Maurice Strong Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

Sometimes we get comfortable with the status quo, even when the status quo isn’t any good.

Being quiet is comfortable. Keeping things the way they've been is comfortable. And all comfort has done is maintain the status quo.

I stick to what got me here and what I know best. That's the same routine. I'm not going to vary it.

I'm creature of habit.

It is always wiser, where there is a choice, to trust inertia. It is the greatest force in the world.

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

Although we love the idea of choice - our culture almost worships it - we seek refuge in the familiar and the comfortable.

You get so used to a world that you complain, but never actually want anything different. Why crave the unfamiliar?

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.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is.

When people are used to you doing something, they want you to stay in that lane.

For me, habit is just a synonym for death.

I'm very much a creature of habit.

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

Jay Leno is not a guy who likes change. He eats the same food every day.

Habit is a great deadener.

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

Sometimes when you're with the same old people, you get the same old thing.

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