Stagnant Quotes

Everyone wants to learn something; maybe not everyone makes the effort, because they get discouraged. I certainly was like that as a teenager in Brooklyn, always trying to hide my ignorance. But you have to find the strength to acknowledge that ignorance within yourself, otherwise you are going to remain stagnant. I learnt a valuable lesson with Ridley Scott. My agent kept insisting that I go watch the show-reel of this commercial director and I kept turning him down, thinking there was no way that I was even going to consider working with a commercial director. In the end I saw his reel and I was blown away by how great it was.

We continue to be far from that mark here in New Jersey. Once again, a confluence of pressures, ranging from inadequate payments from governmental payers to a growing number of uninsured all contributed to the stagnant bottom lines.

Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.

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

I understand the frustrations out there, and the results were unacceptable. We are no longer stagnant. We`re moving forward at a pretty good pace.

Consistency is the quality of a stagnant mind.

The old, subjective, stagnant, indolent and wretched life for woman has gone. She has as many resources as men, as many activities beckon her on. As large possibilities swell and inspire her heart.

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

At middle age, a guy might feel his life is stagnant, with too much predictability, stability and certainty. At 25, however, a common feeling is that there`s too much unpredictability, instability and uncertainty,

West Nile develops in stagnant water,

Our economy is stagnant; we need to create more jobs and promote economic growth, ... We need to expand access to health care, enact a patients` bill of rights, and adopt a real prescription drug benefit for our seniors.