Quotes About Stagnation

What saddens me is seeing patients who have been going to therapy for years and years with no change, but they keep going to the same therapist. To me, that's not right.

With Hall & Oates, honestly, after years and years of playing the same material, it's easy to coast. I can coast through a show.

We're surrounded by big problems and people who have been attacking the same big problems for years and years and years and years, and often they're not getting anywhere.

If you did the same thing you did yesterday as you did today as you will do tomorrow, what have you done? The same thing.

The elite isn't leading anymore. It's trapped.

I'd never want to be trapped. I never like to stay in one place too long. I always flit around, I never settle anywhere. So being married would be being trapped.

Nothing of substance is being achieved or even proposed, while the country remains trapped in the Kafka-esque misery that Brexit has become.

I had a great time as a teacher, but I was just treading water, as a lot of us do.

I'm sick of the treadmill.

The treadmill and the damn elliptical - they get so boring to me.

Concert pianists are really afraid to try out the Beethoven Fourth Concerto if the Third happens to be their specialty. That's the piece they had such success with on Long Island, by George, and it will surely bring them success in Connecticut. So first there's tremendous conservatism. And then stagnation sets in. Or it certainly did in me.

I don't know if being stereotyped is good or bad. But, that is the trend industry follows.

Motion is the sign of life. Stagnation is the prerequisite of death.

You never can grow unless you change. So fear the stagnation and embrace the change.

When we are honest about the limitations we are self imposing it becomes necessary to cry out with determination and state you've had enough of the mediocrity of stagnation.

People tend to want to follow the beaten path. The difficulty is that the beaten path doesn't seem to be leading anywhere.

I suppose it is out of laziness that the world is the same day after day. Today it seemed to want to change. And then anything, anything could happen.

It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere.

When people are used to you doing something, they want you to stay in that lane.

We become the kings of stubborn resistance in our own little worlds. We get into ruts that lead us down paths that cause nothing but pain and end with our hitting a wall. Yet we will do everything but try something different.

The trouble is that organizations like processes. They are warm, familiar things and can be rolled out fairly easily. It is therefore tempting to understand strategy execution as a process, distribute the forms, get everyone to fill them in, and relax. The result will be resentment, rigidity, and stagnation.

There are people whose clocks stop at a certain point in their lives.

He didn't so much get there as just never leave.

When you're scared, you stay as you are!