#decline

Agressive music can only shock you once. Afterwards its impact declines. It's inevitable. ↗

— Brian Eno

#agressive #declines #impact #inevitable #music

I decline all noisy, wordy, confused, and personal controversies. ↗

— Josiah Warren

#controversies #decline #i #noisy #personal

There is at least one point in the history of any company when you have to change dramatically to rise to the next level of performance. Miss that moment - and you start to decline. ↗

— Andy Grove

#change #company #decline #dramatically #history

I am studying ancient civilizations, trying to find what happened to them, finding out why they went into a decline, why they died. ↗

— L. Ron Hubbard

#ancient #civilizations #decline #died #find

It will take a long time, and certainly the West will remain the dominant civilization well into the next century, but the decline is occurring. ↗

— Samuel P. Huntington

#certainly #civilization #decline #dominant #into

If you were born in Britain after World War II, you see a continuous atmosphere of decline, moral and economic and political. ↗

— Stephen Bayley

#atmosphere #born #britain #continuous #decline

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#dawn #decline #feel #love #recognize

The poet Melvin B. Tolson once said, 'A civilization is judged only in its decline.' That made sense to me. I would imagine the same is true for poets and tennis players. ↗

— Nikki Giovanni

#decline #i #imagine #judged #made

If inflation-adjusted interest rates decline in a given country, its currency is likely to decline. ↗

— Ray Dalio

#currency #decline #given #interest #likely

Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#arts #been #birth #dance #decline