Stagnation Quotes


Happiness to some elation; Is to others mere stagnation.

The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation but false progress.

August depresses me a little. I don't even feel like eating. And when I don't eat that's a sure sign of stagnation.

The unique danger today is the possibility that we may face longer-term stagnation as a consequence of relying too heavily on borrowed money.

Agitate! Agitate! Ought to be the motto of every reformer. Agitation is the opposite of stagnation - the one is life the other death.

A lot of our entertainment throws into detail the stagnation and illness of how we live today-it's sad and it's sick... and it's profitable.

That path leads ever down into stagnation.

Too little liberty brings stagnation and too much brings chaos.

Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation.

Happiness to some is elation; to others it is mere stagnation.

My mind rebels at stagnation give me problems give me work!

And always he fought the temptation to choose a clear safe course warning 'That path leads ever down into stagnation.

Life is never stagnation. It is constant movement un-rhythmic movement as we as constant change. Things live by moving and gain strength as they go.

Unhappy is the fate of one who tries to win his battles and succeed in his attacks without cultivating the spirit of enterprise; for the result is waste of time and general stagnation.

Stagnation is something worse than death. It is corruption also.

For me there will be no enemies but unemployment the deficit excessive debt economic stagnation and anything else that keeps our country in these critical circumstances.

Could one start a Stagnation Party-which at General Elections would boast that during its term of office no event of the least importance had taken place?

A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people's experience runs the risk of not being understood.

The end of the Nineties was an unhappy Primus camp. I hit a creative stagnation that wasn't helping us forward and the personal elements it just was time to stop.

I think we're going to have some difficulty in front of us. I have absolutely no doubt the next three four years Europe are going to be at best stagnation. We are preparing for tough times.

Anything is better than stagnation.

War is progress peace is stagnation.

The antidote to stagnation is innovation.

Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.

Gotta keep moving; can't stop; stagnation kills.

The only absolute morality is absolute stagnation.

Committing oneself to a technique causes stagnation.

Inspiration without perspiration leads to frustration and stagnation.

If perfection is stagnation then Heaven is a swamp.

Encourage innovation. Change is our lifeblood stagnation our death knell.

A little alarm now and then keeps life from stagnation.

You guard against decay in general and stagnation by moving by continuing to move.

How do you fight the stagnation of monogamy and the monotony of time together?

The insistence of European leaders to austerity policies keeps the European economy strapped in stagnation.

You never can grow unless you change. So fear the stagnation and embrace the change.

We stand the risk of stagnation because you refused to take risks. So life demands risks.

Any revolution which denies the right to criticize is bound to wallow in stagnation and backwardness.

Income inequality and wage stagnation finally took their place among the principal moral issues of our time.

For too many the dream of economic mobility has been replaced with a nightmare of economic stagnation.

Peace without energy may be only stagnation; and energy without peace may be but a form of panic.

I see by the papers that you have once more stirred that pool of intellectual stagnation the educational convention.

You have the choice. You can choose joy over despair happiness over tears action over apathy growth over stagnation.

Every period ruled by mystics was an era of stagnation and want when most men were on strike against existence

The consequences of a lack of new knowledge is decades of stagnation: the next generation will be poorer than this one.

It is my hope that the pagan media and academic establishment will implode on the force of its own corruption and stagnation.

The worst curse to befall anyone is stagnation a banal existence the quiet desperation that comes out of a need for conformity.

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

But still at that particular level of commercialism I listen to those projects I still hear some stagnation in a lot of the stuff.

Starving the future to feed the present is a mistake - it leads to obsolescence and stagnation. Sometimes it is hard to make this understood.

there was no crime like the crime of stagnation - unproductiveness. With a creative trinity mind body and spirit one must yield something back to the generous earth.

If everybody floated with the tide of talk placidity would soon end in stagnation. It is the strong backward stroke which stirs the ripples and gives animation and variety.

Today is a time of turbulence and stagnation of threat and promise from a competitor: the magic omnivorous videocassette recorder (VCR). In other words it is business as usual.

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.

The marsh to him who enters it in a receptive mood holds besides mosquitoes and stagnation melody the mystery of unknown waters and the sweetness of Nature undisturbed by man.

All adventuring is rash and all innovations dangerous. But not nearly so dangerous as stagnation and dry rot. From grooves cliques clichés and resignation - Good Lord deliver us!

Without hard work time itself becomes an ally of the primitive forces of social stagnation. So we must help time and realize that the time is always ripe to do right.

No matter how efficient school training may be it would only produce stagnation orthodoxy and rigid pedantry if there were no uncommon men pushing forward beyond the wisdom of their tutors.

When I see our country's stagnation and economic woes I cannot help but think that we need a creative revolution that is embraced by business and endorsed by government and educators alike.

When we succumb to believing that we are victims of our circumstances and yield to the plight of determinism we lose hope we lose drive and we settle into resignation and stagnation.

Real median household incomes in the U.S. were basically the same in 1989 as in 2014. But we are also seeing similar challenges in the U.K. in the stagnation of real wages.

It's not as if socialism is a new idea. It was tried in the 20th century. It produced economic stagnation and despair. In its purest form it extinguished more than one hundred million people.