Quotes About Stagnation

There is no visible sign that the current politicians in the US are willing to see the need for change.

I'd earned enough money, I had a flat in Wimbledon, I did some corporate things, but I was really unhappy. After being challenged all my life, suddenly there were no challenges any more.

Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.

You know, I think when you are unemployed, especially for a long time, it's hard to be inspired or hopeful almost about anything. So it's tough, especially when there has been such gridlock here in D.C. You know, when we are fighting and can't get anything done, whether you are liberal or conservative, Democrat or Republican, no one wins.

Some people end up becoming just a conservator of the one thing they did and making sure they get their merch out and all that.

If you do the same thing too often, it gets to be the only thing you can do.

The only thing that's a challenge for me is not working. I get depressed when I'm not in motion.

The problem with the NCAA - it's slow-moving.

The problem with fame is that you get frozen in one frame and nothing you can do can alter the nature.

that would drag on inconclusively for most of the next three centuries.

Quiere imponer su mundo y evitar que haya cambios.

When we define the Photograph as a motionless image, this does not mean only that the figures it represents do not move; it means that they do not (i)emerge(i), do not (i)leave(i): they are anesthetized and fastened down, like butterflies.

The human being cannot live in a condition of emptiness for very long: if he is not growing toward something, he does not merely stagnate; the pent-up potentialities turn into morbidity and despair, and eventually into destructive activities.

The government of the world's most powerful nation is running furiously in place.

they had reached a plateau on which she suffered and he seemed quite content.

Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'.

Stagnant waters are death..change is movement..movement is life..

We're even more dazed than usual. Here we sit, empty, bewildered, contented. We have nothing to talk about, because nothing happens to us anymore, we're too poor, maybe life is sick of us. Why not?

A medida que te quedas en un sitio, las cosas y las personas se van destapando, pudriéndose, y se ponen a apestar a propósito para ti.

Pe m?sur? ce r?mâi într-un loc, lucrurile ÅŸi oamenii se degradeaz?, se stric? ÅŸi încep s? put? anume pentru tine.

When you stay too long in the same place, things and people go to pot on you, they rot and start stinking for your special benefit.

Not making a decision is actually a decision. It's the decision to stay the same.

And no matter how seemingly healthy and spiritually evolved we are, there is still a part of us, however small, that does not want us to exert ourselves, that clings to the old and familiar, fearful of any change or effort, desiring comfort at any cost and absence of pain at any price, even if the penalty be ineffectiveness, stagnation or regression.

Regret isn't like grief; it never lessens, just stays the same. A little hard ball in the pit of your stomach.