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Most of us plateau when we lose the tension between where we are and where we ought to be.
I was a peaceful sedentary man, a lover of a quiet life, with no appetite for perils and commotions. But I was beginning to realise that I was very obstinate.
Get busy livin', or get busy dyin'. If you're not growing, you're contracting. If you're not moving forward, you're moving backward.
When you stand still, you reject the struggle, and you refuse to change and grow. Ultimately, you reject fulfillment, happiness, the dance for joy and everything else that is eternally good.
Staying stagnant is not okay.
Take rest; a field that has rested gives a beautiful crop.
Freeze or panic.
Anything less than such proactivity is a cheap imitation of the life you were meant to live. It's stalling.
Savour a slow-paced contented life.
Isn't there something between stagnation and heading somewhere?" "Like?" "Like having a nice time. Enjoy the day and all that?
Our souls do not like stagnation. Our souls aspire toward growth, that is, toward remembering all that we have forgotten due to our trip to this place, the earth.
Sluggish idleness
the nurse of sin.
Mediocrity will stop at nothing.
My ambition is handicapped by laziness
Continue to grow and evolve.
Do nothing which is of no use
Stasis, Iseult det Midenzi told herself for the thousandth time since dawn. Stasis in your fingers and in your toes.
Stasis is something that has marked my life since I was a boy growing up in Pittsburgh with my mother. It was the natural state that we existed in. For one thing, she suffered from a debilitating depression throughout my childhood, and depression is nothing if not static.
Never quit-- persist.
You guard against decay, in general, and stagnation, by moving, by continuing to move.
I had some downtime with my career and ... I got complacent.
Procrastinate strategically ... Procrastination may be the enemy of productivity but it can be a valuable resource for creativity.
It is well to lie fallow for a while.
Rest in reason. Move in Passion.
We have to push ourselves to stillness - to the natural state.
It is an unfortunate reality for innate idlers that our modern world requires one to hold a job to maintain a sustainable existence. Idling, I find, if immensely underrated, even vilified by some who see inactivity as the gateway for the Evil One.
When the goal seems difficult to reach, take a break but never give up.
When there's nothing to do, you do nothing slowly and intently.
Arise,awake,stop not until your goal is achieved.
There's no staying where you were. If you're not doing anything, your skills and point of view are atrophying.
Doing nothing requires effort. Over time, that effort is greater than the effort necessary to improve, or move somewhere better. The trick is to redirect energy.
Never surrender to the momentum of mediocrity.
"You will accomplish a lot more with movement than you will with motivation." So MOVE. Create action. Make plans and stick to them. But above all: Cut Out The Input, And Begin The Output ...
Focus on stillness, rather than on movement
Idleness is seductive.
Just relax and do nothing, it says.
Thus far, you have indeed not been sluggish, but you must quicken your pace. Much toil remains; to confront it, you must yourself lavish all your waking hours, and all your efforts, if you wish the result to be accomplished.
Concentrate your energy and hoard your strength.
The present generation, wearied by its chimerical efforts, relapses into complete indolence. Its condition is that of a man who has only fallen asleep towards morning: first of all come great dreams, then a feeling of laziness, and finally a witty or clever excuse for remaining in bed.
Idleness and complacency lead to mediocrity.
Regress towards progress - Dr Wannamaker
Keep not standing fixed and rooted. Briskly venture, briskly roam.
I try to procrastinate, if I can, productively, like I'll work on something else as procrastination. Or I take a walk. Because often I find, if you get out, more things come to you.
Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old - old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.
Let movement go on, and the condition of rest will gradually arise.
One cannot rest except after steady practice.
Get out of that comfortable rut.
It is customary to complain of the bustle and strenuousness of our epoch. But in truth the chief mark of our epoch is a profound laziness and fatigue; and the fact is that the real laziness is the cause of the apparent bustle.
In idleness there is a perpetual despair.
Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation.
Stay the course. When thwarted try again; harder; smarter. Persevere relentlessly.
How comfortable some of us become as we nestle in the web of procrastination. It is a false haven of rest for those who are content to live without purpose, commitment, or self-discipline.
Without action to back them, your affirmations become the soundtrack of your personal imprisonment; the creed of your stagnancy.
Do not waste time idling or thinking after you have set your goals
Inspiration without perspiration leads to frustration and stagnation.
The moment a man ceases to progress, to grow higher, wider and deeper, then his life becomes stagnant.
The problem with lethargy is that doing nothing validates the fear that nothing can be done.
Postpone joy, it will diminish. Postpone a problem, it will grow.
Focus Your Efforts
Stay focused; leave everything and do something
Idleness and timidity often despair without being overcome, and forbear attempts for fear of being defeated; and we may promote the invigoration of faint endeavors, by showing what has already been performed.
It's easy to get stagnate, if you play the same character. In New Moon, I felt like I was going a little bit deeper.
The clear and safe path leads evermore into stagnation
When we are honest about the limitations we are self imposing it becomes necessary to cry out with determination and state you've had enough of the mediocrity of stagnation.
Continue to spur a running horse.
A life has to move or it stagnates.
When we hold back out of laziness, that is when we tie ourselves into knots of boredom.
I would like to sit still for a while but I'm restless you know and sitting still is only an ideal like celibacy and complete cleanliness.
Free your mind from routine, keep your brain somewhere else
Let go of your old tired habits and plant new habits in fertile soil.
Cease to be a drudge. Seek to be an artist.
This was what happened when you spent months locked away from the world: you regressed.
Tear thyself from delay.
Some days, I simply persist.
Complacency is the forerunner of mediocrity. You can never work too hard on attitudes, effort and technique.
Concentrate on something useful. Having decided to achieve a task, achieve it at all costs.
Monotony reveals our limitations.
Let it be virtuous to be obstinate.
Don't pass on your passions, to settle in the stale normality. Endure. Strive. Ensure.
The day, like the previous days, dragged sluggishly by in a kind of insipid idleness, devoid even of that dreamy expectancy which can make idleness so enchanting.
Life stand still here.
Arise, awake, stop not till the goal is reached.
procrastination,
Surrender to the flow.
Write or perish in the banality of mediocrity!
At the center of a man's purpose rests the hunger for competition, war, chaos, and calmness. You take it away, there is nothing but a self-reflection of stagnation for him.
Motivate the mind and set your body free!
Restlessness is a fickle catalyst; it can drive you to achieve or it can coax your demise, and sometimes the choice isn't yours
Repose without stagnation is the state most favorable to happiness. "The great felicity of life," says Seneca, "is to be without perturbations.
Could one start a Stagnation Party-which at General Elections would boast that during its term of office no event of the least importance had taken place?
Build gaps in your life. Pauses. Proper pauses.
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.
There is still something in everything I do that defeats me, makes me dissatisfied, challenges me to further effort. Sometimes I rise above my level, sometimes I fall below it, but always I fall short of the things I dream.
Do not falter or shrink; But just think out your work, And just work out your think.
Effortlessness is the key to success. Don't fight. Don't try hard. Just allow yourself to sit. This relaxing way of sitting is also resting. Allow your body to rest.
When I'm not creating something, I get bored; I despair.
Complacency is a continuous struggle that we all have to fight.
With no goals, no priorities, no life strategy of our own, we drift with the herd through an endless meadow of mediocrity, unable to break loose, to achieve even a small part of the dreams we once cherished.
Before you procrastinate, begin.
Before you begin, plan.
Before you plan, visualize.
Before you visualize, dream.
Power immobilizes; it freezes with a single gesture-grandiose, terrible, theatrical, or finally, simply monotonous-the variety which is life.
Endure. In enduring, grow strong.