Quotes About Stagnation

Wise men change, fools stay the same.

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.

Any man who has the brains to think and the nerve to act for the benefit of the people of the country is considered a radical by those who are content with stagnation and willing to endure disaster.

The man who raises a fist has run out of ideas.

The great enemy of any attempt to change men's habits is inertia. Civilization is limited by intertia.

Playwrights are like men who have been dining for a month in an Indian restaurant. After eating curry night after night, they deny the existence of asparagus.

Having precise ideas often leads to a man doing nothing.

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

A man's life may stagnate as literally as water may stagnate, and just as motion and direction are the remedy for one, so purpose and activity are the remedy for the other.

Talking to a black-and-white on the Street is like talking to a person who has his face stuck in a xerox machine, repeatedly pounding the copy button, while you stand by the output tray pulling the sheets out one at a time and looking at them.

You have an agreeably uninteresting existence. Let's see if we can change that.

Individuals and church bodies are often caught in the paralysis of analysis. We

This book is about the causes of our stationary state. It is inspired by Smith's insight that both stagnation and growth are in large measure the results of 'laws and institutions'. Its central thesis is that what was true of China in Smith's day is true of large parts of the Western world in our time. It is our laws and institutions that are the problem. The Great Recession is merely a symptom of a more profound Great Degeneration.

That initial anger she had felt turned to sadness, and now it had become something else, almost a dullness of sorts. Even though she was constantly in motion, it seemed as if nothing special ever happened to her anymore. Each day seemed exactly like the last, and she had trouble differentiating among them.

The world moves fast, but change isn't always a good thing when you got it right the first time around.

As a country, we should be moving forward, but instead conservative lawmakers keep dragging us back.

I am frozen musically somewhere around 2004.

people never change. What you think you see is what you see. See?

Bad habits have brought me this far: why change such a tried-and-true formula?

Routine feeds the illusion of safety...

it wasn't so much like the hands of time had stood still here, more like they'd been thrown in the air in exasperation, the clock declaring whatever! I'm outta here.

No era tanto que las manecillas del tiempo se hubieran detenido allí, sino más bien como si se hubieran levantado, exasperadas, y el reloj hubiera exclamado: ¡Venga, coño! Yo me largo de aquí.

Having lived so long, I can't tell the difference between the two political parties. They both sound like broken records that started skipping after the founding fathers died. Now there were some real men!

apart from the seemingly magical internet, life in broad material terms isn't so different from what it was in 1953...The wonders portrayed in THE JETSONS, the space-age television cartoon from the 1960s, have not come to pass...Life is better and we have more stuff, but the pace of change has slowed down compared to what people saw two or three generations ago.