Quotes About Stagnation

Younger players in this music often turn out to be middle aged; it is not a young music.

Your mind wants to keep you in that rut, doing the same weight, same reps, and same exercises, never moving forward. But your body doesn't want to be stagnant.

If a musician dares to get out of the box he's been put in, people get confused. They want people where they can find them! I am fortunate in some respects as I've always been known as someone who 'moves around' and tries different things. But generally, we are supposed to stay where we're put.

Would it be possible to stand still on one spot more majestically - while simulating a triumphant march forward - than it is done by the two English Houses of Parliament?

Most people aren't happy about being consistent and staying at the same place for years. People want forward progress and motion.

Compare where you are to where you want to be, and you'll get nowhere

A society in stable equilibrium is-by definition-one that has no history and wants no historians.

How boring these emotions are that we're caught in and can't get free of, no matter how much we want to.

'I don't believe you've changed at all, Charles.' 'No, I'm afraid not.' 'D'you want to change?' 'It's the only evidence of life.'

People want to change everything and, at the same time, want it all to remain the same.

Nostalgia is when you want things to stay the same. I know so many people staying in the same place.

The softminded person always wants to freeze the moment and hold life in the gripping yoke of sameness.

Breaking free, or not, is usually determined by whether you want to get somewhere slowly or nowhere fast.

There's a certain kind of time that's metronomic, that's correct, but doesn't want you want to dance. It doesn't make you want to move, and it doesn't make you want to play.

One of the things that would steer me away from a franchise is that I'm playing the same character all the time and I wouldn't want to be known for that.

I think some fans want everything to stay they same because they want to stay the same.

In almost all city governments in America, the small group of people who don't want change are able to block change.

Stop the life cycle-I want to get off!

Tradition was the last bastion of fools.

It was amazing what could be endured when in the grip of inertia.

Indolence takes many forms, but it comes to every civilization that has outlived its will.

he'd stayed, nailed to a single tree but only because he'd grown used to the scenery around it. It was amazing what could be endured when in the grip of inertia. He had reached a point where anything strange, unfamiliar, was cause for fear. But unlike his brothers and sisters, Mappo could not ride that fear across the full span of his life. For all that, it had taken the horror he now approached to prise him from the tree.

I'm living on a one-way, dead-end street. I don't know how I got there.

I think this illustrates succinctly what the Magravandian kings have become," Tayven said. "Moldy, stagnant, rotten, and dank.