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

  Henry Rollins

  Song, Rocks, Together

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• I doubt I would have written a line ... unless some minor tragedy had sort of twisted my mind out of the normal rut.

  Roald Dahl

  Doubt, Mind, Tragedy

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• Take those road hazards- the potholes, ruts, detours, and all the rest- as evidence that you were on the right route. It's when you find yourself on that big, broad, easy road that you ought to worry.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Worry, Finding Yourself, Hazards

  Joni Eareckson Tada (2011). “Glorious Intruder: God's Presence in Life's Chaos”, p.40, Multnomah

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

  Bruce McCulloch

  Posters, Enough

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• If you are curious, you won't be satisfied with the "tyranny of custom." People stuck in that rut might say "why?" and the first thing an exploratory person would say is "why not?"

  John Medina

  People, Why Not, Might

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Worn It, Effort, Worn

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• A rut... is little more than a coffin with the ends kicked out.

  James Hunter

  Challenges, Coffins, Littles

  James C. Hunter (2008). “The Servant: A Simple Story About the True Essence of Leadership”, p.54, Crown Business

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• Some of the most important people in my life would be shocked to learn that they were role models. They weren't celebrities, or even particularly accomplished. But they had some quality that I admired, that made me want to be like them.

  Donn Moomaw

  People, Role Models, Important

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• 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.

  Donatella Versace

  Fashion, Successful, Want

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There's a very fine line between a groove and a rut a fine line between eccentrics and people who are just plain nuts.

  Christine Lavin

  Nuts, People, Lines

  Song: Prisoners Of Their Hairdos, Album: Compass, 1991

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• The errors of a wise man are literally more instructive than the truths of a fool. The wise man travels in lofty, far-seeing regions; the fool in low-lying, high-fenced lanes; retracing the footsteps of the former, to discover where he diviated, whole provinces of the universe are laid open to us; in the path of the latter, granting even that he has not deviated at all, little is laid open to us but two wheel-ruts and two hedges.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Wise, Lying, Science

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.4, Cambridge University Press

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• I must do something to keep my thoughts fresh and growing. I dread nothing so much as falling into a rut and feeling myself becoming a fossil.

  James A. Garfield

  Fall, Feelings, Progress

  "Garfield's Words: Suggestive Passages from the Public and Private Writings of James Abram Garfield". Book by James Abram Garfield, 1882.

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• We may make progress only by freeing ourselves from the rut of the past, but without this rut an orderly society would hardly be possible in the first place.

  Robert Heilbroner

  Past, Progress, Firsts

  "The Future As History". Book by Robert Heilbroner, Chapter IV, Part 6, The Inertia of History, p. 195, 1960.

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• We are really in a rut with the three-minute song. You know where it's going to go. If you're trying to get your message across sometimes it's wise to say, Why don't we stop here and have a moment of silence, then go in a completely different direction?

  Jimmy Webb

  Wise, Song, Silence

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

  Tom Perrotta

  Small Changes, Sometimes

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• Once, I discovered the skulls of two impala rams, their horns locked into an irreversible figure-of-eight; the two animals had been trapped in combat, latched to each other during the battle of the rut. The harder they had pulled to escape from each other, the more intractably stuck they were, until they had fallen exhausted, to their knees, in an embrace of hatred that had killed them both.

  Alexandra Fuller

  Animal, Eight, Two

  Alexandra Fuller (2002). “Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood”, p.191, Random House

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• ["All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant."] The original Hebrew word that has been translated "paths" means "well-worn roads' or "wheel tracks," such ruts as wagons make when they go down our green roads in wet weather and sink in up to the axles. God's ways are at times like heavy wagon tracks that cut deep into our souls, yet all of them are merciful.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Mean, Cutting, Weather

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

  Levon Helm

  Song, Night, Like You

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• Nostalgia: A device that removes the ruts and potholes from memory lane.

  Doug Larson

  Memories, Nostalgia, Lanes

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• 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

  Thinking, Artist, Musical

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• To be shaken out of the ruts of ordinary perception, to be shown for a few timeless hours the outer and the inner world, not as they appear to an animal obsessed with words and notions, but as they are apprehended, directly and unconditionally, by Mind at Large-This is the experience of inestimable value to everyone.

  Aldous Huxley

  Art, Animal, Mind

  Aldous Huxley (2002). “Complete Essays: 1939-1956”, Ivan R Dee

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• We are all born with a rut radar. Mine is finely wired, a little oversensitive maybe. Perhaps just a bit hyperactive. Twenty steady boyfriends before turning 16, a new best friend 12 times a year, switched college majors every time I met someone who seemed exactly like the sort of person I really, really wanted to be. I'm not fickle. I'm just never there yet.

  Fran Lebowitz

  College, Years, Twenties

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “Tales From A Broad: An Unreliable Memoir”, p.6, Monsoon Books

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

  Laurence J. Peter

  Ends, Graves

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• The hardest thing to believe when you're young is that people will fight to stay in a rut, but not to get out of one.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Believe, Fighting, Opportunity

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”

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• 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

  Eva Mendes

  People, Roles, Stereotype

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