Morley Safer Quotes

The tendency is to keep doing things the way you have done them.

If you did the same thing you did yesterday as you did today as you will do tomorrow, what have you done? The same thing.

Running through things because you are familiar with them, breeds routine and this is the seed of boredom.

When we get in a routine we can become zombie-like and shut down.

We walk ourselves into ruts so deep we cannot see over them.

When you do anything for eight or nine years, you start getting a little comfortable; you start taking things for granted.

I find I get fixed in my ways if I don't change. I think I take too many things for granted.

I'm creature of habit.

Habit creates the appearance of justice; progress has no greater enemy than habit.

When you do not change up a lot, people may know you a lot better than they should.

We always know which is the best road to follow, but we follow only the road that we have become accustomed to.

Some people like to do everything always the same thing. That's another way: To do the same thing.

For me, habit is just a synonym for death.

I'm very much a creature of habit.

So easy to fall into a rut, isn't it? Why should ruts be so comfortable and so unpopular?

Human inertia makes the everyday environment, the furniture, as it were, appear to be a given.

Jay Leno is not a guy who likes change. He eats the same food every day.

Habit is a great deadener.

I will do as I usually do. Tomorrow is going to be a day like any other day.

I will not serve lunch to anyone in the middle of a workday. I rarely rearrange my furniture or cabinets; once I find a drawer for something, it stays there. I don't garden. And I don't knit.

If you do the same thing too often, it gets to be the only thing you can do.

I like routine.

I can't imagine my life any other way than it's been.

Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.

When I'm home, I go back to the same routine that I've had since I was a kid.