Quotes About Stagnation

Too little liberty brings stagnation and too much brings chaos.

It's my experience that people want to do something, but become confused by an overwhelming sense of hopelessness, not knowing what to do, and in the end do the only thing they believe they possibly can: nothing.

Well, limbo is not a good place to be.

What I always meant by that was that I do believe that a lot of directors, and writers, and sometimes producers just lose their edge because they haven't seen anybody or talked to anybody or been with anybody who isn't a kind of replica of themselves for a long period of time.

Like Buridan's Ass, the donkey that starves because it can't decide between two bales of hay, I become paralyzed by indecision.

Her heart remained empty once more, and the procession of days all alike began again. So they were going to follow one another, like this, in line, always identical, innumerable, bringing nothing!

Here, in order to remain human, men must remain the same.

Nos aferramos al pasado -dijo-, a lo antiguo, porque tenemos miedo. [...] Nuestras vidas se estancan, se vuelven rancias. Nos da miedo todo lo nuevo, todo cuanto podría ayudarnos a crecer, a cambiar.

I think we're going to have some difficulty in front of us. I have absolutely no doubt the next three, four years Europe are going to be at best stagnation. We are preparing for tough times.

Tough times have always lent themselves to nativist sentiments and closed-door policies. But in the case of highly skilled immigrants, these policies are a recipe for stagnation.

The reason I stopped doing the band is that I wanted to do something different... Yes had become like 'Groundhog Day' for me. I loved being in the band, but it was album-tour, album-tour, different album-different tour.

When you go off in the world and make your life, and you come back to your home town, and you find your old high-school friends driving in the same circles, doing the same things, that's what Hollywood's like. It's a little block, little town. It doesn't really grow or change.

If you're a pop singer, you don't need to evolve. You just get a set together, have some hit songs and play them over and over.

If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal.

The trouble in corporate America is that too many people with too much power live in a box (their home), then travel the same road every day to another box (their office).

I believe when you're stuck in one spot for too long it's best to throw a grenade where you stand, and jump…and pray.

But you can travel on for ten thousand miles, and still stay where you are.

It's just hard to travel in the shadow of regret. In fact, it's so hard that I actually haven't left yet.

Roots are nice, but a tree can't run.

When the juices of trees have no means of escape, they clot and rot in them, making the trees hollow and good for nothing.

Familiarity breeds contempt and predictability breeds boredom.

Sometimes people change, said a voice inside him. And sometimes they don't.

The important thing in our understanding is to have a smooth, free-thinking way of observation. We have to think and to observe things without stagnation. We should accept things as they are without difficulty. Ou mind should be soft and open enough to understand things as they are. When our thinking is soft, it is called imperturbable thinking. This kind of thinking is always stable. It is called mindfulness.

Jeder wiederholt seine Fehler ein Leben lang. Völlig klar, dass sich nichts wirklich weiterentwickelt, denn in jedem spiegelt sich die Welt, die ihre Geschichte wiederholt bis zur Verblödung.