Quotes About Routine

For how imperiously, how coolly, in disregard of all one's feeling, does the hard, cold, uninteresting course of daily realities move on! Still must we eat, and drink, and sleep, and wake again,—still bargain, buy, sell, ask and answer questions,—pursue, in short, a thousand shadows, though all interest in them be over; the cold mechanical habit of living remaining, after all vital interest in it has fled.

For how imperiously, how coolly, in disregard of all one's feelings, does the hard, cold, uninteresting course of daily realities move on! Still we must eat, and drink, and sleep, and wake again, - still bargain, buy, sell, ask and answer questions, - pursue, in short, a thousand shadows, though all interest in them be over; the cold, mechanical habit of living remaining, after all vital interest in it has fled.

The rule in the women's colleges was that after 7 p.m. all men were beasts. Up until 7 p.m. they were all angels, and the girls simply had to learn to live with that routine and practise love in the afternoon.

Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.

I get up early in the morning, 4 o'clock, and I sit at my desk and what I do is just dream. After three or four hours, that's enough. In the afternoon, I run.

Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff.

Lesson #456 of high school life: Never, EVER trust an alarm clock.

At 6 A.M., I quit email because that's what writers do if they want to get some motherfucking writing done.

Home is a sacred place within the mind, when you are there what is wonderful is normality.

I put on lip balm first thing in the morning and always use it before I swipe on my red lipstick.

Bedtime could only be followed by TV. Or drinking.

Ay, cómo trabajaban las chicas entonces; antes del amanecer ya estaban en pie, muertas de sueño, para disponer veinte o treinta fuegos. Barrer, fregar, limpiar y pulir se hacía sólo para volver a hacerlo. Lavar montañas de vajilla y cubertería, corretear escaleras arriba y abajo; y aquellas campanillas irascibles que empezaban a resonar como en una rabieta… Justo cuando lograbas sentarte un instante.

Turning something into a ritual eliminates the question, Why am I doing this?

Exceptions are dangerous, Mr. Clay. Give them a foothold and they turn into habits.

I have done this before. In other cities, other nights. So often I can repeat each gesture without owning any of them.

The daily life is so wearisome; yet duty lies that way.

When you're young you have to invent tasks to fill the time, while I can kill an hour just making myself some tea. She

Individual societies begin in harmonious adaptation to the environment and, like individuals, quickly get trapped into nonadaptive, artificial, repetitive sequences. When the individual's behavior and consciousness get hooked to a routine sequence of external actions, he is a dead robot, and it is time for him to die and be reborn. Time to "drop out," "turn on," and "tune in."

To the elitist hedonist, life is the avoidance of boredom and routine.

The classical man is just a bundle of routine, ideas and tradition. If you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow -- you are not understanding yourself.

With every adversity comes a blessing because a shock acts as a reminder to oneself that we must not get stale in routine.

Wednesdays are like Mondays in the middle of the week!

and got dressed

Morning is an important time of day, because how you spend your morning can often tell you what kind of day you are going to have.