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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

  Path, Resistance, Belief

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Richard Rorty (2008). “The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1933”, p.136, SIU Press

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• There must be people who remember World War II and the Holocaust who can help us get out of this rut.

  Martin Scorsese

  War, People, Holocaust

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• Kids don't have ruts yet that adults have carved into their minds. They're born logical. Crooked thinking has to be taught.

  James P. Hogan

  Children, Kids, Thinking

  James P. Hogan (2007). “The Two Worlds”, p.360, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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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

  Heart, People

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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

  Stupid, Forgiving, Steps

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

  Joyce Meyer

  Motivational, Good Intentions, Never Change

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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. Self-conceit often regards it as a sign of weakness to admit that a belief to which we have once committed ourselves is wrong. We get so identified with an idea that it is literally a pet notion and we rise to its defense and stop our eyes and ears to anything different.

  John Dewey

  Inspirational, Eye, Ideas

  John Dewey (1986). “The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1933”, p.136, SIU Press

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• I had not lived there a week before my feet wore a path from my door to the pond-side; and though it is five or six years since I trod it, it is still quite distinct. It is true, I fear that others may have fallen into it, and so helped to keep it open. The surface of the earth is soft and impressible by the feet of men; and so with the paths which the mind travels. How worn and dusty, then, must be the highways of the world, how deep the ruts of tradition and conformity!

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Doors, Years

  Henry David Thoreau (2010). “Walden”, p.300, Bibliolis Books

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

  Charles Hard Townes

  Thinking, People, Looks

  "Charles H. Townes: What I've Learned" by Scott Carrier, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• ...how deep the ruts of tradition and conformity!

  Henry David Thoreau

  Conformity, Tradition

  Henry David Thoreau (1999). “Uncommon Learning: Thoreau on Education”, p.27, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

  Mongo Beti

  Moving, Old Car, Carts

  Mongo Beti (1978). “Perpetua and the Habit of Unhappiness”, Heinemann Educational Books

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

  James Broughton

  Glory, Abyss

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• As an actor, I think you can get really bad habits, if you do the same thing, every day. You can get stuck in a rut. So, I like jumping between genres, and then taking a break and learning something new. I like feeling like I'm still learning.

  Brie Larson

  Thinking, Learning Something New, Jumping

  Source: collider.com

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• Most of us become so rigidly fixed in the ruts carved out by genetic programming and social conditioning that we ignore the options of choosing any other course of action. Living exclusively by genetic and social instructions is fine as long as everything goes well. But the moment bioloical or social goals are frustrated- which in the long run is inevitable - a person must formulate new goals, and create a new flow activity for himself, or else he will always waste his energies in inner turmoil.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Running, Long, Goal

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2001). “Flow: the psychology of optimal experience”

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• 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

  Thinking, Break Out, Able

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• 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

  Men, Circles, Routine

  Theodor Herzl (1970). “The Jewish state: (Der Judenstaat).”

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• Art, to me is the interpretation of the impression which nature makes upon the eye and brain. The word 'Impressionism' as applied to art has been abused, and in the general acceptance of the term has become perverted. [...] The true impressionism is realism. So many people do not observe. They take the ready-made axioms laid down by others, and walk blindly in a rut without trying to see for themselves.

  Childe Hassam

  Art, Eye, Acceptance

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• 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

  Life, Wine, Cutting

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• Whether or not you have children yourself, you are a parent to the next generation. If we can only stop thinking of children as individual property and think of them as the next generation, then we can realize we all have a role to play.

  Charlotte Sophia Kasl

  Children, Responsibility, Parenting

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• 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

  Hate, Confused, Blessing

  Erwin Raphael McManus (2008). “Wide Awake: The Future Is Waiting Within You”, p.106, Thomas Nelson

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• I tend to do something for two years then move on to something new. Yoga, then biking, then weight lifting, then back to biking. The moment it feels like a rut, I switch and search for a new love. It's like having a midlife crisis, but without the new wife or cheesy BMW.

  Brad Meltzer

  Moving, Yoga, Two

  "Workouts inspire novelist: 'No better place to plot the death of a character'". Interview with David Raterman, www.sun-sentinel.com. February 11, 2013.

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• 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.

  Laurie Anderson

  Artist, Reality, Style

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• 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

  Inspirational, Success, Thinking

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• I'm done with girls on rocks! I've painted them for thirteen years and I could paint them and sell them for thirteen more. That's the peril of the commercial art game. It tempts a man to repeat himself. it's an awful thing to get to be a rubber stamp. I'm quitting my rut now while I'm still able.

  Maxfield Parrish

  Girl, Art, Men

  Maxfield Parrish, Alma Gilbert-Smith, Joyce Stoner, Trust for Museum Exhibitions (2005). “Maxfield Parrish: master of make-believe”, Philip Wilson Publishers

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• The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish, and spirits must flow. There must be courage. There are no easy ruts to get into which lead to happiness. A man must become interesting to himself and must become actually expressive before he can be happy.

  Robert Henri

  Pursuit Of Happiness, Men, Interesting

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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