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Quotes About Stagnancy

The only thing redeeming about my being born a Bengali is being brought up reading Rabindranath and Saratchandra. Other than that, the stagnancy of this city put me off all along.
~ Sayani Gupta
Just like water in an aquarium, a mind left to stagnate brings forth death to whichever life that dwells within it
~ Ahmed Korayem
I remember laughing with relief that the same old adolescent boredom goes on from generation to generation. ...the words took me back to my own years of stagnancy, and that terrible waiting for life to begin. [p. 68]
~ Julian Barnes
No hope no action.
~ Peter Levi
In 'Taxi,' I kept doing the same scene for three years. I was underused.
~ Jeff Conaway
İnsan bir yerde tak?l?p kald?kça, nesneler ve insanlar iyice yozla??yorlar, çürüyorlar ve s?rf sizin hat?r?n?za leÅŸ gibi kokmaya baÅŸl?yorlar.
~ Louis Ferdinand Céline
A medida que te quedas en un sitio, las cosas y las personas se van destapando, pudriéndose, y se ponen a apestar a propósito para ti.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Boredom is restlessness of the soul. It is an internal message reminding you that you're better than the stagnancy you've settled for.
~ Steve Maraboli
Toxically shamed people tend to become more and more stagnant as life goes on. They live in a guarded, secretive and defensive way. They try to be more than human (perfect and controlling) or less than human (losing interest in life or stagnated in some addictive behavior).
~ John Bradshaw
doldrums, not only did prices continue to decline
~ John Brooks
I've lived all these years among those who create nothing and change nothing,' I said. 'Actors and musicians-they're saints to me.
~ Anne Rice
For years, I lived a life in which nothing really happened.
~ Elton John
To ask the power to reform itself, what a dullness!
~ Giordano Bruno
Nos aferramos al pasado -dijo-, a lo antiguo, porque tenemos miedo. [...] Nuestras vidas se estancan, se vuelven rancias. Nos da miedo todo lo nuevo, todo cuanto podría ayudarnos a crecer, a cambiar.
~ Hanif Kureishi
Those who grow, live and die. The stagnant pool is immortal, while the clear flowing river dies an uncountable number of deaths.
~ F. C. Yee
I just sat there with the whole summer turning sour in my mouth.
~ Sylvia Plath
Ah, the painful truth: Fate was a cosmic toilet. It was the nature of the universe to flush sluggish things that failed to exercise free will. Stasis was stagnancy. Change was velocity. Fate—a sniper that preferred a motionless target to a dancing one.
~ Karen Marie Moning
By now he had stared at the window through a late summer so hot and wet that the air both day and night felt like breathing through a dishrag, so damp it caused fresh sheets to sour under him and tiny black mushrooms to grow overnight from the limp pages of the book on his bedside table. Inman suspected that after such long examination, the grey window had finally said all it had to say.
~ Charles Frazier
Absolutely nothing was happening in my marriage. I nicknamed my waterbed, Lake Placid!
~ Phyllis Diller
Having a routine that bordered on stagnancy had its benefits.
~ Clive Barker
It is the ship at the wharf, not the ship at sea, that rots fastest;—the
~ Orison Swett Marden
I haven't stopped writing which is good. I'm scared to stop completely otherwise it might lead to stagnancy.
~ Kimbra
La posición es un buen lugar por el que comenzar en el liderazgo, pero es un lugar terrible donde quedarse.
~ John C. Maxwell