Charles Kelley Quotes

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

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

Habit is a great deadener.

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

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.

The cafes bore me; going downstairs is a nuisance. Painting and sleeping - that's all there is.

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

Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.

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

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

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

I feel like I could be likened to an old hound circling on a rug for the last five years.

I will do as I usually do. Tomorrow is going to be a day like any other day.

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

Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.

Everything becomes too normal after a while.

The mind becomes accustomed to things by the habitual sight of them, and neither wonders nor inquires about the reasons for things it sees all the time.

So fixed are our spirits in slothfulness and cold indifference that we seldom overcome so much as one evil habit.

When you do not change up a lot, people may know you a lot better than they should.

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

Familiarity breeds attempt.

I could keep trying to do the same kind of comedies. You know how it's going to go, and you can get an audience with it, but then I feel like a hamster on a wheel.

It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.

Indifference may not wreck a man's life at any one turn, but it will destroy him with a kind of dry-rot in the long run.

Ordinary men live among marvels and feel no wonder, grow familiar with objects and learn nothing new about them.