Quotes About Routine

The cult of government secrecy is growing. ¶ The practice has become so widespread and routine that, according to testimony given before the House government information sub-committee, more than a million Federal employees are empowered to classify information. This means that one out of every 180 Americans is stamping the word 'secret' on papers.

Instantly he established the routine: Any and all passerby would be barked at for safety reasons only, any vehicles coming up the driveway would be inspected and their occupants sniffed, all squirrels would be treed, other dogs would be approached and warned off but not attacked and every move would be carefully viewed with erect ears, inquisitive eyes and a slight tilt of the head. "What are we gonna do next, Bill?

Man lives by habits indeed, but what he lives for is thrill and excitements. ... From time immemorial war has been ... the supremely thrilling excitement.

We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can... . The more of the details of our daily life we can hand over to the effortless custody of automatism, the ore our higher powers of mind will be set free for their own proper work

Habit is second nature, or rather, ten times nature.

Same old slippers,Same old rice,Same old glimpse ofParadise.

In a long life there are thirty or thirty-five thousand days to be got through, but only a few dozen that really matter, Big Days when Something Momentous Happens. The rest—the vast majority, tens of thousands of days—are unremarkable, repetitive, even monotonous.

I am as conventional as white toast.)

Between us lay all the moments when, instead of confiding wholly one in the other and placing our hearts on the line, we had settled for less. Between us lay routine and habit and the taking of one another for granted. Between us lay the years of our marriage. That those years had become a barrier instead of a lovely shared connection was a tragedy,

Charlotte, having seen his bodyBorne before her on a shutter,Like a well-conducted person,Went on cutting bread and butter.

Running had become the new sport of the ritualistic liberal.

I also realized that there were lots of unacknowledged theater forms going on all around. Our lives are filled with performances that have been so woven into our daily routine that the artificial and performative aspect has slipped into invisibility.

Sometimes it seems as if writing a group of songs is like getting groceries, or doing the laundry—banal things I do more or less on a day-to-day basis. We deal with the issues involved in our mundane activities as they come up

Days off are one of the great joys of an ordinary working life, perhaps

Spending all day in a sterile office environment, I'm too mentally numb to do anything but consume meaningless media," he says.

Could there be anything more demoralizing than having to wake up in the morning five out of seven days of one's adult life to perform a task that one secretly believed did not need to be performed

we are all in the situation of the inmate who prefers working in the prison laundry to sitting in the cell watching TV all day.

Someone once figured out that the average American will spend a cumulative six months of her life waiting for the light to change.

We remained in our seats as everyone around us stood with the personal items they had rushed to retrieve. Why do people always do that? It's not like they can go anywhere.

you go to school every morning and sit there for

Officers came and went and were never a part of daily life.

I draw flowers every day and send them to my friends so they get fresh blooms every morning.

Custom is the great guide of human life.

Custom, then, is the great guide of human life. It is that principle alone which renders our experience useful to us, and makes us expect, for the future, a similar train of events with those which have appeared in the past.