Quotes About Routine

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.

He always woke early, had coffee, checked his e-mail and then decided whether to climb back into bed.

As new dawns go, this one is depressingly like the old dawn.

No matter how predictable, banal and listless the rest of my life might be, you can guarantee that there'll always be something interesting going on with my skin.

but they had also settled into the maddening familiarity of friendship; maddening for her at least.

Travelling', she sighed.'So predictable.' 'What's wrong with travelling?' 'Avoiding reality more like.' 'I think reality is over-rated,' he said in the hope that this might come across as dark and charismatic.

Then they kiss again, and she goes to work, and he goes to work, and so the days go by, faster than ever.

Jake the trapeze artist was a man who stared death in the face, while most nights I stared television in the face.

Repetition Compulsion": Doing "It" Over and Over Again

It gave him a thrill to think how someone in PvP would report that they had been killed by Gnobody. A whole "who's on first?" routine popped up in his mind. "So who killed you?" "Gnobody" "OK you were killed?" "Yes" "And when you were killed who killed you?" "Gnobody" "But somebody killed you?" "Yes". On and On,

Scientists have documented time and time again that C-reactive protein—a commonly used laboratory marker of inflammation—is lower among people who keep an exercise routine.

out here in "the real world," every day was sort of like the one before. I guess that's why people freaked out about birthdays: Those at least put a stake in the ground, somehow ended one chapter and opened a next.

Most dogs, when you hold a leash up, go nuts and run to the door. Crash, on the other hand barely looks up from his spot on the couch. His expression is saying, What the hell are you doing with that thing?

I go to the movies at least five times a week, and after a while everything becomes a blur to me.

You never think about the things you don't think about, the things that are just there, part of the background, part of the routine.

For routines you call, rely only on documented behavior. If you can't, for whatever reason, then document your assumption well.

never allows you to stay up to watch your favourite television programme

I wake up in a mood that I know will lead me to assault the very first person who asks me if the two-day rentals have to be back on Wednesday or Thursday. I had worked at Wally's Videe-Oh! for five years, been a manager for two. I started right after I dropped out of college. At the time I had heard that Quentin Tarantino got discovered while working at a video store,

Look around the martial arts," Lee continued, "and witness the assortment of routine performers, trick artists, desensitized robots, glorifiers of the past. Life is constant movement - rhythmic as well as random. Life is continual change, not stagnation. Instead of choicelessly flowing with this process of change, many 'masters', past and present, rigidly subscribe to traditional concepts and techniques of the art, solidfiying the everflowing, dissecting the totality.

I felt like I would disappear if I were not hemmed in by the familiar and unchanging.

The most visceral science fiction always takes place in the past and focuses on the humdrum

On tour, I'll get up at 5 p.m. and go to bed at 8 in the morning. With fishing, it's the exact opposite. Fishing is the only healthy thing I do. Touring is such a grind it's the opposite of healthy.

there were days I wrote get out of bed in my planner just to be able to feel like I'd accomplished something.

The most insane things can become normal if you have them around you long enough. A mind can't seem to hold anything too crazy for too long without finding a way to make it seem normal.