Quotes About Routine

You wake up in the morning and you look at your old spoon, and you say to yourself, 'Mick, it's time to get yourself a new spoon.' And you do.

For the happiest life, rigorously plan your days, leave your nights open to chance.

For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.

To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.

The satisfied, the happy, do not live; they fall asleep in habit, near neighbor to annihilation.

When the lifestyle of a social group becomes obsolete, when work turns into a boring routine and community responsibilities lose their meaning, it is likely that leisure will become increasingly more important. And if a society becomes too dependent on entertainment, it is likely that there will be less psychic energy left to cope creatively with the technological and economic challenges that will inevitably arise.

to impose order in consciousness through the performance of patterned action.

Unfortunately, too many adults feel that once they have hit twenty or thirty—or certainly forty—they are entitled to relax in whatever habitual grooves they have established.

To gain personal control over the quality of experience, however, one needs to learn how to build enjoyment into what happens day in, day out.

Yet, the elders said, at times the world became too predictable and the challenge began to go out of life. Without challenge, life had no meaning.

So the first step in improving the quality of life consists in engineering daily activities so that one gets the most rewarding experiences from them.

I am up at 3:30, reading the op-ed pages and getting ready to be on the air by 6 A.M. on the set of 'Morning Joe ' and after three hours of TV and two hours on the radio, it is only 12 noon.

I have mugs of hot water every morning because the studio is cold, and also because it makes my throat sound clearer.

There's just me and my wife and a dog and we feed him Healthy Choice also.

The thing about work is that it's a habit. If you do it enough. it sort of sticks so that you feel wrong if you're not doing something.

People form habits and habits form futures.

'The 17 Day Diet' keeps your body and metabolism guessing. I call this 'body confusion.'

The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.

Somos lo que hacemos de forma repetida. Por tanto, la excelencia no es un acto, sino un hábito. ARISTÓTELES Saber y no hacer es todavía no saber. REFRÁN

It is the striving for target conditions via the routine of the improvement kata that characterizes what we have been calling "lean manufacturing.

As the car goes its way, some people seek escape from the necks by staring at the progress-meter above the door—the light that hops from one number to the next. A glance is all that is necessary, but some riders follow the progress, floor by floor, trying to guess where it will stop next. A few—probably habitual readers—spend the time reading the city inspection permit above the control panel.

When you establish a reminiscing routine through acknowledging gratitude for past experiences, it keeps you mindful that fun is abundant. Put into practice, reminiscing in this manner mitigates feelings of regret and deprivation by giving you a concrete prompt to fully appreciate life's pleasurable experiences. A habit of acknowledging the pleasure in your life naturally increases your overall sense of gratitude, amplifying fun's positive effects.

Perfection is a theory. You cannot be a perfect human being, perfect artist. You cannot be a perfect husband, you cannot be a perfect father probably and probably I am not. But go through your daily routine with hope you will be a little better in all respects, and do something meaningful

It was only then that I realized that Jeremy never rode the bus, no matter how bad the weather. As