Quotes About Routine

Living was simple: it was no more than a few habitual actions strung on to a routine.

Day followed day, each one a little different from the one before...but the little house stayed just the same.

In the morning, I practice 15 minutes of yoga.

Everyone must hoe his plot daily…

Regimen is superior to medicine.

What's wrong with that? You're getting exercise in your sleep. We're up to five sets of fifty push-ups, three hundred sit-ups, and a run every night.

Nunca bebo agua, me preocupa que pueda convertirse en un hábito.

Routine shortens and variety lengthens time, and it is therefore in the power of men to do something to regulate its pace. A life with many landmarks, a life which is much subdivided when those subdivisions are not of the same kind, and when new and diverse interests, impressions, and labours follow each other in swift and distinct successions, seems the most long…

From the conservative dark Into the ethical life The dense commuters come, Repeating their morning vow.

The surest way to discipline passion is to discipline time: decide what you want or ought to do during the day, then always do it at exactly the same moment every day, and passion will give you no trouble.

Routine, in an intelligent man, is a sign of ambition

Always smile first thing in the morning. Might as well get it over with.

Nature and Passion are powerful, but they are also full of grief. True happiness would have the calm and order of bourgeois routine without its utilitarian ignobility and boredom.

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

Shaving is a way to start the workday by ritually not cutting your throat when you've the chance.

I have a brother who gives socks for Christmas. He gives socks. Every year, I get a pair of socks from him.

I have one computer that my wife gave me. All I know how to do, and I do it every day, is play Spider Solitaire. And I don't have a cell phone.

The fact that the scrub literally comes out into your hand as a powder and then activates with water is a really cool thing.

My dad taught me to switch-hit. He and my grandfather, who was left-handed, pitched to me every day after school in the back yard. I batted lefty against my dad and righty against my granddad.

Every Sunday my dad calls to ask if I went to church. And every Sunday I lie and say: Sorry. Wrong Number.

Dad was at his desk when I opened the door, doing what all British people do when they're freaked out: drinking tea.

Dad, I can count the number of normal school days I've had this year on one hand.

If I didn't have a job, I might have stayed in bed until I rotted.

We eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner to the soundtrack of our own impending death.