Quotes About Stagnation

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing and be nothing.

ONA se ose?a isklju?eno iz svega, jer je isklju?ena iz svega. Drugi idu dalje, ?ak se i penju preko nje. Tako malu prepreku predstavlja ona. Putnik odlazi, ali ona ostaje, kao mastan papir od sendvi?a, da leži na putu, u najboljem slu?aju malo vijori na vetru. Papir ne može daleko, on truli na licu mesta. To truljenje zahteva godine, godine bez promena.

I was overcome by a sense of how much more there was in his life than in mine, by the things to do and distances to travel, while I never had done anything or gone anywhere, and never would.

A dead monkey, still whole, still undecomposed, drifted back and forth with a certain precision upon those ripples and eddies without exit. . . . There we were: Ready to go and not going.

Silas was tired of living in a world where everyone and everything held its breath.

Civilizations in decline are consistently characterised by a tendency towards standardization and uniformity.

[History is] petrified imagination.

So here's the question: Without a change in leadership, why would the next four years be any different from the last four years?

If there's not any endgame, we're in quicksand. We take one more step, and we're still there, and there's no way out.

Of course, the EU is not going to fall apart, but at best it will stagnate for the foreseeable future and we will be dealing with quite a lot of internal chaos.

I am bored of the 'Gangs of Wasseypur' image.

If you do generic things, you know, after a while, brands or designers become stagnated.

endless action and reaction. Those beautifully rounded pebbles which you gather on the sand and which you hold in your hand and marvel at their exceeding smoothness, were chiseled into their varies and graceful forms by the ceaseless action of countless waves. Nature is herself a great worker and never tolerates, without certain rebuke, any contradiction to her wise example. Inaction is followed by stagnation. Stagnation is followed by pestilence and pestilence is followed by death.

Inaction is followed by stagnation. Stagnation is followed by pestilence and pestilence is followed by death.

The sedentary life...is the real sin against the holy spirit.

The fight is always the same within the Democratic Party, isn't it? The more things change, the more they stay the same.

A society should never become like a pond with stagnant water, without movement. That's the most important thing.

There's a theory about fame: the moment it strikes, it arrests development. Michael Jackson remained suspended in childhood, enjoying sleepovers and funfairs; Winona Ryder, an errant teen who dabbled in shoplifting and experimented with pills; George Clooney, a 30-year-old commitment-phobe, never quite ready yet to settle down.

To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.

I like to complain and do nothing to make things better.

There are some people who the same things happen to them again and again. They never learn.

Fear stifles our thinking and actions. It creates indecisiveness that results in stagnation. I have known talented people who procrastinate indefinitely rather than risk failure. Lost opportunities cause erosion of confidence, and the downward spiral begins.

After I did the first Die Hard I said I'd never do another, same after I did the second one and the third. The whole genre was running itself into the ground.