#stagnation

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

— Paul Ryan

#best #civil #civil society #displace #economic

[...] endless action and reaction. Those beautifully rounded pebbles which you gather on the sand and which you hold in your hand and marvel at their exceeding smoothness, were chiseled into their varies and graceful forms by the ceaseless action of countless waves. Nature is herself a great worker and never tolerates, without certain rebuke, any contradiction to her wise example. Inaction is followed by stagnation. Stagnation is followed by pestilence and pestilence is followed by death. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#nature-death #personal-growth #stagnation #work #beauty

What is the difference between a living thing and a dead thing? In the medical world, a clinical definition of death is a body that does not change. Change is life. Stagnation is death. If you don't change, you die. It's that simple. It's that scary. ↗

— Leonard Sweet

#death #life #living #stagnation #change

Fear stifles our thinking and actions. It creates indecisiveness that results in stagnation. I have known talented people who procrastinate indefinitely rather than risk failure. Lost opportunities cause erosion of confidence, and the downward spiral begins. ↗

— Charles Stanley

#begins #cause #confidence #creates #downward

The point is to keep trying new things, meeting new people, visiting new places. Once you settle into a rut, no matter how fun that rut may seem, you stagnate. You might as well be dead. ↗

— Lenore Appelhans

#life #stagnation #experience

My mind," he said, "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. I can dispense then with artificial stimulants. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation. That is why I have chosen my own particular profession, or rather created it, for I am the only one in the world. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#mind #mystery #rebellion #sherlock-holmes #stagnation

Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#does #even #inaction #iron #loses

I think Gadhafi is on the mark. And up until this point in time, I think they truly want to turn this around and become a positive player with the West after years and years of terrorism and stagnation. ↗

— Curt Weldon

#around #become #i #i think #mark

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. ↗

— Mariano Rajoy

#circumstances #country #critical #debt #deficit

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

#entertainment #how #illness #into #live