Quotes About Routine

One day I'm not busy at all; the next day I have work for months - that's kind of the way it works!

The hardest part of art-making is living your life in such a way that your work gets done-over and over-and that means, among other things, finding a host of practices that are just plain useful.

I always have to go out to work even if it's just a desk somewhere or an office or the British Library.

I work three days at home, and two days in the British Library or the London Library, just to get out of the house and hide from the children.

My whole career, my swing has always been the most important thing to me. Even when I'm taking a shower, I work on my swing.

I always work on New Year's Eve, no matter what.

I still live as normal a life as anybody else. I have two homes to run. I have my staff to take care of. I work, pay bills and attend society meetings like everybody else.

Going to the golf course every day for work? That's a good job.

My father read 'The New York Times,' my mother did secretarial work, we had a dog, we had a garden, I had a brother.

I try to deal with my serious reading before work.

I've been known to write on the Underground in London and on the subway in New York. I have two or three cafes in Paris that I go into. I find a corner with a little shade, and I can work.

I would not be happy unless I had some regular work to do every day and I imagine that I will always feel that way no matter how old I am.

Usually I get up early every morning and from 6:00 to 10:00 I write. The rest of the time I study and prepare my work or I do other things. But four hours a day are exclusively devoted to writing.

In big houses in which things are done properly, there is always the religious element. The diurnal cycle is observed with more feeling when there are servants to do the work.

I prefer to work in the morning. I get up now at five in the morning. In the morning is when I feel freshest.

I work out twice a day, once in the morning and once before bed. I'll start with half an hour of running and then some yoga to stretch everything out so everything is warm.

I work out at least 5 times a week.

I associate going to an airport with work because I travel so much with my job. So when I have a few days free from work, I tend to stay at home.

Most people are operating out of repetition. If you come to work or school each day with the same mind-state, you probably can't get more out of it than you did yesterday.

It's a lot of work organizing something, whether it's a show or a book, and I don't want to do it every day.

A pipe for the hour of work; a cigarette for the hour of conception; a cigar for the hour of vacuity.

I'm a very anti-vacation person. Because I'm always getting on planes for work, to me, a vacation is when I don't have to get on a plane.

I hardly ever work out.

This is exactly how I would describe my work: 'I get there, I put on the clothes, I leave it on the hanger, and I go home.' And that's what I do.