Even a good place gets to be a rut, especially if you're standing in it alone. . . Alone and lonely have the same root.
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.
When I feel like I'm in a rut, I remember it's the little things in life that are important, like riding a bike with a friend or eating ice cream with my baby niece.
When you're in a rut, you have to question everything except your ability to get out of it.
A rut is a grave with the ends knocked out.
I find that even small changes sometimes jog you out of a mental rut.
Ritualism is nothing more than a rut and the only difference between a rut and a grave is the length and the depth.
I visited those friends who'd just had a baby, and she was washing dishes and he was cleaning the house, and I burst with happiness. And in their minds, they were in this terrible domestic rut
Much public thinking follows a rut. The same thing is true in science. People get stuck and don't look in other directions.
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?"
A rut. . . is little more than a coffin with the ends kicked out.
My only requirement for life is that I don't get stuck in a rut.
There must be people who remember World War II and the Holocaust who can help us get out of this rut.
To succeed, find the right rut and stay with it.
The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is.
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.
Many people are in a rut and a rut is nothing but a grave-with both ends kicked out.
No condition outside ourselves can create a rut or trap us in it. It's impossible.
You’ve got to try and take things to the next level, or you’ll just get stuck in a rut.
I get into a rut, unable to yank my mind out of it.
