Quotes About Stagnation

For him life has to go the certain way, otherwise he's not interested.

I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.

nothing in life is more corroding than habit.

I didn't want to spend the rest of my life playing Norma Desmond over and over again.

I think that people get to a certain point in their life and they think that nothing can change.

There's a deep-freeze of sorts for all good intentions - a place that you store your plans to make changes in your life when you know you're not going to make them at all.

How am I supposed to move forward in life when everything important to me is motionless?

Can you imagine what it would be like to know that your life was just going to be a series of days that were all the same, that were do-overs?

A heart grows flat and stale from too much thinking.

...as we mature, we begin to realize that life in the Box remains the same, with few deviations from this norm.

Change leads to growth. Resistance leads to rigidity. Rigidity leads to ...

After that, we were like flies stuck in honey, alive but not really living.

He found himself inhabiting the vast, empty plateau where most people live, between boredom and contentment.

My feet, " said Montag. "I can't move them. I feel so damn silly. My feet won't

Soundless echoes - no voice, Sadness doth keep thee at bay, Stagnation rises as ebb & flow, Nothing alters, Unless you choose to break away.

I don't know why I bother arguing with anybody sometimes, it never changes a damn thing.

The great danger of maturation is calcification.

Growth is the only evidence of life. The opposite is true, too. Stagnation is the first step to your grave.

You're hurt because everything is changed. Jimmy is hurt because everything is the same. And neither of you can face it. Something's gone wrong somewhere, hasn't it?

Acceleration stalled

every fork in the road Nasser went left, Al-Sadat went right, and Mubarak says, "Don't move.

Consistency is the quality of a stagnant mind.

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

Bureaucratic entropy' was