Quotes About Stagnation

Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.

Electronic music right now is in its comfort zone, and it's not moving one inch.

The older ideas are rendering more and more bland music.

I hate it when bands change between records. They're thinking before they make music.

The marsh, to him who enters it in a receptive mood, holds, besides mosquitoes and stagnation, melody, the mystery of unknown waters, and the sweetness of Nature undisturbed by man.

The crux of the matter, is that people don't understand the true nature of money. It is meant to circulate, not be wrapped up in a stocking

Man is by nature restless. When left too long in one place he will inevitably grow bored, unmotivated, and unproductive.

The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.

There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them.

What happens if I do nothing?

Peace without energy may be only stagnation; and energy without peace may be but a form of panic.

Civilization is paralysis.

Almost all heroism is designed to make you inert by placing it in a context that you can't possibly act on.

There is absolutely no worse death curse than the humdrum daily existence of the living dead.

The cliche is dead poetry.

Being in prison for seven years was like being in an army that never drilled, never deployed, and only fought itself.

Unlike the bough that shook off her dead leaves violentlylike a wet terrier, unlike the beating of the butterfly, her wings, against the cocoon, some dreams never made a move.

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.

We got a lot of politicians up there on Capital Hill. Ain't it funny how they prosper while the country stands still?

Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'.

If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.

Entirely new concepts are very rare in politics.

Nothing was ever done so systematically as nothing is being done now.

[D]oing nothing meant leaving things exactly the way they were, and that was unacceptable.