Quotes About Stagnation

It seems to me that a man who can think straight along for forty-seven years without changing a single idea ought to be kept in a cabinet as a curiosity.

Every period ruled by mystics was an era of stagnation and want, when most men were on strike against existence.

Like a dead man, only friction could make him warm or violence make him mobile.

Theology has not advanced an inch in the last 1,000 years. How much respect does a profession deserve if it cannot add to the knowledge and understanding of man?

The key to growth is quite simple: creative men with money. The cause of stagnation is similarly clear: depriving creative individuals of financial power.

Most men live like raisins in a cake of custom.

The only man who knows just what he thinks at the present moment is the man who hasn't done any new thinking in the past ten years.

Some men so dislike the dust kicked up by the generation they belong to, that, being unable to pass, they lag behind it.

Sometimes I feel like I'm going nowhere, in opposite directions.

I hate to think of you stuck here all day every day, doing nothing with that brilliant brain of yours." "It never was brilliant. Anyway, who keeps these books to see who's used themselves wisely and who's wasted?

Marty This tasteless cover is a good indication of the lack of musical invention within. The musical growth of this band cannot even be charted. They are treading water in a sea of retarded sexuality and bad poetry.

The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is.

Benjamin Netanyahu seems to avoid any initiative.

The entertainment business hasn't had a new idea in years.

I think it'd be a real nightmare to put a record out and sell 20 million copies and then that's it.

When you do anything for eight or nine years, you start getting a little comfortable; you start taking things for granted.

When two teams skirmish with each other or the two drivers don't like talking to each other, all you do is go backward. There's no doubt about it.

I feel as though I have been having conversations like this all my life. None of us is young anymore, but what has just taken place could have happened when I was sixteen, or twenty, or twenty-five. We got to adolescence and just stopped dead; we drew up the map then and left the boundaries exactly as they were.

Barbara began to imagine the pretty girls working in Derry and Toms as beautiful tropical fish in a tank, swimming up and down, up and down, in serene disappointment, with nowhere to go and nothing to see that they hadn't seen a million times before.

I'm stuck in this pose, this shop-managing pose, forever, because of a few short weeks in 1979 when I went a bit potty for a while. It could be worse, I guess; I could have walked into an army recruiting office, or the nearest Slaughterhouse. But even so, I feel as though I made a face and the wind changed, and now I have to go through life grimacing in this horrible way.

For the majority, real incomes have pretty much stagnated, sometimes declined. Benefits have also declined and work hours have gone up, and so on. It's not Third World misery, but it's not what it ought to be in a rich society, the richest in the world, in fact, with plenty of wealth around, which people can see, just not in their pockets.

Median real income is below its level of twenty-five years ago. For males, median real income is below what it was in 1968.

What's wrong with standing in the same place if it's a good place?" "Even a good place gets to be a rut, especially if you're standing in it alone. Honey, alone and lonely share the same root.

Same show, same routines, same faces