Quotes About Stagnation

Most men got married because they were comfortable where they were, and breaking free was too hard and too unpleasant.

Most friendships are a sort of frozen and undeveloping semi-hostility.

She stood there awkwardly, incapable of further theatre.

But here, just at this point: this is limbo. There is the sense that if you stay at this point for too long, stop at this point of oblivion for a certain amount of time, you will just cease to exist. And we cannot move.

Sex generally makes them intae real relationships, or ends them. Ye go backwards or forwards after shagging, but maintaining the status quo is difficult.

Don't you see? It's Galaxy-wide. It's a worship of the past. It's a deterioration - a stagnation!

Changelessness is decay. A paradox. There is no decay without a change for the worse. Changelessness is a change for the worse

I wouldn't want [the people of Baleyworld] to live that long as a general thing. The pace of historical and intellectual advance would then become too slow. Those at the top would stay in power too long. Baleyworld would sink into conversation and decay - as your world has done.

Feet, for tens of thousands of years, had clogged and shuffled in the mud – and held down the minds which, for an equal time, had been fit for the companionship of the stars.

It was a sign of decaying culture, of course, that dams had been built against the further development of ideas.

It's a worship of the past. It's a deterioration—a stagnation!

Here in the Periphery they've lost nuclear power. In Gamma Andromeda, a power plant has undergone meltdown because of poor repairs, and the Chancellor of the Empire complains that nuclear technicians are scarce. And the solution? To train new ones? Never! Instead they're to restrict nuclear power." And for the third time: "Don't you see? It's Galaxy-wide. It's a worship of the past. It's a deterioration—a stagnation!

if you wish to call the truth impossible, that is your privilege, but it will get you nowhere.

la caída del imperio, caballeros, es algo monumental y no puede combatirse fácilmente. Está dictada por una burocracia en aumento, una recesión de la iniciativa, una congelación de las castas, un estancamiento de la curiosidad… y muchos factores más.

Once, however, mankind learned to create his own environment, he created a pleasant and stable one, so he just naturally stopped evolving.

When I'm boss of this Foundation, I'm going to do nothing. One hundred percent of nothing, and that is the secret of this crisis.

The rate of technological advance has been slowing for centuries and is down to a crawl now. In some cases, it has stopped altogether. Is this something you've noticed? After all, you're a mathematician.' 'I can't say I've given the matter any thought.' 'No one does. It's accepted. Scientists are very good these days at saying that things are impossible, impractical, useless. They condemn any speculation at once.

When inflation begins to rise, that's a situation we know how to deal with. When the economy is not doing well, and we're stuck at zero, that's one we don't know so much about - or we know about it that it's bad.

Like, my whole life I've been right here in this zip code, 90059. Regardless of wherever I go I always end up in the same spot.

I think about 'The Simpsons,' which has been going on for 25 years. Homer is still in his late 30's. Lisa is 8, Bart is 10. Their stories are told. Yet the series keeps going on and on like a zombie that won't lie down and die. That feels forced and unnatural. The characters never change, grow, age.

Comedians tend to find a comfort zone and stay there and do lamer versions of themselves for the rest of their career.

I have a massive fear of going stale and falling into a comfort zone.

It's not a very big step from contentment to complacency.

The old repeat themselves and the young have nothing to say. The boredom is mutual.