Quotes about Routine
I make writing as much a part of my life as I do eating or listening to music.
— Maya Angelou
Novelists do not write as birds sing, by the push of nature. It is part of the job that there should be much routine and some daily stuff on the level of carpentry.
— William Golding
I say that habit's but a long practice, friend, and this becomes men's nature in the end.
— Aristotle
We take a natural interest in novelties, but it is against nature to take an interest in familiar things.
— Mark Twain
Happiness is a habit—cultivate it.
— Elbert Hubbard
Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as for the body.
— Aldous Huxley
Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy.
— Henri de Lubac
Man lives by habits indeed, but what he lives for is thrill and excitements. ... From time immemorial war has been ... the supremely thrilling excitement.
— William James
We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can... . The more of the details of our daily life we can hand over to the effortless custody of automatism, the ore our higher powers of mind will be set free for their own proper work
— William James
Go to church once a week and nobody pays attention. Worship God seven days a week and you become strange!
— AW Tozer
Habits eat good intentions for breakfast.
— John Ortberg