Quotes About Stagnation

that's what kills a man: lack of change.

I agree that complacency hardly engenders an immortal literature but neither does repetition.

Life is Tuesday afternoon in a cage.

A volte mi sento come fossimo tutti prigionieri di un film. Sappiamo le battute, sappiamo dove metterci, come recitare, manca solo la macchina da presa. Però non possiamo uscire dal film. Ed è un brutto film.

You can't get blood out of a fucking turnip!

Aeg oli seisma jäänud ja eksistents oli väljakannatamatu.

TOMORROW ALWAYS LOOKS THE SAME! THAT'S THE PROBLEM!

wow, a change, you know. that's what kills a man: lack of change.

Secoli di poesia e siamo ancora al punto di partenza.

By now he had stared at the window through a late summer so hot and wet that the air both day and night felt like breathing through a dishrag, so damp it caused fresh sheets to sour under him and tiny black mushrooms to grow overnight from the limp pages of the book on his bedside table. Inman suspected that after such long examination, the grey window had finally said all it had to say.

Boredom is the domain of the dullard.

Orthodoxy whether of the right or of the left is the graveyard of creativity.

By all accounts this evening promised to be yet another in the long progression of dog days that oozed like a piece of soft, runny brie with a hunk of moldy French bread and washed down with a mug of room-temperature Clamato.

It's sort of the mixed blessing of being on television for so long in one thing; sometimes that backfires, in that you're not able to continue on.

I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.

The videogame industry is really weird because it's an industry that's highly conservative. People see the technology evolving every month, but when we talk about concepts, what people really want is for things to remain the same.

Every country in the world had a bureaucracy, whose entire purpose was to delay important things from happening.

It seems no body's business to try to better things

Because it was just too creepy to consider the alternative: nothing changing at all, everything shrinking into the sad belated recognition that the best days had come and gone without her even realizing it.

Growing up is a trap, snapped Dr. Robbins. When they tell you to shut up, they mean stop talking. When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing. Reach a nice level plateau and settle there, predictable and unchanging, no longer a threat.

Every individual has to assume responsibility for his or her own actions, even the poor and the young. A social system that decrees otherwise is inviting intellectual atrophy and spiritual stagnation.

When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing. Reach a nice level plateau and settle there, predictable and unchanging, no longer a threat.

Isn't fixity the hallmark of the living dead?

Kudra had awakened him from a long sleep. No, that was false, he hadn't been asleep at Samye, he had been in a state of heightened awareness, but there is a sense in which awareness can be as stagnating as sloth.