Quotes About Routine

should strive to have a mix of these four types of activities at some point during your daily and weekly routines: 1. Physical Activity 2. Mental Stimulation 3. Social Interaction 4. Fulfillment

merely become an everyday part of keeping one's mental and physical environment in good order.

We're never really taught that we have to think about our work before we can do it; much of our daily activity is already defined for us by the undone and unmoved things staring at us when we come to work, or by the family to be fed, the laundry to be done, or the children to be dressed at home.

Einheiten zu planen. Sein Leben war sehr strukturiert, bot

Q: Are you saying that thought has a kind of possessive quality which stays, gets stuck, and then becomes habitual? And we don't see this? Bohm: I think that whenever we repeat something it gradually becomes a habit, and we get less and less aware of it. If you brush your teeth every morning, you probably hardly notice how you're doing it. It just goes by itself. Our thought does the same thing, and so do our feelings. That's a key point.

Being normal has some significant practical upsides.

It is not time that kills delight, but familiarity, neutralization, and lack of purpose.

Let's talk about habituation

Routine, repetition, tedium, monotony, ephemeracy, inconsequence, abstraction, disorder, boredom, angst, ennui — these are the true hero's enemies, and make no mistake, they are fearsome indeed. For they are real.

David Foster Wallace

He imagined that the clock's second hand possessed awareness and knew that it was a second hand and that its job was to around and around inside a circle of numbers forever at the same slow unvarying machinelike rate...

Sometimes what's important is dull.

You'd be doing us both a favor.' 'This drives me bats. You know this drives me bats.' Orin and Hal's term for this routine is Politeness Roulette. This Moms-thing that makes you hate yourself for telling her the truth about any kind of problem because of what the consequences will be for her. It's like to report any sort of need or problem is to mug her.

Chandler Foss is flossing his teeth

It is hard to notice what you see every day.

If all the year were playing holidays; To sport would be as tedious as to work.

The rain, it raineth every day.

The concept is to establish a welcoming structure and routine by assigning students to tables and lunchtime discussion topics based upon their mutual (or similar) passions. If possible, the tables could be moved off to one side of the cafeteria, away from the distracting noise and visuals, to help foster successful conversations.

Habit rules the unreflecting herd.

Everything is habit forming, so make sure what you do is what you want to be doing.

through all the monotony and the splendor of life.

He was not discontented, but he was too restless, too preoccupied. Each day led so relentlessly to the next, linked by cause and effect, anticipation and result, preparation and achievement.

Blake: 'Think in the morning; act in the noon; eat in the evening; sleep in the night.

Este método de vida respondía exactamente a las máximas del poeta Blake: «Pensar por la mañana, actuar al mediodía, comer por la tarde y dormir por la noche».