Quotes About Stagnation

We become like dead branches and last year's leaves and what the hell good are we for ourselves and the world in a mental ghetto.

The middle-class ladder has rungs that no longer exist for many trying to climb higher. Instead, for too many, in too many places, their chore is simply trying to hang on.

I'm not saying there's not talent in heavy metal and rap, but a lot of people are finding it's just the same thing, over and over.

Milk which is just about to turn is akin to that moment spent on the cusp of failure in a dulled and fettered relationship.

Mindless habitual behavior is the enemy of innovation.

Hans Castorp olhava em torno de si... Via coisas inquietantes, perniciosas, e sabia o que via diante de si: era a vida sem tempo, a vida sem cuidados nem esperanças, a vida como abjeção que se move à medida que estagna, a vida morta

Where uniformity reigns, movement from point to point is no longer movement; and where movement is no longer movement, there is no time.

Stagnation and inactivity bring spiritual death.

He sees her standing at the end of a passage in her life, without any next step to take—all her bets are in, she has only the tedium now of being knocked from one room to the next, a sequence of numbered rooms whose numbers do not matter, till inertia brings her to the last. That's all.

What they don't understand is that it condition is a symptom of me. That I am a stone buried deep in the ground, something that will never grow, no matter how good the dirt.

laundromats . . . like a waiting room for people who didn't go anywhere

When the machine grinds to a halt, the cogs themselves begin wondering about their function.

Mathematics brought rigor to economics. Unfortunately it also brought mortis.

While a "don't-know mind" is alive and full of possibilities, a mind that claims to know is a closed and stagnant one.

that the only difference between a rut and a grave is the depth.

There are people who are generic. They make generic responses and they expect generic answers. They live inside a box and they think people who don't fit into their box are weird. But I'll tell you what, generic people are the weird people. They are like genetically-manipulated plants growing inside a laboratory, like indistinguishable faces, like droids. Like ignorance.

if you're not careful to keep pushing forward, your improvement can taper off to what the performance scientist Anders Ericsson called an "acceptable level," where you then remain stuck.

lo molesta lo suficiente como para quejarse, pero no lo suficiente como para moverse.

People make changes in their life, and they blend and assimilate. They find a way to make it work. That's where I've always taken the wrong turn. By not taking a turn at all.

A psychoneurosis must be understood, ultimately, as the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning. But all creativeness in the realm of the spirit as well as every psychic advance of man arises from the suffering of the soul, and the cause of the suffering is spiritual stagnation, or psychic sterility.

Worry is a way to avoid change; when we worry, we don't do anything about the matter.

I am adrenaline slammed into inertia: a fast car stuck in traffic.

Dr. Seuss books, Oh, the Places You'll Go. The book describes the dreaded Waiting Place, where people wait for the fish to bite, wind to fly a kite, for Uncle Jake, for pots to boil, or a better break …

We used to be a nation that celebrated people who got things done. Now we celebrate people who stop things getting done.