Quotes About Stagnation

Babadag, de nouveau, comme il y a deux ans : le car fait un arrêt de dix minutes, le chauffeur s'éclipse, la marmaille fait la manche sans conviction dans la chaleur torride de midi, rien n'a changé. Seuls les billets de mille lei avec Eminescu ont disparu, remplacés désormais par de petits ronds en aluminium représentant Constantin Brâncoveanu. (p. 308)

Brains are like sponges... If allowed to remain moist for too long they become moldy.

I am getting nowhere with you and I can't let you go and I cant get through.

It seemed to her that the dullness and the boredom of her childhood, her youth, were stored here in the room under the worn dusty red rugs, in the bloated brassware, amongst the dried grasses in the swollen vases, behind the yellowed photographs in the oval frames-everything, everything that she had so hated as a child and that was still preserved here as if this were the storeroom of some dull, uninviting provincial museum.

Old Delhi does not change. It only decays. My students tell me it is a great cemetery, every house a tomb. Nothing but sleeping graves. Now [i]New[/i] Delhi, they say is different. That is where things happen. The way they describe it, it sounds like a nest of fleas. So much happens there, it must be a jumping place. I never go. Baba never goes. And here, here nothing happens at all.

Old Delhi does not change. It only decays. My students tell me it is a great cemetery, every house a tomb. Nothing but sleeping graves. Now New Delhi, they say is different. That is where things happen. The way they describe it, it sounds like a nest of fleas. So much happens there, it must be a jumping place. I never go. Baba never goes. And here, here nothing happens at all.

I sense very little appetite for green efforts to persuade people to accept a frozen or declining standard of living for the sake of the environment. Recessions remind us that economic retreat or stagnation is painful, whatever the goal.

I could keep trying to do the same kind of comedies. You know how it's going to go, and you can get an audience with it, but then I feel like a hamster on a wheel.

I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.

Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it's no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.

While ignoring your bad habits may help you feel good initially, that avoidance will eventually catch up to you. When you don't address the unproductive and unhealthy things you're doing alongside your good habits, you'll stagnate.

The reason I like 'Breaking Bad,' which is still probably my favorite show, is Walter White. You watch him transform, and that's so fascinating. And I think. a lot of TV shows that aren't successful, it's because the characters become stagnant.

We can prevent Europe from becoming a spiritless machine that, in the end, grinds to a halt.

More of the same will just produce more of the same: less competitiveness, less growth, fewer jobs.

A lot of artists who have a certain style are expected to more or less keep doing their style. It's so easy to get into that rut of production.

The only direction Obama has the economy moving is backward.

The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine.

They have had three years to get a resolution and they failed. Both of these guys have failed.

The problem is that there are very few technologies that essentially haven't changed for 60, 70 years.

Like many other people of my generation, I don't think I ever really bothered to grow up. I wasn't ever really a proper teenager until I was about 19, and maybe I got a bit stuck there, because it seemed to go on and on.

A lot of parts on television are static. Nothing really changes.

It's hard to be happy when you are facing 120 to 140 degree temperatures and nothing seems to be moving in a direction that you think or they think or you've been told it's supposed to be moving in.

He hated to think of his own life stretching ahead of him that way, a long succession of days and nights that were fine - not good, not bad, not great, not lousy, not exciting, not anything.

Jean Behra, the French driver, said: "Only those who do not move, do not die; but are they not already dead?