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Quotes About Routines

She knew all the indices to the idle lonely, never bought a small tube of toothpaste, never dropped a magazine in her shopping card.
~ Joan Didion
I always tried to do things by example, even though I was not a very good mother regarding routines and family life.
~ Vivienne Westwood
this book is designed for you. Gaining proficiency will require a careful examination of the chapters that follow, plus a commitment to spend some serious time and energy learning and applying Joe's teachings in your daily routines.
~ Joe Navarro
If sleep is so important then why the f*ck does school start so early.
~ Unknown
Holidays are enticing only for the first week or so. After that, it is no longer such a novelty to rise late and have little to do.
~ Margaret Laurence
Starfleet's desire is to find an 'antidote' or countermeasure that will make the Sunseed routines essentially useless, and to disseminate that information freely to every inhabited star system. They want to teach every vulnerable system a way to make both ships and planets effectively immune to the routine, able to stop it as soon as someone starts to use it." Ael
~ Diane Duane
I choose the irrational from a rational position. I'm positioning myself on Undo, undo even undoing. Un-think, because routines dull the mind, and you don't see what's in front of you. Familiarity breeds contempt, and also lack of in-sight and out-sight.
~ Lynne Tillman
one man, under stress, react in Ã¢â'¬Â¦ in a noble way, a selfless way. But to me, organized religion, the formalities and routines, it's like being marched in formation to look at a sunset. I don't knock it for other people. Maybe they need routines, rules, examples, taboos, object lessons, sermonizing. I don't.
~ John D. MacDonald
He had lived most of his adult life in fear of arrest, of warrants, of detectives, of getting caught. The fear had so thoroughly consumed him for so long that his daily routines included all manner of cautionary moves. And he remained, so far, ahead of the bloodhounds.
~ John Grisham
Champions play as they practice. Create a consistency of excellence in all your habits.
~ Mike Krzyzewski
The worst of it was that there was no easy way to act against witches, or escape them. It didn't matter how detested Hugh and Mary had become: there they were, following the same routines, persistently present - not predators to be trapped or Indians to be shot at, or even homicidal colonists who could be dragged into court. They were ordinary neighbours, difficult to shun in a social world of mutual dependence.
~ Unknown
many children suffering from insufficient sleep appear fine during most of the day, only to exhibit the symptoms listed below as the sleep tank begins to go dry near the end of the day (4:00–5:00 p.m. for children under the age of 3 years, and 5:00–7:00 p.m. for children 3 years and older). This is known as the "witching hour.
~ Unknown
Holidays are enticing only for the first week or so. After that, it is no longer such a novelty to rise late and have little to do.
~ Margaret Laurence
Did you ever notice that life seems to follow certain patterns? Like I noticed that every year around this time, I hear Christmas music.
~ Tom Sims
Routines are not prisons from which you try to escape. Routines are the framework for a peaceful life. Routines establish a series of habits that are strung into a logical succession of actions. When we don't establish routines, we inevitably make mistakes.
~ Unknown
As I suggested before, temporary variables can be a problem. They are only useful within their own routine, and therefore they encourage long, complex routines.
~ Martin Fowler
This activation of our living root involves focusing on what is most important and what is within our control, such as our abilities, desires, plans, and daily routines. Through these teachings, we can learn the Daoist way to be comfortable with uncertainty and build a bridge between ancient Daoist wisdom and contemporary challenges.
~ Massimo Pigliucci
Instead, we must follow the economy of mood where it leads, attending to the sources that bring so many into low mood states—think routines that feature too much work and too little sleep. We need broader mood literacy and an awareness of tools that interrupt low mood states before they morph into longer and more severe ones. These tools include altering how we think, the events around us, our relationships, and conditions in our bodies (by exercise, medication, or diet).
~ Matt Haig
Sleep during the night and be active during the day Sleep enough (seven to eight hours a night) Early to bed, early to rise Avoid bright light exposure at night Sleep in total darkness when possible Eat dinner at least two and a half hours before going to bed Avoid eating at night I
~ Michael Greger
Das Leben, dachte Michel, müsste eigentlich etwas Einfaches sein; etwas, das man wie eine Aneinanderreihung endlos wiederholter kleiner Rituale erleben kann. Rituale, die etwas albern sein durften, aber an die man trotzdem glauben konnte. Ein Leben ohne große Erwartungen und ohne Dramen.
~ Michel Houellebecq
what people enjoy is not the sense of being in control, but the sense of exercising control in difficult situations. It is not possible to experience a feeling of control unless one is willing to give up the safety of protective routines. Only when a doubtful outcome is at stake, and one is able to influence that outcome, can a person really know whether she is in control.
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
When a person is able to organize his or her consciousness so as to experience flow as often as possible, the quality of life is inevitably going to improve, because, as in the case of Rico and Pam, even the usually boring routines of work become purposeful and enjoyable. In flow we are in control of our psychic energy, and everything we do adds order to consciousness.
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Everybody has a shadow self to contend with but most manage to contain it effectively as they settle into their regimented routines of daily living. Rock stars, by contrast, are often actively encouraged to cultivate their darker qualities and that's where the trouble usually starts.
~ Unknown
When the modern consciousness suspends its economic routines, it only oscillates between political anguish and sexual obsession.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila