Tom Brown Jr. Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

For me, habit is just a synonym for death.

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

Habit is a great deadener.

If you do the same thing too often, it gets to be the only thing you can do.

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

Nobody has ever thought himself to death. The chief danger confronting us is not age. It is laziness, sloth, routine, stupidity, - forcing their way in like wind through the shutters, seeping into the cellar like swamp water.

Everything becomes too normal after a while.

Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy.

The other producer of old age is habit: the deathly process of doing the same thing in the same way at the same hour day after day, first from carelessness, then from inclination, at last from cowardice or inertia. Luckily the inconsequent life is not the only alternative; for caprice is as ruinous as routine. 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.

Experience is a form of paralysis.

Maybe it was inertia -or worse, fear- that was keeping me in the same place.

nothing in life is more corroding than habit.

habit, a particularly insidious thug who chokes passion and smothers love. Habit puts us on autopilot.

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

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

You have to look out for becoming trapped in a place where people want to see you all the time doing one thing.

Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.

But I won't work with the exact same crew film after film because I feel the work would get a little complacent.