Quotes About Stagnation

I believe that we are all born for greatness yet most of us mire in the mediocrity of life. We become complacent or worse, discouraged and stagnate. We damn ourselves by not progressing.

It's okay to not know who you are and what you want. Those with the answers are usually very happy in their own stuck-ness

He will be out there, living his life to the full, when she seems to have put hers perennially on hold.

And I cannot for the life of me see how you can be content to live this tiny life. This life that will take place almost entirely within a five-mile radius and contain nobody who will ever surprise you or push you or show you things that will leave your head spinning and unable to sleep at night.

The morning sagged and decided to last for several years. I couldn't remember the last time minutes and hours stretched so interminably.

Hay horas normales y hay horas yermas, en las que el tiempo se estanca y se desliza, donde la vida (la vida rea) solo existe en otro lugar.

I like progress but I hate change.

Heights—an orange-vested Caltrans crew, stupidest agency in the state, taking petty-fascist satisfaction in blocking off two lanes. I sat, idling along with the Seville, rolled a foot or two, sat some more, finally got past La Cienega. Unmindful of the noise and the dirt. New focus: yearning to feel useful.

Time crawled on as if its legs were broken.

There is nothing sadder than sitting in a car and having absolutely nowhere to go.

I've been treating my life as this pit stop, just kind of regrouping before I move on. But it's been seven years, and I never moved on. I haven't done anything. I just...stopped.

Don't you think if I was able to make some changes, I would have already?

The only difference between a rut and a grave is depth.

I don't have a career, I don't have a family, and I don't know what to do next. I've been so determined to escape anything permanent, and now I just feel like I'm nowhere. And what if that's the permanent thing by default?

The Theologian is an owl, sitting on an old dead branch in the tree of human knowledge, and hooting the same old hoots that have been hooted for hundreds and thousands of years, but he has never given a hoot for progress.

achieving failure: successfully executing a plan that leads nowhere.

Boredom is nothing but the experience of a paralysis of our productive powers.

This technological stagnation reflects a harsh truth. There was very little interest in attempting to save labor when the labor in question was not your own.

For thousands of years, servants and slaves--or in lesser households, wives and daughters--were stuck with the same pestles and sieves, with few innovations. This technological stagnation reflects a harsh truth. There was very little interest in attempting to save labor when the labor in question was not your own.

Boredom is the conviction that you can't change ... the shriek of unused capacities.

A civilizáció és bürokrácia egy másik kulcsfontosságú jellemz?je a tehetetlenség.

The unemployment rate, after its encouraging drop early in the year, would stagnate near 9 percent into the fall

They remained basically flat through 2011 before starting to recover.

European recovery remained elusive.