Quotes About Stagnation

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward.

The quickest and shortest way to crush whatever laurels you have won is for you to rest on them.

Endlich, wie denn in dieser Welt jedes noch so hartnäckige Stehenbleiben doch nur ein unvermerktes Weiterrücken ist, erscheint auch diesem Status quo ein Hoffnungsstrahl.

Committee--a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.

My hometown was so dull that one time the tide went out and never came back.

Most men live like raisins in a cake of custom.

Perception without awareness is the culprit that leads to confusion.Awareness without action is the culprit that leads to stagnation.Action without commitment is the culprit that leads to frustration.

I have lost the will to change

In shame-prone cultures, where parents, leaders, and administrators consciously or unconsciously encourage people to connect their self-worth to what they produce, I see disengagement, blame, gossip, stagnation, favoritism, and a total dearth of creativity and innovation.

Se continuarmos a nos concentrar exclusivamente na dualidade pecador/santo no jeito como vivemos e agimos, ignorando a oposição feroz entre o fariseu e a criança, o crescimento espiritual chegará, de repente, a um ponto de estagnação.

Christian leadership is a dead-end street when nothing new is expected, when everything sounds familiar and when ministry has regressed to the level of routine.

There is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate incredible dullness.

There is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate incredible dulness. I

travels as slowly through centuries of monkish dulness, when the world seems to have been asleep

Madame Merle had once said that, in her belief, when a friendship ceased to grow, it immediately began to decline - there was no point of equilibrium between liking a person more and liking him less.

In Europe one gets used to doing nothing. You sit on your ass and whine all day. You get contaminated. You rot.

Nothing is more obscene than inertia. More blasphemous than the bloodiest oath is paralysis.

The drains are clogged with strangled embryos.

There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.

We have been frustrated that there are a number of incumbents in Maryland offices who have been in office for years and years and show no movement or desire to pass the torch.

Few changes are allowed in Palm Beach, making it an anachronistic little village where everything looks almost the same as it did years and years ago.

When you're doing that TV thing, you're doing the same thing for years and years. You can fall into bad habits as an actor and I think it can take a toll on your ability to act, which I think is scary.

I think Gadhafi is on the mark. And up until this point in time, I think they truly want to turn this around and become a positive player with the West after years and years of terrorism and stagnation.