Quotes About Routine

Take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves," Lord Chesterfield once told his son. This is the best path to gradual change.

I like to eat yogurt in the morning. It's easy and quick and available anywhere.

My greatest fear: repetition.

To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior.

Routine is not a prison, but the way to freedom from time.

When I'm writing I can write anywhere; when I'm not writing I can't write anywhere.

They don't actually believe in anything, you understand, so much as they have the habit of believing.

I took comfort in doing without because I knew it was all for the greater good. We all made great sacrifices, none more so than those boys who lost their lives. Tragedy was part of our daily routine. But through it all, I never understood the point of being sad when I could choose to be happy.

As soon as it is seen, the extraordinary starts becoming ordinary!

Tradition is a kind of mental illness with a clear symptom of repetitiveness.

I get up at the same time every morning.

I get up in the morning and do a seven-minute yoga workout. I know the most likely time I'm going to do something is when I first get up, and I make it short because, like you, I don't really want to do that first thing in the morning.

And slowly the mornings begin to change. Nothing too friendly or exciting, but by the time I get to school, the sick feeling that I wake up with every morning disappears. Not for long, but enough to get me through the day.

He understood the mind's pride, filleting, pinning down life. Understood taking apart, reassembling and labeling. To Understand was to control, to keep the terror of human insignificance at bay. It was routine to self-importance, this ability to kill and to rebuild, to catalog and stop any motion too directly pointing out human limitation and death.

It takes a good habit to replace a bad habit.

The ideal three stories a day are one favorite, one familiar, and one new, but the same book three times is also fine.

how fragile and fleeting life is in the relentless flow of minor necessities that make up day-to-day existence.

1. Eat within one hour of waking. 2. Eat like a king or queen at breakfast, a prince or princess at lunch, and a pauper at dinner. 3. Take your last bite three hours before bedtime

Strange as it may seem, horror loses its power to frighten when repeated too often.

With his release imminent, Knight seems more unsettled than ever. He scratches furiously at his knees. Jail, he's realized, might not be all bad. There's routine and order in jail, and he's able to click into a survival mode that is not too dissimilar, in terms of steeliness of mental state, to the one he'd perfected during winters in the woods. "I'm surrounded in here by less than desirable people," he says, "but at least I wasn't thrown into the waters of society and expected to swim.

And don't forget to forget to floss.

Starbucks wasn't something people decided for or against in a casual way. It was obviously a key part of their lives, an important destination for them every single day. Maybe even several times a day!

In contrast, even most "active" people exercise less than two hours a week, which may average out to fewer than one hundred calories burned off daily.

Four Rules of Sleep Conditioning:4658 Go to bed only when you're sleepy. Only use the bed for sleep (and sex). No reading, eating, or screen time. If you can't fall asleep within fifteen to twenty minutes or so, get up, leave the bedroom, and don't go back until you're sleepy again. Repeat as necessary. Get up at the same time every morning no matter how little sleep you have had.