Quotes About Stagnation

Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

A decision has been called for. The Nodders sit paralyzed. The Men crouch in their various holes. Tradition and Revolution, having spoken, perch high and unflinching. Fear and Loathing quietly cha-cha down the table's length. A distant referee's whistle.

There is no time in prison, unless you create it for yourself. People on the outside seem to believe time passes slowly in prison, but it doesn't. The truth is that time doesn't pass at all. It's an eternal vacuum, and each moment is meaningless because it has no context. Tomorrow may as well be yesterday. That's why there's so much stagnation inherent in prison life - because there is no momentum of any sort.

En tradition er en flov undskyldning for en evig gentagelse af de samme dumheder

O Suburbs of Despair where nothing but the weather ever changes!

I came close to joining Villa early on in my career but nothing happened. I met with them and also with people from Birmingham but nothing materialised.

But I also know something less commonly understood: that change and loss travel together. We can't have change without loss, which is why so often people say they want change but nonetheless stay exactly the same.

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

Não podemos ter mudança sem perda, motivo pelo qual é tão frequente as pessoas dizerem que querem mudar, mas mesmo assim continuarem exatamente iguais.

Brez izgube ni spremembe, in prav zato se pogosto dogaja, da sicer ljudje izrazijo željo po spremembi, a kljub temu ostanejo pri starem.

Doing the same thing in the same way year after year is like eating a quail a day for thirty days. Along toward the middle of the month a fellow begins to long for a broiled crow or a slice of cold dog.

Peter Morrow took no risks. He neither failed nor succeeded. There were no valleys, but neither were there mountains. Peter's landscape was flat. An endless, predictable desert.

Well basically,' said Nell, 'I want to question the value of confinement. An enclosed community is toxic. It festers. It stagnates. The wrong people thrive there. The sort of people who actually like being walled in.

Chase every rung of possibility, and you still get absolutely nowhere.

The opposite of love, you think, isn't hate. It's complacency.

Her mind is running in circles, like a gerbil on a wheel, the same way mine is. Chase every rung of possibility, and you still get absolutely nowhere.

We do not grow up; all we do is grow dull.

La posición es un buen lugar por el que comenzar en el liderazgo, pero es un lugar terrible donde quedarse.

Oh, I don't care, I don't care, I don't care! I don't care what happens, as long as everything doesn't go on repeating itself!

A relationship without trust is like a car without gas, you can stay in it all you want, but it won't go anywhere.

And now I'm right back where I started. Sober and miserable.

For two years nobody talked about anything other than the name arrangement. There was no fund-raising and no progress being made on construction and design.

The computer industry is creatively bankrupt.

When I try to portray to myself my heart's desire, nothing happens.