Joy Mangano

If you experience that feeling of being in a rut in your life, then something's not right. A lot of people who feel that way don't take the time to say, 'O.K., well, what am I doing? Is that what I want to be doing? What is it making me feel this way?' You have to identify what specifically is making you feel stuck.

American Inventor

Francesco Quinn

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.

Italian Actor

Kurt Vile

I go through ups and downs in the psyche all the time, and then once you start moving again, it's amazing how you can always bounce back. You get, like, in a low rut, and you think, 'This is it; my life is a train wreck.' And then you bounce back again.

American Musician

Imogen Heap

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.

English Musician

Jessica Stroup

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.

American Actress

Zig Ziglar

Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.

American Author

Hilary Mantel

As a writer, you owe it to yourself not to get stuck in a rut of looking at the world in a certain way.

English Writer

Joyce Meyer

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

Matt Mullenweg

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

American Businessman

Nipsey Russell

I don't want to get in a one-character rut.

American Comedian

Think of 'rut' as a path formed by frequent movement over the same spot.

Repeated Travel

'Rut' often implies damage or inconvenience caused by the repeated pressure.

Negative Impact

Used metaphorically to describe a boring or unchanging situation in someone's life.

Life Monotony

'Rut' suggests that changing the situation is challenging but not impossible.

Change Difficulty

'Rut' describes a specific time when certain animals, like deer, are focused on mating.

Animal Behavior

In the biological context, 'rut' is often seasonal and annual.

Seasonal Occurrence

When used as a verb, 'rut' specifically refers to animals' mating actions.

Mating Activity

Here, 'rut' as a verb means to cause the formation of ruts in an area.

Ground Transformation

 Then I watched it happen. And I have never seen a more energized group of leaders in my life. Really what it does is give people a framework and permission to start attacking things that aren't working. And that's what's energizing to people. They don't know the difference, Adam, between being in a groove and being in a rut.

The creative power of...

 experience and I was telling this to a friend and he said why don't we do that as a circle of friends over a series of dinners we you know in my case is a group of friends who know each other pretty well and we can kind of get into the same rut when we hang out it's great but it was a sort of this

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 I'm going to encourage constructive criticism. I'm going to let you challenge authority. Because it's by challenging the way things are always done is that we are able to break out of the rut that we're in and create innovative solutions to problems of today. We're not always right as leaders.

Steve Keil: A manifesto...

 Those habits served me well. I started to relax more and I started to get good ratings. But just like with goals and identities, the routines that help us today can become the ruts we get trapped in tomorrow. One day, I taught a class on the importance of rethinking,

Adam Grant: What frogs...

 colors even at this time of the day and then there are two impalas who have given up on the ruts they've decided that it's time to be friends with each other again that fighting over ladies is getting them nowhere and so they've decided that they will peaceably feed

Safari Live - Day 154 PIPE...

 I walked out feeling as low as a snake's belly in a wagon rut. And I saw my battalion commander, because I had let him down. And I went up to apologize to him, and he said, "Stanley, I thought you did great." And in one sentence,

Stanley McChrystal:...

 ways all is at peace now amongst the Impala males you can see that they are not shouting at each other they're not going oh oh that's what they do of course in May and that is because the rut is over but what is very interesting

Safari Live - Day 218 PIPE...

 will tell us where he is there is a beautiful one on top of the second rut is happening and these two males on the right hand side two males on the right hand side off scaring all the ladies

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 a few years ago I felt like I was stuck in a rut so I decided to follow in the footsteps of the great American