Top 210 Stagnant Quotes & Sayings

If you withdraw into yourself, you run the risk of becoming egocentric. And stagnant water becomes putrid.

Idleness is emptiness; the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless.

I can tell you, without diversity, creativity remains stagnant.

In a stagnant environment the body-mind creates its own adversity – disease and fantasy.

Shows than run for years together make you stagnant.

Pain is inevitable. It is actually a great opportunity for growth, but when we blame or fail to take responsibility for our suffering, the pain becomes stagnant, and stagnant pain can have a compounding effect if left unchecked.

As with mosquitoes, horseflies, and most bloodsucking parasites, Kenneth Starr was spawned in stagnant water.

I feel at times I get stagnant, and I don't want to.

Failure can only exist from stagnant perceptions. Everything is a process of learning and if you learn something useful, you have success.

I can't stand being stagnant. Every day is a new opportunity to achieve something, even on a small scale.

The mind becomes withered, stagnant, narrow and closed unless it searches for new ideas.

Consistency is the quality of a stagnant mind.

When people refuse to speak out for too long, it's like water that's stagnant and starts to rot!

Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour: England hath need of thee: she is a fen Of stagnant waters.

I feel like animation's stagnant. There's not much that's trying to push the artform, and so, for me, I'm way too critical about it.

Happiness consists in activity. It is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.

I'm somebody who constantly wants to challenge himself, evolve, and grow. Because if you don't, you fade. You become stagnant.

The main message of it is to not get stagnant and that God wants us to continue to grow and become a better person.

As a heavy rainstorm freshens the water of a sluggish or stagnant stream and whips it into immediate action, so does the Pilates Methods purify the bloodstream.

You have to grow. I can't be the same person I was at 18; otherwise, I'd be stagnant.

It's true that redistributing income to the needy is politically easier in a growing economy than in a stagnant one.

Just as iron rusts from disuse, and stagnant water putrefies, or when cold turns to ice, so our intellect wastes unless it is kept in use.

Film can become stagnant as a medium.

We have stagnant wages in America. We have stagnant, even declining net worth in this country. That's part of something that's much larger than any single individual. And that is something that is way above my pay grade, to be able to deal with, but it's something I deal with on a daily basis. All my life, from the time that I was very small, my feeling was always, that there's a moral dimension to life. And it's not the moralistic dimension to life, that we often hear about, that's rather church-y or whatever.

Staying stagnant is not okay.

If you're not learning, then you're stagnant. If you're stagnant, then you're not evolving and the business isn't progressing.

Large, centralized organizations foster alienation like stagnant ponds breed algae.

Personality is reduced and deformed with depleted thoughts and stagnant mind.

I think the Catholic and Protestant churches have become very stagnant.

Meditation is like a giant broom for sweeping away any stagnant or blocked energy that you may have buried deep in your body.

We all know what happens with socialized medicine: rationing and stagnant care.

If you ever feel comfortable in what you're producing, you've lost. You're not alive, that's it, it's stagnant water.

The truth is the middle class is not only stagnant but it is my fear that, without sustained and focused action, it is at risk of disappearing.

Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one.

France's economy is stagnant, statist, and uncompetitive and urgently needs reform.

In a time where the middle class is squeezed by stagnant incomes and rising health care costs, Ben Carson looks like he cares.

While prices of goods continue to rise, American worker's wages remain stagnant.

How stagnant and tepid the whole British political scene is now is just beyond belief.

Religion itself becomes offensively monotonous. On every point of vantage are pagodas -- stupid stalagmites of stagnant piety.

Teachers who are not actively involved in the learning process themselves, force their students to drink from stagnant water

When money, rather than innovation or value, is your competitive advantage, that's when things get boring and stagnant, and monopolies take root.

I don't like being stagnant. I want to continue to grow and just be better at what I do, and the only way to do that is to keep stepping outside of your comfort zone.

If we can forgive, it will help us to grow and not remain stagnant in the same place. Then we can move on without animosity and hurt feelings.

Jazz, I mean, music will always move, because it can't become stagnant. Because if it becomes stagnant, it's like a river, it'll kill us all. It has to keep moving, music will always flow.

In History, stagnant waters, whether they be the stagnant waters of custom or those of despotism, harbour no life; life is dependent on the ripples created by a few eccentric individuals. In homage to that life & vitality, the community has to brave certain perils and must countenance a measure of heresy. One must live dangerously if one wants to live at all.

The zooming wealth of the top 1 percent is a problem, but it's not nearly as big a problem as the tens of millions of Americans who have dropped out of high school or college. It's not nearly as big a problem as the 40 percent of children who are born out of wedlock. It's not nearly as big a problem as the nation's stagnant human capital, its stagnant social mobility and the disorganized social fabric for the bottom 50 percent.

Nothing, I believe, is so full of life under the microscope as a drop of water from a stagnant pool.

When the homebrewers stop entering the profession, and the backyard breweries are squeezed out, then it will become stagnant.

The moment a man ceases to progress, to grow higher, wider and deeper, then his life becomes stagnant.

Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool.

A society should never become like a pond with stagnant water, without movement. That's the most important thing.

If we set our priority "the removal of all risk", we'll soon have sterile, stagnant, and unstimulating learning environments.

Slater soaks into the mind as water into low and marshy places, where it becomes stagnant and offensive.

The same energy not allowed to move becomes stagnant, stale, creates sadness

Moneyball' doesn't have anything to do with on-base percentage or statistics. It's a constant investigation of stagnant systems, to see if you can find value where it isn't readily apparent.

We all know growth is absolutely vital to a free society. No one should want Australia to be a stag-nation: a nation with a stagnant economy and stagnant aspirations.

I don't wanna get old and stagnant and hang around.

Online games for data-mining have a short virtual shelf life. People get bored, especially if the game seems stagnant.

Postwar Europe was morally stagnant, and there was a lot of neo-conservatism.

Most of the pollution in the water already is dead animal and plant matter and building debris, ... good stagnant nursery for mosquitoes.