Hugh Prather Quotes

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

The only routine with me is no routine at all.

I'm not somebody who plans. There were times I planned a lot in my life, and it never turns out how you plan it. So I think it's important not to. I'm a very spontaneous person.

There is never a typical week. I don't think I can live with a typical week.

I don't like routine and I don't like rules.

I just like to take it as it comes, go where the wind blows me. I'm not going to plan.

My policy is to have no policy.

I never want anything to be too predictable.

I don't feel like consistency is in my life at all, but I honestly wouldn't have it any other way because it keeps my life interesting.

I don't really have an average day, and that works for me. If I knew what I had to do ahead of time, I would be so depressed. I love the unexpected. I love change. I love things being thrown at me.

I do not believe in planning.

If you like something one day, then you do, and if you like something else the other day, it's whatever.

There is no typical day and I intend to keep it that way for the next 20 years.

As soon as I get a typical day, I'll know I'm in trouble. I like doing different things all the time.

I'm not a fan of routine.

I hate repetition. Even when I am home and have to buy milk, I go a different way each time to avoid having a habit of anything. Habits are really bad. So to me it is really important to live in what I call the spaces in-between. Bus stations, trains, taxis or waiting rooms in airports are the best places because you are open to destiny, you are open to everything and anything can happen.

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.

The less routine the more life.

If you confine it, you're confining a whole thing. If you make it spontaneous, so that anything can happen, like we don't want to confine or restrict anything. What we can do, whatever we can let happen, you just let it happen.

I don't like things set in stone.

I've never been a planner. I didn't know I was going to run for the State House. I didn't know I was going to run for governor. I don't know what's next, and I love not thinking about it because the doors open at a certain time.

I'm not a creature of habit. I like to find things from unexpected sources.

You must plan to be spontaneous.

My whole life has been one big improvisation.

I always leave room for serendipity and chance.