Quotes About Stagnation

soy una mujer dividida entre el terror a que todo cambie y el terror a que todo siga igual el resto de mi vida.

People aren't used to that way of thinking, they want everything to stay the same. And the consequence of that is pain.

the world has stopped. Not just my world, but the world of everyone around me. When we meet with friends, we always talk about the same things and the same people. The conversations seem new, but it's all just a waste of time and energy. We're trying to prove that life is still interesting.

There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact.

History develops, art stands still.

The art of government is not to let me grow stale.

Repetition is the death of art.

All I know is that we are loaded down with old and stale stuff - habits, customs, old attitudes already dead and gone.

You have to move forward in life. You can't sit in the same place, unless you want to, that's a choice too. But you can't sit there because someone else says you have to, because your moving forward makes them uncomfortable." Excerpt From: Steel, Danielle. "Country." Delacorte Press, 2015-06-16. iBooks. This material may be protected by copyright.

there in bed, wondering why she hadn't moved out

anyway. He plays the same old stuff every time. I'll have Charlie let him

maybe sometimes it's riskier not to take a risk. Sometimes all you're guaranteeing is that things will stay the same.

I can't be happy going out if it's not . . . going anywhere.

And worse, you're not doing anything interesting anymore. You're not seeing anything, saying anything. The weird paradox is that you think you're at the center of things, and that makes your opinions more valuable, but you yourself are becoming less vibrant. I bet you haven't done anything offscreen in months. Have you?

You cannot get off the treadmill simply by running faster. All you can do by that mechanism is temporarily pass others, until they respond by running faster too, with the long-term consequence of having the whole field increase their speed just to stand still. The victor in such a race is not the runner, but the treadmill.

It is not time that kills delight, but familiarity, neutralization, and lack of purpose.

My worst character flaw that I'm conscious of is that I tend to think my way into circles instead of resolving anything. It's paralyzing and boring for people around me.

I Philo, educating yourself was something you had to do in spite if school, not because of it -- which is basically why so many of my high school peers are still there in Philo even now, selling one another insurance, drinking supermarket liquor, watching television, awaiting the formality of their first cardiac.

The music's still going, going absolutely nowhere, like Philip Glass on Quaaludes.

It's like he's frozen on this anxiety, unable to move on to more advanced anxieties.

Decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.

The maxim, Nothing prevails but perfection, may be spelled PARALYSIS.

Nunca nadie me ha sobornado tanto como la rutina. Todo los días ensayas la misma obra, un día te la aprendes y ahí poco a poquito vas torciéndola a tu gusto. O te la van torciendo a su antojo, que es lo que pasa cuando te la crees.

I know what you want. You want a story that won't surprise you. That will confirm what you already know. That won't make you see higher or further or differently. You want a flat story. An immobile story. You want dry, yeastless factuality.