Quotes About Routine

Whose sore taskDoes not divide the Sunday from the week.

Bid them wash their faces,And keep their teeth clean.

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day

This news is old enough, yet it is every day's news.

How use doth breed a habit in a man.

we not only wish to be pleased, but to be pleased in that particular way in which we have been accustomed to be pleased.

Victor Hugo, author of Les Misérables, forced himself to write by disrobing and giving his clothing to his valet with strict instructions that it not be returned until he had written the allotted pages.

The amount of sleep required by the average person is five minutes more.

When I was younger I made it a rule never to take a strong drink before lunch. It is now my rule never to do so before breakfast.

The maxim of the British people is 'Business as Usual.'

I'm not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in their typewriter machine and start writing. That I've never understood.

What I don't like is breakfast in the morning. I have a double-espresso cappuccino, but no food.

History is the same thing over and over again.

Small actions can cause great harm, especially when those actions become habits. So just a little tiny change in the right place at the right time, everything will be much better.

Revolution today is taken for granted, and in consequence becomes rather dull.

My mom always said normal is just a cycle on the washing machine.

Everything around me was changing so fast—my apartment block, the local shops, the alleys, the roads, the subway lines. Beijing was moving forwards like an express train, but my life was going nowhere. Okay, so I was getting lots of work, but it was all the same. Woman Waiting on the Platform, Lady in Waiting, Bored Waitress. I was only in my twenties, but I felt seventy. I had to do something, ask my brain to start working, so I could match this fast-moving city.

Estas mañanas se repetían cada semana, pero yo no me rendía y seguía quedándome en la cama los domingos. Quería ganar aunque solo fuera un minuto más de sueño. «Un poquito más. Ya casi me he deshecho del cansancio»,

Formless days passed one after the other, as if swollen into an indistinguishable mass by the damp weather.

We cats are the most habitual of creatures. Preferred sun loungers, meal times, hidey holes, and scratching posts are among the considerations in which we take daily satisfaction. And it is exactly because many humans embrace routine that we even consider allowing them to share our homes, let alone retain them as members of our staff.

The problem," observed a tall Indian man sitting next to Serena, "is that we get stuck in our comfort zone, even when it isn't very comfortable.

We cats are the most habitual of creatures.

Most of our behaviour is automatic, operating without the need for conscious thought.

And it is exactly because many humans embrace routine that we even consider allowing them to share our homes, let alone retain them as members