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

  Kin Hubbard

  Ifs

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• Avoid the traffic by using one of the park's shuttle buses and view the elk rut with a park ranger.

  Dave Barry

  Views, Parks, Elk

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

  Mason Cooley

  Success, Succeed

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• Workers develop routines when they do the same job for a while. They lose their edge, falling into habits not just in what they do but in how they think. Habits turn into routines. Routines into ruts.

  Robert J Kriegel

  Jobs, Fall, Thinking

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• Is it not manifest that our academic institutions should have a wider scope; that they should not be timid and keep the ruts of the last generation, but that wise men thinking for themselves and heartily seeking the good of mankind, and counting the cost of innovation, should dare to arouse the young to a just and heroic life; that the moral nature should be addressed in the school-room, and children should be treated as the high-born candidates of truth and virtue?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Wise, Children

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2005). “The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.51, University of Georgia Press

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• Jesus Christ was the original rock'n'roll star. He gave people reasons to live in the rut they were living in. He was the first man to say, "You don't have to have human sacrifices, 'cause human sacrifices hurt somebody, you know?" Just believe in the spirit that is within you.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Jesus, Hurt, Stars

  Source: jontrott.com

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• The most important role models in people's lives, it seems, aren't superstars or household names. They're "everyday" people who quietly set examples for you-coaches, teachers, parents. People about whom you say to yourself, perhaps not even consciously, "I want to be like that."

  Tim Foley

  Teacher, Names, People

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• Perhaps our most debilitating rut as a culture is a dependence on experts. Until we kick this dependency, how can we rise above the statistics and become a nation of entrepreneurs and leaders? The answer, as challenging as it is, is for entrepreneurs to show us the way, and to keep at it until more of us start to heed.

  Oliver DeMille

  Entrepreneur, Leader, Challenges

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• Grass is the forgiveness of nature-her constant benediction. Fields trampled with battle, saturated with blood, torn with the ruts of cannon, grow green again with grass and carnage is forgotten. Streets abandoned by traffic become grass-grown, like rural lanes and are obliterated. Forests decay, harvests perish, flowers vanish, but grass is immortal.

  John James Ingalls

  Flower, Blood, Battle

  John James Ingalls (1907). “Selections from the Writings of John J. Ingalls”

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• Habit is necessary. It is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive ... one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in the big things, and happy in small ways.

  Edith Wharton

  Past, Long, Intellectual

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.7523, Delphi Classics

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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

  Self, Trying, Needs

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

  Ned Vizzini

  Brain, Stuck, Stuck In A Rut

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• You must be prepared for further efforts of mind and body and further sacrifices to great causes, if you are not to fall back into the rut if inertia, the confusion of aim and the craven fear of being great.

  Winston Churchill

  Fall, Sacrifice, Confusion

  Winston Churchill (1986). “Triumph and Tragedy”, p.672, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Automation and technology don't cure behavioral ruts: they just create new instances of them.

  Kenneth Goldsmith

  Technology, Automation, Cures

  Interview with Dave Mandl, believermag.com. October 1, 2011.

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• I doubt I would have written a line ... unless some minor tragedy had sort of twisted my mind out of the normal rut.

  Roald Dahl

  Doubt, Mind, Tragedy

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• What is interesting and important happens mostly in secret, in places where there is no power. Nothing much of lasting value ever happens at the head table, held together by a familiar rhetoric. Those who already have power continue to glide along the familiar rut they have made for themselves.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Interesting, Secret, Important

  Michael Ondaatje (2011). “The Cat's Table”, p.81, Random House

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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

  Ability

  Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

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

  Bruce McCulloch

  Posters, Enough

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• A rut is a grave with the ends kicked out.

  Earl Nightingale

  Ends, Graves

  Robert C. Worstell, Earl Nightingale (2015). “How to Completely Change Your Life in 30 Seconds”, p.78, Lulu.com

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• 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

  Honesty, Men, Challenges

  David Deida (2008). “The Way of the Superior Man: A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work, and Sexual Desire: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.53, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Some of the most important people in my life would be shocked to learn that they were role models. They weren't celebrities, or even particularly accomplished. But they had some quality that I admired, that made me want to be like them.

  Donn Moomaw

  People, Role Models, Important

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• 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

  Fashion, Successful, Want

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There's a very fine line between a groove and a rut a fine line between eccentrics and people who are just plain nuts.

  Christine Lavin

  Nuts, People, Lines

  Song: Prisoners Of Their Hairdos, Album: Compass, 1991

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• A rut... is little more than a coffin with the ends kicked out.

  James Hunter

  Challenges, Coffins, Littles

  James C. Hunter (2008). “The Servant: A Simple Story About the True Essence of Leadership”, p.54, Crown Business

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• The errors of a wise man are literally more instructive than the truths of a fool. The wise man travels in lofty, far-seeing regions; the fool in low-lying, high-fenced lanes; retracing the footsteps of the former, to discover where he diviated, whole provinces of the universe are laid open to us; in the path of the latter, granting even that he has not deviated at all, little is laid open to us but two wheel-ruts and two hedges.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Wise, Lying, Science

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.4, Cambridge University Press

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