Paulo Coelho Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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

Everything becomes too normal after a while.

Those who don't want to change, let them sleep.

Those who are truly decrepit, living corpses, so to speak, are the middle-aged, middle-class men and woman who are stuck in their comfortable grooves and imagine that the status quo will least forever or else are so frightened it won't, that they have retreated into their mental bomb shelters to wait it out.

I think some fans want everything to stay they same because they want to stay the same.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Habit is a great deadener.

People are very open-minded about new things - as long as they're exactly like the old ones.

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

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

You're not going to reinvent the wheel every time you go out, because that would disappoint the audience.