Quotes About Stagnation

Boredom flourishes too, when you feel safe. It's a symptom of security.

If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change. If you leave a white post alone it will soon be a black post.

Seligman proposed not so much a new psychological approach as a new positive attitude that moved basic and applied psychology away from stagnation and focused scholars on the unexploited market target of healthy, normal people.

I think a movie released is better than a movie stuck.

We've heard this before; 'things are bad, we are gonna fix them,' and they remain unfixed.

How is it we could have a system where schools could remain lousy for 50 years and yet you do exactly the same thing this year that they did 50 years ago when it didn't work then, and no one feels any pressure to change?

Hiphop has remained in an infantile stage and has not been allowed to grow.

It' always so sad to see people spend the rest of their careers just trying to repeat the formula.

When you do one more 'Cinderella' or whatever, what is there to learn? Every part in the repertoire has a good side and a bad side, and the more often you do the same ballet, the more often the bad side comes out. If you want to give dance life, you must give it fresh food, not keep going back to the garbage to look for old scraps.

I hate repetition. Even when I am home and have to buy milk, I go a different way each time to avoid having a habit of anything. Habits are really bad.

Form ossifies into genre through repetition.

For me, repetition is death.

I loved playing in England. But after a few years, I didn't find it challenging enough. I wouldn't say I was bored, but it was becoming too repetitive - playing with and against the same players year after year.

Even as a partisan Republican, I'm not sure a 40-year run is healthy for either party.

Since Hamas took over, nothing has happened that is good for Gaza. They keep doing the same thing over and over, hoping for a different result. The problem is they have an ideological movement that considers Tel Aviv a settlement.

It is dreadful to see actors reproducing the same image constantly.

I feel like I've improved at everything I've done every single year - except golf. Golf, I've managed to stay exactly the same.

Mathematicians are like managers - they want improvement without change.

It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.

It was lights, camera, inaction.

The average household income has really stagnated since 1971.

Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?

Cela vous inquiète ? - Non. Les changements ne sont pas inquiétants. L'immobilité et le mensonge sont bien pires.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it.