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"To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday."
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"I, of course, meditate for two hours every morning. It's part of my schedule; I wake up at 4 a.m. every day and I love it."
"Habits decide who you become permanently, what you do daily and what you have always."
"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."
"Discipline is needed in our lifestyle."
"An average working day begins at 8 or 9 am, includes an hour for lunch, and ends at 5 or 6 pm."
"I did not wait to hear the end of my father's story, for I had been with him myself after mass when we had met M. Legrandin; instead, I went downstairs to the kitchen to ask about the menu for our dinner, which was of fresh interest to me daily, like the news in a paper, and excited me as might the programme of a coming festivity."
"If you do the same thing every day at the same time for the same length of time you'll save yourself from many a sink. Routine is a condition of survival."
"Hobbies are for pleasure, but rituals keep you going."
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"If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go."
"Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man."
"I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy."
"I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral."
"I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see."
"There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad."
"Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all."
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