Quotes about Routine

Even as a kid, I never liked breakfast. I just don't like to eat then. I like to get up and work. I think sticking a whole bunch of carbohydrates in your stomach in the morning is probably the worst way to begin the day.

He said he didn't very well understand how George was going to sleep any more than he did now, seeing that there were only twenty-four hours in each day.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. ARISTOTLE Our character, basically, is a composite of our habits. "Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny," the maxim goes.

Our character, basically, is a composite of our habits. "Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit

Habit as the intersection of knowledge, skill, and desire.

Define a habit as the intersection of knowledge, skill, and desire.

obsessive adherence to routine and preoccupation with a few obscure areas of interest led many psychologists to conclude that Halliday had suffered from Asperger's syndrome, or from some other form of high-functioning autism.) Despite

Spontaneities offer one kind of pleasure and taste of sanctity, repetitions another equally pleasurable and holy.

I hate repetition. Even when I am home and have to buy milk, I go a different way each time to avoid having a habit of anything. Habits are really bad.

Twenty-eight days is what is takes to break a habit and to implement a new set of habits.

When I am working on a book or a story, I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you, and it is cool or cold, and you come to your work and warm as you write.

The clean tongue, the clear head and the bright eye are birth rights of each day