Ruts Quotes

Ruts Quote of the day

Ritualism is nothing more than a rut and the only difference between a rut and a grave is the length and the depth.

Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.

Automation and technology don't cure behavioral ruts: they just create new instances of them.

More often than not I've found, a rut is a consequence of sticking to tried and tested methods that don't take into account how you or the world has changed.

True politeness is to social life what oil is to machinery, a thing to oil the ruts and grooves of existence. False politeness can shine without warming and glitter without vivifying.

Old carts can be repainted but they still keep moving in the same old ruts

We imagine that when we are thrown out of our usual ruts all is lost, but it is only then that what is new and good begins. While there is life there is happiness. There is much, much before us.

No condition outside ourselves can create a rut or trap us in it. It's impossible.

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

Kids don't have ruts yet that adults have carved into their minds. They're born logical. Crooked thinking has to be taught.

It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

People are incapable of stereotyping you; you stereotype yourself because you're the one who accepts roles that put you in this rut or in this stereotype

We are constantly misled by the ease with which our minds fall into the ruts of one or two experiences

Others see their possibility in the reality of you. Your message is your life lived.

The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs.

I'm in a rut deep enough to hang posters.

A rut is a grave with the ends knocked out.

A rut is a grave with the ends kicked out.

I think often women can feel isolated and feel like they get into a rut and don't quite know how to get out of it.

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

The rut I was in with the people that I had been previously been with it took the heart right out of me.

My brain was all right back then; it didn't get stuck in ruts.

Criticism is like many other things, it drags along after what has already been said and doesn't get out of its rut.

The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is.

Many people are in a rut and a rut is nothing but a grave-with both ends kicked out.

The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor, and no person can tell what becomes of his or her influence and example.

It's time for us to rise up, get out of the rut and routine, and begin to take our Christian faith seriously.

Where ruts have not yet been worn, it requires less effort to stay out of them.

You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

We get into ruts when we run with the first idea that pops into our head, not the last one.

There is something therapeutic about doing for others that lifts a person out of the rut of self-thought.

...one of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.

They grow stiff in the joints. They get in a rut. They go to seed.

I find that even small changes sometimes jog you out of a mental rut.

I get into a rut, unable to yank my mind out of it.

Come out into the broad light of day, come out from the little narrow paths, for how can the infinite soul rest content to live and die in small ruts?

[All governments] get into a rut where every potentially good story turns into a bad one.

Even a good place gets to be a rut, especially if you're standing in it alone... Alone and lonely have the same root.

As a writer, you owe it to yourself not to get stuck in a rut of looking at the world in a certain way.

An enamored amateur need not be a genius to stay out of the ruts he has never been trained in.

To succeed, find the right rut and stay with it.

My only requirement for life is that I don't get stuck in a rut.

If you feel like you're getting into a rut with a song, a night off usually fixes it.

...how deep the ruts of tradition and conformity!

The Ruts were a great punk rock band from England whose songs were as excellent as their time together was short.

You're closer to your glory leaping an abyss than re-upholstering a rut.

Don’t forget:Ruts aren’t that much different . . .from graves.

Sometimes chaos is the very thing that deliberately shakes up our neatly ordered world’s in order to get us out of the neatly ordered ruts that have kept us stuck.