Roderick MacKinnon Quotes

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

Human inertia makes the everyday environment, the furniture, as it were, appear to be a given.

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.

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.'

In success there's a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.

A man's work is in danger of deteriorating when he thinks he has found the one best formula for doing it. If he thinks that, he is likely to feel that all he needs is merely to go on repeating himself . . . so long as a person is searching for better ways of doing his work, he is fairly safe.

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

At some point, life starts to pass you by and becomes about avoidance. I want to stay clear from that situation, because I don't like that.

Habits change into character.

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

To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.

For some reason, I like to put myself in situations where I don't even know how I ended up there. I never want to be complacent or comfortable in a role.

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

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

Throughout my years in business, I discovered something. I would always ask why you do things. The answers that I would invariably get are: 'Oh, that's just the way things are done around here.' Nobody knows why they do what they do. Nobody thinks very deeply about things in business.

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.

As we get older, people close down. We get less adaptive, less flexible - literally. Curiosity can diminish, and you want safety. You want what you know.

My 'if it's not broken, don't fix it' type attitude might have held me back and made me complacent.

Staying consistent with positive habits can be a challenge.

I will not change. Because if you are successful and you change, you are an idiot.

#1 Never Get Used to Anything.

You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine.

No one should let themselves get used to anything.

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.