Arthur Helps Quotes

I like routine.

I always wanted to know what I'd face next, even though that was maybe a bit detrimental to spontaneity. Structuring my life and avoiding chaos was more important.

No one welcomes chaos, but why crave stability and predictability?

In my work, I'm called to a job at the drop of a hat, so I like a sense of order to my holidays, and holding a map makes me happy.

I do better with routines and predictability. I don't react well when there's a sudden change in the schedule.

I don't do anything the same every day. Discipline is tough for a guy who is a rebel.

When I came into the oil there was chaos. I brought order…. It was done the way it was because that was the way it had to be done.

I can't stand things being out of place.

I believe in routine.

My father was very methodical about life. He'd always ask me, 'Now, what's your system? What's your schedule like?' I have no big system, no rigid schedule. When he would ask, 'How do you do this? Give it to me step by step,' I'd try to convince him that there were no step-by-steps.

I don't function well in chaos, whether it be my sheets or the dishwasher.

It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy.

I have rules for everything.

I love people who try to keep the world in control - because the world is inherently not in control.

Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. Like beams in a house or bones to a body, so is order to all things.

I like to have a regimen. I don't like to be fancy free.

I wish to God I was organized enough to tell you that, 'Yes, there will be 14 books, and this one will go here, and that one will go there'... but to be honest, I hardly know what I'm going to do when I get up in the morning.

I like having a routine, because everything else... is so unpredictable.

I like things in their proper places.

I'm a very routine-oriented guy.

I like things to have rules, I like order and I like schedules.

Order doesn't come by itself.

I will not serve lunch to anyone in the middle of a workday. I rarely rearrange my furniture or cabinets; once I find a drawer for something, it stays there. I don't garden. And I don't knit.

I'm very strict with my packing and have everything in its right place. I never change a rule. I hardly use anything in the hotel room. I wheel my own wardrobe in and that's it.

Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.