Quotes About Routine

Mani laughs every time he hears someone ask me, 'Don't you miss acting?' Because he sees me with make-up on every morning and leaving for the studios.

I've been working since I was four. My life has only been about shootings, studios, and home.

There was a time when I used to enter the film studios in the morning and come out only at night.

I'd wake up at 4 A.M. every day, and reach the studios on the dot at 9.

Every day I go to my study and sit at my desk and put the computer on. At that moment, I have to open the door. It's a big, heavy door. You have to go into the Other Room. Metaphorically, of course. And you have to come back to this side of the room. And you have to shut the door.

I play dominoes all the way until I got Bible study. And then I do Bible study. I go to the game. After the game, come home. Dinner. Dominoes until I go to sleep. I'm. Not. Joking.

Before you start a practicing regimen, you have to be aware that the study of music is a lifelong process-it's a discipline. And the key to mastering any discipline is consistency.

The greatest object in educating is to give a right habit of study.

Sometimes I miss out the morning's painting session and instead study my Japanese books in the open.

If I'm not at my study by 10:00, 10:30, forget it, I can't write a word.

I never read in bed, only in my study.

I was playing at sixth form - training in the morning and going to the gym in the afternoon. I was doing my studying alongside it; then I'd go to training from eight to 10 at night.

Honestly, I've always had difficulty relaxing, unwinding and going to bed - that kind of stuff.

I think that is one thing I've picked up: follow a routine, be consistent, and everything is going to fall in place. If you are scrambling around, and you are late for stuff, that adds extra stress, and you have to go out there and hit a 97 mph fastball.

I always end up hurting myself doing something mundane. If I have to do some complicated stunt, I'm fine.

Repetition on things like that becomes quite painful. If you do a stunt sometimes it can look like a stunt.

Out of a year, a half-dozen stunts are pretty tough. The rest are kinda routine. To go out and slide cars around and lay a motorcycle down hell, you do that without even thinking. But on the tough things, you put an awful lot of planning into it.

When all actions are mathematically calculated, they also take on a stupid quality.

Before every game, I have this 30-second routine where I'll pretend like I'm doing some stupid stretch, but what I am really doing is just closing my eyes and taking in the moment, imagining every arena and every city I've been in, smelling all the smells, seeing all the fans.

Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application - practice. What you practice is what you manifest.

I established my first writing routine when I was 13. The school year had just ended, and I'd won a stack of books for being the best student in a number of subjects. The pile included several 60-leaved notebooks that I decided to fill with short stories.

I love to do subjects that are very common, relatable.

If it all just happens like this for the rest of my life, it's going to be one endless Groundhog Day. I determined that I was not prepared to submit to this regime, so I thought I had to do something about it.

The older you get, it is harder to prepare physically, even if you have all the experience in the world. You're more sore the next day, you can't pack in as much, and you have to train smarter. You have to pay attention to more subtle things like your warmup routine or core work.