Quotes About Routine

Life is just a quick succession of busy nothings.

You see, in the morning I always practice imagination for an hour or two. It does me lots of good.

I slept in a bedin a room with paintingson the walls, andplanned another dayjust like this day.But one day, I know,it will be otherwise.

Be a good steward of your gifts. Protect your time. Feed your inner life. Avoid too much noise. Read good books, have good sentences in your ears. Be by yourself as often as you can. Walk. Take the phone off the hook. Work regular hours.

What is the first thing we should put away when we get home—the ice cream or the orange juice? You decide.

wonder if you can brush your teeth and get into your pajamas before Dad does.

Smile first thing in the morning, get it over with.

By age seven, I used to comb my hair for performances, just pull my hair up into a bun. Granted, it wasn't a very intricate hairstyle. Still, to be that responsible and disciplined at age seven is unusual.

As a child, I had to get up early for school or work. I'd get ready by myself. I'd set my alarm to wake me up very early in the morning, and be off to work, the family driver driving me every morning. I did it alone, my parents never coming in to wake me up.

A stationary bike is a device that epitomizes the phrase hurry up and wait.

The discipline of practice every day is essential. When I skip a day, I notice a difference in my playing. After two days, the critics notice, and after three days, so does the audience.

Before I go to bed at night, I ice my face, because it closes your pores and makes a difference in the morning.

You can only work exactly the same way, at the same pace, doing the same work for so long before monotony bites.

what doesn't get done in 40 hours by Friday at 5 picks up again Monday morning at 9.

What we do repeatedly hardens into habits. The longer you carry on, the tougher it is to change. All your best intentions about doing the right thing "later" are no match for the power of habits.

So, coming into the office just means that people have to put on pants. There's no guarantee of productivity.

That's because offices have become interruption factories. A busy office is like a food processor—it chops your day into tiny bits. Fifteen minutes here, ten minutes there, twenty here, five there.

Bezos only makes decisions in the first half of the day. If any important decision comes to him after noon, he won't make it, he'll say he's waiting until the next day. Because he knows he is cognitively there in the morning, in the best possible way. The mornings are for decisions, the afternoons are not.

Policies are only meant for situations that come up over and over again.

Tendemos a desejar que ninguém morra e nada termine daquilo que nos acompanha e é nosso amado costume, e não vemos que a única coisa que mantém os costumes intactos é que eles nos sejam suprimidos de repente, sem desvio nem evolução possíveis, sem que nos abandonem nem nós os abandonemos. O que dura deteriora-se e acaba por apodrecer, aborrece-nos, vira-se contra nós, satura-nos, cansa-nos.

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Caía la lluvia como cae tantas veces en la despejada Madrid, uniforme y cansinamente y sin viento que la sobresalte, como si supiera que va a durar días y no tuviera furia ni prisa.

Hay gente contenta y conforme, que sólo aspira a que cada día sea igual que el anterior y que el próximo; y a que no se acaben.

la costumbre obra milagros y confiere rango de necesidad a lo antojadizo y superfluo.