requires of us an appreciation of the value of routine, ordinary, mundane rhythms of doing what needs to be done, each day and each week, thoroughly and with care.

There is a simple life, a life in solitude, which I had grown unused to. Eating bread at a wooden table, gathering up the crumbs and tossing them to the sparrows. Slowly peeling an apple with a pocketknife and realizing that this gesture exactly re-creates your father's gesture, which re-creates the gesture of your grandfather's. The place is not the same, nor the time, nor the hand. But the gesture remembers.

Graham committed himself to an hour of prayer and Bible study each day after breakfast. He began with five chapters of Psalms, he claimed, to know how to get along with God, and one chapter of Proverbs to know how to get along with other people. That way he read each book through once a month.

It all adds up to normality.

The United States too had crowded cities and hungry workers, fighting efforts to subordinate their lives to mechanical routine. But instead of waging class war upward—on aristocrats and owners—they waged race war outward, on the frontier. 'Prenticeboys didn't head to the barricades to fight the gentry but rather joined with the gentry to go west and fight Indians and Mexicans.

The operational work is the ongoing, repetitive set of activities that sustain the organization.

Work harder to appreciate your ordinary day.

Habits equal autopilot. Take brushing your teeth for example. Once that becomes a habit, you don't have to write positive affirmations or remind yourself constantly to brush your teeth. It is simply a habitual part of what you do every day. That is why I emphasize the five habits of stress management, not the five rules or the five goals. If you make these five habits an essential part of your life, then you will be able to manage stress effectively.

Meditation should be on the same list as brushing your teeth, sleeping and eating. Meditation is an addition to your routine, not a final goal to accomplish. Once meditation is in your routine, then your mind will feel fuzzy if you don't meditate, in the same way that your teeth feel fuzzy when you don't brush.

Rijkaard and Ten Cate made the perfect double act; the ultimate good cop/bad cop routine, but without Henk banging his fist on the table, Rijkaard's nice guy routine led to chaos.

La alegría de poder subsistir de la actividad que nos apasiona y no estar sentados ocho horas en una oficina, llegar a casa, cenar, hablar cinco minutos con la pareja, ver televisión, dormir y despertar al día siguiente a las siete para volver a lo mismo. Con o sin éxito, crear se convierte en una adicción.

There are men who bloom in chaos. You call them heroes or villains, depending on which side wins the war, but until the battle call they are but normal men who long for action, who lust for the opportunity to throw off the routine of their normal lives like a cocoon and come into their own. They sense a destiny larger than themselves, but only when structures collapse around them do these men become warriors.

Repetition only extinguishes pleasure.

Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.