Rex Stout Quotes

If I didn't have my little schedule book, I wouldn't get out of bed in the morning.

I am very punctual about time, eating, and work.

I have a timetable, but no routine.

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing. A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time. A schedule is a mock-up of reason and order—willed, faked, and so brought into being; it is a peace and a haven set into the wreck of time; it is a lifeboat on which you find yourself, decades later, still living.

I like to have a regimen. I don't like to be fancy free.

I used to be, when I was young, I used to be extremely regular and very organized.

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

I'm a very routine-oriented guy.

Order is the first law of heaven, and you have to have order to survive on Earth. Figure out what has to be done each day, each week, each year and develop a system to achieve it.

Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.

I'm a Virgo and I'm really good at scheduling. And I really make it work. I get up 6.30 every day.

I do like routines. Waking up the same time, go to bed the same time.

I like having a schedule. I tend to be the type of person that thrives on something being regular.

You really need to have that discipline. It's not even discipline. I just put down these rules. It's not like a vague, 'Motivate yourself!' and do something. It's specific hours set aside every day for certain things.

As for my schedule, I tend to go to bed at the same time every night and get up at the same time every morning, and I try to be as productive as possible. Some days, I can devote to one specific thing. Other days, it's a catch-all day.

I keep a really tight schedule.

I'm not an idiot; I can make adjustments to my life. But I like having a schedule.

I like to be organized, I like to stick to my schedule. That's how I stay focused.

My routine is all about preparation.

I have schedules that separate everything.

It's strange, people have asked me what my schedule is and what is my process like, and I can't even answer it.

I'm pretty disciplined and am almost always on schedule.

Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order.

He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.

I am very disciplined in my life and very up front. It is the only way I can do it and do it well. I am up every day at 7, and I feed my kids, no matter how long the day was.