It doesn't look like stagnation to me.

Every man finds his limitations, Mr. Holmes, but at least it cures us of the weakness of self-satisfaction.

Within predictability resides a soothing agent of sorts…to where remaining stagnant and status quo is the only obvious choice for some.

We're going to be facing in 2006, 2007, I'd say at best stagnation. It's an industry where you have to move all the time. You have to question yourself all the time. You have to challenge the way you're doing business all the time.

Motivation is the fuel that drives the engine towards the destination of salvation and stagnation is the sludge that cripples to damnation.

The poor man retains the prejudices of his forefathers without their faith, and their ignorance without their virtues; he has adopted the doctrine of self-interest as the rule of his actions, without understanding the science which puts it to use; and his selfishness is no less blind than was formerly his devotedness to others. If society is tranquil, it is not because it is conscious of its strength and its well-being, but because it fears its weakness and its infirmities; a single effort may cost it its life. Everybody feels the evil, but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure. The desires, the repinings, the sorrows, and the joys of the present time lead to no visible or permanent result, like the passions of old men, which terminate in impotence.