Quotes About Routine

I don't use an alarm. I wake up naturally at 7 A.M.

I'm up around 11am to my alarm. Without it I'd sleep into the afternoon.

My dad worked all day. He would get up at five in the morning and didn't stop working until 10 at night, every day the same.

It's constant - all day long I have to eat, but it's part of the job.

People always ask me, 'What do you do all day?'

I can't drink anything after 9 P.M. otherwise I'm up all night.

Every time I go to the market, Andy says, 'Don't forget the Triscuits!'

I still like fighting, it just got to a point in MMA where it was just another day.

Honestly, when I was back in school I would eat anything and everything but now when I'm shooting, I eat clean.

Anytime I get to come home and work, it is special for me.

I have a nice apartment now that's all taken care of. I make my bed every day.

The structure of college basketball never made sense to me. The coach is the star and you get up at 5:30 A.M. to run before class. That was never appealing to me.

a clerk, a machine, a riding-school hack, eating and drinking and sleeping at fixed hours. I should be like everyone else. And that's what they call living, that life at the grindstone, doing the same thing over and over again.... I am hungry and nothing is offered to appease my appetite.

Is there, then, a law for the inner fruits of the heart, as there is for the visible fruits of nature? Can joy be made lasting? In what proportion should love mingle tears with pleasures? The cold policy of the funereal, monotonous, persistent routine of the convent seemed to me at these moments the only real life; while the wealth, the splendor, the tears, the delights, the triumph, the joy, the satisfaction, of a love equal, shared, and sanctioned, appeared a mere idle vision.

Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine.

Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything familiarity.

Habits are to the soul what the veins and arteries are to the blood, the courses in which it moves

Habit is a cable; we weave a thread each day, and at last we cannot break it.

Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.

Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it every day, and at last we cannot break it.

The dawn that Anna feared might never come would appear on schedule, just as it always had - and after it another, and another. And yesterday would become Last Month, then Last Winter, then Last Year, then Two and Five and Ten Years Ago, and one day the people would have to stop and think before they could say how long ago it was ...

The result of this is a disrespect for the world in general and a foreignness to anything around him that isn't immediately recognizable to his everyday habits. He has even begun to lose perspective on what his own assets and faults are, because he has nothing to measure these things against.

Starbucks is intensely personal. Aside from brushing their teeth, what else do so many people do habitually every day? They drink coffee. Same time. Same store. Same beverage. There's a special relationship millions have developed with our brand, our people, our stores, and our coffee. Preserving that relationship is an honorable but enormous responsibility.

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.