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• PLEASE don't ever think that you can't get out of the rut you may be in or think you can't take your life to a whole new level.. Anything is possible when you have a path, a plan and a desire to take action.

  Dean Graziosi

  Inspirational, Success, Thinking

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• Realists are, as a rule, only men in the rut of routine who are incapable of transcending a narrow circle of antiquated notions.

  Theodor Herzl

  Men, Circles, Routine

  Theodor Herzl (1970). “The Jewish state: (Der Judenstaat).”

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• A lot of artists who have a certain style are expected to more or less keep doing their style. It's so easy to get into that rut of production.

  Laurie Anderson

  Artist, Reality, Style

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• 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

  Fall, Phones, Cells

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

  Twyla Tharp

  Running, Ideas, Lasts

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• Most of us become so rigidly fixed in the ruts carved out by genetic programming and social conditioning that we ignore the options of choosing any other course of action. Living exclusively by genetic and social instructions is fine as long as everything goes well. But the moment bioloical or social goals are frustrated- which in the long run is inevitable - a person must formulate new goals, and create a new flow activity for himself, or else he will always waste his energies in inner turmoil.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Running, Long, Goal

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2001). “Flow: the psychology of optimal experience”

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• You pigs, you. You rut like pigs, is all. You got the most in you, and you use the least. You hear me, you? Got a million in you and spend pennies. Got a genius in you and think crazies. Got a heart in you and feel empties. All a you. Every you.

  Alfred Bester

  Heart, Thinking, Pigs

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• 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.

  Brad Meltzer

  Moving, Yoga, Two

  "Workouts inspire novelist: 'No better place to plot the death of a character'". Interview with David Raterman, www.sun-sentinel.com. February 11, 2013.

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• 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 ... one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in the big things, and happy in small ways.

  Edith Wharton

  Past, Long, Intellectual

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.7523, Delphi Classics

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

  Ned Vizzini

  Brain, Stuck, Stuck In A Rut

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• What is interesting and important happens mostly in secret, in places where there is no power. Nothing much of lasting value ever happens at the head table, held together by a familiar rhetoric. Those who already have power continue to glide along the familiar rut they have made for themselves.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Interesting, Secret, Important

  Michael Ondaatje (2011). “The Cat's Table”, p.81, Random House

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• When you're in a rut, you have to question everything except your ability to get out of it.

  Twyla Tharp

  Ability

  Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

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• Grass is the forgiveness of nature-her constant benediction. Fields trampled with battle, saturated with blood, torn with the ruts of cannon, grow green again with grass and carnage is forgotten. Streets abandoned by traffic become grass-grown, like rural lanes and are obliterated. Forests decay, harvests perish, flowers vanish, but grass is immortal.

  John James Ingalls

  Flower, Blood, Battle

  John James Ingalls (1907). “Selections from the Writings of John J. Ingalls”

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• 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?

  Charles Yu

  Self, Trying, Needs

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• A rut is a grave with the ends kicked out.

  Earl Nightingale

  Ends, Graves

  Robert C. Worstell, Earl Nightingale (2015). “How to Completely Change Your Life in 30 Seconds”, p.78, Lulu.com

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• Your close men friends should be willing to challenge your mediocrity by suggesting a concrete action you can perform that will pop you out of your rut, one way or the other. And you must be willing to offer them your brutal honesty, in the same way, if you are all to grow.

  David Deida

  Honesty, Men, Challenges

  David Deida (2008). “The Way of the Superior Man: A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work, and Sexual Desire: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.53, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• You must be prepared for further efforts of mind and body and further sacrifices to great causes, if you are not to fall back into the rut if inertia, the confusion of aim and the craven fear of being great.

  Winston Churchill

  Fall, Sacrifice, Confusion

  Winston Churchill (1986). “Triumph and Tragedy”, p.672, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

  Kenneth Goldsmith

  Technology, Automation, Cures

  Interview with Dave Mandl, believermag.com. October 1, 2011.

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• I think many of us live in a rut. Stuck in a groove we can't get out of, whether it's our job, family drama or the little frustrations of everyday life.

  Brian Pinkerton

  Jobs, Drama, Thinking

  Source: www.sfsignal.com

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• 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.

  Cate Blanchett

  Thinking, Feels, Isolated

  "Cate Blanchett Knows You're Zooming in on Her Pores and She's Cool with It". Interview with Emily Zemler, www.marieclaire.com. February 29, 2016.

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• I think that's what's important, to see how we ourselves can become all that we are and can be. Everybody says they want to change, but it's not that simple, it's not that easy. Who's ready to change and give up? Who's ready to get out of their rut and leave it behind, not just pour honey or syrup over their heads and over the rut? Who's ready to change and give up that rut, who's ready willing and able?

  Surya Das

  Giving Up, Simple, Thinking

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• There are paths and ruts in the spirit world as there are in the physical and mental world. One must take the tools of the spirit world and make one's own path rather than exactly follow the paths of those who once were . . . You must not seek their path and their understanding, but you must seek your own. The ruts of the spirit are trying to follow others and it cannot be done.

  Tom Brown, Jr.

  Understanding, Trying, Tools

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

  Nick Clegg

  Government, Stories, Turns

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• Winter near the shore is cold. The wind kicks up a salty mist and elephant seals come to shore to trumpet and rut and birth their pups. Retired people put sweaters on their lap dogs and drag them down the street on retractable leashes in a nightly parade of doggy humiliation. Surfers don their wetsuits against the chill of storm waves and white sharks adjust their diets to include shrink-wrapped dude-snacks on fiberglass crackers.

  Christopher Moore

  Dog, Winter, Sharks

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• 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

  Light, Soul, Littles

  Swami Vivekananda, Swami Adiswarananda (2006). “Vivekananda, World Teacher: His Teachings on the Spiritual Unity of Humankind”, p.93, SkyLight Paths Publishing

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