Quotes About Stagnation

Toda relación que no favorezca la expansión del Yo, que impida el crecimiento, aun cuando sea estable y/ o aparentemente gratificadora, encierra el germen de su propia destrucción.

But I say with sorrow that I fear these wooden people, whose view of the world is rigid and unchangeable, who are stupidly self-confident, and have no hesitations, worse than death.

These people's souls are dead: their thoughts are fixed in straight inflexible lines; and they are merciless as only a convinced and stupid man can be.

The middle was where it was too easy to be lazy and cynical at the same time.

Routine can drop you so deep in a hole that you can't dig out, and you can't live in a hole your entire life.

Everything depends on what we would rather do than change.

The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become.

Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.

I know you are reading this poem in a room where too much has happened for you to bear where the bedclothes lie in stagnant coils on the bed and the open valise speaks of flight but you cannot leave yet.

We broke up in '91, but we didn't fade out, we didn't burn ourselves out, we were on pause for 26 years. We stopped at the height, we were No. 1 and we just broke up.

I think the death knell for any musician is getting a job that you like and pays enough that you just stay there forever.

I don't think people change.

Some people say that watching pay freezes in the government is like watching water freeze. It expands.

The world changes materially. Science makes advances in technology and understanding. But the world of humanity doesn't change.

People can be hurt so badly that they choose to just stop in their tracks.

Again, the emphasis of the language warns against regression, for it literally reads, "You have become having need of milk, not solid food."4 They had begun to eat solid food early on but were now back on the bottle. The truth is, there is simply no such thing as a static Christian. We either move forward or fall back. We are either climbing or falling. We are either winning or losing. Static, status quo Christianity is a delusion!

This village is a real trap. Bit by bit it will eat up every single person who remain here. This place will never change.

It's strange,' he said, 'that you always changed everything and I changed nothing and yet we've both ended up in the same place.

he asks herself whether they are running towards something or away from it. If she looks long enough she sees that they are simply running around in circles.

I can't see where there is anywhere left to move. If you don't have a recount it's hard to receive any more votes.

Middle-income wage earners have essentially had no pay increases since 2000.

Economists argue about the relative impact of immigrants versus robots on wage stagnation - voters don't care much. They blame immigrants. It's easier to get mad at a person from Macedonia or Mexico, taking your job than it is to get mad at a piece of technology from Silicon Valley.

If you look at the US economy over the last 15-20 years wages have been stagnating or even declining.

I'm waiting for the candidate who says, 'I'm keeping things exactly the way they are. I like it this way.'