The commonest error of politics is sticking to the carcass of dead policies.
I get into a rut, unable to yank my mind out of it.
We are set in our ways, bound by our perspectives and stuck in our thinking.
A lot of people get really stuck in this idea that everything's been done and there's nowhere left to go.
Much public thinking follows a rut. The same thing is true in science. People get stuck and don't look in other directions.
You cannot dig a hole in a different place by digging the same hole deeper
We need to think out of the box rather than just going round and round, beating ourselves up about numbers.
Much like the hands of a clock go nowhere fast, anxious thoughts run us round-and-round without taking us anywhere!
When you sit on something for so long you can't see beyond it. It's all you can see, so you become locked in it.
The people's desires have changed, but we're still stuck in our old issue set.
The hardest thing to believe when you're young is that people will fight to stay in a rut, but not to get out of one.
