Stagnant thinking Quotes

I think that the people who are the loudest about wanting to change you are the people with the least amount of vision and creativity.

At a certain age some people's minds close up; they live on their intellectual fat.

The moment you get comfortable is the moment you get stagnant, so I want to make sure I keep evolving.

To rest upon a formula is a slumber that, prolonged, means death.

And you're figuring out who you are, and you haven't yet become stagnant in your thinking. You haven't solidified. And one thing that I find is that a lot of grown-ups tend to look back on their high school or middle school years and say, "Oh, thank God all that's over."

Psychosclerosis: the hardening of the attitude which causes a person to cease dreaming, seeing, thinking, and leading.

The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

Tradition, long conditioned thinking, can bring about a fixation, a concept that one readily accepts, perhaps not with a great deal of thought.

Some go to sleep in an organization and never wake up, and those who do wake up put them selves to sleep again by joining another. This acquisitive movement is called expansion of thought, progress.

If thou would'st have that stream of hard-earn'd knowledge, of Wisdom heaven-born, remain sweet running waters, thou should'st not leave it to become a stagnant pond.

If perfection is stagnation, then Heaven is a swamp.

But then you become closed. Then you start dying as far as your intelligence is concerned because intelligence needs the open sky, the wind, the air, the sun in order to grow, to expand, to flow. To remain alive it needs a constant flow; if it becomes stagnant it becomes slowly slowly a dead phenomenon.

Stale water is a poor drink. Stale skill is worse. And the man who walks in his own footsteps only ends where he began.

There is nothing as dull as an intellectual ally after a certain age.

Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

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

We walk ourselves into ruts so deep we cannot see over them.

The people's desires have changed, but we're still stuck in our old issue set.

It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness.