Mignon McLaughlin Quotes

The less routine the more life.

If everything was planned, it would be dreadful. If everything was unplanned, it would be equally dreadful.

I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine.

In general, I usually don't really go by or live my life by a clock, and outside of touring, I don't really ask anyone else to. It's not out of lack of respect for anyone or intentional.

In my work, I'm called to a job at the drop of a hat, so I like a sense of order to my holidays, and holding a map makes me happy.

I love variety in my life.

I don't ever want to feel like my whole life is laid out before me and I know exactly what's gonna happen. That would be so boring.

After doing a total of five years of 'Daily Grace,' you kind of get burned out on doing the same thing over and over again, so I am allowing myself to not have totally any specific structure.

I certainly have routines in my day-to-day life that are important to me and still give me feelings of security and control, but the capacity to break out of them every so often as I travel has given me a second wind.

The thing I love most about going on vacation is that I get to leave behind any kind of schedule. My entire life is scheduled from morning to night, and when I'm on vacation, there is no schedule.

I don't do anything the same every day. Discipline is tough for a guy who is a rebel.

Very happily, I am very fortunate to be able to be where the wind takes me, where the work takes me, and where I want to be.

What I find is that you can do almost anything or go almost anywhere, if you're not in a hurry.

I'm not a fan of routine.

All of us, from time to time, need a plunge into freedom and novelty, after which routine and discipline will seem delightful by contrast.

I don't ever want to be bored, doing the same thing from 9 to 5. I've always loved pretending and being someone different.

It doesn't need to be the same every day, doesn't need to be the same shower I use, the same restaurant I go to, the same hour I go to sleep. I've always been very flexible. I don't care if I practice at nine in the morning or 10 P.M.

I know for sure that nothing is guaranteed. Life always changes. I know for sure that I'm open to all possibilities always... let's just say my life is never boring.

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

I don't like to make my life like a book.

There are always things to examine. What's great is not feeling that I have to refuse any of them. Maybe no good from a PR perspective, but from the point of view of everyday life, it keeps things interesting.

I sailboat raced, I love to go out on my motorcycle alone, but I also love my family dearly. I love that aspect of my life as well.

I always imagined myself somehow as an electron around some atom, and you're just, like, bouncing around and spinning. There was a never-ending supply of places to go, people to see, things to do, and fitting it all in became kind of an art.

Who wouldn't like to give up normal life? I mean, normal life, you know, is the second worst thing to death itself. I think normality is something that makes everything very static, and I try to make my days, my daily routines, as uneven and rich as possible.

Work doesn't seem to interfere with my life. I have time for everything, even time to be alone.