Quotes About Stagnation

Looking back, I see now that I accepted as normal the toxic gridlock and learned helplessness our political system teaches.

Blame is like ice-it freezes an issue without changing it.

Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity… even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind. — LEONARDO DA VINCI

Take what you see on TV, mix in a guy who's turned 30 and still doesn't have a job, throw in some Uncle Remus stories and add a few flies in amber and you have America.

Their business here was over then, and they all knew it; the magic moment had arrived when it was understood that nothing more would be established, discovered, or decided today. But the meeting, having once begun, must drag on for several long more hours before it could be ended. The engines of protocol had enormous inertial mass; once set in motion they took forever to grind to a stop.

Even though I've changed a lot in here, I'm going back to a world that hasn't changed.

He said that I have to remember that even though I've changed a lot in here, I'm going back to a world that hasn't changed.

I'm twenty-eight years old and I hate my life. I never have the time or the energy to work out how to change it. On Sundays I trail round a museum to keep warm, or lose myself in a library book, or fiddle with the wireless. But Monday's already looming. And always I've got this panicky feeling inside, because I know I'm getting nowhere, just keeping myself alive. Tacked

God and the devil lose to a common enemy: inertia.

Few things are sadder than encountering a person who knows exactly what he should do, yet cannot muster enough energy to do it. "He who desires but acts not," wrote Blake with his accustomed vigor, "breeds pestilence.

Few things are sadder than encountering a person who knows exactly what he should do, yet cannot muster enough energy to do it. "He who desires but acts not," wrote Blake with his accustomed vigor, "Breeds pestilence.

You people work together to make sure nothing ever changes. Sho ga nai. Sho ga nai. That's all I ever hear.

They begged me not to quit. But they didn't offer to change anything.

This arcane system has been in place, unchanged, for over a hundred years. It contains no procedure for modification, no avenue for improvement or reform. Complaining or resisting is taboo. As noted, I had been trying to initiate changes in the system since I was fifteen. To no avail.

Our bleak reality was now apparent: we couldn't leave and we couldn't change partners.

Para un árbol, cambiar de sitio es la muerte; para un hombre, cambiar de sitio es la vida.

A world where players have enough power to block everyone else's initiatives but no one has the power to impose its preferred course of action is a world where decisions are not taken, taken too late, or watered down to the point of ineffectiveness. Without

A world where players have enough power to block everyone else's initiatives but no one has the power to impose its preferred course of action is a world where decisions are not taken, taken too late, or watered down to the point of ineffectiveness.

Un mundo en el cual todos tienen el poder suficiente para impedir las iniciativas de los demás, pero en el que nadie tiene poder para imponer una línea de actuación, es un mundo donde las decisiones no se toman, se toman demasiado tarde o se diluyen hasta resultar ineficaces.

Selfishness is a state of stagnation.

We stay in the same old situations because we're comforted by the familiar, even if the familiar is terrible.

We took modest steps, and then did nothing to strengthen them as time went on, even as the science increasingly indicated that we needed to. We went on faith that the market would do its "magic.

Under a good administration, the Nile gains on the desert. Under a bad one, the desert gains on the Nile.

Like adults throughout history Jebel then just stood there unable to think of anything else to say.