Quotes about Routine

For, like his nose, his short, black little pipe was one of the regular features of his face. You would almost as soon have expected him to turn out of his bunk without his nose as without his pipe.

For, when Stubb dressed, instead of first putting his legs into his trowsers, he put his pipe into his mouth.

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.

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

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

I make writing as much a part of my life as I do eating or listening to music.

Weekdays revolved on a sameness wheel. They turned into themselves so steadily and inevitably that each seemed to be the original of yesterday's rough draft. Saturday, however, always broke the mold and dared to be different.