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Ruts Quotes

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Ritualism is nothing more than a rut and the only difference between a rut and a grave is the length and the depth.
Chuck Smith

Authors on Ruts Quotes: Twyla Tharp James A. Garfield Tim LaHaye Hilary Mantel Neale Donald Walsch Charles Yu Nora Roberts Robin Williams Daniel J. Boorstin James Broughton Tom Perrotta Kin Hubbard Ned Vizzini Bruce McCulloch Levon Helm Ruth Gordon Doug Larson Earl Nightingale Leo Tolstoy Mason Cooley Frances Harper Arnold Bennett Henry Ward Beecher Sylvia Plath Cate Blanchett Guy Finley Tom Brown, Jr. Peter Cetera Mongo Beti Laurence J. Peter Vance Havner Joyce Meyer Gail Giles
2.
Automation and technology don't cure behavioral ruts: they just create new instances of them.
Kenneth Goldsmith

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More often than not I've found, a rut is a consequence of sticking to tried and tested methods that don't take into account how you or the world has changed.
Twyla Tharp

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It's hotter than a snake's ass in a wagon rut.
Robin Williams

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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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Old carts can be repainted but they still keep moving in the same old ruts
Mongo Beti

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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

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

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We walk ourselves into ruts so deep we cannot see over them.
Tom Brown, Jr.

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No condition outside ourselves can create a rut or trap us in it. It's impossible.
Guy Finley

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Good intentions never change anything. They only become a deeper and deeper rut.
Joyce Meyer

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.
Robert H. Schuller

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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

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

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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

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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

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

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A rut is a grave with the ends kicked out.
Earl Nightingale

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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

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A rut is a grave with the ends knocked out.
Laurence J. Peter

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The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is.
Arnold Bennett

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

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So easy to fall into a rut, isn't it? Why should ruts be so comfortable and so unpopular?
Ruth Gordon

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The rut I was in with the people that I had been previously been with it took the heart right out of me.
Peter Cetera

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Many people are in a rut and a rut is nothing but a grave-with both ends kicked out.
Vance Havner

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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

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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

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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

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Were marriage no more than a convenient screen for sexuality, some less cumbersome and costly protection must have been found by this time to replace it. One concludes therefore that people do not marry to cohabit; they cohabit to marry. They do not seek freedom to rut so much as they seek the rut of wedlock.
Virgilia Peterson

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

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They grow stiff in the joints. They get in a rut. They go to seed.
James A. Garfield

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You won't skid if you stay in a rut.
Kin Hubbard

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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

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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

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

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

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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

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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

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You're closer to your glory leaping an abyss than re-upholstering a rut.
James Broughton

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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

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To succeed, find the right rut and stay with it.
Mason Cooley

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

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I figured out that I can't forget. I can't really forgive. But I can live. Live with it. Like you live with a scar or a limp or whatever. You always know it's there. It reminds you never to let yourself do anything so stupid and horrible and wrong again. I step out of my rut, step again, and keep stepping. (277)
Gail Giles

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

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

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...how deep the ruts of tradition and conformity!
Henry David Thoreau