Katherine Johnson Quotes

Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.

I have to put my outfit on in the same order. It's sort of a superstition. The last thing I put on is the glasses.

I've always been very un-fun. I'm a habit person. I have a very weak version of an addictive personality.

Chyerti—that’s us, demons and devils, small and big—are compulsive. We obsess. It’s our nature. We turn on a track, around and around; we march in step; we act out the same tales, over and over, the same sets of motions, while time piles up like yarn under a wheel. We like patterns. They’re comforting. Sometimes little things change—a car instead of a house, a girl not named Yelena. But it’s no different, not really. Not ever.

When I find a golf course or a restaurant or a market that I like, that's pretty much exclusively where I go.

Why do I do this every Sunday? Even the book reviews seem to be the same as last week's. Different books same reviews.

We don't watch the film anymore because we've seen it so many times, so we'll introduce it, walk out and we'll come back in right about when I wake up in the morning and walk over to the shop and everything's changed.

You know, it was uncomfortable doing the same thing. I don't like a rut.

I have little routines in the theater. Once I've established something, like the order of putting on makeup and a costume, I have to invariably do it in the same order every time, even if I only did it by chance the first time round.

Jay Leno is not a guy who likes change. He eats the same food every day.

When I was four or five, I would organise my cars and my action figures. I needed some kind of structure, I think.

Habit is a great deadener.

I will do as I usually do. Tomorrow is going to be a day like any other day.

When you're doing something every week, it's kind of routine.

What brings people down is the same thing over and over.

I know every movement of my kitchen.

To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.

I like routine.

I used to have the same lunch every day, for 20 years, I guess, the same thing over and over again.

Whenever you can, count.

People are so caught in a routine, doing the same things over and over.

I find it quite unsettling if I'm doing the same thing that I did yesterday.

I hate to do the same thing twice.

I've got this weird thing where I wake up and put lotion all over, and when I go to sleep, I put lotion all over. I don't know if it's a good or bad thing, but it's shameless.

I am not really superstitious - I get ready in the same order pretty much every day. I'm afraid I'm a bit boring like that.