Get Stuck In Quotes

#1. The problem in Burma is the problem in Egypt, the problem you refer to in Yemen, and the problem in a lot of these countries in the world: that you can get stuck in the process of transition, in what's been called a competitive authoritarian ... a pseudo democratic regime.

Larry Diamond

#2. That's the ideal. Not to get stuck in a rut playing the same role.

Laura Osnes

#3. I'll be honest about it. It is not atheists who get stuck in my craw, but agnostics. Doubt is useful for a while.

Yann Martel

#4. When having a smackerel of something with a friend, don't eat so much that you get stuck in the doorway trying to get out.

A.A. Milne

#5. Accepting that we are angry is a healthy and appropriate response as long as we don't get stuck in it. Acknowledging it is one way of going through it.

Madeleine L'Engle

#6. I don't know really, it doesn't feel like it has changed to me but I think to have to move with the times. Try out different areas and not get stuck in 1978.

Jo Brand

#7. You've got to try and take things to the next level, or you'll just get stuck in a rut.

Ozzy Osbourne

#8. I've been lucky enough to be too busy for TV because if I'm not, I'll get stuck in front of it.

Eddie Kaye Thomas

#9. When he went to go get groceries, though, he asked Mercer to come. 'There's no one I'd rather get stuck in a snowdrift and freeze to death with,' William said.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#10. Aliens don't get stuck in air ducts. It's practically a well-known fact.

Terry Pratchett

#11. You weren't thinking and you weren't paying attention either. People who don't pay attention often get stuck in the Doldrums.

Norton Juster

#12. I don't really get stuck in a time warp where, if my film is a success, I have to keep partying till the next one releases, or if my film is a flop, I keep wallowing in sorrow until the next comes my way. My hard work in each film is always there.

Rani Mukerji

#13. I like the pharmacy makeup. I always get stuck in that aisle ... I've always liked looking at it.

Gia Coppola

#14. If you look back, you get stuck in a year. I've seen rappers and singers get stuck in 2002 or 2005, and they can't get out.

Juicy J

#15. I think we get stuck in routines so easily that when an absurd moment in life seems to be there for no reason, it wakes you up out of your everyday pattern. You pull back and look at life a little bit wider because of that one weird thing you weren't expecting.

Kurt Braunohler

#16. There are a billion songs that I've heard and said, 'I don't even care to have an opinion about it,' but if I have to hear a snippet of the refrain of 'We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together' once, it'll get stuck in my head, and that drives me crazy.

Kurt Braunohler

#17. When I go to business meetings, I'm still told way too often by some receptionist, 'The mail room is downstairs,' to believe that racial perceptions don't still exist. But I figure there are always going to be knuckleheads no matter how many of their herd get stuck in the tar pits of progress.

John Ridley

#18. Skating is one of those sports you unfortunately see people get stuck in.

Ashley Wagner

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

Malin Akerman

#20. You get used to working with one choreographer. You kind of get stuck in that vein and you work your way out of it, picking up someone else's style, their flavor. It takes a bit of time.

Janet Jackson

#21. Too many writers get stuck in the trap of writing what they think is funny and not considering who they are writing it for.

Robin Thede

#22. I've always championed women in politics. We just get stuck in; politics isn't a game. The decisions we make affect people's lives, and that is something we must all keep to the forefront of our minds.

Theresa May

#23. The industry needs transforming. It's for others to decide whether they want to get stuck in the past or whether they want to come on the journey.

Lucian

#24. The thing about American writers is that, as a group, they get stuck in the same idea: that we're a continent and the world falls away after us. And it's just nonsense.

Sam Shepard

#25. Transform Your Life
Into Change
And Choose Your Destiny Yourself
Or
Get Stuck in A Destiny
Chosen FOR You

Osazee Williams Omoregie

#26. I just feel like why spend all my time doing something that makes me unhappy just to spend my time off thinking about how I have to go back to a job. It's such a vicious cycle that people get stuck in. But I'm also very lucky. I can't sit here too eagerly and say all that.

