Quotes About Stagnation

Es gibt eine Menge phantastischer E.T.A.-Hoffmann-Figuren unter den Angestellten vorgerückteren Alters. Irgendwo sind sie steckengeblieben und erfüllen seitdem ununterbrochen banale Funktionen, die alles andere eher als unheimlich sind.

Nothing that is good can become stuck – and if it is stuck, it can't be any good!

In general, the problem in a relationship is when the couple stagnate.

Perhaps the world s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.

Outside of traffic, there is nothing that has held this country back as much as committees.

No matter how much love is there, these aren't two people who are actually good for each other. They don't help each other grow. They stifle each other's growth.

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change. —Confucius

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

Not acknowledging our feelings is what keeps us stuck and gives us stomachaches, headaches, and heartburn.

This resistance to change is known as 'inertia' – and it is an all-too-common human trait to resist anything that might upset the status quo. Inertia always works to keep things the same, however much your heart longs for change.

When we get in a routine we can become zombie-like and shut down.

If 'Heavy Rain' is a huge commercial success, it will show everybody in the industry that the world is sick of first-person shooters, that people are ready for an adult gaming experience. If we fail, it will say, 'Please keep making the same old stuff.'

To yield to Resistance deforms our spirit. It stunts us and makes us less than we are and were born to be. If you believe in God (and I do) you must declare Resistance evil, for it prevents us from achieving the life God intended when He endowed each of us with our own unique genius.

All addictions share, among others, two primary qualities. 1. They embody repetition without progress. 2. They produce incapacity as a payoff.

Often couples or close friends, even entire families, will enter into tacit compacts whereby each individual pledges (unconsciously) to remain mired in the same slough in which she and all her cronies have become so comfortable.

A frozen bureaucracy and a frozen building reinforce each other's resistance to change

The month of August had turned into a griddle where the days just lay there and sizzled.

And I was struck all at once how life was out there going through its regular courses, and I was suspended, waiting, caught in a terrible crevice between living my life and not living it. I couldn't go on biding time like there was no end of it, no end to this summer.

Unhappy is the fate of one who tries to win his battles and succeed in his attacks without cultivating the spirit of enterprise;  for the result is waste of time and   general stagnation.

The Three P's": Perfectionism, Procrastination, and Paralysis.

Wherever people feel safe (...) they will be indifferent.

It is passivity that dulls feeling.

I've become passive. I don't invent, I don't yearn. I manage, I cope.

The Pottery Barn and Rubber Soul had gotten old, but my ability to order more than the chicken fingers with honey mustard from T.G.I. Friday's would always provide me with a sense of accomplishment.