What can break through entrenched, old thought patterns and lead you forward is an inspiring idea, a revelation, that becomes a door-opener to a new direction to take, a new next step in your career, new and expanded opportunities you hadn't seen -- an awakening to the fact that you're capable of accomplishing more with your life than you previously believed.
"There is a deeply entrenched habit of thought," Mr. Kronman said, "which inclines to the view of the Constitution as a piece of very well constructed machinery that can and will answer any intractable problem that we may have -- impeachment, whatever.
Despite all the customary praise of mothers, the devaluation of their work is deeply entrenched in our thought and institutions.
Perhaps, Turing overestimated the rate of progress of technology, or of transformation of deeply entrenched paradigms of thought; but whatever the reason, his prediction about the feasibility of "thinking machines" is yet to come true in an engineering or in a symbolic-semantic sense.
The right to same-sex marriage might not be as firmly entrenched as first thought earlier this year.
Rand knew that the novel challenged moral ideas entrenched in Western thought for over 2,000 years.
Instead of judging the world based on entrenched habits of thought, they were paying attention and listening.
Someone with an eating disorder is usually entrenched in negative thoughts about their weight and body.
The broader point is that much of what you did flew in the face of conventional publishing wisdom, a frame of thought so entrenched, I might add, that even your success hasn't much changed the way that conventional wisdom is applied to the careers of other authors.
Negative patterns of thought can become entrenched, with the ruts getting deeper and deeper.
