Rather, to change a habit, you must keep the old cue, and deliver the old reward, but insert a new routine.
The final result of too much routine is death in life.
My daily routine is to make every day the best day.
Try to find pleasure in the speed that you're not used to. Changing the way you do routine things allows a new person to grow inside of you. But when all is said and done, you're the one who must decide how you handle it.
My days had a pleasant identicalness about them. I had always liked that: I liked routine. I liked being bored. I didn’t want to but I did.
I used to do that routine about my daughter being a hippy with the dirty sneakers and dirty blue jeans, but why a beard? And you know people would actually come to me and say, 'Does your daughter really have a beard?' I'd say, 'No, I made her shave it, but I let her keep the mustache.
As someone pointed out, you could have an attribute that says 'optimize the heck out of this routine', and your definition of heck would be a parameter to the optimizer.
A technique I developed quite naturally to help me make smooth transitions was to use a word or phrase from the next routine in the preceding one.
I think not having a routine is what keeps me centered. I only have a routine when I am working.
I don't like routine and I don't like rules.
In youth we may have an absolutely new experience, subjective or objective, every hour of the day. Apprehension is vivid, retentiveness strong, and our recollections of that time, like those in a time spent in rapid and interesting travel, are of something intricate, multitudinous, and long-drawn-out. But as each passing year converts some of this experience into automatic routine which we hardly note at all, the days and the weeks smooth themselves out in recollection to a contentless unit, and the years grow hollow and collapse.
New images surround us everywhere. They are invisible only because of sterile routine convention and fear. To find these images is to dare to see, to be aware of what there is and how it is. The photographer not only gets information, he gives information about life.
Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy.
Nothing is more limiting than a closed circle of acquaintanceship where every avenue of conversation has been explored and social exchanges are fixed in a known routine.
In a world where routine production is footloose. . . competitive advantage lies not in one-time breakthroughs but in continual improvements. Stable technologies get away.
Don't mistake routine for commitment, just showing up is not enough.
A life spent in the routine of science need not destroy the attractive human element of a woman's nature.
My beauty routine is basically plenty of sleep and lots of water.
The natural rhythm of human life is routine punctuated by orgies.
I never believed in a set routine. It should depend on how you feel, because you play what you feel.