Stalled Progress Quotes

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".

The pain that's created by avoiding hard work is actually much worse than any pain created from the actual work itself. Because if you don't begin to work on those ideas that God has blessed you with, they will become stagnant inside of you and eventually begin to eat away at you. You might seem OK on the outside, but inside you will be ill from not getting those ideas out of your heart and into the world. Stalling leads to sickness. But taking steps, even baby steps, always leads to success.

I honestly believe that if you're not growing, then you are taking the space that somebody else would get if you moved forward.

So it's 1976 and we're still riding on our past success. I mean I've gone on like that for I don't know how long.

You hit those valleys sometimes and it's really frustrating. It's like getting stuck in traffic on the freeway. But there's not much you can do about it.

Delay has the odor of the Beltway.

Over the last 10 years, women have stalled out at the top.

I left 'Dr Who' after 18 months, as my character was going nowhere. In truth, I wished I had never gone into it. Afterwards, all the scripts that came my way were for 15-year olds.

I've started many novels, and they all ended on page seven.

I worry that our lives are like soap operas. We can go for months and not tune in to them, then six months later we look in and the same stuff is still going on.

Washington is not good at getting things done.

I was obviously in NXT for a while and had some success, but then I found myself lurking in the shadows and not really doing much.

So many entrepreneurs view their companies as their babies. They micromanage, and they stall.

Your game stalls when you assume you're the finished product.

We don't have time to wait for President Bush to change his mind. How many breakthroughs have been missed as a result of this policy?

I cannot summon up inspiration; I myself am summoned.

I've seen a lot of my friends go through different reality shows, and they just get caught up in a lot of stagnant positions, unfortunately.

I was too much of a victim of the model I created. I tried Change to Win and helping Obama, and then I just ran out of Andy Stern ideas.

There's a deep-freeze of sorts for all good intentions - a place that you store your plans to make changes in your life when you know you're not going to make them at all.

In Washington it's much easier to stop something than make something happen.

If things are not working out, they just stop going forward.

I think we felt like we'd done so much as young kids that we didn't know how to top ourselves. We were like, 'Is this where it ends? Is this as good as it gets? Maybe we're done. Throw in the towel.'

Sometimes, when there's too much traffic clogging up the road you need to take a different route. But following the same path as everyone else can stall your progress in reaching your investment goals too.