Quotes About Stagnation

If I sit in the same square room and work on something too long, I feel like you just go mad.

Hiphop hasn't had stages of growth through its 30 years of existence.

For me personally, I have a fear of, 'If I stop, I'm going to die.' If I stop doing the things that are enriching to me or creatively exciting to me or if I stop creating, then I feel stagnant. If something isn't growing, it's dying.

I feel at times I get stagnant, and I don't want to.

It's true that redistributing income to the needy is politically easier in a growing economy than in a stagnant one.

Right after college, I participated in the Miss India contest and then went on to pursue modelling, as that seemed like the logical next step. But pretty soon, I started to feel stagnant in that profession.

Shows than run for years together make you stagnant.

The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.

Believe it or not, the biggest obstacle for a business owner with any size business is the internal response to the question - 'Now what?' Often this question is followed by a - deer in the headlights - response, which is then followed by stagnation. Following stagnation comes fear.

To most of us, adulthood means being able to earn a living, possess a home, get married and rear children, and this implies having autonomy or control over one's life. In the 19th century, becoming an adult was celebrated as a liberation from paternal authority. Today we regard it more as a time of regret and stagnation.

The choice facing the American people is not between growth and stagnation, but between short-term growth and long-term disaster.

Everyone wants change. Donald is the only one that can deliver it. We should not be satisfied with stagnation.

The consequences of a lack of new knowledge is decades of stagnation: the next generation will be poorer than this one.

Saddam Hussein has set an example of defiance, especially against the first President Bush, that other Arab leaders cannot and should not emulate; the example leads only to empty gestures and developmental stagnation, both of which the Arab nations have had enough of already.

Bond investors want growth much like equity investors, and to the extent that too much austerity leads to recession or stagnation then credit spreads widen out - even if a country can print its own currency and write its own cheques.

If liberalism is to mean anything at all, it is duty bound to support without hesitation the dissenting individual over the group, the heretic over the orthodox, innovation over stagnation, and free speech over offense.

If you do the same thing over and over again, then you will definitely get stale and jaded like most actors do.

There is no definitive end to anybody's story when you're dealing with the fluidity of chemistry, because when it gets stale, you want out.

When I watch myself, I see nothing but faults, like, 'This I need to do different, this I need to do different,' and so if there comes a point in time where I'm like, 'Man, this whole thing is just getting really stale,' I am not opposed to being the bad guy again.

I have a lot of sketches and ideas, but when you don't use them, they get stale.

The only thing that's really hard for me is when I go to bed after everybody else in my house gets up. And that - you just feel stale. It just feels awful to be still finishing your day when everybody else is starting theirs.

Our society cannot progress while our constitution stands still.

Feminism, as it stands, well... stands. It has ground to a halt.

Then, with lots of people doing that without ever looking over their shoulders to see how they were affecting anybody else, it couldn't work, and it didn't work, and it just came to a standstill.