Quotes About Routines

They were more like a type. Not so much regulars as clubbers—you know, the ones who hit the circuit every night or every Friday and make the rounds. Not really anybody's regulars and not really anybody's friends, but they're there all the time and you sort of know who they are.

Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.

I get all my good ideas sort of at one o' clock in the morning, and I tried for a while to behave like normal people.

Misers get up early in the morning; and burglars, I am informed, get up the night before.

I love standing under a steaming shower when I'm tired in the morning. I don't really get a chance for baths.

You move on. You move back. On because you're always getting older, back because there's always a set of habits and routines to catch you and suck you back in when your guard is down.

I've always thought people would find a lot more pleasure in their routines if they burst into song at significant moments.

Nature has no Laws — only habits.

Old habits eat good intentions for lunch. Change your habits so you can change your outcomes.

The discovery of God lies in the daily and the ordinary, not in the spectacular and the heroic. If we cannot find God in the routines of home and shop, then we will not find Him at all.

Ten Basics for Implementing Positive Discipline 1. Create a connection before a correction. 2. Get children involved: a. Offer acceptable choices. b. Provide opportunities to help. 3. Create routines. 4. Teach respect by being respectful. 5. Use your sense of humor. 6. Get into your child's world. 7. Follow through with kind and firm action: if you say it, mean it, and if you mean it, follow through.

Remember that while repetition may be boring to you, it isn't to your child. Babies and toddlers learn through repetition, which is why routines are such an effective and important teaching tool for this age group.

Culture is the byproduct of consistent behavior.

I go to a lot of events morning, noon and night when I'm not in Washington.

I would watch 'The Ed Sullivan Show' and borrow a few lines here and there from guests like Red Buttons and Buddy Hackett to create a routine. Then I started getting invited to do political functions like the governor's birthday ball or mayor's dinner.

If you look hard enough, you'll find that many of the products we use every day - chewing gums, skin moisturizers, disinfecting wipes, air fresheners, water purifiers, health snacks, antiperspirants, colognes, teeth whiteners, fabric softeners, vitamins - are results of manufactured habits.

Someone told me about drama schools, and they seemed like mythological places - you can really go and be in drama classes all day? I inadvertently entered into this world where people wore bicycle clips and did song-and-dance routines in the corridors.

Sometimes in the NBA, the schedule gets to be a lot with all these events, busses, planes and games. But once that's gone, you miss it so bad.

I think that confidence is a big thing. It's being comfortable, feeling comfortable, managing your schedule.

I guess I feel I'm masquerading as an adult when I don't have the kind of friendships and routines that I thought you were supposed to have as an adult. It's the 'Friends' lied to me! syndrome.

But by about three months of age most full-term healthy infants are able to sleep through most of the night. If your baby still has more than one or two nightly wakings at that age, or if he still hasn't "settled" (started sleeping through the entire night) by five or six months, then you should take a close look at his bedtime routines.

It is equally important to help our children maintain consistent schedules through infancy, childhood, and adolescence.

there would never be time for him and Sunni to grow accustomed to each other, to fall into routines, to take each other for granted;

Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits." Before