Quotes About Routine

Once she was settled and rested, she would plunge into her work and average at least a thousand words a day.

Each exam took twenty minutes, so they did three per hour, about twenty-five each day, six days a week.

For his day job, Delgado ran

If you ask me what you are to do in order to be perfect, I say, first—Do not lie in bed beyond the due time of rising; give your first thoughts to God; make a good visit to the Blessed Sacrament; say the Angelus devoutly; eat and drink to God's glory; say the Rosary well; be recollected; keep out bad thoughts; make your evening meditation well; examine yourself daily; go to bed in good time, and you are already perfect.

Good habits are worth being fanatical about.

Homer and Candy passed by the empty and brightly lit dispensary; they peeked into Nurse Angela's empty office. Homer knew better than to peek into the delivery room when the light was on. From the dormitory, they could hear Dr. Larch's reading voice. Although Candy held tightly to his hand, Homer was inclined to hurry – in order not to miss the bedtime story.

return trips, to this day...are simply invitations to dull trances or leaden slumber

Rituals are comforting; rituals combat loneliness.

When your job's to make sure nothing ever happens," he'd once heard, "you begin to see nothing happening

Schiller needed the scent of apples rotting in his desk in order to write. I, too, have my needs.

I have taken to arriving at the office one hour later than I am expected. Therefore, I am far more rested and refreshed when I do arrive, and I avoid that bleak first hour of the working day during which my still sluggish senses and body make every chore a penance. I find that in arriving later, the work which I do perform is of a much higher quality.

Last night as your breathing settled into sleep what I heard was the half-forgotten sound, the velvet rush and hiss, the automatic click as the record player's arm runs out, is brushed away at the record's centre, the pulse of its subsiding oddly comforting. 33 1/3 rpm. The knowledge that when the music ends, there will not be silence.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is a habit.

In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.

Excellence is a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.

Excellence isn't an act, it's a habit

Excellence has become a habit.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

No wise pilot, no matter how great his talent and experience, fails to use his checklist.

Most of us all walk around as if we're sleepwalking. We really don't experience the world fully, because we're half-asleep, doing things we automatically think we have to do.

I've found that writing novels is an all-absorbing experience - both physical and mental - and I have to do it every day in order to keep the rhythm, to keep myself focused on what I'm doing.

Anyone who, neglecting that fixed hour of prayer, [will] say he can pray at all times but will probably end in praying at no time.

The sad moment when you return to your boring and ordinary life after watching an awesome movie.

You can't call it a mistake, when you do it over and over again.