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Quotes About Routine

I sipped my own coffee, heavy on the sugar and cream, trying to make up for the late work the night before. Caffeine and sugar, the two basic food groups.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
I go to work the minute I open my eyes.
~ Lynda Barry
I still work out most days. When I do it, I go full blast five or six days a week, two to three hours a day. I enjoy it. It's therapeutic for me.
~ Mickey Rourke
Goering got into endless arguments with other officers [and] he did not like routine work.
~ Richard Overy
Come September, children return to school, grownups to work, and the brain to the head.
~ Roger Rosenblatt
It's really hard to get any work done in my apartment when my bed is also in my apartment.
~ Sasheer Zamata
The Cul-de-Sac ( French for "dead end" ) ... is a situation where you work and work and work and nothing much changes
~ Seth Godin
Most people have bosses who hire them to fill a slot in the work chart and to do what they are told. And most people who are doing what they are told feel safe; it feels reliable.
~ Seth Godin
Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine.
~ Honore de Balzac
If you go to bed at 10:00 and get up by 6:00 A.M., things will work out for you.
~ Gordon B. Hinckley
Police work wouldn't be possible without coffee," Wallander said. "No work would be possible without coffee." They pondered the importance of coffee in silence.
~ Henning Mankell
Try to develop actual work habits, and even though you have a busy life, try to reserve an hour, say - or more - a day to write. Some very good things have been written on an hour a day.
~ John Updike
Working at home is hard. It tends to give you bad habits. It feels more like you're going to work when you get up in the morning and leave your house and go somewhere.
~ Kate Beaton
You have to put yourself in a situation, a lifestyle, that makes you do the work. Even if it's a monastery.
~ Martin Scorsese
I usually get up between 5:30 and 6. The good news in Bentonville, Arkansas, is I can be in the office seven minutes later. I like to get in, work on e-mails and catch up.
~ Mike Duke
The process hasn't changed, but the writer has developed. I still get up every morning and go to work.
~ Mordecai Richler
What I do is not some magical, mystical thing. I simply get up in the morning, get to work on time, say my lines, and do the best I can
~ Parker Stevenson
Retirement is a work in progress. I try to figure out my day, and what I know about myself is that I need structure.
~ Pete Sampras
Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is a result of good work habits. That's it in a nutshell ... In order to be creative you have to know how to prepare to be creative.
~ Twyla Tharp
A work-room should be like an old shoe; no matter how shabby, it's better than a new one.
~ Willa Cather
I'm blessed by the fact I only need five hours of sleep on a daily basis. I do tend to regard Saturday and Sunday as work days.
~ David Rubenstein
Most days I only go out to the post office or to get some food. Otherwise I work on my art or music. I check out the news, and generally spend a lot of time on Tumblr or Facebook or whatever.
~ Unknown
All this science I don't understand, it's just my job five days a week.
~ Elton John
Working is the best thing for me because I'm borderline ADHD, so I need some kind of focus or I go a bit extreme. I need work to keep me sensible.
~ Jaime Winstone