In A Rut Quotes

#1. To keeping silence I resigned My friends would think I was a nut Turning water into wine Open doors would soon be shut So I went from day to day Though my life was in a rut 'Til I thought of what I'd say Which connection I should cut

Peter Gabriel

#2. It's easy to fall into a funk and not want to exercise, or to really want that second piece of chocolate cake. I have to say, I fight against those feelings all year. But I try not to let myself sit in a rut like that.

Jojo

#3. Well, that's what I still think, but I am in a rut at work--I hate my job,' I said, allowing my emotions to find words.

Luke Lively

#4. You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Kin Hubbard

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

Vance Havner

#6. Mainly, what I like to do is keep things varied and not get in a rut, not tell the same stories over and over.

Kurt Busiek

#7. We have a choice to move ahead or allow ourselves to stay stuck in a rut.

Lisa A. Mininni

#8. One needs to constantly read up, practice and work, irrespective of your profession. If I feel as an actor that I know everything, then how will I to grow? How will I improve? I'll be stuck in a rut, and eventually I'll grow complacent.

Sonam Kapoor

#9. 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

#10. I get so fed up with the making of an album taking over my life - it's all I can think about or talk about. You find yourself in a rut and lacking inspiration and it's hard to get out of that because I'm working alone in the studio.

Imogen Heap

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

Laura Osnes

#12. The shadow demons (fears) you've been avoiding keep you stuck in a rut, a prisoner in your own life - it's time to break free and shine!

Sharon Kirstin

#13. Not to improve is fatal. Organizations who fail to respond to changes in the marketplace become stuck in a rut of product focused production with an ever shrinking market and the only difference between a rut and a grave is the depth.

Robin Byrne

#14. Dinner is leftover spaghetti, with meat sauce, warmed up in the microwave. I eat spaghetti nine times a week, every week, and it is my favorite food. And yet, tonight, I wonder if I'm in a rut.

Craig Lancaster

#15. There are those who would misteach us that to stick in a rut is consistency - and a virtue, and that to climb out of the rut is inconsistency - and a vice.

Mark Twain

#16. I think a lot of us are not on a path; we're in a rut. We have confused comfort with peace, belief with faith, safety with wisdom, wealth with blessing, and existence with life.

Erwin McManus

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

Bruce McCulloch

#18. I actually plan to mess up my life and start over every seven years. That way, I'll never get in a rut. I read somewhere that most of your cells only live about seven years anyway, so in theory you literally are a new person; I figure that's the best time to start over.

Jody Gehrman

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

Arnold Bennett

#20. Television and cable have become the new independent films, in a sense, for writers and actors to gravitate towards. That's why I like short films, too; I love doing readings, audio books, working with young filmmakers; anything that keeps you from getting blase about yourself or in a rut.

Campbell Scott

#21. 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 stick in a rut.

Mark Twain

#22. Do you feel bored and stuck in a rut? Is work drudgery? If so, you are spending far too much time bemoaning your fate and how the universe is not cooperating with your desires. Be present with and in your current situation.

Srikumar Rao

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

Ozzy Osbourne

#24. Someone once told me the difference between a rut and a grave is this: a rut has a little more room to move around. When I find myself in a rut, I know I better get out fast before it becomes a grave.

Regina Brett

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

Malin Akerman

#26. When we are stuck in a rut we are being invited to grow and expand.

Dana Arcuri

#27. I think many of us live in a rut. Stuck in a groove we can't get out of, whether it's our job, family drama or the little frustrations of everyday life.

Brian Pinkerton

#28. And who you are isn't already cast in everyone's eyes. No one knows what to expect from you. Some would say society's in a rut. Stagnant. By virtue of being new, you have the power to shake us out of that.

Jodi Meadows

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

Lefty Gomez

#30. Occasionally, if I'm in a rut, I find changing location helps.

Matt Mullenweg

#31. Let's get busy. Get up! Stop living an average life. Stop living in a rut. Get ready for a new way to walk and talk. Taller, louder, prouder and thoroughly convinced that you have enough hope in your life to give some away.

J. Loren Norris

#32. 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.

Michelle Kwan

#33. When you're in a rut, you have to question everything except your ability to get out of it.

Twyla Tharp

#34. 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

#35. 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

#36. They grow stiff in the joints. They get in a rut. They go to seed.

James A. Garfield

#37. We're both in a rut. And when two people have the different open wounds, they can relate and try to heal each other. Maybe it'll be the same for Kayla and me. It'll be a long a run, but we might as well try.

Simi Sunny

#38. She was a rut in the road. Plenty of life beneath the surface but it was kept beaten down by the wheels.

Zora Neale Hurston

#39. In a mask we are faceless and classless, ageless and anonymous. Masks reveal the primal urge to behave like the beast in rut that leaps on the stranger or waits in the penumbra to be leapt upon.

Chloe Thurlow

#40. When you don't feel healthy, stop the excuses and do something. Just go outside, walk, breathe. Life's too short to fall into a rut. You are in charge of you - treat yourself well, and it'll show.

Jessica Stroup

#41. But there was a difference between being stuck and choosing to stay. Between being found and finding yourself.

Martina Boone

#42. 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.

Josh Lucas

#43. It's hotter than a snake's ass in a wagon rut

Robin Williams

#44. One of my biggest fears is not being able to break out of a rut; of becoming a prisoner to my ways, unable to change course. But in my mid-thirties, I learned you can change your thinking.

Matt Dillon

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

Guy Finley

#46. PLEASE don't ever think that you can't get out of the rut you may be in or think you can't take your life to a whole new level.. Anything is possible when you have a path, a plan and a desire to take action..

Dean Graziosi

#47. If you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always got.

Albert Einstein

#48. Staying locked into an image of how things are supposed to be can blind us to the grace of what is.

Elaine Orabona Foster

#49. Your close men friends should be willing to challenge your mediocrity by suggesting a concrete action you can perform that will pop you out of your rut, one way or the other. And you must be willing to offer them your brutal honesty, in the same way, if you are all to grow.

David Deida

#50. ... it's important to have something going on somewhere, at work or at home, otherwise you're just clinging on.

Nick Hornby

#51. The first act is the easiest to plot. The second act is always the hardest to plot. Generally a good, you know, sometimes the third act can be difficult because you can get into a rut in the third act - everybody runs to their Corvette, has a chase, and you catch the bad guy.

Stephen J. Cannell

#52. What does 'stuck' mean?" "It means I should make some big decision, I should do some enormous thing. And I can't do anything. I can't stand my life, and I can't change it." "Maybe it's not an enormous thing," he says. "Maybe you have to do one small thing and then another small thing.

A.M. Homes

#53. Realists are, as a rule, only men in the rut of routine who are incapable of transcending a narrow circle of antiquated notions.

Theodor Herzl

#54. Never not dare to hang yourself. That's the only way you grow in your profession. You must continually attempt things that you think are beyond you, or you get into a complete rut.

Charles Laughton

#55. He and Harmony had been wed a week now, and still the briefest glance at his wife awakened the savage in him. The smallest movement or casual touch made him want to rip off her clothes and press her back on the table and rut on her wildly. His mother would not have approved.

Annabel Joseph

#56. Much public thinking follows a rut. The same thing is true in science. People get stuck and don't look in other directions.

Charles H. Townes

#57. Lack of ownership over your anger can incorrectly absolve you of all responsibility and so keep you stuck in the anger.

Sam Owen

#58. A wife is meant to be cherished and to be treated with a gentle hand, while a mistress is a convenient cunt to rut in.

Sylvia Day

#59. 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

#60. 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

#61. 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