My hunch is that pop culture began to stagnate the moment Americans started to love the past more than they did the future.
It is an unfinished society that we offer the world-a society that is forever committed to change, to improvement and to growth, that will never stagnate in the certitude of ideology or the finalities of dogma.
The degree to which the opportunity to use power effectively is granted to or withheld from individuals is one operative difference between those companies which stagnate and those which innovate.
Thinking men cannot be ruled; ambitious men do not stagnate.
What I want is to be willing to fail rather than stagnate.
We probably stagnate our children's emotional growth by not letting them have some separation from us.
To keep always in the same place means to stagnate.
Science will stagnate if it is made to serve practical goals.
If we didn't have deadlines, we'd stagnate.
I have lived to know that the secret of happiness is never to allow your energies to stagnate.
Our minds, like our bodies, are in continual flux; something is hourly lost, and something acquired. . . . Do not suffer life to stagnate; it will grow muddy for want of motion: commit yourself again to the current of the world.
In general, the problem in a relationship is when the couple stagnate.
We are seeing a working-class, a middle class, which over the last three decades has seen their wages and income stagnate, while the very rich have seen their tax burden lighten in ways not seen in three or four decades. It's a face of a country that we need to look at and understand that inequality is perhaps the greatest threat to our economic recovery and democracy, and in that context we must take action.
Balance is the most important of all qualities. We don't want a little bit of rapid growth and then to stagnate. We want continual growth, continual development, which implies balance, always.
