Routine Quotes

We all deal with issues of time. The first thing you do in the morning is look at the clock to see what time it is.

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing. A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time. A schedule is a mock-up of reason and order—willed, faked, and so brought into being; it is a peace and a haven set into the wreck of time; it is a lifeboat on which you find yourself, decades later, still living.

Comfort can be a dangerous thing. You stick around home all the time where it’s safe and nothing ever changes, and before you know it, you get set in your ways and you quit learning, you quit changing, you don’t grow anymore.

I have a bath every month whether I need it or not.

I drink a lot of coffee.

Repeating, trying to repeat success - it never gets easier.

Discipline is consistency of action.

It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives. It's what we do consistently.

Nothing of importance happened today.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

I'm set in my own ways. I like to do the things I want to do when I want to do them.

Work was always a part of my life.

If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal.

I travel pretty frequently, but a few things that are routine are going for a run, getting my green tea in the morning, and checking email... well, all the time!

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

Would a minute have mattered? No, probably not, although his young son appeared to have a very accurate internal clock. Possibly even 2 minutes would be okay. Three minutes, even. You could go to five minutes, perhaps. But that was just it. If you could go for five minutes, then you'd go to ten, then half an hour, a couple of hours...and not see your son all evening. So that was that. Six o'clock, prompt. Every day. Read to young Sam. No excuses. He'd promised himself that. No excuses. No excuses at all. Once you had a good excuse, you opened the door to bad excuses.

Of course motivation is not permanent. But then, neither is bathing; but it is something you should do on a regular basis.

I've been at Stoke for eight years... I think I've had the same towel for almost eight years.

Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

I don't like to get too caught up in habits because too much structure can stifle creativity. But there are a few habits that make us more productive and are healthy to work into every workweek, if not every day. I love to start the day with a workout - even just a run on the treadmill while catching up on the morning headlines.

I'd say the challenge of DHing is going to be learning the routine and to stay loose and stay warm and kind of be ready for it.

Whether I'm at the gas station or I be at the store, I be there by myself. I be regular.

I'm training in martial arts. It's a whole new world for me and I'm loving it. I do that or hot yoga; I have to do some kind of exercise.

Your habits will determine your future.

Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.