Quotes About Stagnation

Banality is a terribly likely consequence of the underuse of a good mind.

The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.

There are an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.

Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

I see gr-reat changes takin' place ivry day, but no change at all ivry fifty years.

One of the dreariest spots on life's road is the point of conviction that nothing will ever again happen to you.

There are people who not only strive to remain static themselves, but strive to keep everything else so ... their position is almost laughably hopeless.

The absurd man is he who never changes.

The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.

A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time.

The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

Some persons are very decisive when it comes to avoiding decisions.

Stagnation is something worse than death. It is corruption, also.

Habit is a great deadener.

The trap for an actor is that you become too successful at what you're trying to do, and you can find yourself stuck there.

There's no light at the end of the tunnel in the Republican message, no promise of better things to come. There's only the present stagnation, followed by a slow decline.

Not until somebody turns round and says, 'Art, how do you fancy playing Charles Dickens? How do you fancy playing Prince Charles in this biopic?' Until those movements come, then no, we haven't got past anything.

For me, as an actor, one of the biggest fears on a TV show is getting stuck in something where you end up feeling like you're doing the same thing, every single year.

The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop.

If you say, 'You've made it,' then you kind of come to a standstill, and I don't think any actor wants to do that.

There are so many artists who get to my age that get comfortable and just stick in a groove, and I really don't want to do that.

The rain is falling ever harder, and all I can hear is the sound of the water. I'm drenched, but I can't move. I don't want to leave, because I don't know where to go

Unhappy is the fate of one who tries to win his battles and succeed in his attacks without cultivating the spirit of enterprise, for the result is waste of time and general stagnation.

All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.