In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still.
Making no decision is a decision. To do nothing. And doing nothing always brings you to nowhere.
The man who starts out going nowhere, generally gets there.
There is still nothing on the proverbial scoreboard.
I seem to have run in a great circle, and met myself again on the starting line.
If there's not any endgame, we're in quicksand. We take one more step, and we're still there, and there's no way out.
Nobody is going anywhere in 10 years.
Reality is a staircase going neither up nor down, we don't move; today is today, always is today.
Yet here I stand poor fool what more, not one wit wiser than before.
I've been on the road since 1983. Nothing ever changed, even when I was doing TV and movies.
If we keep doing what we're doing, we're going to keep getting what we're getting.
I'd reached the point at West Brom where I'd play well, score goals, set up goals and nothing would come from it. I'd go home, come back the next day and everything would be the same. No reward, no response.
The Cul-de-Sac ( French for "dead end" ) ... is a situation where you work and work and work and nothing much changes
Make the best of every moment. We're not evolving. We're not going anywhere.
There have always been a large class of thinkers who deny that the world makes any progress. They say we move in a circle; that evils are never conquered, but only change their forms.
In art there is no progress, only fluctuations of intensity.
The art of living has no history: it does not evolve: the pleasure which vanishes vanishes for good, there is no substitute for it. Other pleasures come, which replace nothing. No progress in pleasures, nothing but mutations.
There was absolutely zero discourse between me or anybody at the studio with the NFL. None. The only exchange was one-sentence e-mails trying to arrange a meeting, before deciding to cancel the meeting. Period. End of story.
We have all the information in the universe at our fingertips, while our most basic problems go unsolved year after year...All around, we see dazzling technological change, but no progress.
The result was I went nowhere.
Nature gropes and blunders and performs the crudest acts. There is no steady advance upward. There is no design.
Nobody is in the process of making any changes that we can be specific about.
Nobody is going to move. Here is the story folks.
I don't think you can talk about progress in art - movement, but not progress. You can speak of a point on a line for the purpose of locating things, but it's a horizontal line, not a vertical one.
The world is not growing worse and it is not growing better - it is just turning around as usual.
