Top 1200 Stuck In A Rut Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

If I had had to struggle at the beginning like most actors... I'd never have stuck it out. But having such complete success at the beginning, I was stuck with being an actor for life.

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.

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

Clutter is stuck energy. The word "clutter" derives from the Middle English word "clotter," which means to coagulate - and that's about as stuck as you can get.

One of the secrets to happiness is knowing when to take chances. If you don't, the odds are that you will fall into a rut.

Those movies sure got me into a rut.

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.

If you feel like you're getting into a rut with a song, a night off usually fixes it.

I need to eat a large meal before I play, and the one thing that was kind of consistent in every single clubhouse at least in the minors was a roast beef sandwich. So that kind of stuck there, and it just kind of stuck in the big leagues as well.

Sure, you can choose the safety and predictability of the cage, forfeiting the adventure God has destined for you. But you won't be the only one missing out or losing out. When you lack the courage to chase the Wild Goose, the opportunity costs are staggering. Who might not hear about the love of God if you don't seize the opportunity to tell them? Who might be stuck in poverty, stuck in ignorance, stuck in pain if you're not there to help free them? Where might the advance of God's kingdom in the world stall out because you weren't there on the front lines?

Things rarely get stuck because of lack of time. They get stuck because the doing of them has not been defined.

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

You can get a rut where you think you need to create something that sounds like a certain thing - especially with pop music.

It's time for us to rise up, get out of the rut and routine, and begin to take our Christian faith seriously.

If you wanna get out of a rut bad enough, it'll always happen. It's up to you, though. No one else is ever gonna do it for you.

I find that even small changes sometimes jog you out of a mental rut.

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

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.

I must do something to keep my thoughts fresh and growing. I dread nothing so much as falling into a rut and feeling myself becoming a fossil.

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

There is something therapeutic about doing for others that lifts a person out of the rut of self-thought.

Mainstream Bollywood music has fallen into some sort of a rut where melody, which was very important 'till the '90s, is out of favor.

So easy to fall into a rut, isn't it? Why should ruts be so comfortable and so unpopular?

Whats 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.

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

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

I was at rock bottom for a year and a half - and the people who got me out of my rut were my fans.

I feel like im in this river just getting swept along... And if I hold on to anyone, if I'm holding on for dear life, I'm not getting anywhere. I'm stuck. ...I never wanted to get stuck

This is not my phrase, but if you're stuck in the past, then you're depressed. If you're stuck in the future, then you're anxious.

More often than not I've found, a rut is a consequence of sticking to tried and tested methods that don't take into account how you or the world has changed.

...one of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.

Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.

We can learn from past failures and mistakes, but we shouldn't get stuck there. We can keep future goals in mind, but we shouldn't get stuck there, either. The only way to reach our potential is to focus on what we must do now - this moment, this day - to perform effectively and win.

It's very easy to fall into a rut where you're just making things that you don't believe in for other people.

There's a wonderful adage in acting that you're stuck with the character, but the character is also stuck with you.

Leo felt trapped. He’d once been stuck in a cave on top of Pikes Peak, surrounded by a pack of werewolves. Another time he’d been stuck in an abandoned factory with a family of evil Cyclopes. But this — standing in an open clearing with a dozen pretty girls — was much worse.

If I had had to struggle at the beginning like most actors... Id never have stuck it out. But having such complete success at the beginning, I was stuck with being an actor for life.

For years, I was stuck behind a keyboard rig. When I started playing guitar onstage, it was a bit of a release - not to be stuck in one spot the whole night. It's really enjoyable having the freedom to move around. You just have to remember to end up somewhere near a microphone.

I had a mom and a pop who kept telling me that I was wonderful at a very early age. So when someone said to me, "Oh, you're stuck up. Who do you think you are?" I'd say, "I know who I am, and I don't mind being stuck up".

To be an entertainer, you gotta be a little gutsy, a little egotistical, so you have to pull back sometimes when people say, 'Well, he's stuck-up.' 'Stuck-up' is only another word for self-conscious.

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.

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

Young people are more likely to be idealistic and think that radical change is both necessary and possible. They may not yet be stuck in the routinized and sterile life that work and age often bring, nor stuck in any kind of rigid way of thinking. They have great energy and can get things done.

I can't sleep. There is a woman stuck between my eyelids. I would tell her to get out if I could. But there is a woman stuck in my throat

We're all addicted to sort of the habits of our lives. And we get stuck, and sometimes we'll get stuck because we had traumas that we don't want to remember.

You know, it was uncomfortable doing the same thing. I don't like a rut.

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

Whenever I'm really stuck, when I really need to go 'in there,' I sing the Chalisa and that connects me to Maharajji, to Hanuman, to that powerful presence that's deeper than any of that stuff. And, by touching that, I'm able to overcome whatever I'm stuck in...at least for 10 minutes.

Working is bad enough in the winter, but in the summer it can become completely intolerable. Stuck in airless offices, every fibre of our being seems to cry out for freedom. We're reminded of being stuck in double maths while the birds sing outside.

The worst part about getting in a rut in football is the weeks are so long.

There are still many different ways to get stuck, existentially stuck. Feeling like, "This is worthless. I'm wasting my time, and I would be wasting the time of someone who tried to read this." It happens all the time.

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

I've never used my weight to get a laugh. That is, used my size as the subject for humor. You never saw me stuck in a door-way or stuck in a chair.

I think I had a tendency to get stuck inside my head and go to some very dark places in my mind, and get stuck there. I couldn't see a way to get out.

I was a bit of a dozy kid, so everyone just started calling me Susie Bubble and it stuck. Style Bubble is sort of like being stuck inside the style side of my brain. That doesn't sound very appealing, does it?

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

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

I think what's really important is to challenge yourself. You can very easily fall into the rut of, 'We know it works! We'll use that old chestnut.'

[All governments] get into a rut where every potentially good story turns into a bad one.

Criticism is like many other things, it drags along after what has already been said and doesn't get out of its rut.