Quotes About Stagnation

I'm sick and tired of politics and politicians as usual.

Everyone seems to be playing well within the boundaries of his usual rule set. I have yet to hear anyone say something that seemed likely to mitigate the idiocy of this age.

I think a sitting senator who's been there 36 years is not doing a favor to anyone in the state of Utah nor to the country.

I attended a board meeting the next year when the chairman announced that the year would be devoted to no growth.

There is, I feel, an age at which an individual man would want to stop. You will seek the age at which you would want your species to have stopped. Dissatisfied with your present state for reasons that portend even greater grounds for dissatisfaction for your unhappy posterity, perhaps you would like to be able to go backwards in time.

El encierro tiene un olor desagradable. Al hedor de los malos pensamientos macerándose, a los efluvios de las ideas malintencionadas que rondan por todas partes y al relente rancio de las viejas añoranzas.

I suppose it is out of laziness that the world is the same day after day. Today it seemed to want to change. And then anything, anything could happen.

Presupun c? numai din lene lumea e aceea?i de la o zi la alta.

incident. "Nothing new." I admire the way we can lie, putting reason on our side. Evidently, nothing new has happened, if you care to put it that way:

That just seems like a tough thing to do... just work in the middle of a company for your entire life. You just do the same thing out of college until you're 60, and then you retire

The Cul-de-Sac ( French for "dead end" ) ... is a situation where you work and work and work and nothing much changes

When you grow up poor, you have to either work really hard to try and get where you want to be, or you'll just stay put.

There's people that get a chance to do the kind of work that changes the world, and make things really different. And there's the kind that just keeps the world from falling apart.

the middle manager is doomed to remain just that. Once an office rat, always an office rat.

Most people are operating out of repetition. If you come to work or school each day with the same mind-state, you probably can't get more out of it than you did yesterday.

A career is a job that has gone on too long.

I think that people who get to a certain position, and then try to ferociously defend it or build on it, it's kind of a dead-end street. You see people becoming miserable that way.

Especially in black communities, we've been so groomed to stay where we are and not like people in the other neighborhoods. It's crazy. It won't allow people to experience life and see what the world truly has to offer. People are stuck in their ways, stuck in their communities, stuck on their streets.

While that wasn't first and foremost in my mind, you can't get into this without being struck, on one side, by how far we've come, and then the other side, by how little things have changed.

The problem... is emblematic of what hasn't changed during the equal opportunity revolution of the last 20 years. Doors opened; opportunities evolved. Law, institutions, corporations moved forward. But many minds did not.

You freeze with the number of opportunities given to you and just decide to do nothing at all.

An opposition that won't oppose paralyses our political and democratic system.

He is not only dull in himself, but the cause of dullness in others.

People are so caught in a routine, doing the same things over and over.