Gretchen Rubin Quotes

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

Continuity is boring.

Your house is all about routine, not the unexpected events of your life.

No one welcomes chaos, but why crave stability and predictability?

I just have tried to adapt to the constant changes that happen all the time in my schedule and try and find any sort of mini-predictability and balance within my very unpredictable life.

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

I like having a routine, because everything else... is so unpredictable.

I think in my life I have so many things that changed so much with work and my career, and I don't really get to plan out a lot of my days. So when I have something that's familiar - just something that's there - I don't really like to switch it up.

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

I always wanted to know what I'd face next, even though that was maybe a bit detrimental to spontaneity. Structuring my life and avoiding chaos was more important.

I try to just focus in on being in the same routine every single day.

We want to be as routine-oriented as we can, but it's just not always feasible.

I don't do well with changes in my routine. I read at least three newspapers a day, for example. I'm frustrated if for some reason I can't get ahold of all three.

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 don't know where I see myself next month let alone five years. My whole life is last minute. I enjoy the spontaneity of it; I like not knowing what I will do next or whether I will be in the country next week. I just enjoy being around a creative environment.

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

If I knew my schedule a month ahead, I'd be so bored.

The less routine the more life.

Part of me longs to do a job where there's not a gray area.

You can't allow people freedom and then change your mind when the things don't go your way.

I like change. I've never really had much consistency in my life, you know, from everyday work to my living situation to whether or not I'm going to be in L.A. The one constant thing in my life is my friends and family, which is all I need.

I definitely do like change. I don't know if my hairstyles reflect that, but I don't like the same old thing all the time.

I have had a pretty hardcore crash course on living out of a suitcase. Some people take consistency in their lives for granted. When you have little to none, you discover it's kind of a nice thing.

Never think that lack of variability is stability. Don't confuse lack of volatility with stability, ever.

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.