Todd Gitlin Quotes

The tendency is to keep doing things the way you have done them.

We always know which is the best road to follow, but we follow only the road that we have become accustomed to.

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

Habit, laziness, and fear conspire to keep us comfortably within the familiar.

You get so used to a world that you complain, but never actually want anything different. Why crave the unfamiliar?

Running through things because you are familiar with them, breeds routine and this is the seed of boredom.

Whatever situation you are in, that is what is normal for you.

Sometimes when you're with the same old people, you get the same old thing.

We walk ourselves into ruts so deep we cannot see over them.

When you do anything for eight or nine years, you start getting a little comfortable; you start taking things for granted.

Being quiet is comfortable. Keeping things the way they've been is comfortable. And all comfort has done is maintain the status quo.

I find I get fixed in my ways if I don't change. I think I take too many things for granted.

When something is working well, it becomes too easy to let things run themselves.

Everything becomes too normal after a while.

We are on Sunday night because that is where they put us 30-odd years ago. I think we became a habit.

The reality is, some people don't want you to change or go anywhere different.

Although we love the idea of choice - our culture almost worships it - we seek refuge in the familiar and the comfortable.

Once you start doing only what you've already proven you can do, you're on the road to death.

If you did the same thing you did yesterday as you did today as you will do tomorrow, what have you done? The same thing.

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

I want to try to keep my life the same.

When people are used to you doing something, they want you to stay in that lane.

Life has a funny way of becoming ordinary as soon as it can.

When we get in a routine we can become zombie-like and shut down.

I guess I'm kind of used to it because it's always been that way for me.