Quotes About Stagnation

I will ignore all ideas for new works and engines of war, the invention of which has reached its limits and for whose improvement I see no further hope.

Innovating economies expand and develop. Economies that do not add new kinds of goods and services, but continue only to repeat old work, do not expand much nor do they, by definition, develop.

So many cartoonists draw the same year after year. When they find a style, they stick with it. They don't mess with innovation, and they become boring.

No man can stand still; the moment progress is not made, retrogression begins. If the blade is not kept sharp and bright, the law of rust will assert its claim.

The Republican Party stinks because all of the Republicans have accomplished nothing, and they talk about all of these issues and do nothing about it for a whole lifetime.

By 1993, the Stone Roses had become this huge, beautiful cruise ship just floating about in the middle of nowhere with no captain.

At some point, the spectacular growth in China has to stop.

The Grand Hotel Milano had become a five-star hamster wheel.

The financial cost20 was around £47 million, an appalling sum for those days. The cost in idealism, energy, and enthusiasm was probably higher. Bitterness, cynicism, disillusionment, emigration, censorship, clericalism and stagnation became the hallmarks of Irish society

The worst that could happen wasn't crashing and burning, it was accepting terminal boredom as a tolerable status quo.

you once did nothing because you thought progress is inevitable, then you can continue to do nothing because you think time moves in repeating cycles.

Perhaps we can think of fundamentalism as a stifling, an asphyxiation, and constipation of the soul.

Change occurs in direct proportion to dissatisfaction, but dissatisfaction never changes.

Because I'm now successful, what I'm being offered as an actor is more and more of the same.

A move away from Arsenal did not fall through because I had no offers to move.

Far too many of our elected officials are chained to an ideology that is rooted in the past. They are keepers of normalcy who embrace things as they've always been.

I kind of had that Parma, Ohio, mentality that after high school, you go to college. Then after college, you get a job; then you get a family. And after that, you just stick around Parma.

Everybody is doing the same old thing.

We live in a world where racism hasn't changed at all. It's that old thing of, you know, the more things change, the more things remain the same.

Sometimes when you're with the same old people, you get the same old thing.

One of the things that 'Too Bright' refers to is how there's a lot of times where I see things that I could change that could make me more contented, but I usually just don't make those changes because they seem new and scary. I just stay where I'm at, even if I'm miserable, because I'm familiar with it.

Of one thing I am certain: we are foolish if we think we will achieve change by sending the same crowd of people back to run our government again and again.

As for a spoiled life, no life is spoiled but one whose growth is arrested.

Hay algo más triste en el mundo que un tren inmóvil en la lluvia?