Quotes About Stagnation

With knowledge there is no hope,... without hope I would sit motionless, rusting like unused armor.

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If Bangladesh succumbs to the rule of one family, it would be a major step backward for the region.

If I see another game that involves a kidnapped princess, queen, king or other royal family member, I'll scream. In the same vein, I think the karate genre has been done to death.

In a stagnant environment the body-mind creates its own adversity – disease and fantasy.

It appears that my worst fears have been realised: we have made progress in everything yet nothing has changed.

The only thing I fear more than change is no change. The business of being static makes me nuts.

One of my greatest fears is not being able to change, to be caught in a never-ending cycle of sameness. Growth is so important.

The status quo is persistent and resistant. It exists because everyone wants it to. Everyone believes that what they've got is probably better than the risk and fear that come with change.

You have the power to change almost everything in your life, but you also have the power not to change anything.

Sometimes you may wonder why you aren't moving forward in life, not because you don't want to. But because the people in your surroundings you consider friends aren't moving at all.

I learned that the richness of life is found in adventure. . . . It develops self-reliance and independence. Life then teems with excitement. There is stagnation only in security.

But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.

There are a group of people that wake up everyday and go to work to learn nothing, get nowhere and wonder when and how things will ever change.

nothing is more limited than vice. In that sense one can really use a common expression and say that one is always turning in the same vicious circle. "How

Si mucho te contentas con el orden, se dice, te vas convirtiendo en piedra.

Healthy science needs a combination of humility and hope: humility to accept the extent of our ignorance and hope that new discoveries will illuminate the current darkness. However, when we are at the edge of knowledge and data is not forthcoming, well-grounded speculation is the only strategy at our disposal. Without imagination science stagnates.

The problem is that when government controls the economy, those who can influence government keep winning, and everybody else just stays the same.

Time in dreams is frozen. You can never get away from where you've been.

Perhaps the biggest tragedy of our lives is that freedom is possible, yet we can pass our years trapped in the same old patterns.

Humility means freedom. It provides growth and takes you out of the cycle of change that you are currently in, which is stagnation.

Nothing is more limiting than a closed circle of acquaintanceship where every avenue of conversation has been explored and social exchanges are fixed in a known routine.

You're like a dull knife, it just ain't cutting.

Why do they call it "rush hour" when nothing moves?