Quotes About Stagnation

Between the great things we cannot do and the small things we will not do, the danger is that we shall do nothing.

The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chance of disillusionment.

It is easy to stay the same but it is not easy to change. Most people choose to stay the same all their lives.

Just as iron rusts from disuse... even so does inaction spoil the intellect.

Unless you move, the place where you are is the place where you will always be.

Many a false step was made by standing still.

What we agree with leaves us inactive, but contradiction makes us productive.

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

The world is moving at a slow pace. Each day I get up and I feel the world must have moved ahead far but, unfortunately, it remains at the same point each day.

The House Republican leadership has simply run out of ideas.

This real world sounds like an awfully depressing place to live. It's a place where new ideas, unfamiliar approaches, and foreign concepts always lose. The only things that win are what people already know and do, even if those things are flawed and inefficient.

After twenty years of systematic observation I've decided the most common mistake is for one to get stuck on the "plains of hesitation." The plains of hesitation are a metaphorical place where the best laid plans and good intentions expire.

Cuántos ratos eternos tendrá en que no sabrá cómo ayudar a avanzar el tiempo'

nos detiene a veces lo que no nos importa—

Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it's no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing. Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don't let the fear rise up into your mind.

The taste of the usual was like cinders in his mouth, and there were moments when he felt as if he were being buried alive under his future.

Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.

To me the only death is monotony.

To me the only death is monotony. I always say to Ellen: Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.

But Archer had found himself held fast by habit, by memories, by a sudden startled shrinking from new things. Now, as he reviewed his past, he saw into what a deep rut he had sunk.

Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.

He hasn't written a line for twenty years. A line of what? What kind of literature can one keep corked up for twenty years? Wade surprised him. The real kind, I should say.

Now, as he reviewed his past, he saw into what a deep rut he had sunk. The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.

The next two or three days dragged by heavily. The taste of the usual was like cinders in his mouth, and there were moments when he felt as if he were being buried alive under his future.