Quotes About Stagnation

The moment demanded action and all we had was paralysis.

the last decade can be regarded as "the lost decade" because no improvements in flight safety matters have been made in that period.

The rule of progress is, take the path regardless of the obstacles while the rule of stagnation is, avoid the path with regard to the obstacles.

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

Morocco looks not to its immediate neighbors but just across the Mediterranean, to Europe, as its major foreign economic lifeline. In part because of Europe's own economic stagnation over the past several years, Morocco's economy has grown only slowly—and there are few signs of any immediate improvement on the horizon.

fighting an endless war and getting nowhere, surrounded by those who found simply being in the war enough to justify their existence. He

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul in this world—and never will.

It is thus because it has always been thus. Is not this reason enough?

Nothing in the world is better suited to laziness than orthodoxy. If you gag your mouth, stop up your ears and put a blinder over your eyes, you can sleep peacefully.

Without change, there can be no growth; and without growth, we stagnate and die.

In my stories, there were always things happening: in my life, nothing would ever happen.

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

Many people die at 25 but are not put in the coffin until 75. The learning stopped for them early.

I was too demoralized to stop it or to start anything new. I would lie around, unable to get myself back up and start generating new ideas.

Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.

You play it safe long enough," he said, in a different tone, "and you'll end up trapped in your own dirty body, forever and forever and forever—like me.

You know, it was uncomfortable doing the same thing. I don't like a rut.

A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people's experience runs the risk of not being understood.

For me, there will be no enemies but unemployment, the deficit, excessive debt, economic stagnation and anything else that keeps our country in these critical circumstances.

I've seen a lot of my friends go through different reality shows, and they just get caught up in a lot of stagnant positions, unfortunately.

An assembly is extra slow in taking actions.

We live in times where the speed of our life is increasing but leading us nowhere.

When you get a principle on which everyone is agreed, you get the beginning of complacency and deterioration.

Wisdom to accept change creates life, but conformity creates stagnation and leads to death.