Quotes About Stagnation

Tradition:' one of those words conservative people use as a shortcut to thinking.

It is very easy to never fall down: Just don't ever do anything.

Routine and predictable days are the breeding grounds for complacency.

In the streets you saw people frozen in their cars, suffocated to death.

Living the same things every day is stressful, knowing that there is a possibility of change and not being able to is depressing".

So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him.

I can best describe our state as a form of lethargy- an unwillingness to think about what had happened. So we carried on.

O grande desejo do rio é ser rio. Ele não quer ser outra coisa. E ele só não poderá sê-lo se abandonar sua verdadeira vocação. Acontecerá com ele o que acontece com todos os que, homens ou mulheres, abandonam sua missão: ficará doente, podre, fedorento. Água parada cria lodo, e a vida vai embora. Ninguém quer tomar banho em um rio com água parada, pois sabe que ali não há alegria. Ali estará um ser que desistiu.

Of course, an unchanged mind is a little like unchanged underwear. It tends to get unattractive even to the person whose mind or underwear it is.

Belief is just the place of understanding you are at the moment. Without an open mind, you will be standing in that one spot forever.

That's the problem. We don't grow. We're like an old book, full of stories and also full of errors, and no one can completely understand us, even though many people try. But the problem is that we don't change. Only the people around us change.

If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be 'meetings.

Theocratic societies governed by priestly castes are usually static and monopolize thought. They insist on orthodox explanations and actively discourage independent and unconventional ideas. Today's beliefs must always be like yesterday's.

America does not want change, except from the cash register at Wal-Mart.

The things we never challenge are the things that never change

I think that concrete poetry seems to have, as far as I can see, come to a kind of a dead end. It doesn't seem to be going any further than it went in its high period of about five or six years ago.

The most useless are those who never change through the years.

Spending too much time in one's individual silo can produce pride, isolation, and a stagnated ministry.

Bureaucracy by its nature resists change and nullifies progress.

All his life he had wished and waited, and there had been no change, except for the worse.

He was still where he had always been. Just hoping.

At the silence, my heart went cold. Dead flowers stood rotting in the massive Chinese vases and a shut-up heaviness overweighed the room: the air almost too stale to breathe...It was a stillness I knew; this was a house closed in on itself when someone had died.

The only constant in this town is its yearning for imbecility.

My country wedged fast in history stuck in the ice