Rut Quotes - page 2

In a nutshell, Erhard's message was this: If you are in a rut, the problem isn't your parents, your boss or the system, it's you. Take responsibility, Erhard said, and you can transform your life overnight. (Ed Bradley)
We were tired of writing music that sounded like everybody else, and we were stuck in this rut for so long of just trying to emulate our favorite bands. We're just going to write stuff that feels good, sounds good. And if other people don't like it, oh well. Then we remembered Bert from just playing shows with his band. So we gave him a call and he happened to not be in any bands. The timing was like perfect. View quote
Bert McCracken
So easy to fall into a rut, isn't it? Why should ruts be so comfortable and so unpopular? View quote
Ruth Gordon
As a writer, you owe it to yourself not to get stuck in a rut of looking at the world in a certain way. View quote
Hilary Mantel
How many times have I failed before? How many times have I stood here like this, in front of my own image, in front of my own person, trying to convince him not to be scared, to go on, to get out of this rut? How many times before I finally convince myself, how many private, erasable deaths will I need to die, how may self-murders is it going to take, how many times will I have to destroy myself before I learn, before I understand? View quote
Charles Yu
I tend to do something for two years then move on to something new. Yoga, then biking, then weight lifting, then back to biking. The moment it feels like a rut, I switch and search for a new love. It's like having a midlife crisis, but without the new wife or cheesy BMW. View quote
Brad Meltzer
Good intentions never change anything. They only become a deeper and deeper rut. View quote
Joyce Meyer
I understand that the rule of fashion is to change, even as a successful designer - you do not want to be stuck in the same rut. View quote
Donatella Versace
All epoch-defining events are the result of conjunctures - the correlation of normally unconnected happenings which jolts humanity out of its existing rut and sets it on a new course. View quote
Robert Skidelsky
When you're in a rut, you have to question everything except your ability to get out of it. View quote
Twyla Tharp
I get so fed up with the making of an album taking over my life - it's all I can think about or talk about. You find yourself in a rut and lacking inspiration and it's hard to get out of that because I'm working alone in the studio. (Imogen Heap)
When you don't feel healthy, stop the excuses and do something. Just go outside, walk, breathe. Life's too short to fall into a rut. You are in charge of you - treat yourself well, and it'll show. View quote
Jessica Stroup
It's easy to fall into a funk and not want to exercise, or to really want that second piece of chocolate cake. I have to say, I fight against those feelings all year. But I try not to let myself sit in a rut like that. View quote
Joanna Noelle Levesque
My only requirement for life is that I don't get stuck in a rut. View quote
Malin Akerman
I've lived an amazing life. There's no reason to focus on the bad. They teach you that in racing school. Keep your eye where you want your front tire to be. You don't want to be stuck in the rut? Then don't look at the rut. Always look at where you want to go. View quote
Francesco Quinn
You have to remember the band played from 1960 to 1965, every night. You get into a rut playing nightclubs every night, and you didn't want to run it into the ground. View quote
Rick Danko
At those times I got into... I suppose you call it a rut. I used to do comedy, comedy, comedy and I suddenly thought I ought to break away from this somehow. View quote
Val Guest
I hear addicts talk about the shakes and panic attacks and the highs and lows of resisting their habit, and to some degree I understand them because I have had habits of my own, but no drug is so powerful as the drug of self. No rut in the mind is so deep as the one that says I am the world, the world belongs to me, all people are characters in my play. There is no addiction so powerful as self addiction. View quote
Don Miller (author)
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. View quote
Eva Mendes
Much public thinking follows a rut. The same thing is true in science. People get stuck and don't look in other directions. View quote
Charles Hard Townes
[I]f we lose our chance now...that chance will not return either to us or to our children. The memories of the last War will grow dim. The world will get back into the old rut, familiar professions and piety about peace will again soothe us to sleep, and the various countries will once more base their security upon military preparation. So they will all, in the end, find themselves drifting hopelessly upon those currents that make for war. ... And remember what the next war will be like. The old lines which divide combatants from non-combatants, the weak and the diseased from the strong and the robust, men from women and children, will all be obliterated and civilization itself assailed, and from sea and sky will be brought to a heap of ruins. (Ramsay MacDonald)
One of my biggest fears is not being able to break out of a rut; of becoming a prisoner to my ways, unable to change course. But in my mid-thirties, I learned you can change your thinking. View quote
Matt Dillon
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. View quote
Elizabeth Bowen
Those movies sure got me into a rut. View quote
Elvis Presley
I think as a musician you really have to have a wide variety of tastes, or else you will unconsciously get into a rut. View quote
Andrew Sega