“I mean, sure, normally I'd go home and jerk off, eat a giant page of Doritos, fall asleep on the floor, fart myself awake, and go down to dinner.”— Nick Kroll, Andrew Goldberg, Jennifer Flackett, Mark Levin, Andrew Glouberman, John Mulaney, imdb.com
“They say that routine makes you vulnerable, so anything routine, I just stopped doing.”— Susannah Grant, Doris Laird, Jayne Taini, imdb.com
“We do the same things every single day, and I don't see it changing literally forever.”— Alan Yang, Matt Hubbard, June, Maya Rudolph, imdb.com
“I want better work-life balance because everything in my life feels wildly skewed, and I do so much bizarre work. I know I work too much.”— Roxane Gay, elemental.medium.com
“Her approach to cleaning — known as the KonMari Method — hinges on getting rid of things that do not 'spark joy.' She takes a similar approach to her own well-being.”— Jenni Gritters, elemental.medium.com
“A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time. A schedule is a mock-up of reason and order—willed, faked, and so brought into being; it is a peace and a haven set into the wreck of…”— Annie Dillard, amazon.com
“Wai-Lin: It's mostly dull routine, of course, but every now and then you get to sail on a beautiful evening like this. And sometimes work with a decadent agent of a corrupt Western power. James Bond: And they say communists don't know how to have fun. Wai-Lin: Well, I hate to disappoint you, but I d…”— Bruce Feirstein, Wai Lin, Michelle Yeoh, imdb.com
“Josh: So I'm working on this new move — wet hair flip, lick, body roll... I look fat when I do that. Jamie: It's not your best.”— Himself, Josh Horner, imdb.com
“Cut your morning devotions into your personal grooming. You would not go out to work with a dirty face. Why start the day with the face of your soul unwashed?”— Robert Hooke, amazon.com
“If you do something once it’s exciting, and if you do it every day it’s exciting. But if you do it, say, twice or just almost every day, it’s not good any more.”— Andy Warhol, amazon.com
“Success is nothing more than a few disciplines, practiced every single day.”— Mel Robbins, twitter.com
“As I see it, Being, the Cosmos, whatever you want to call it, is a struggle between two implacable forces: Novelty on the one side and habit on the other side”— Terence McKenna, psychedelicsalon.com
“Give me something I can find some familiar comfort in and I’m a happy boy.”— John Mayer, twitter.com
“I don't know what other girls do before they go out in a heat, but for me the routine is pretty simple: I pray. I pray for safety for everyone and I pray for wisdom in my wave selection and ability to be at the right place at the right time.”— Bethany Hamilton, surfertoday.com
“Our practices leave grooves over time. And eventually, those grooves become walls that box us in.”— Brian Koppelman, David Levien, Chuck Rhoades, Paul Giamatti, imdb.com
“Every new routine begins in desperation. And ends in a different desperation.”— Sarah Manguso, amazon.com
“Develop rituals. Having things the two of you share when you're apart will make you feel closer.”— Susan Razmic, mindbodygreen.com