Quotes About Stagnation

When you sit on something for so long you can't see beyond it. It's all you can see, so you become locked in it.

I always liked the 'Mad Men' philosophy where people don't really change.

There is no legislative change that can be made to make up for an economy that's not growing and not expanding.

Some people have a mandate that you can't change.

She will want things to stay just as they are. She will never have the fun of hoping something wonderful and exiting may be just around the corner.

She became confused when she stepped onto an escalator that wasn't working.

These are the soporifics of normalcy, my days in middling drift.

Humans are designed to seek comfort and order, and so if they have comfort and order, they tend to plant themselves, even if their comfort isn't all that comfortable. And even if they secretly want for something better.

Humans are designed to seek comfort and order, and so if they have comfort and order, they tend to plant themselves, even if their comfort is not all that comfortable, even if they see clearly want for something better.

The rule exists in story because it's a true thing about people. Humans are designed to seek comfort and order, and so if they have comfort and order, they tend to plant themselves, even if their comfort isn't all that comfortable. And even if they secretly want for something better.

There was no breeze, not the slightest current; the day lay like a filthy blanket upon the city.

And that was it: infinite loop; no alt-tab out. You could force close, shut down the computer, start all over and run it again, and the game would still lock up and freeze at the same place. Where's Popper? No cheat code. Game over. There was no way past that moment.

Dead flowers stood rotting in the massive Chinese vases and a shut-up heaviness overweighed the room: the air almost too stale to breathe, the exact, suffocating feel of our apartment when Mrs. Barbour took me back to Sutton Place to get some things I needed. It was a stillness I knew; this was a house closed in on itself when someone died.

Not making a decision was making a decision not to move. A decision to fail.

They are reluctant to do the serious work of change, feeling that it would be easier to throw a new blanket over the moldy mattress and carry on with life as usual.

deito-me para sofrer menos, refugiada nas lembranças para não ter de tomar decisões na vida, mergulhar no passado para não enfrentar o futuro. Ou para entender o presente? É tão vazio o meu presente. O conflito, por menor que seja, hoje em dia desgasta-me demasiado. Prefiro vegetar.

Esclavas nuevas, ideas viejas

What place would that be, a whole world without roads? It was a panicking thought. A world without roads! He would go nowhere in such a place. He would be trapped where he was, he would have lived out his life only where he was born.

But not making a decision is actually a decision. It's the decision to stay the same.

But not making a decision is actually a decision. It's the decision to stay the same. And staying the same when I know I need to change is a choice that carries consequences with it.

not making a decision is actually a decision. It's the decision to stay the same. And staying the same when I know I need to change is a choice that carries consequences with it.

She only sends us challenges when we're not growing fast enough," Vasiht'h said. "So let's just say that we're making up for centuries of stagnation.

I do not know what I regret. I sit with my pen, and cannot find an end to that sentence.

En cuanto formamos una opinión o un juicio, nos estancamos; nos esclavizamos.