Quotes About Stagnation

There's so much in the 21st century that is stymied by bureaucracy and mediocrity and committee.

Sometimes success can bring complacency.

I had some downtime with my career and... I got complacent.

We can all get complacent. Especially when it comes to a job.

Sometimes that Dutch consensus approach doesn't move you forward fast enough.

In America, they never make anything without first having a market survey to ask the public what they want. People only ask for things they already know about, so you don't get anything new that way. That's why American fashion is stuck.

I'd love to work in Argentina but there aren't any possibilities to manage there. The managers always remain the same. They just swap clubs once in a while.

With the world as it now presents itself, there is something perverse, and probably dysfunctional, about a person who stays in the same house for 40 years. What about the expanding family syndrome, the school-lottery migration, the property portfolio neurosis? Have you no imagination?

For me, habit is just a synonym for death.

Europeans, since the days when they began to believe in :progress" and in "evolution," that is to say since a little more than a century ago, profess to see a sign of inferiority in this absence of change, whereas for our part, we look upon it as a balanced condition which Western civilization has failed to achieve.

He's sick." "What with?" "Sitzenlust. Chronic. The opposite of wanderlust.

si las cosas no cambian, mañana estarán igual que hoy".

I kept seeing turning points. First the uprising. Then the creation of the Free Syrian Army, the FSA. Now a big assassination bombing in the heart of Assad's government. But the turn never came. It just got worse and worse.

She was full of yearning. To leave, to be someone else, somewhere else, to start moving and never stop. And yet the more the innermost part of her screamed to move, the more she recognised that she was frozen to one place, one life.

That's the way people is who ain't goin' anyplace in life theirselves. They don't want you goin' anyplace either.

We have a Midas problem. There's no endgame, just a stagnant pyramiding scheme. Endless, pointless prosperity.

Fixing feels like motion, but is not always progress.

Familiarity breeds complacency.

Impression without expression causes depression. Study without service leads to spiritual stagnation.

he was not a person to whom things simply happened. His life had been lived in some kind of neutral gear, he had never broken a limb, never been stung by a bee, never been close to love or death. He had never strived for greatness, and his reward had been a small life.

They were always on the move.But in truth said bull we are all going nowhere

Most people seem to turn off at some point in their lives. Maybe it's thirty or forty. For most people it's lots younger. They stop there. Stop growing or changing or learning or something. From that point on they're dead.

Year after year goes by, and nothing gets better. All we do is argue and debate and procrastinate. Any decent idea is amended to ineffectuality by the time it's gone half-way through the various committees it's obliged to pass through. The few people qualified to know what's what are talked to a standstill by ignorant people all around them.

He put his life on hold as he waited for his life to begin.