Ruts Quotes - Page 6

• Role modeling is the most basic responsibility of parents. Parents are handing life's scripts to their children, scripts that in all likelihood will be acted out for the rest of the children's lives.

  Stephen Covey

  Family, Children, Father

  Stephen R. Covey (1992). “Principle Centered Leadership”, p.131, Simon and Schuster

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

  Hilary Mantel

  World, Way, Certain

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• I must break out...
  ...start a new life...
  been here for years...
  might be getting into a rut...
  something a bit more exciting...
  more adventurous...
  something with more of a challenge...
  There's not much opportunity for self-advancement in toilets.

  Raymond Briggs

  Opportunity, Self, Years

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

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Interesting, Needs, Genius

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

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Routine, Christian Faith

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

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Example, Odor, Influence

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

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Reality, Messages, Possibility

  Neale Donald Walsch (2005). “Tomorrow's God: Our Greatest Spiritual Challenge”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Hero, Men, Camels

  Guy Steele (1990). “Common LISP: The Language”, p.406, Elsevier

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• He's in a rut. Gehringer goes two for five on opening day and stays that way all season.

  Lefty Gomez

  Two, Yankees, Way

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

  Eugene Delacroix

  Criticism, Drag, Said

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• It is generally recognized that creativity requires leisure, an absence of rush, time for the mind and imagination to float and wander and roam, time for the individual to descend into the depths of his or her psyche, to be available to barely audible signals rustling for attention. Long periods of time may pass in which nothing seems to be happening. But we know that kind of space must be created if the mind is to leap out of its accustomed ruts, to part from the mechanical, the known, the familiar, the standard, and generate a leap into the new.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Creativity, Space, Imagination

  Nathaniel Branden (2008). “The Psychology of Romantic Love: Romantic Love in an Anti-Romantic Age”, p.150, Penguin

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

  Sylvia Plath

  Mind

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, Anchor

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• What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth. No smallest atom of our moral, mental, or physical structure can stand still a year. It grows--it must grow smaller or larger, better or worse--it cannot stand still. In other words, we change--and must change, constantly, and keep on changing as long as we live. 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's stuck in a rut.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Years, Law

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• I never, ever wanted to be the Rolling Stones. Bless their hearts, but I dont necessarily want to go on doing the same old thing for the next 10, 20 years... I could see how easy it is to get into that rut, the whole touring mindset.

  Paul Weller

  Heart, Years, Old Things

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• You form a society: that limits you. Adopt a name, and you've limited yourself again; draw up a constitution and bylaws and you've made a groove, a rut, that hampers your growth. You think you can fix your course and move straight along it. But sometimes the important thing is to strike out sidewise.

  Robert Henri

  Moving, Thinking, Names

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• For my part, I would rather look toward Rutland than Jerusalem. Rutland,--modern town,--land of ruts,--trivial and worn,--not toosacred,--with no holy sepulchre, but profane green fields and dusty roads, and opportunity to live as holy a life as you can, where the sacredness, if there is any, is all in yourself and not in the place.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Opportunity, Green Fields, Land

  Henry David Thoreau (2017). “HENRY DAVID THOREAU - Ultimate Collection: 6 Books, 26 Essays & 60+ Poems, Including Translations. Biographies & Letters (Illustrated): Walden, The Maine Woods, Cape Cod, A Yankee in Canada, Canoeing in the Wilderness, Civil Disobedience, Slavery in Massachusetts, Life Without Principle, Excursions, Poems of Nature, Familiar Letters…”, p.1709, e-artnow

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

  Stendhal

  Mind, Genius, Drag

  Stendhal (1969). “Red and black: a new translation, backgrounds and sources, criticism”

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

  Nora Roberts

  Lonely, Roots, Standing

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

  Tim LaHaye

  Self, Persons, Lifts

  Tim LaHaye, Ed Hindson (2010). “Seduction of the Heart”, p.100, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• It's hard to carry a child around with you, but fortunately, in most cases, you don't have to ask a child for directions if you have a well-chosen role model ready to guide you. This is the next prescription: Take one role model, as often as needed. Set aside a few minutes today to fill this prescription so you will have it handy when you need it. Think now about who your role models have been. What do they offer? Who else do you admire, and exactly what do you admire about them? Have your roster of role models ready and waiting to help you the next time you are perplexed.

  Bernie Siegel

  Children, Thinking, Role Models

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

  Malin Akerman

  Requirements, Life Is, Stuck

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

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• The value of dreams, like ... divinations, is not that they give a specific answer, but that they open up new areas of psychic reality, shake us out of our customary ruts, and throw light on a new segment of our lives. Thus the sayings of the shrine, like dreams, were not to be received passively; the recipients had to "live" themselves into the message.

  Rollo May

  Dream, Reality, Light

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.106, W. W. Norton & Company

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• 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

  Encouragement, Real, Heart

  Eleanor Porter (2003). “Pollyanna”, ePenguin

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