Theodor W. Adorno Quotes

Mindless habitual behavior is the enemy of innovation.

For me, habit is just a synonym for death.

If you do anything for too long, it starts to lack edge, to become too easy. Easy is the kiss of death.

It's like, you can't have any fun, and if you do have fun, if you do your own thing, you're considered crazy and should be in a mental institution. Now, that's what I find creepy. I'm eccentric. I am not messed up.

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

You're made aware of what the industry is and what you need to conform to; I don't fit that, and I'm never going to.

I have a really, really, really normal family. And by normal I mean we're all nuts on some level. I think you've gotta be a little nuts to pursue any kind of creative job. I was also a really good kid. I know that sounds really dull, but I didn't rebel in the traditional sense.

Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.

As long as you don't make waves, ripples, life seems easy. But that's condemning yourself to impotence and death before you are dead.

Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always.

People are so caught in a routine, doing the same things over and over.

Many of us will endure a lifetime following others. Institutionalisation suits many but not all. Some of us thrive beyond those boundaries.

I haven't got a problem with sheeple calling me crazy. What's sane? What is crazy?

If I do the same thing each year, that feels like I am sat on a shelf, and mentally that wouldn't be wise.

I love the idea of challenging what the standards is.

It is the leisured, I have noticed, who rebel the most at an interruption of routine.

Everything becomes too normal after a while.

If perfect's what you're searching for, then just stay the same.

Beware the mediocrity that threatens middle age, its limitation of thought and interest, its dullness of fancy, its too external life, and mental thinness.

If you don't keep pushing the limits, you wake up one day and you're the "center square to block."

All art is based on non-conformity.

A monster which devours everything - that is familiarity.

We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener.

You have been second always. Tragical? No. You preferred it to the usual thing: One dull man, dulling and uxorious, One average mind- with one thought less, each year.

Everything was leveled, there were no extremes of joy or sorrow any more but only habit, routine, ancient family names and rites and customs, slow careful old people moving cautiously around furniture that had sat in the same positions for fifty years.