Justin Vernon

#27. It is the still, yellow kind of afternoon when one is apt to get stuck in a dream if one sits very quiet

Dodie Smith

#28. People get stuck in their stories. My advice is to end your story and begin your life.

Carlos Santana

#29. You can get stuck in one state of mind or a general area of mind for a thousand lifetimes. Some states of mind afford better views than others.

Frederick Lenz

#30. Learning can be a bridge between doing and thinking. But then there is a danger that the person who uses learning as a bridge between doing and thinking may get stuck in learning and never get on to thinking ...

Laura Riding

#31. But a lot of my training can be done in Aston - a lot of the hard work, so to speak. But a new atmosphere, a new place, and it's good for me because I didn't want to get stuck in one spot, so coming home is good, back and forth, you know, where my roots are.

Elvis Stojko

#32. If you look to your past or even your present to see why you are here or what your purpose is, you may get stuck in a limited view of yourself. Instead, look beyond your years here on earth, reconnect with the divine, and bring forth your soul's legacy into the present moment.

Debbie Ford

#33. After a major change in your life, either you get stuck in painful emotions or you take charge of your life and process your feelings to become emotionally stronger and resilient, the choice is yours.

Linda Alfiori

#34. I was thinking that work is like fertilizer in that I'm glad it exists; I just don't ever want to get stuck in it.

Brandon Sanderson

#35. Don't get stuck in old ideas. Keep recognizing that reality is changing and that your ideas have to change.

Grace Lee Boggs

#36. Don't get stuck in one candle; find other candles, create other candles!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#37. A good leader leads from the front. Don't get stuck in the office. Get out, meet people and listen to their stories.

Richard Branson

#38. This was something that was obsessing me and creating a writer's block. To get involved and get stuck in, get the proper information about what's going on has really helped.

Thom Yorke

#39. Some people try and fail and they get stuck in that reality. They forget that they entered the race while the other 99% of people sat around too scared to even try.

Nicholas Muir

#40. You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Lucinda Bassett

#41. I always thought when I hit 50 years old that'd be it for the travel. I don't have to tell you - you wait at an airport, your flight's delayed, get on a 14-hour flight, get off, get stuck in traffic, you get to the hotel and the room service is closed.

Brian Setzer

#42. Right on the other side of our fears resides hope and happiness. We get stuck in our lives afraid to walk over there when it's a much kinder place.

Ron Baratono

#43. You can get stuck in being wise. You can get stuck in having a developed will. It is very hard to get stuck in being happy. It is too lucid a state of mind.

Frederick Lenz

#44. As you get older, you get stuck in your ways; just as you become stiffer physically, you also become stiffer mentally and more narrow-minded unless you make a conscious effort to keep yourself flexible.

Viggo Mortensen

#45. I like romantic comedy as a genre, but I think it can get stuck in its ways.

Zooey Deschanel

#46. It's not atheists who get stuck in my caw, but agnostics. Doubt is useful for awhile. We all must pass through the garden of Gethsemane. If Christ played with doubt, so must we ... But we must move on. To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as means of transportation.

Yann Martel

#47. Emma is not a person; Emma is a place that you get stuck in; Emma is a pain that you cannot erase.

Justin Vernon

#48. Every year I try to grow as a player and not get stuck in a rut. I try to improve my game in every way possible. But that trait is not something I've worked on, it's part of me.

Lionel Messi

#49. Part of me sees myself as talented, and the other part sees me as strange. Ideas get stuck in your head and nothing changes them. Not even fame.

Mika.

#50. Here in L.A., you kind of get stuck in your own little dilemmas and your own little life, and hearing a story like Pocahontas' reminds you there's a bigger world out there, and there are so many more important things in life.

Q'orianka Kilcher

#51. Jesus did not get stuck in intellectual arguments with people. He did not go for the intellect; He went for the conscience. He spoke to that part of the person that knows the difference between right and wrong instinctively.

Kirk Cameron

#52. Most artists have experienced the creative block. We get stuck in our work. We beat our head against the wall: nothing. Sometimes, it is because we are trying something at the wrong time.

