Brad Stevens Quotes

That is what all of us must learn to do in the United States; to limit objectives, to get ourselves away from the absolute, to find out what is within our powers.

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.

We have to learn how to work within the limits that are possible, not what is desirable.

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

I'm a very routine-oriented guy.

I do better with routines and predictability. I don't react well when there's a sudden change in the schedule.

I learned over time that you do not go for the perfect solution….You do what is doable and then you want to try and do a little bit more.

Having principles is important, but you don’t want to walk off a cliff with your principles.

The Japanese really like things very well planned out. I enjoy things as they come by.

I never, ever deviate from my plans.

A schedule broken at will becomes a mere procession of vagaries.

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.

You must not try to be too pure, you must fly closer to the sea.

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

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

While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive.

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 shall always be consistent and never change my ways so long as I am in my senses; but for the sake of precedent the Senate should beware of binding itself to support the acts of any man, since he might through some mischance suffer a change.

A perfect day for me would just be a day that goes the way I plan.

I'm a pragmatist.

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

I'm just not a purist. You set goals and you have to work with everyone to figure out how to get what you can.

I find it hard to pre-plan every element of everything I do. It's not my thing.

I'm a person who likes habit and knowing what my job is.

Continuity isn't actually something that I ever worry about. You use it where you need to, and you don't use it where you don't need to.