A Quote by Robert Heilbroner

We may make progress only by freeing ourselves from the rut of the past, but without this rut an orderly society would hardly be possible in the first place.

Robert Heilbroner

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Robert Heilbroner
American - Economist
March 24, 1919 - January 4, 2005

Ritualism is nothing more than a rut and the only difference between a rut and a grave is the length and the depth.

Chuck Smith

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

I think that's what's important, to see how we ourselves can become all that we are and can be. Everybody says they want to change, but it's not that simple, it's not that easy. Who's ready to change and give up? Who's ready to get out of their rut and leave it behind, not just pour honey or syrup over their heads and over the rut? Who's ready to change and give up that rut, who's ready willing and able?

Surya Das

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

Vance Havner

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

Vance Havner

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

Arnold Bennett

I've lived an amazing life. There's no reason to focus on the bad. They teach you that in racing school. Keep your eye where you want your front tire to be. You don't want to be stuck in the rut? Then don't look at the rut. Always look at where you want to go.

Francesco Quinn

Were marriage no more than a convenient screen for sexuality, some less cumbersome and costly protection must have been found by this time to replace it. One concludes therefore that people do not marry to cohabit; they cohabit to marry. They do not seek freedom to rut so much as they seek the rut of wedlock.

Virgilia Peterson

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

Guy Finley

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

The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions.

Ellen Glasgow

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

Malin Akerman

Within the university... you can study without waiting for any efficient or immediate result. You may search, just for the sake of searching, and try for the sake of trying. So there is a possibility of what I would call playing. It's perhaps the only place within society where play is possible to such an extent.

Jacques Derrida

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?"