Quotes About Stagnation

How fortunate it is for us all that it is somewhat unnatural for a human being to obey. Universal obedience is universal stagnation; disobedience is one of the conditions of progress.

Mathematics has given economics rigor, but alas, also mortis.

Parte del problema, pensó, era la inercia de la costumbre prolongada. Todos los matrimonios, todas las relaciones son susceptibles a ella. La costumbre trae lo predecible, y lo predecible a su vez trae sus propias ventajas; eso también lo percibía

Orthodoxy is a dam that is built by persons who think they have reached the ultimate in human thought, and that there will never be anything as good. They are finding that it is easier to become interested in the dam than in the great current that it is holding back. These

There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.

Because I know that frustration is the child of stagnation. And steady progress is a testimony to my talent.

Living the same week a few thousand times and calling it a life. I need to tell you that too many among us die at thirty and are buried at eighty. So, I do get you. You hoped things would be different. More interesting. More exciting. More fulfilling, special and magical.

Making no decision is a decision. To do nothing. And doing nothing always brings you to nowhere.

My many years of conservative legal world, doing the same things every day with the same people who thought the same thoughts every day had filled my cup to the brim. My wife Jenny was always telling me that we should be meeting new people and exploring new things.

Things never look better in the morning. How could they, when nothing ever changes?

Duelo) No Continuo, sino Inmóvil

Tautology creates a dead, a motionless world.

a thousand years without a bath.

in the recent past, as the pace of change has quickened, the calculus governing the benefits of embracing novelty has been dramatically altered. Today's society bestows rewards as never before upon those who are comfortable with change, and it may punish those who are not, for what used to be the safe terrain of stability is now often a dangerous minefield of stagnation.

Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind. So we must stretch ourselves to the very limits of human possibility. Anything less is a sin against both God and man.

Just as iron which is not used grows rusty, and water putrefies and freezes in the cold, so the mind of which no use is made is spoilt.

Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. - The Queen

And ever since that, the Hatter went on in a mournful tone, He wo'n't do a thing I ask! It's always six o'clock now.

Emperors came and went while bureaucracy continued, as rampant as mould.

The job of a social entrepreneur is to recognize when a part of society is stuck & to provide new ways to get it unstuck.

Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.

Changeless society is characterized by the absense of alternatives.

We may make progress only by freeing ourselves from the rut of the past, but without this rut an orderly society would hardly be possible in the first place.

Activist government overreach and ongoing economic stagnation have shown us why Washington should not try to displace what is best left to civil society.