Lukas Foss

#53. Don't get stuck in your grieving, look to heaven ... God has more in store for you.

Mario Daniel Vega

#54. Sometimes we get stuck in patterns or reoccurring themes in our lives that require a shocking epiphany to give us the opportunity to see new possibilities and notice the obstacles that keep us from moving on.

Kat Lahr

#55. I have no idea why people get stuck in traffic, because I work from my desktop

Brahmananda Patra

#56. Do blood clots get stuck in your teeth? What if someone's anemic; are you hungry again an hour later? Has anyone ever bitten you? If you run out of blood, do you shrivel up like a really old orange?

Katie MacAlister

#57. Many books mean many windows; many windows mean many new lights! Don't get stuck in one window, one book, one man, one country and one belief! Increase your windows! Wisdom is the house made of only windows!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#58. Ideally, you would live in an area that is not necessarily in the middle of the country, out in the woods, because you can isolate yourself there and get stuck in your own thoughts.

Frederick Lenz

#59. Don't climb a single rung up the entitlement ladder. Demanding something you haven't truly earned is a great way to get stuck in the land of Learning for decades, even an entire lifetime. Kick those ladders over and keep on walking.

Jon Acuff

#60. Your thoughts construct patterns like scaffolding in your mind. You are really etching chemical patterns. In most cases, people get stuck in those patterns, just like grooves in a record, and they never get out of them.

Steve Jobs

#61. A lot of times black actors get stuck in a box. They're up against a lot of limitations for the kind of films that they get approached about. It's easy to get stuck in a box and just be approached about nothing but urban films.

Tyrese Gibson

#62. But if you go over the line, you don't want to get stuck in a Nevada State court room. Honestly, because Nevada has been doing a good job of putting California criminals in jail. I mean, we couldn't put OJ in jail, but they did. We couldn't put Paris Hilton in jail, but they did.

James Belushi

#63. You need to feel good about your life. Winning is a great idea, but you can get stuck in it too. It's just another way of looking at life, an idea. You need to renew yourself and your spirit.

Frederick Lenz

#64. Leaders can get stuck in groupthink because they're really not listening, or they're listening only to what they want to listen to, or they actually think they're so right that they're not interested in listening. And that leads to a lot of suboptimal solutions in the world.

Jacqueline Novogratz

#65. The problem is with any practice is that it is a practice. That is why people don't win. The reason why people don't win is they get stuck in ideas, habits, and ways of seeing life.

Frederick Lenz

#66. The founder of any branch must be more ingenious than the common man. However, if his achievement is not carried on by disciples of the same ingenuity, then things will only become formalized and get stuck in a cul-de-sac; whereby breakthrough and progress will be almost impossible.

Bruce Lee

#67. We have to look forward and keep filming new films and not get stuck in the past.

Nick Park

#68. It was like there's got to be some way to stay working and stay productive in Los Angeles. TV is that kind of thing for an actor. Unless you get stuck in one of these shows where you have to go to Vancouver.

Ethan Suplee

#69. I have too much drive and determination to let anything falter me. Because I know that life's short and there's so much that I wanna do, and I can't do anything that might hold me back or get stuck in.

Jana Kramer

#70. You know, education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq.

John F. Kerry

#71. I didn't want to get stuck in pretty, public school roles, or I knew I'd end up as some sort of caricature.

Robert Pattinson

#72. Change works both ways. You must accept those moments, experience them, and let them go. Because if you allow yourself to get stuck in that minute, nothing will ever change.

Ruth Reichl

#73. Why do you need to drive a Ferrari to get stuck in a traffic jam anyway? How do people afford these cars?

James Murdoch

#74. 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

#75. 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

#76. Life is an ear of buttered corn waiting to get stuck in your teeth.

Truant D. Memphis

#77. What's fun for me is to try new things and push myself and not get stuck in one genre or another, or stuck with one character or another.

Steven Strait

#78. Too often, people get stuck in a state of over-thinking, the result is that they never reach a decision.

Steve Backley

#79. I would leave the industry in a moment if I thought I was going to get stuck in one particular area of it.

