Quotes About Routine

Knowledge helps only when it descends into habits.

It is impossible, or not easy, to alter by argument what has long been absorbed by habit

I've never changed my life since I was 4 and went to the YMCA with a gym bag. I still have that philosophy. In fact, I still have that gym bag.

The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a melancholy hour.

I'm doing philosophy like an old woman, first I'm looking for my pencil, then I'm looking for my glasses, then I'm looking for my pencil again.

The power of habits is the stepping stone on the stairs of life.

There is absolutely no worse death curse than the humdrum daily existence of the living dead.

following a process is being programmed, living is doing it in other way.

Savor the starry night, your child's laughter, the morning walk, the nightly study, the daily routines and the bold espresso.

Life is a circus: you go in, bow, run around, bow again and leave.

Make the difficult habitual, the habitual easy, and the easy beautiful.

Can you imagine what will happen if just for one day the sun forgot to rise?

We are what we repeatedly do. Greatness then, is not an act, but a habit

Do little but be consistent.

Make your habits your beloved home.

Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.

The irony is, going to work every day became the subject of probably my best poetry.

...after a night spent writing poetry, one is almost happy to hear the milkman at the door.

Habit has a kind of poetry.

You realize that for all the shenanigans that go on in the big circus of politics, everybody wakes up and goes to work.

You wonder sometimes how our government puts on its pants in the morning.

We are what we do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.

I literally wake up and try to tackle every day the best I can and do my best to try to make life as productive and positive as I can.

Happiness is a habit—cultivate it.