Quotes About Stagnation

You can't teach the old maestro a new tune.

You are still lucky - you have a certain type of people who keep buying your music - but then you can get typecast and have to keep making that same music, and you can change only slightly. It's risky to bounce around and change your type of music.

The Cure is clearly above average but seemingly unable to rally itself to move to a higher plateau.

Things move very slowly in politics. We seem to fight the same wars over and over again.

Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.

Last year nothing happenedThe year before nothing happenedAnd the year before that nothinghappened.

Today the world seems to be like a stagnated place, because the majority of humanity are not eager to see others rise.

War is progress, peace is stagnation

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

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

If thou would'st have that stream of hard-earn'd knowledge, of Wisdom heaven-born, remain sweet running waters, thou should'st not leave it to become a stagnant pond.

Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time -- what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.

Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to reamin the same but get better...

I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

Routines without ongoing assessment lead to stagnation and mediocrity.

Well, there now,' sighed Miss Malvina. 'Everyone else can go off into the world, but we're doomed to stay here and live.

Days dragged on in this town like they were getting paid by the minute.

She had been hedging her bets now for years, making no decision at all rather than make a bad one. But that, in itself, was a decision, she realized, and this was where it was headed all along. Directly above

We have been sitting here all night bullshitting and we still don't know what to do.

Everything was almost the same with her, but she went about her business in a way that put me in mind of an old matchbook. You can scratch the head against the strip in the same way you always have, but you are not going to get any kind of spark.

Nobody is in the process of making any changes that we can be specific about.

Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.

Many families remain for years in the same place, though both husband and wife are sick of it, simply because there is neither complete division nor agreement between them.

Absolutely nothing was happening in my marriage. I nicknamed my waterbed, Lake Placid!