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Quotes About Routine

No matter how early I wake up for class, I always have to rush to make it there on time.
~ Unknown
My day starts backwards...I wake up tired and I go to bed wide awake.
~ Unknown
I dont like morning people...or mornings...or people.
~ Unknown
É em geral com o nosso ser reduzido ao mínimo que nós vivemos, a maioria de nossas faculdades permanece adormecida, porque repousa no hábito, que sabe o que cumpre fazer e não necessita delas.
~ Marcel Proust
Elástico é o tempo de que dispomos cada dia; as paixões que sentimos o dilatam, as que inspiramos o encurtam e o hábito o enche.
~ Marcel Proust
As a rule it is with our being reduced to a minimum that we live, most of our faculties lie dormant because they can rely upon Habit, which knows what there is to be done and has no need of their services.
~ Marcel Proust
And since Habit, among all the plants that grow in human beings, is the one that has least need of nutritious soil in order to live, the first to appear on the most apparently arid rock, had he begun by treating the rupture as a pretense, he might eventually have become genuinely accustomed to it.
~ Marcel Proust
Car ce que les gens ont fait, ils le recommencent indéfiniment. Et qu'on aille voir chaque année un ami qui les premières fois n'a pu venir à votre rendez-vous, ou s'est enrhumé, on le retrouvera avec un autre rhume qu'il aura pris, on le manquera à un autre rendez-vous où il ne sera pas venu, pour une même raison permanente à la place de laquelle il croit voir des raisons variées, tirées des circonstances.
~ Marcel Proust
nothing is more limited than vice. In that sense one can really use a common expression and say that one is always turning in the same vicious circle. "How
~ Marcel Proust
the morrow would not be different from all the days that had gone before;
~ Marcel Proust
The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions expand it, those that we inspire contract it; and habit fills up what remains.
~ Marcel Proust
Al??kanl?k! Zihnimizin haftalar boyunca geçici bir düzende azap çekmesine göz yuman al??kanl?k, ama o olmasa, kendi imkanlar?yla s?n?rl? kalan zihnimizin bize içinde ya?anabilecek bir bar?nak sunamayaca?? için, her ?eye ra?men buldu?u zaman sevindi?i, o becerikli ama a??rkanl? düzenliyici!
~ Marcel Proust
Yo no era más que el instrumento de unos hábitos de no trabajar.
~ Marcel Proust
The time we have to spend each day is elastic: it is stretched by the passions we feel; it is shrunk by those we inspire; and all of it is filled by habit.
~ Marcel Proust
It may, incidentally, be observed that the regularity of a habit is usually in direct proportion to its absurdity.
~ Marcel Proust
I was awakened by the blare of a regimental band which passed every day beneath my windows. But on several occasions — and I mention these because one cannot properly describe human life unless one shews it soaked in the sleep in which it plunges, which, night after night, sweeps round it as a promontory is encircled by the sea — the intervening layer of sleep was strong enough to bear the shock of the music and I heard nothing.
~ Marcel Proust
For a long time, I went to bed early.
~ Marcel Proust
Most of our faculties lie dormant because they can rely upon Habit, which knows what there is to be done and has no need of their services. But on this morning of travel, the interruption of the routine of my existence, the unfamiliar place and time, had made their presence indispensable. My habits...for once were missing, and all my faculties came hurrying to take their place.
~ Marcel Proust
Perhaps the solution is to have a little project every day. If there's no reason for you to get up in the morning it really doesn't matter if you are alive or dead.
~ Unknown
Not to mention the medicine! I take nine pills every day, each for something different—blood pressure, cholesterol, blood sugar, tranquilizer. Need I go on? I look completely normal, but I take nine pills a day for that.
~ Unknown
All that happens is as usual and familiar as the rose in spring and the crop in summer.
~ Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
It's the great equalizer: black or white, male or female, norm or abnorm, the first thing most people do in the morning—before they even brush their teeth—is reach for their d-pad.
~ Marcus Sakey
Something boring, so no one asks follow-up questions about it." "Accounting?
~ Marcus Sakey
Maybe a different job, though. Something boring, so no one asks follow-up questions about it." "Accounting?
~ Marcus Sakey