Quotes About Regularity

another. Whereas any constant periodical appearance, or alteration of ideas, in seemingly equidistant spaces of duration, if constant

Seek to make thy course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect.

In situations of crisis, it was always best to rely on routine.

Much of the apparent uniformity of Nature is a uniformity of averages. Our gross senses only take cognizance of the average effect of vast numbers of individual particles and processes; and the regularity of the average might well be compatible with a great degree of lawlessness of the individual. I do not think it is possible to dismiss statistical laws (such as the second law of thermodynamics) as merely mathematical adaptations of the other classes of law to certain practical problems.

Seek to make thy course regular, that men may know beforehand, what they may expect; but be not too positive and peremptory; and express thyself well, when thou digressest from thy rule. Preserve the right of thy place; but stir not questions of jurisdiction; and rather assume thy right, in silence and de facto, than voice it with claims, and challenges. Preserve likewise the rights of inferior places; and think it more honor, to direct in chief, than to be busy in all.

I'm creature of habit.

I'm a man of habit.

Patience, self-belief and regularity are three qualities that would take a young player to great heights.

I like having a schedule. I tend to be the type of person that thrives on something being regular.

Machines are designed not to be random. When you call up a word processing program on your computer, you don't want it to be different every time you call it up. You want it to stay the same.

LIKE OTHER THINGS ABOUT HER, MARY ANN'S MENSTRUAL cycle was so regular that Mussolini might have included it on his train schedules.

chacun souhaitait le voir, et ceux qui, habitués par le passé aux émotions violentes, ne ressentaient que le poids de l'ennui, se réjouissaient d'avoir en leur présence un objet capable de retenir leur attention. Rien ne venait jamais échauffer son visage d'une pâleur mortelle, pourtant doté d'une forme régulière et de beaux traits, ni le rouge de la modestie ou le feu plus intense de la passion […].

predictability

The persistence of the normal is strong.

The most important thing is to be consistent. There are so many games, it's hard to play at a high level consistently.

Each night passed with a devastating sameness.

why count the buses? probably because they're recognizable and regular:they cut up time, they punctuate the background noise; ultimately, they're foreseeable

To be regularly gay was to do every day the gay thing that they did every day. To be regularly gay was to end every day at the same time after they had been regularly gay. They were regularly gay. They were gay every day. They ended every day in the same way, at the same time, and they had been every day regularly gay.

It's easier to do something every day, without exception, than to do something "most days",' she said. 'When you say "I'll walk four days a week", you debate which four days, and wake up debating whether you can skip Tuesday.

I see that time divided is never long, and that regularity abridges all things.

I say "every so often" but it's more frequent than that.

Flaubert said — I assume about the balance between repression and freedom — "Be regular and orderly in your daily life, so you can be violent and original in your work.

got to be regular if you want to be happy

Even the austere philosopher Immanuel Kant of Koenigsberg, it is said, whose habits were so regular that the citizens of that town set their watches by him, postponed the hour of his afternoon stroll when he received the news, thus convincing Koenigsberg that a world-shaking event had indeed happened.