Structured Life Quotes

My parents were of the opinion, because they had started skating very young, that you should have something that you do that you care about, because it structures your life as you're growing up.

The social system is taking on a form in which finding out what you want to do is less and less of an option because your life is too structured, organised, controlled and disciplined.

I'm definitely not trying to be, or am, a poster child for anything so structured. But I do have my own personal faith most definitely.

When I was 4, I had a schedule. I was playing softball. My brother was playing football. My parents were teachers, and they'd owned businesses. We like to work hard. Work and then books. Books and then work. We just knew that we had to excel. It sounds militant, but trust me, it was fun.

I go to the gym, do my work, go home, switch off. It's just the way I like it, to be honest.

Life is too complicated not to be orderly.

All we can do when we think of kids today is think of more hours of school, earlier age at the computer, and curfews. Who would want to grow up in that world?

The pleasure of doing a thing in the same way at the same time every day, and savoring it, should be noted.

I like to be busy and I like to have places to go in the morning, when I get up.

The wire is a safe place for me to be. The street is not. Life is not. It's a rigorous and simple path. It's straight. You don't have meanders like, you know, on the ground, in life.

I'm a very ritualistic, routine-oriented person, and I discovered over the years that I love working Monday through Friday.

I've never really resented hard work because I've always liked it. Up every morning for roadwork. Going to the gymnasium every day at 12 o'clock. I never change my pattern.

I don't think I was very structured in that society and I don't really believe in personal success, which most Americans believe in.

I go to the gym every morning for a couple of hours, then I come to work, whatever is on the plate for the day, I do it. I don't ask many questions, I go where I am told to.

My childhood was all about discipline, hard work and training.

I just absolutely, totally hated school. It was like a prison to me. I just could not stand that structured, absolute disciplined way of having to deal with life.

The laboratory routine, which involves a great deal of measurement, filing, and tabulation, is either my lifeline or my chief handicap, I hardly know which.

Be orderly and disciplined in daily life, like a good bourgeois, so that I might be wild and violent in my art.

You're isolated as a writer, so I always envied people who could get up early and drive to work and fit into society.

You can't have an organised life and a five year plan and be an actor.

It gives a man character as a poet to have a daily contact with a job. I doubt whether I've lost a thing by leading an exceedingly regular and disciplined life.

I'm very organized. I have my day-to-day schedule, every 15 minutes, written out.

As I got older though I wanted a life of my own. The classical training was very demanding and thorough. It was a very sheltered existence. Even though I heard blues and gospel on the radio sometimes, it was always back to the piano and study and give recitals.

I like order, structure, and accomplishing goals.

Insomnia never comes to a man who has to get up exactly at six o'clock. Insomnia troubles only those who can sleep any time.