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It takes guts to get out of the ruts. -- Robert H. Schuller
We walk ourselves into ruts so deep we cannot see over them. -- Tom Brown, Jr.
So easy to fall into a rut, isn't it? Why should ruts be so comfortable and so unpopular? -- Ruth Gordon
The Ruts were a great punk rock band from England whose songs were as excellent as their time together was short. -- Henry Rollins
Kids don't have ruts yet that adults have carved into their minds. They're born logical. Crooked thinking has to be taught. -- James P. Hogan
Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds. -- Zig Ziglar
Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live! -- Bob Marley
People find themselves in ruts all the time. You're in a complacent lifestyle where you work 9 to 5 and then you add a mortgage and kids. You feel trapped, but guess what, brother? You constructed that life. If you're OK with it, there's nothing wrong with that. But if you've got unease, then you've got to make a change. -- Jeremy Renner
The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions. -- Ellen Glasgow
Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you. -- Robert Fulghum
Others see their possibility in the reality of you. Your message is your life lived. -- Neale Donald Walsch
Many people are in a rut and a rut is nothing but a grave-with both ends kicked out. -- Vance Havner
We are constantly misled by the ease with which our minds fall into the ruts of one or two experiences -- William Osler
There must be people who remember World War II and the Holocaust who can help us get out of this rut. -- Martin Scorsese
The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is. -- Arnold Bennett
Much public thinking follows a rut. The same thing is true in science. People get stuck and don't look in other directions. -- Charles Hard Townes
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. -- John Dewey
Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive. -- Edith Wharton
First love, with its frantic haughty imagination, swings its object clear of the everyday, over the rut of living, making him all looks, silences, gestures, attitudes, a burning phrase with no context. -- Elizabeth Bowen
There are those who would misteach us that to stick in a rut is consistency - and a virtue, and that to climb out of the rut is inconsistency - and a vice. -- Mark Twain
I visited those friends who'd just had a baby, and she was washing dishes and he was cleaning the house, and I burst with happiness. And in their minds, they were in this terrible domestic rut -- Josh Lucas
What, then, is the true Gospel of consistency? Change. Who is the really consistent man? The man who changes. Since change is the law of his being, he cannot be consistent if he stick in a rut. -- Mark Twain
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. -- Leo Tolstoy
A man, a plan, a canoe, pasta, heros, rajahs, a coloratura, maps, snipe, percale, macaroni, a gag, a banana bag, a tan, a tag, a banana bag again (or a camel), a crepe, pins, Spam, a rut, a Rolo, cash, a jar, sore hats, a peon, a canal - Panama -- Guy Steele
The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers. -- M. Scott Peck
What men and women need is encouragement. Their natural resisting powers should be strengthened, not weakened ... Instead of always harping on a man's faults, tell him of his virtues. Try to pull him out of his rut ... Hold up to him his better self, his real self that can dare and do and win out! ... People radiate what is in their minds and in their hearts. -- Eleanor Porter
New roads; new ruts. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
I've definitely been in ruts, and I think having some kind of perseverance is important. -- Paul Dano
I think every artist subconsciously wants to evolve themselves. Sometimes they get stuck in ruts because of pop culture, peer pressure, stuff like that. But what excites me most is exploring my own musical insights and expanding upon them. -- Steve Vai
Sure, the first light snowfall may be a chance to dance giddily, leaving squeaky footprints through the neighborhood, marking the runner's right to the domain. But later drubbings of snow merely complicate running. Snow turns to ice, to slush, to ice again. Tire ruts twist ankles. New snow hides the hazards. -- Don Kardong
We all fall into our habits, our routines, our ruts. They're used quite often, consciously or unconsciously, to avoid living, to avoid doing the messy part of having relationships with other people, of dealing with a person next to us. That's why we can all be in a room on our cell phones and not have to deal with one another. -- Andrew Stanton
...how deep the ruts of tradition and conformity! -- Henry David Thoreau
Nostalgia: A device that removes the ruts and potholes from memory lane. -- Doug Larson
My brain was all right back then; it didn't get stuck in ruts. -- Ned Vizzini
Automation and technology don't cure behavioral ruts: they just create new instances of them. -- Kenneth Goldsmith
Old carts can be repainted but they still keep moving in the same old ruts -- Mongo Beti
Where ruts have not yet been worn, it requires less effort to stay out of them. -- Daniel J. Boorstin
We get into ruts when we run with the first idea that pops into our head, not the last one. -- Twyla Tharp
An enamored amateur need not be a genius to stay out of the ruts he has never been trained in. -- Daniel J. Boorstin
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? -- Swami Vivekananda
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. -- Frances Harper

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