Quotes About Stagnation

Incompetence can be dreadfully stable.

The fear of criticism stagnates the power of creativity.

Most couples have not had hundreds of arguments; they've had the same argument hundreds of times.

But if the ants are not despondent because they have failed to produce a new social invention or convention in 65 million years, why should we be discouraged because some of our institutions and castes have not been able to evolve a new idea in the past fifty centuries?

And duller shouldst thou be than the fat weedThat rots itself in ease on Lethe wharf.

It turns out I was right. But nothing has come of it.

Before capitalism will go to hell, then, it will for the foreseeable future hang in limbo, dead or about to die from an overdose of itself but still very much around, as nobody will have the power to move its decaying body out of the way.

Revolution today is taken for granted, and in consequence becomes rather dull.

Everything around me was changing so fast—my apartment block, the local shops, the alleys, the roads, the subway lines. Beijing was moving forwards like an express train, but my life was going nowhere. Okay, so I was getting lots of work, but it was all the same. Woman Waiting on the Platform, Lady in Waiting, Bored Waitress. I was only in my twenties, but I felt seventy. I had to do something, ask my brain to start working, so I could match this fast-moving city.

Each leaf had shuddered in the wind on any given yesterday. Each cloud drifting overhead had blown across those skies the year before. Nothing had changed, and nothing could change. The world felt frozen in front of me, like a family photo trapped in a frame. This landscape had imprisoned me since I was born.

The human species does not necessarily move in stages from progress to progress ... history and civilization do not advance in tandem. From the stagnation of Medieval Europe to the decline and chaos in recent times on the mainland of Asia and to the catastrophes of two world wars in the twentieth century, the methods of killing people became increasingly sophisticated. Scientific and technological progress certainly does not imply that humankind as a result becomes more civilized.

That's the trouble," Chambers replied. "You have allowed part of your brain to stagnate for want of use." Within a few minutes, Oswald had scribbled out a list of more than fifty books—philosophical

The problem," observed a tall Indian man sitting next to Serena, "is that we get stuck in our comfort zone, even when it isn't very comfortable.

As new dawns go, this one is depressingly like the old dawn.

I saw myself like a piece of wood floating down a river, suddenly tossed against the shore, caught in a stagnant pool.

A closed conforming society is a sick society waiting to die from stagnation and inner illness. Only openness is the treatment.

He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dulness in others.

He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.

La incondicionalidad no dura demasiado si se tiñe de monotonía

Sólo debemos pensar seriamente en el futuro cuando nos plantamos demasiado tiempo en el mismo lugar

Something changed. Somewhere along the line you stopped accelerating.

Het verschrikkelijke hier is dat ge al de tijd van de wereld hebt en dat z' u niks laten doen.

None of us are changing. Everything is fine. Let's have a picnic.

For us what was killing was how nothing had changed. We'd been waiting to be transformed, and now here we were, back in our old life.