"I get up early in the morning, 4 o'clock, and I sit at my desk and what I do is just dream. After three or four hours, that's enough. In the afternoon, I run."

Routine, Dream, Discipline

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"I get up early in the morning, 4 o'clock, and I sit at my desk and what I do is just dream. After three or four hours, that's enough. In the afternoon, I run."

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"I show up in my writing room at approximately 10 A.M. every morning without fail. Sometimes my muse sees fit to join me there and sometimes she doesn't, but she always knows where I'll be. She doesn't need to go hunting in the taverns or on the beach or drag the boulevard looking for me."

Tom Robbins, American Author

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"To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday."

John Burroughs, American Author

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"They get up early, because they have so much to do, and go to bed early, because they have so little to think about."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"Do not shorten the morning by getting up late look upon it as the quintessence of life and to a certain extent sacred."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

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"I have two great duties in each day: firstly, to identify why I woke up and secondly to be convinced of why I must retire for the day."

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Ghanaian Author

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"Like a breakfast time or lunch time, you must have a thinking time! Without eating and thinking we cannot stick to the existence; without them we cannot stay in the port of this universe!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

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"I had two cups of coffee, put Eric's jeans in the washer, read a romance for awhile, and studied my brand - new Word of the Day calendar, a Christmas gift from Arlene. My first word of the New Year was 'exsanguinate.' This was probably not a good omen."

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"Discipline is needed in our lifestyle."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Hobbies are for pleasure, but rituals keep you going."

David Mitchell, British Novelist

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"The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce."

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"Something will work out tomorrow, I thought. And if not, then tomorrow I'll do some thinking. Ob-la-di, ob-la-da, life goes on."

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"I wasn't in love with her. And she didn't love me. For me the question of love was irrelevant. What I sought was the sense of being tossed about by some raging, savage force, in the midst of which lay something absolutely crucial. I had no idea what that was. But I wanted to thrust my hand right inside her body and touch it, whatever it was."

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"It's just a feeling I have. What you see with your eyes is not necessarily real. My enemy is, among other things, the me inside me."

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"It was a strange feeling, like touching a void."

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"When I write about a 15-year old, I jump, I return to the days when I was that age. It's like a time machine. I can remember everything. I can feel the wind. I can smell the air. Very actually. Very vividly."

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"It seemed unreasonable, unfair, that a woman so young and beautiful should be so exhausted. Of course, it was neither unreasonable nor unfair. Exhaustion pays no mind to age and beauty. Like rain and earthquakes and hail and floods."

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