Quotes About Stagnation

Nothing ever happens to me.

Science progresses. Ideology tends to linger unchanged, and often unquestioned.

TEKELI-LI. Tekeli-li, Tekeli-li. I got that from Pym. I got that from Poe. The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allan Poe, specifically. Pym that is maddening, Pym that is brilliance, Pym whose failures entice instead of repel. Pym that flows and ignites and Pym that becomes so entrenched it stagnates for hundreds of words at a time. A book that at points makes no sense, gets wrong both history and science, and yet stumbles into an emotional truth greater than both.

The Dark Ages never ended.

A kind of timidity can set in with familiarity. A fear of change. We can end up stuck in jobs we don't like, in unhealthy relationships, with similar unhelpful attitudes. We call this the "comfort zone" but often it is the opposite. A discomfort zone, a stagnation zone, an unfulfilled zone

Maybe even suicide would have been too active. Maybe in some lives you just float around and expect nothing else and don't even try to change. Maybe that was most lives.

Maybe in some lives you just float around and expect nothing else and don't even try to change.

an anchor fixes you in one place. And I am still not fixed. Could I just keep sailing through life for ever feeling like this? A boat has to stop eventually. It has to reach a port, a harbour, a destination, known or unknown. It has to get somewhere, and stop there, or what is the point of the boat?

Because it is a monopoly, government brings inefficiency and stagnation to most things it runs; government agencies pursue the inflation of their budgets rather than the service of their customers; pressure groups form an unholy alliance with agencies to extract more money from taxpayers for their members. Yet despite all this, most clever people still call for government to run more things and assume that if it did so, it would somehow be more perfect, more selfless, next time.

Taken all together, the whole thing is an ingenious system for inhibiting progress and the popular will. The deck is stacked just enough to make sure that nothing ever changes. But enough is left to chance to make sure that hope never completely dies out.

In practice, most people will exhibit a mix of tissue states—usually two, and sometimes three. Diseases often go through a progression of states. Opposites are often active: irritation/depression, constriction/relaxation, and atrophy/stagnation. In chronic cases, the organism seems to reduce to the least active: atrophy, torpor, and depression. The

History repeats itself because man remains at the same level of being—namely, he attracts again and again the same circumstances, feels the same things, says the same things, hopes the same things, believes the same things. And yet nothing actually changes. All the articles that were written in the last war are just the same as the articles written in this war, and will be for ever and ever. But what concerns us more is that the same idea applies to ourselves, to each individual person.

The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

In the carriages of the past you can't go anywhere.

You must daily have the courage to risk making mistakes, risk failure, risk being humiliated. A step in the wrong direction is better than staying 'on the spot' all your life. Once you're moving forward you can correct your course as you go. Your automatic guidance system cannot guide you when you're stalled, standing still.

Stao je u mrtvu vodu. Lijeno je mislio: more - staza bez prepreka, put bez granica, majka širine, otac slobodnog lutanja. Oti?i ?e morem u nepoznato. Jednom. Ostavi?e ovu vrelu kamenu liticu na kojoj i gušter izdiše, i ovu sprženu tvrdu travu bez sokova, oko koje se samo guje uvijaju, i ovu ružnu ku?u u kojoj radost zamire, i ovaj mrtvi kraj u kojem plemenitosti nema, ni ljubavi, ni želje ?ak.

The main difference in the speed of recovery between Argentina in post-2001 and Thailand in post-1997 crises is the exports. Fiscal discipline is necessary but not sufficient without export-driven economic growth. Too much debt can result in prolonged stagnation similar to the Japanese lost-decade of 1990s. With inflation risk on the rise, we could see more socioeconomic troubles and political unrest in economies with thin middle class. 2011-2012 will be challenging for many policy makers.

I open the journal now and pick up the pen, but I can't bring myself to write a word.

Do not bless all the changes; change must be progressive; if not, we must not call it as change; the correct name is deterioration or decaying! Beware of the changes! Any change which is not progressive is just a rotting!

Rocks do not have dreams and that's why they are condemned to stay in the same place! To move, you must have dreams!

Those that can't change even their toothbrush and pyjamas are trying to change the world! Let us be serious!

The people I'm stuck with in my life now aren't sucking the life out of me, they just suck.

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.

It's something else, something in me that wants things always to remain the same, always safe. It's a basic fear of life, I guess. I've never admitted that to anyone, and I guess I've never admitted it to myself, but it's the truth.