Quotes About Stagnation

We can't have change without loss, which is why so often people say they want change but nonetheless stay exactly the same.

Until you tell me what's really on your mind, you'll stay stuck exactly where you are.

We can't have change without loss, which is why so often people say they want change but nonetheless stay exactly the

Before successful therapy, it's the same damn thing over and over.

Lost people are different. They will drive around in the same circle over and over rather than try a new path. Their fear of getting more lost paralyzes them into staying lost in the area that's just become familiar. It supersedes their ability to chart a new course. They circle and backtrack and stay comfortably lost because it's less scary than seeing something different than what's presently in front of them.

Sometimes you knew changes needed to be made but just couldn't summon up the energy to make them.

They're nice cages," I responded. "No space around them. Nothing alive. Places like this turn a man into a gerbil. He comes home and scurries inside. Then he stays there until he's forced to go back out to the job he has to work so that he can make the mortgage payments on this gerbil habitat.

There was too much of a sameness about the evening's delights. He had been the same route too many times. He'd been there before, so double-damned often, and however you traveled—backward, forward, or walking on your hands—you always got to the same place. You got nowhere, in other words, and each trip took a little more out of you.

So much of his life seemed to be like this now, a blur of days without anything to define them from each other, like episodes of a soap he watched out of habit, even though none of the characters interested him.

With a jolt of surprise, he realized he had not really wanted anything for twenty years.

Anxiety's like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you very far.

He began to trace a pattern on the table with the nail of his thumb. She kept saying she wanted to keep things exactly the way they were, and that she wished she could stop everything from changing. She got really nervous, like, talking about the future. She once told me that she could see herself now, and she could also see the kind of life she wanted to have - kids, husband, suburbs, you know - but she couldn't figure out how to get from point A to point B.

Can you imagine what it would be like to know that your life was just going to be a series of days that were all the same, that were do-overs?

It's not true that life is one damn thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over.

I hate being in the mood where I'm not happy with how my life is, but I have no idea how to change it.

You are going to go no where with your life so you stop being immature.

In a way being stubborn can be a good thing but most times it's a bad thing cuz it will hinder you from moving on in life.

While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.

I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.

If you do anything for too long, it starts to lack edge, to become too easy. Easy is the kiss of death.

Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt.

The West is boring itself to death! And talking itself to death!

Creativity always dies a quick death in rooms that house conference tables.

Repetition is the death of magic.