routine behavior Quotes

It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives. It's what we do consistently.

Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.

The easier it is to do something, the harder it is to change the way you do it.

Every athlete acquires routines as a way to help control nerves.

The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.

You can get the dart player out of the pub, but you can't get the pub out of the dart player.

You know what I think you get scared of more - especially me, after touring for so long and being in bands for so long - you start to associate certain behavior with the music. It's like people associate having a cigarette with having a cup of coffee, or lunch.

An elephant always puts his foot into the hole which another elephant's foot has made so that a frequented track is nothing but a series of pits filled with mud and water.

See what a person is doing every day, day after day, and you'll know who that person is and what he or she is becoming.

So I'm wearing that today. And I wore it yesterday, too. Maybe I'll wear it tomorrow. I just collect stuff, I guess.

Tradition is laziness.

Pipe-smokers spend so much time cleaning, filling and fooling with their pipes, they don't have time to get into mischief.

She was the third beer. Not the first one, which the throat receives with almost tearful gratitude; nor the second, that confirms and extends the pleasure of the first. But the third, the one you drink because it's there, because it can't hurt, and because what difference does it make?

You get to where you kind of like it, and It's a habit That's hard to break. I still find myself sittin' in a cafe, like a pizza parlor.

If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens.

Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl's clothes off.

Activities that seem to represent choices are often inert reproductions of accepted practice.

No matter who you are, we're creatures of habit. The better your habits are, the better they will be in pressure situations.

People, especially successful people, are habitual creatures. They're organized. This makes them productive - Gus Mitchell

And so the liberal tendency became a habit with Stepan Arkadyich, and he liked his newspaper, as he liked a cigar after dinner, for the slight haze it produced in his head.

Most people don't live aware lives. They live mechanical lives, mechanical thoughts - generally somebody else's - mechanical emotions, mechanical actions, mechanical reactions.

Humans are animals of habit.

The man who will follow precedent, but never create one, is merely an obvious example of the routineer. You find him desperately numerous in the civil service, in the official bureaus. To him government is something given as unconditionally, as absolutely as ocean or hill. He goes on winding the tape that he finds. His imagination has rarely extricated itself from under the administrative machine to gain any sense of what a human, temporary contraption the whole affair is. What he thinks is the heavens above him is nothing but the roof.

When I'm getting ready to go out, I always watch 'Law & Order' in the bath. As soon as I hear the theme music, I just get all goose-pimply. I know I've been in the bath too long if I start watching a second one.

I don't know how people chew gum all day long.