Quotes About Routine

You did not disturb Hemingway before noon on Monday through Friday – he was in his office, writing the books that made the lifestyle possible.

I'm the kind of guy who, I need a watch that tells me what day it is. I need to know it's Friday on my watch. I need to look at it and go, 'Friday today.' Tomorrow I will not know it's Saturday until I look at my watch. My watchband broke, I was crippled. I have no concept of time, I have no concept of dates.

"Life must be terrible for working people, considering they spend every Friday night celebrating a two-day break from it."

It's almost bed time, so I'll just check my e-mail, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and watch a season of my favorite show on Netflix real quick.

Making food: 1 hour. Eating food: 20 seconds. Washing dishes: never ending.

I have never in my life found myself in a situation where I've stopped work and said, 'Thank God it's Friday.' But weekends are special even if your schedule is all over the place. Something tells you the weekend has arrived and you can indulge yourself a bit.

The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony.

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

I love getting up – in the summer, I get up at 5:30, 6 just to go train.

Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.

My wife and I have the secret to making a marriage last. Two times a week, we go to a nice restaurant, a little wine, good food. She goes on tuesdays, I go Fridays.

Everything you are used to, once done long enough, starts to seem natural, even though it might not be.

Do not be grand. Try to get the ordinary into your writing - breakfast tables rather than the solar system; Middletown today, not Mankind through the ages.

I'm the age I am, but my skin is in pretty good condition because I've been consistent with my skincare.

I have a strong dance background. I danced from age five until 18, and that helps a lot. Doing a fight routine is like doing a dance routine.

I don't generally feel anything until noon then it's time for my nap.

I started to travel like this at the age of 15 so for me, it's normal. Some days you get tired and you feel, 'I want to stay at home a little bit more, ' but it's only the moment.

To have her meals, and her daily walk, and her fill of novels, and to be left alone, was all that she asked of the gods.

Or in the latter part of a late-winter Saturday afternoon, his mind turning (as he would not say, but as we knew) to the prospect of a visit to his might-as-well-be wife, Kate Helen Branch, he would stand up and stretch. "Well, boys, I reckon I better get on home and shine, shave, clean up, and sandpaper my tool.

Normal is just a cycle on the washing machine.

We had our breakfasts—whatever happens in a house, robbery or murder, it doesn't matter, you must have your breakfast. When

We had our breakfast--whatever happens in a house, robbery or murder, it doesn't matter, you must have your breakfast.

We had our breakfasts—whatever happens in a house, robbery or murder, it doesn't matter, you must have your breakfast.

Custom gives the same stability to the group that heredity and instinct give to the species, and habit to the individual. It is the routine that keeps men sane; for if there were no grooves along which thought and action might move with unconscious ease, the mind would be perpetually hesitant, and would soon take refuge in lunacy.