Quotes About Routine

You know it's Sunday because no one in their right mind would ever opt for Zaxby's over Chick-fil-A unless it were Sunday and they had no choice.

Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.

was a routine, now, and one should never underestimate the importance of routine in a person's life: routine allowed everything else to seem more exciting and impromptu.

It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.

I only write when I am inspired. Fortunately I am inspired at 9 o'clock every morning.

One of the saddest things is that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours—all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

like old married people who no longer have anything in common, to do or to talk about, save the same general weight of air to displace and breathe and general oblivious biding earth to bear their weight...

next year she would have another birthday, and if she just remembered to get into bed left foot first and to turn the pillow over before she went to sleep, who knows what might happen?

Because always,' he thinks, 'when anything gets to be a habit, it also manages to get a right good distance away from truth and fact.

In my opinion it's a shame that there is so much work in the world. One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours — all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Three in the morning. Making yourself a cup of coffee in the dark, using a flashlight when you pour the boiling water.

And don't forget to water the fuckin' goldfish.

there was coffee. Life would go on.

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

All our life, so far as it has definite form, is but a mass of habits.

The more details of our daily life we can hand over to the effortless custody of automatism, the more our higher powers of mind will be set free for their own proper work. There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision, and for whom the lighting of every cigar, the drinking of every cup, the time of rising and going to bed every day, and the beginning of every bit of work, are subjects of express volitional deliberation.

The more of the details of our daily life we can hand over to the effortless custody of automatism, the more our higher powers of mind will be set free for their own proper work.

Toda nuestra vida en cuanto a su forma definida , no es más que un conjunto de hábitos

She slept but little. In the morning she found habit by her bedside; she clothed herself therein and faced the day.

What I've learned. . . . I've learned that just when I get my room the way I like it, Mom makes me clean it up.

Habits are cobwebs at first; cables at last.

The most awful thing about power is not that it corrupts absolutely but that it makes people so utterly boring, so predictable.

He summarizes his approach to change in this simple phrase (inspired by Aristotle's "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."): "We are what we practice and we're always practicing something. Thus, to make changes we need to practice something new and different.

Why are habits so important? They are, in essence, behavioral autopilot. They allow lots of good behaviors to happen without the Rider taking charge. Remember that the Rider's self-control is exhaustible, so it's a huge plus if some positive things can happen "free" on autopilot.