Quotes About Stagnation

He shrugged, facing the fire. "But we are all creatures of habit. It is far too easy to stay in the familiar ruts we dig for ourselves.

But we are all creatures of habit. It is far too easy to stay in the familiar ruts we dig for ourselves. Perhaps I even viewed it as fair.

we are all creatures of habit. It is far too easy to stay in the familiar ruts we dig for ourselves.

It was too small a step, somehow, too puny a thing to settle for after having lost so much. So the courtship continued, and the more Tom came to despise his job, the more stubbornly he defended his own inertia; and the more inert he became, the more he despised himself.

If people are living the same as always, with their bellies full of food, they'll just go on the same way. If they get hungry and unhappy enough, something happens.

Most ardent reformers are accompanied by but equal portion of dullness . John Quincy Adams

Such people are not known for their sense of humour and lightness of touch; they rarely break a smile. To them, change is always suspect and usually damnable, and they hardly ever contribute to human development.

Chronic victims aren't up to that challenge, and their resentments are their excuse for staying emotionally where they are.

Activist government overreach and ongoing economic stagnation have shown us why Washington should not try to displace what is best left to civil society.

So here's the question: Without a change in leadership, why would the next four years be any different from the last four years?

Cavett: What makes you stuck? Simon: Well, everywhere I went led me to where I didn't want to be, so I was stuck.

Beige is the color of indecision

I change by not changing at all.

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

There can be nothing more sterile than an extended conversation between two people who basically agree. If we basically disagreed we'd be getting somewhere.

I thought the best thing to do would be nothing, and in that way things couldn't get any worse.

There are an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.

There is an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.

A large part of evolution is interaction. Isolation is not evolution; it is stagnation.

but whereas her contemporaries were thickening out, ready for their century of toil on the land, she remained slim and agile.

And I realize that maybe not so much has changed as we all thought, that maybe the whole idea of progress is a paradox, a rocking horse that goes forward and back, forward and back, but stays in the same place, giving only the comforting illusion of motion.

Wir verkümmern, lieber Herr Doktor, weil wir nur noch meinen und nicht mehr denken.

Describing Endora is like dancing to no music. It's a town where nothing much ever happens, and nothing much ever will.

G]radually, skillfully, [Parmenides] conjures up the image of us humans as stuck at this place where the road divides—unable to decide between the two paths, incapable even of seeing what the choice involves, just dithering in the space in between.