Quotes About Routine

people have a strong tendency to go along with the status quo or default option.

It was beginning to feel practised.

The trick to finding writing time is to make writing time in the life you've already got.

As a rule of thumb, it is best to just admit that there is always one action you can take for your creativity daily.

The success of Morning Pages hinges on our doing them as close to awakening as we can.

I do not put in long hours at the keys - or very seldom. Instead, I snatch time. I write in the crannies of my life.

The trick to finding writing time is to make writing time in the life you've already got.

the monotony of quiet creativity, imagination fueled by routine and isolation

She hadn't bothered to go to bed, since Tuesday was one of the days on which she rose before dawn to bake brioche, scones, cinnamon rolls, and- Tuesdays only- a coffee cake rich with cardamom, orange zest, and grated gingerroot: a cunningly savory sweet that left her work kitchen smelling like a fine Indian restaurant, a brief invigorating change from the happily married scents of butter, vanilla, and sugar (the fragrance, to Greenie, of ordinary life).

Is it 'good' to go on doing the same old oblivious thing, to still enjoy it no matter what? Does perseverance steady the world?

The land of embarrassment and breakfast.

The heap of dirty dishes was normal for Arthur, who had applied for a reduction in his water rate on the grounds that he washed up only every fortnight, and then used the leftover liquid for watering his roses.

Arthur was frequently baffled by the complacency with which people went on with what they insouciantly called their lives, as if both the word and the thing made perfect sense to them.

I settled into a contented routine of working, spending my free time with Veronica and, back in my student room, wanking explosively to fantasies of her splayed beneath me or arched above me. Daily intimacy made me proud of knowing about make-up, clothes policy, the feminine razor, and the mystery and consequences of a woman's periods. I found myself envying this regular reminder of something so wholly female and defining, so connected to the great cycle of nature.

My train was late, slowed by the usual Sunday engineering work. I got home in the early evening. I remember that I had a bloody good long shit.

Monomania. Monogamy. Monotony. Nothing good begins this way.

the small pleasures and large dullnesses of home.

But he found the routine of admin, diary-keeping, mail, billings—even the banalities of maintaining the coffee machine and water cooler—gave him quiet satisfaction. In part, no doubt, because he often arrived from Henry Road in a state unfit for much more than low-level administration.

When I was young, men like my father would often come home and put on their smoking jacket over their perfectly ordinary trousers, as a way of relaxing in the evening.

When you brush your teeth, I'll squeeze the toothpaste.

He put down his suitcase and looked at her. Did you...she said, Every day,he replied.

It was 10:30 in the morning and I was already running behind. This is hardly unusual, but it pisses me off every single time.

Eric had to make me wake up for long enough to take out my contacts.

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