Quotes About Stagnation

You live like this long enough, a life without chances, you lose your bearings. A life without danger. A life without the risk of Now. In any event, what do I need with Now? Now, I think, is overrated. Now hasn't been working out so great for me. Now never has.

There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age.

I'm so sick of my life. The chapter I want doesn't get written. I'm always stuck in the "wait" chapter.

As pessoas têm medo das mudanças. Eu tenho medo que as coisas nunca mudem.

It liberates the vandal to travel — you never saw a bigoted, opinionated, stubborn, narrow-minded, self-conceited, almighty mean man in your life but he had stuck in one place since he was born and thought God made the world and dyspepsia and bile for his especial comfort and satisfaction.

It's only cows who never change their opinion.

A stagnant navy," noted one maritime scholar, "was no place for a man on the make.

I was not in any real difficulties yet; my affairs were merely going through a period of stagnation which could certainly have been overcome, at this stage, by the exercise of a little initiative. But I just couldn't summon up that initiative. I was too depressed by all the mute dislike of myself which I encountered at every twist and turn.

After 100 years, films should be getting really complicated. The novel has been reborn about 400 times, but it's like cinema is stuck in the birth canal.

You are in no man's land. Which never moves, which never changes, which never grows older, but remains forever, icy and silent.

Kavga etmek ve suçlamak kimi zaman, bir yöne ya da diÄŸerine doÄŸru ad?m atmaya haz?r olmad???m?z zamanlarda, hem statükoyu korumak hem de statükoya baÅŸkald?rmak amac?yla kulland???m?z bir yoldur.

But you can travel on for ten thousand miles, and still stay where you are.

Poor Ike. He'll say do this and do that and nothing at all will happen.

He wasn't a man, but a tape recorder, repeating catch phrases and old slogans without any thought to the concepts behind them, a dog stuck in the training of his youth and faithfully executing his tasks long after his master had moved on.

A lot of our entertainment throws into detail the stagnation and illness of how we live today-it's sad and it's sick... and it's profitable.

There's one thing worse than change and that's the status quo.

El Apple Watch va de camino de convertirse en una nueva categoría destacada en el sector sanitario, pero el proyecto automovilístico de Apple, el Proyecto Titan, parece haberse estancado, estar incluso moribundo.

You people work together to make sure nothing ever changes. Shoganai. Shoganai. That's all I ever hear Book 3, p374

So, what's the point of running away if you have nowhere you want to go?

So easy to fall into a rut, isn't it? Why should ruts be so comfortable and so unpopular?

Too often new ideas are studied and analyzed until they are suffocated.

I'd like to see an arrested growth of development. You can't stop it, but it's important we do something about the developers having the upper hand.

If you dam a river it stagnates. Running water is beautiful water.

Once an organization loses its spirit of pioneering and rests on its early work, its progress stops.