Quotes About Routine

Common sense is just a name for the way we're used to thinking.

We have lunch at ten-forty-five," Colin said. A stupidly early lunch. At our school, the older you get, the stupider your lunch period.

Life is where you sleep and what you see when you wake up in the morning, and who you tell about your weird dream, and what you eat for breakfast and who you eat it with.

Good morning!' Mom was standing in front of the stove, making bacon. 'Annemarie, I called your dad last night, and he told me that you have a thing for bacon omelettes.' 'Yum!' Annemarie said. 'That smells great. No wonder I'm so hungry.' I was staring. Mom had serious bed head and her eyes were puffy with sleep. But she was up at seven-thirty in the morning, making us bacon omelettes. I wanted to hug her. But didn't.

Einstein says common sense is just habit of thought. It's how we're used to thinking about things, but a lot of the time it just gets in the way.

We'll do it all again next weekend", he said recklessly. "I could get used to this". "No we won't. I am happy to explore with you now and then, but I am not making four miles hikes a weekly routine" she protested.

The author's differing experience of school geography as a faculty member going from parking lot to parking lot and to locations centered around HER office and her experience of the more scattered life of a student speaks to a larger truth. As adults, we are used to following the same routine and look romantically on anything different.

Being a great father is like shaving. No matter how good you shaved today, you have to do it again tomorrow.

I made it a morning show. We have the coffee cup, we have the morning papers. It's got that feel to it, that's what I wanted.

It means a lot in my business and its a wonderful feeling to be recognized for what you have done over a lifetime, but I didn't go crazy. I still eat my cereal in the morning, have a sandwich in the afternoon, go to bed at night. You know, nothing really different.

Hij dwingt zich tot het eten van zijn yoghurt, want regelmaat moet er zijn, maar halverwege ontdekt hij dat hij eigenlijk helemaal niet van yoghurt houdt en hij laat de rest staan.

Wat is dat eigenlijk: werk? Rok verlaat 's ochtends het huis en gaat dan naar haar werk. En als Bril achter zijn werkmachine zit is hij aan het werk. Ik mag dan niet op tafel springen en hem voor de vingers lopen. Werk is iets waarvoor je de deur uitgaat of waarvoor je juist binnen blijft. Die gedachte brengt me niet veel verder.

Rituals are routines that force us to move faithfully even when we no longer feel like being faithful. Until our heart has the time to arouse itself and find its way back to those we love, rituals make us show up for duty.

The trouble with an alarm clock is that what seems sensible when you set it seems absurd when it goes off.

I would appreciate it if they would call a halt on all their devoted efforts to find a way to abolish war or eliminate disease or run trains with atoms or extend the span of the human life to a couple of centuries, and everybody concentrate for a while on how to wake me up in the morning without my resenting it.

A schedule broken at will becomes a mere procession of vagaries.

I know a chairman of the board of a billion-dollar corporation, one of the 2 per cent, who never gets his shoes shined and shaves three times a week.

The worst thing in the world can happen, but the next day the sun will come up. And you will eat your toast. And you will drink your tea.

Slowly, things were getting back to normal. The problem was, normal didn't feel so good anymore.

Desde luego, los domingos son idiotas.

Mrs. Popper sighed. "I sometimes wish you had the kind of work that lasted all year, instead of just from spring until fall," she said. "It will be very nice to have you at home for a vacation, of course, but it is a little hard to sweep with a man sitting around reading all day.

Q: Explain the concept of homeostasis? A: It is when you stay at home all day and don't go out.

Sometimes life is merely a matter of coffee and whatever intimacy a cup of coffee affords.

I've done the most awful rubbish in order to have somewhere to go in the morning.