Quotes About Stagnation

Growth or stagnation? There is no in-between. Life always seeks more of itself and death picks up the slack.

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything ... or nothing.

There is danger in reckless change but greater danger in blind conservatism.

Of all human troubles the most hateful is to feel that you have the capacity of power and yet you have no field to excercise it.

The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

you enter a state of affairs in which neither the old ways nor the new ways work satisfactorily. People are caught between the demands of conflicting systems and end up immobilized

every civilization reaches a still point. The progressives can't go forward, and the conservatives can't go back. One demands continual advance, the other longs for yesterday.

Spiritual stagnation is the real hell. As long as souls believe they are a human body, they will continue to imprison themselves in the outer dimensions of the universe.

Those two overarching concerns are these: we Athenians are concerned above all with improvement; the Spartans seek only – stasis. Two opposite objectives. If

Consider also the revolutionary utopians, who typically achieve only destruction and stagnation. Though they are blind optimists, what defines them as utopians is their pessimism that their supposed utopia, or their violent proposals for achieving and entrenching it, could ever be improved upon. Additionally,

Playing safe is often the riskiest thing you can do in a career. If you stand still, the odds are overwhelming that the world will leave you behind.

La vida avanzaba para los demás, mientras que a mí siempre me dejaba de lado, yo permanecía bloqueado en la edad de las cosas inmóviles. Mi vida sexual se parecía a una película sueca. A veces sin subtítulos incluso.

What else is death but the refusal any longer to grow and suffer change?

God and the devil lose to a common enemy: inertia.

Well, limbo is not a good place to be.

If the human being is condemned and restricted to perform the same functions over and over again, he will not even be a good ant, not to mention a good human being.

Washington is a place where good ideas go to die.

The alternative to extinction is stagnation, and stagnation is seldom a good thing.

Even a good place gets to be a rut, especially if you're standing in it alone... Alone and lonely have the same root.

Spanish football is very good but every year the same teams win the league.

Tragedies are all right for a while: you are concerned, you are curious, you feel good. And then it gets repetitive, it doesn't advance, it grows dreadfully boring: it is so very boring, even for me.

A civil servant is sometimes like a broken cannon - it won't work and you can't fire it.

Egypt: Where the Israelites would still be if Moses had been a bureaucrat.

Bureaucracy is like a fungus that contaminates everything.