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Routine Quotes


"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."


"An average working day begins at 8 or 9 am, includes an hour for lunch, and ends at 5 or 6 pm."


"Wake up early, do your best, practice self-care, and finish strong."


"I think we were all frustrated with our daily routine."


"It seemed silly to wash one day when I would only have to wash again the next.It made me tired just to think of it."


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


"Habits decide who you become permanently, what you do daily and what you have always."


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


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


"Percy: I'll walk down to the cabins and Connor and Travis are stealing stuff from the camp store, and Silena is arguing with Annabeth trying to give her a new makeover, and Clarisse is still sticking the new kids' head into the toilets. It's nice that some things never change."


"Monotony is the law of nature. Look at the monotonous manner in which the sun rises. The monotony of necessary occupations is exhilarating and life-giving."


"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."


"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."


"Three eggs two slices of toast a cup of coffee an episode of Mr. Ed. A Violin and a bowl of fruit what else does a man need?"


"I went down to Safeways, and I bought her a packet of best ground sirloin."


"The day-to-day grind of adult life brings with it a tedium that weighs heavily on our powers of attention. The same experiences, at the same time and place, day in and day out, breed a familiarity that blunts our senses."


"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!"


"Discipline is needed in our lifestyle."


"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."


"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."
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