Quotes About Stagnation

The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions.

Complacency is almost always the product of success or perceived success

Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.

But once you have some success in one style, the business wants to lock you in that vein forever.

Too much success gets you resting on your laurels and creates a kind of quicksand that you can't get out of.

He had reached a dead end. He had been content to drift from moment to moment of existence for thirty years like some heavily armored creature, sluggish and indifferent.

If she doesn't make a move soon, they're all going to pass her by and she'll still be a child, afraid to leave her room, afraid to grow up.

Love could do that to some people and they wouldn't even know much they'd missed out on; they simply remained in the place where love had left them, while the whole world spun around.

She begged for time to stop, for clocks to break, for every star to remain fixed. But none of that happened.

This is what happens when you stay in one place for thirteen years, Anne says. First you own things. Then they own you.

Love could do that to some people, and they wouldn't even know how much they'd missed out on; they simply remained in place where love had left them, while the whole world spun around.

How can I be expected to be trapped for the rest of my life by a man frozen in time?

Repetition – the curse of the old.

Government by committee! Everyone pulling their own way! You can only react, never prepare!

The swamps will run out of flies," said Shudra, "before politicians run out of arguments.

Think of it this way: the input remains the same, so the output has to remain the same. How, then, can you ever create anything new?

most of us are only going in circles.

FEAR THICKENS TIME, TURNS IT slow and viscous.

There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive.

das Maßnehmen is ein altes Vorurteil, das die Schneider doch nicht hindert, jedes neue G'wand zu verpfuschen.

A man can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.

One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.

What we agree with leaves us inactive, but contradiction makes us productive.

Just as iron rusts from disuse, and stagnant water putrefies, or when cold turns to ice, so our intellect wastes unless it is kept in use.