Lack of Progress Quotes

Verily, I do not want to be like the ropemakers: They drag out their threads and always walk backwards.

For me, I haven't succeeded in any way whatsoever.

Stagnation is something worse than death. It is corruption, also.

That path leads ever down into stagnation.

The latter qualification brings to mind a fellow who applied for a job and stated he had twenty years of experience-which was corrected by a former employer to read "one year's experience-twenty times.

Do not conuse motion with progress. A rocking horse makes a creates a lot of motion but goes nowhere. We are facing a "rocking hourse Presidency".

Washington is designed not to solve problems. Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.

No change, no chance.

Talking heads will chatter, argue, and rant on TV and in the houses of Congress but that's all they will do. Weeks and months will go by in which the crowning achievement of Congress may be little more than perhaps passing a bill to declare National Eat Your Spinach Week (sponsored, of course, by the Spinach Growers of America).

All he cares about is going out there with his Jack Daniels bottle. Nothing has changed. That's kind of sad. If David was doing better than he used to be, then that would be different. But it was a joke and he made it that way.

If we fail to adapt, we fail to move forward.

Many a false step is made standing still.

They weren't moving. Perhaps I was dazzling then with my ineptitude. It had happened before.

I am not disgruntled. I am frustrated at a lack of leadership. I am frustrated at a lack of urgency to get a head start on developing lifesaving tools for Americans. I'm frustrated at our inability to be heard as scientists. Those things frustrate me.

The CIA is a stilted bureaucracy incapable of even the slightest bit of success.

When you stay too long in the same place, things and people go to pot on you, they rot and start stinking for your special benefit.

You have not succeeded in your experiments, that is all there is to it.

I have heard talk and talk, but nothing is done.

A leader without the vision, to strive to improve things, is no good. Then you will just stay put, you won't progress.

I just see a huge train wreck coming down. You and I have discussed this many times, and I don't see any results yet.

Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress.

Nobody is going anywhere in 10 years.

Behind the cameras, there's a different problem, which I think is not unconscious gender bias. It's probably categorized more as conscious gender bias. Because everybody's known the numbers for decades. Nobody's stunned to hear there are very few female directors, only 4 or 7 percent. Everybody knows, but it doesn't change anything. It doesn't make people say, "Wow! We should change that." Nothing happens. It's utterly stagnant.

Sir, the slowness of genius is hard to bear, but the slowness of mediocrity is insufferable.

I've made more mistakes than anyone I know. Sometimes I learned something, and sometimes I just find myself doing it again. It makes me mad when I wasn't smart enough to learn the first time. You just think it's going to be different the next time, and it's not, as it turns out.