Quotes About Routine

Aside from my work, in my everyday private life, I'm not a very adventureous person. I don't look for change.

I think variety is the key to the whole thing, and the reason so many marriages go stale is that they just do the same thing over and over.

We stay in the same old situations because we're comforted by the familiar, even if the familiar is terrible.

Many of the routines followed in hospitals today were created during a time when formula feeding was the norm.

Georgie) I hated going to the playground EVERYDAY. If someone had only told me it wouldn't last forever

One must indeed be ignorant of the methods of genius to suppose that it allows itself to be cramped by forms. Forms are for mediocrity, and it is fortunate that mediocrity can act only according to routine. Ability takes its flight unhindered.

Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.

I don't have any superstitions, but what I always travel with is my pillow and my coffee.

Give me your morning. Breakfast, waking up, walking to the bus stop. Be as specific as possible. Slow down in your mind and go over the details of the morning.

THE BASIC UNIT of writing practice is the timed exercise.

thought of this introductory part of the interrogation as the Manilov-Chichikov routine, after the characters in Gogol's Dead Souls who dawdled at great length at the door, each trying to let the other enter first. But whereas in Gogol's novel the two men eventually went through the door together, I never permitted myself to violate the etiquette of the investigation.

The Jewish day begins in the calm of evening, when it won't shock the system with its arrival.

Man has a tropism for order. Keys in one pocket, change in another.

Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters.

Shigure: G'morning. Tohru: Good morning! Yuki: Um, Shigure, it's night . Why don't you get a normal sleep pattern? Shigure: I became an author so I wouldn't have to.

and thereby sabotage their best selves. Aspiring entrepreneurs like Ashley have said to me, "I can't be tied down to a routine or a flow chart.

I waste at least an hour every day lying in bed. Then I waste time pacing. I waste time thinking. I waste time being quiet and not saying anything because I'm afraid I'll stutter.

Adventures are all very well in their place, but there's a lot to be said for regular meals and freedom from pain.

see, we been doing things wrong for so long now that it all starts to feel okay after a while, you know, like this is how it oughta be.

You have to brush them every

clip his toenails.

I have retired, but if there's anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do.

habit is the most inhibiting force in the world.

Successful people have successful habits. Mediocre people have mediocre habits. And it all starts with a choice.