Quotes About Stagnation

In all the useful arts the world is either standing still or going backwards.

Much public thinking follows a rut. The same thing is true in science. People get stuck and don't look in other directions.

What happens to the world when science stops evolving?

In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still.

By effectively proscribing all change from below without placing any restraints on the powers of rulers, such a system arrested normal development and created a situation in which, since absolutist rulers were unlikely agents of social, economic or political development, change could only be brought about by violent revolution.

And now I'm old. That bus is parked permanently. The battery is dead. And I can't remember where I put the jumper cables.

The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.

So this is what it is to be a failure. The chief characteristic may be silence: the phone doesn't ring, he isn't asked out, nothing new happens. For most of his adult life he has conceived of failure in the form of a spectacular catastrophe, only to recognize at last that it has in fact crept up on him imperceptibly through cowardly inaction.

So this is what it is to be a failure. The chief characteristic may be silence: the phone doesn't ring, he isn't asked out, nothing new happens. For must of his adult life he has conceived of failure in the form of a spectacular catastrophe, only to recognize, at last, that it has in fact crept up on him imperceptibly, through cowardly inaction.

impasse implies that we're evenly matched. But we all know that's not true.

Things in rest tend to remain in rest. Things in motion tend to remain in motion." - Practice

Worrying was like sitting in a rocking chair—all that work and no progress.

Twenty-two months had passed without bringing anything fresh and he had stayed there waiting, as if life could not but be specially lenient with him.

Peu à peu, ils ont pris l'habitude d'être au fort, ils y sont restés emprisonnés, ils n'ont plus été capables d'en bouger. Vieux à trente ans, en fait.

hep ayn? suratlar, ayn? söylem, ayn? görev, ayn? ka??tlar.

And, of course, it might simply be that everyone's become a little bored with one another, doing the same things over and over, hearing and telling the same stories.

Smart people sometimes get stupid, but stupid people never get smart. Never. Ever. 'You can come down the evolutionary ladder,' Chon has observed to Ben and O; 'you can't climb up.

Failure in life does not matter; the greatest misfortune is standing still.

The tragedy of life is that people do not change.

Anything can happen in life, especially nothing.

If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

You've got to continue to grow, or you're just like last night's cornbread - stale and dry.

All that running and getting nowhere, he thought. Story of my life.

The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past.