Tom Goodman-Hill

#80. If I get stuck in who I am now, I will never blossom into who I might yet become. I need to practice the gentle art of letting go. - SAM KEEN, AUTHOR

Barbara Stanny

#81. I'm not afraid of you!' The wombat yelled. 'I saw you get stuck in the washing machine once. Round and round you went! Who's afraid of something that can't defeat a rinse cycle?

Catherynne M Valente

#82. Intelligence is like four-wheel drive. It only allows you to get stuck in more remote places.

Garrison Keillor

#83. Almost every month, I have a day where I get stuck in the mud of me. I used to blame hormones and PMS. After I hit 50, I blamed the lack of hormones. But men get stuck, too, so it must simply be the human condition.

Regina Brett

#84. Tell me a story,' demanded Fireflyer.
'Why? Do you eat them, too, then?'
'Only the ohs and ayes and ees and oos. The Kays are too spikey and the zeds are too buzzzy and the ones with the dots get stuck in your teeth and the esses sometimes slide down inside your vest and tickle.

Geraldine McCaughrean

#85. I mean, that's life. Life is never predictable. Life is never really manageable. If your mind-set is always, "I'm just surviving", it seems to me that would wind up being the mind-set for the rest of your life. You'd just get stuck in it.

Joanna Gaines

#86. We must speak carefully so that we and our listeners do not get stuck in words or concepts. It is our duty to transcend words and concepts to be able to encounter reality.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#87. I want to roll my eyes, but I'm pretty soon they're going to get stuck in the back of my head, and penis puns are really not worth my permanent facial damage.

Lauren Morrill

#88. Some people handle life admirably. And other people really don't. Some get stuck in hideous deforming places and postures and become ever more unbearable versions of themselves.

Vincent Deary

#89. I think when people get stuck in situations that go against their soul, they can't be happy. That's all.

Martine Murray

#90. As a fortysomething actor, you reach a plateau of maturity from which you can really get stuck in.

Julian Sands

#91. I feel great that I've been given a chance in the golden years of my life. To me, it's the last battle, and I've been given a chance to get stuck in some good armament, some good power, and there's a chance that now I can finish off my working years with my head held high.

Eric Burdon

#92. Never think too much of yourself. Realize you are only an instrument of eternity. Do not get stuck in that terrible trap. You can lose everything.

Frederick Lenz

#93. I always prefer to work intensively on something and then move on to something else. I prefer not to get stuck in something that takes five or six years of my life.

Sean Bean

#94. So community colleges are accessible, they're available, they're affordable, and their curriculums don't get stuck. In other words, if there's a need for a certain kind of worker, I presume your curriculums evolved over time.

George W. Bush

#95. John Kerry has apologized for saying those who do not study hard and do their homework will get stuck in Iraq. Now, those that do not campaign well and are boring, will end up stuck in the Senate.

Jay Leno

#96. With 'Hip-Hop Saved My Life,' I attempted to make 'Kick, Push,' but for rappers. To give a real basic play-by-play of the life of a rapper before he makes it - if he ever makes it, because you can get stuck in that and be trying to make it for the rest of your life.

Lupe Fiasco

#97. You can get stuck in the trap of reading your YouTube comments all the time. Sometimes I regret it. Not everyone is going to love you. And for some reason, stand-up has this thing where everyone thinks they can do it. So everyone thinks they're an expert.

Kumail Nanjiani

#98. Even when your eyes are closed, it feels black. As black as black ever gets, like if you touch it, your hand might get stuck in it, like tar or black quicksand or when you stretch out your hand at night, to turn on a light, but all you feel is darkness.

Kelly Link

#99. I always loved how people like Jon Voight and Laurence Olivier shocked you every time they came on-screen. They were so different each time. That's what I hope to do with acting - be the chameleon and not get stuck in a type.

Julia Stiles

#100. I work out every day just to keep in shape. I feel like I never want to get stuck in a position where when you need somebody with great arms, you call Anthony Mackie. That hasn't been the calling card for my career, and nor do I want it to be.

Anthony Mackie