Quotes About Stagnation

To some, the '50s were a decade marked by the banal, the predictable.

You can stay in situations just for the sake of it. That can be a very dangerous thing and tough on your soul and heart.

Architecture, by definition, is always standing still.

The Democrats in particular are do-nothing guys.

In 'Taxi,' I kept doing the same scene for three years. I was underused.

Floggings will continue until apathy improves! (Apathy-improves?) How is one to be, more, apathetic!!

Socialism inevitably produces stagnation, corruption and often worse—such as authoritarian government officials who often have an increasing ability to interfere with both the economy and individual lives—which they frequently do to maintain power," he wrote, adding that socialism would be "a disaster for our country.

The law of change says, "Things do not stay the same. If they don't get better, they get worse." If relationships do not get stronger, they will get weaker; if they do not become closer, they will become more distant; if they do not become more productive, they will become less productive.

Feeling bored and restless, our minds shut off and we become increasingly passive.

In the Borderlands, her people had a saying: "Only the Dark One stays the same." Men grew and progressed; the Shadow just remained as it was. Evil.

Balanced people go nowhere. They stay in one spot.

Your mind was already thinking ahead to what you would do when the cover plate was off, and so it takes a little time to realize that this irritating minor annoyance of a torn screw slot isn't just irritating and minor. You're stuck. Stopped. Terminated. It's absolutely stopped you from fixing the motorcycle. This isn't a rare scene in science or technology. This is the commonest scene of all. Just plain stuck.

What is perceptible to one's mistrust is the cut-and-dried way that life is divided up and the ready-made form it assumes, the ever-recurring sameness of it, the pre-formations passed down by generation after generation, the ready-made language not only of the tongue but also of the sensations and the feelings.

Only I thought that the Rip Van Winkle story was all wrong. You went to sleep for a long time, and when you woke up nothing whatsoever had changed. No matter how long you slept, it was the same.

They work harder but don't get ahead.

in a flat market that is moving sideways.

En cuanto la gente cae presa del inacabable proceso de pagar cuentas, se convierten en algo como los hamsters que corren en las ruedas de metal. Sus peludas patitas corren con furia, la rueda gira sin parar pero, a la mañana siguiente, seguirán en la misma jaula. Qué gran trabajo.

My work does not seem to go anywhere

Hayal kurman?n en kötü yan?, durmak zorunda kalman?z. Bu insan?n can?n? çok yak?yor.

And so the result of several years of Everybody Shareskyism, other than slaughtering people, is for everybody to stand around and stare blankly at each other.

you are not dead, but you are not alive.

You're not dead, but you're not alive, either. You're a winter girl

A lot of our entertainment throws into detail the stagnation and illness of how we live today-it's sad and it's sick... and it's profitable.

Normal science does not aim at novelties of fact or theory and, when successful, finds none.