Stagnation Quotes
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Happiness, to some, is elation; to others it is mere stagnation.
Amy Lowell -
We believe that the developing crisis in the capitalist system, by which we mean both economic stagnation, and the social and political conflicts to which it gives rise, makes it possible to think in terms of developing a sizeable and serious revolutionary socialist party in a way that was not possible 20 or even 10 years ago.
Anthony Crosland
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Stagnation is something worse than death. It is corruption, also.
William Gilmore Simms -
If we didn’t have finance, though? Forget the 1970s—try the 1270s. Economic progress emerges from the intelligent combination of capital and innovation. Remove capital from the equation—and the financial markets that accumulate and direct that capital into the hands of innovators—and the result is poverty and stagnation.
Yaron Brook -
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.
Willard Scott -
But still at that particular level of commercialism I listen to those projects I still hear some stagnation in a lot of the stuff.
Keith Matthew Thornton -
If we didn't have deadlines, we'd stagnate.
Walt Disney -
The other is stagnation. I do not need to spell out what that alternative will mean in detail: You have experienced most of it during the years that followed immediately after the war.
Javier Solana
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Inspiration without perspiration leads to frustration and stagnation.
Bill Bright -
Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
Seneca the Younger -
I see by the papers that you have once more stirred that pool of intellectual stagnation, the educational convention.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton -
My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.
Arthur Conan Doyle -
Agitate! Agitate! Ought to be the motto of every reformer. Agitation is the opposite of stagnation - the one is life, the other death.
Ernestine Rose -
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.
Heather Donahue
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My mind rebels at stagnation, give me problems, give me work!
Arthur Conan Doyle -
Income inequality and wage stagnation finally took their place among the principal moral issues of our time.
David Rolf -
The unique danger today is the possibility that we may face longer-term stagnation as a consequence of relying too heavily on borrowed money.
Mortimer Zuckerman -
A certain kind of shittiness, a certain kind of stagnation, a certain kind of darkness, goes on propagating itself by its own power in its own self-contained cycle. And once it passes a certain point, no one can stop it-even if the person himself wants to stop it.
Haruki Murakami -
These same experiences make of the sequence of life cycles a generational cycle, irrevocably binding each generation to those that gave it life and to those for whose life it is responsible. Thus, reconciling lifelong generativity and stagnation involves the elder in a review of his or her own years of active responsibility for nurturing the next generations, and also in an integration of earlier-life experiences of caring and of self-concern in relation to previous generations.
Erik Erikson -
Anything is better than stagnation.
Arthur Conan Doyle