Quotes About Stagnation

the fact that the visual experience before me was exactly the same as it has been for sixteen years.

Dac? pe drumul pe care îl urmezi de mult? vreme, o maÈ™in? se opreÈ™te s? te ia, asta nu poate schimba decât ora sosirii, nu poate explica È™i motivul pentru care ai apucat-o în direcÈ›ia aceea.

Nothing moves at the Hotel New Hampshire! We're screwed down here-for life!

As Nora had also said, "Nothing will change." She meant the Catholic Church and the Republicans, but—according to Em—the Republicans would get worse.

We would note that ruins don't change a lot: what capacity for change is in a ruin has usually been exhausted in the considerable process of change undergone in order for the ruin to become a ruin. Once becoming a ruin, a ruin stays pretty much the same.

When your job's to make sure nothing ever happens," he'd once heard, "you begin to see nothing happening

What would bring the Confederacy to an inglorious end was the same thing that had so foolishly created it a rigidity of thought, a clinging to old ways, a refusal to adapt and change.

New Orleans is, on the other hand, a comfortable metropolis which has a certain apathy and stagnation which I find inoffensive.

the prevailing paradigm tends to freeze progress

When civilization stands at the edge of a cliff, a step forward doesn't make much sense.

While progress should never come to a halt, there are many places it should never come to at all.

It is dangerous to maintain equality at the cost of placing the pieces passively.

Experience is a form of paralysis.

You have not had thirty years' experience . . . You have had one year's experience 30 times.

I'm the type of girl who always dreams about being free, but does nothing to move towards that goal.

To be depressed is, very simply, to be stopped short in one's life.

It was an endless cycle--put one thing away, pick another up anew. You see what I'm saying? There's no evolution, no chance for growth.

We do not always allow ourselves to work through pain. More often than not, we think pain is a signal that we must stop, rather than find its source. Our souls do not like stagnation. Our souls aspire toward growth, that is, toward remembering all that we have forgotten due to our trip to this place, the earth. In this context, a body in pain is a soul in longing.

Wer rastet, rostet - what rests, rusts.

especially as the freshness of new initiatives gave way to the inevitability of routine.

Det som hadde begynt som en feber to år tidligere, var nå blitt nesten kaldt som is.

The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.

His progress was more lateral than forward.

Nobody changes. Nobody gets hurt.