Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
Leonardo da Vinci
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Our economy is stagnant; we need to create more jobs and promote economic growth, ... We need to expand access to health care, enact a patients' bill of rights, and adopt a real prescription drug benefit for our seniors.
Steny Hoyer
Fifteen years ago the Tea Council was looking at a very stagnant market and they realized that something needed to be done to stimulate interest.
Joe Simrany
I thought our offense was a little stagnant at times in the first half. I don't know, maybe we were a little tired. Defensively, we played much better in the second half and came back.
Flava Sirk
It's not your first consideration, what my raises are going to look like. But once you realize, as a faculty member, that your pay is going to be quite stagnant, that the full professor down the hall is only earning sometimes less than you are, the writing is on the wall.
Christopher Keller
The leadership development and compensation committee has failed to align executive pay with performance in any meaningful way, as shareholders continue to be impacted by a long-stagnant share price.
Jason Ward
The poem has a social effect of some kind whether or not the poet wills it to have. It has kinetic force, it sets in motion . . . [ellipsis in source] elements in the reader that would otherwise be stagnant.
Denise Levertov
Our offense was stagnant again in the second half. We didn't have the movement that we talked about, the passing that we talked about or the shots that we were looking to get. Grove City's defense in the second half knocked us out. We had trouble getting our shots.
Todd Minney
They got some easy ones in transition and they played some good defense during that stretch. Our offense was a little bit stagnant.
Sean Foster
It's largely because the market is now reassessing the Japanese economy, and following seven years of stagnant, if not recessionary growth, you're now actually starting to see some positive numbers.
Maureen Mcfarland
Responsive leaders prefer knowledge and information to be spread as widely as possible among the population, because an informed public is necessary to govern effectively, independent thought produces original ideas and is the key factor by which we progress as a society. When independent thought is stifled society is and will remain stagnant until it is free to flourish once again.
Teresa Stover
It's about always showing new stuff. Do not become stagnant.
Leo Atkinson
Marketers trying to grow their business over the next 10 years can either target the stagnant 18-49 segment, or they can develop strategies to appeal to the fast-growing 50-plus segment.
Matt Thornhill
It's a unique team. We have great senior leadership and the kids have continued to get better and not stay stagnant.
Scott Fitch
There has been no global improvement on average. The average quality of governance worldwide has remained stagnant.
Daniel Kaufman
I understand the frustrations out there, and the results were unacceptable. We are no longer stagnant. We're moving forward at a pretty good pace.
Scott Morris
The German economy is on a longer-term path of recovery, helped by some gains in domestic demand. Germany may well be able to help lead the euro zone out of a period of fairly stagnant growth.
David Page
I recognize that I have asked for a lot of dramatic change out of my staff and that change is hard for some, particularly those who have worked in a stagnant bureaucracy for years.
Vincent Schiraldi
Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one.
John Sterling
That's why A.B. is the best basketball player in this part of the state. In the first half, he wanted to get everyone else into the flow, and we were a little stagnant.
Craig Swartout
Most of the pollution in the water already is dead animal and plant matter and building debris, ... good stagnant nursery for mosquitoes.
James Wright
Stagnant wages and skyrocketing healthcare, education and housing costs, plus greater job instability has pushed America's families right to the limit, and they're borrowing on high-cost credit just to make ends meet.
Tamara Draut
It has to be fluid -- unless we are completely brilliant or in a market that is completely stagnant. We make assumptions and we will be wrong but we need to build in the ability to be wrong. That is the difference between performance measurement and performance management.
Howard Dresner
We're a little stagnant on offense. We'll get better on that, and, hopefully, that will get better as SEC play goes.
Lauren Simms
You're kind of locked in with your square footage. Very few companies stay stagnant. A condo is not very liquid.
Russ Sampson
We were stagnant during the middle part of the game. They were able to get the tempo to their liking and we just didn't make the necessary adjustments.
Robb Berger
In the winter, areas of high pressure moving in create a stagnant environment where the air doesn't mix well, keeping the pollutants concentrated over the surface.
Sean Nolan
While all other sectors of the U.S. economy are growing, manufacturing employment is either stagnant or declining. We're losing the low-skilled, brawn-intensive manufacturing jobs to countries that offer abundant cheap labor, and the plants that remain tend to employ programmers and engineers that are skilled in today's technology.
Tom Dubin
We're being too stagnant on offense. We have to start taking what is there and play to the strength of our offense.
Lauren Simms
We got kind of stagnant offensively. We didn't get any dribble penetration. When they went into that zone we got stagnant. And it was too much Dion Sims.
Greg Esler
The game was stagnant. That's the way fast-pitch should be.
Chris Terry
Consistency is the quality of a stagnant mind.
John Sloan
Everyone sort of got stagnant. We weren't making the best passes that we could. I don't know if it was lack of focus or a little bit of nervousness, but when a team makes a run, you've got to respond. Sometimes it's hard to do that.
Alex Lewis
We got a bit stagnant with our zone offense and maybe we were a bit leg-weary. It would've been fun to get that one and get to the final game.
Jim Schmieding
We continue to be far from that mark here in New Jersey. Once again, a confluence of pressures, ranging from inadequate payments from governmental payers to a growing number of uninsured all contributed to the stagnant bottom lines.
Gary Carter
I think Ted Malinowski did a good job. He kept us off-balanced. We didn't make productive outs. Offensively, we got stagnant. We just didn't put things together.
Nathan Stevens
Shops and retailers in general won't rush to replenish their inventory. Commerce remains stagnant.
Tatiana Pinheiro
Miners are using 20-year old technology - it's been that long. In that stagnant period, the industry kind of died, and very little was being worked on.
Dennis O'dell
Youth should be radical. Youth should demand change in the world. Youth should not accept the old order if the world is to move on. But the old orders should not be moved easily -- certainly not at the mere whim or behest of youth. There must be clash and if youth hasn't enough force or fervor to produce the clash the world grows stale and stagnant and sour in decay.
William Allen White
It's frustrating to us because we have to see him like this. He's just stagnant now. It's like a bucket of water sitting there after the rain.
Kellie Boyd
The only thing disappointing was how stagnant we got late in the first half against their zone. We overcame it though - Millsap started lighting it up and that really got us going.
Shane Murphy
We didn't do a very good job of moving and screening and we were stagnant out there. We contributed to our own problems. They did a good job isolating (Fugate) and she played a tremendous part in this game.
Kris Flood
We really played stagnant on offense. We had a lot of standing. We reverted back to some bad basketball habits.
Todd Minney
We can't remain stagnant. Look what happened to television, the Internet. Everything changes.
Dennis Wharton
The voters now have a choice between just the two of us and hopefully more of the truth will come out between now and then. I'm so dedicated to that department. I have proven leadership and I would hate to see it fall into the dormant, stagnant stage it was in for so many years before I took office.
Brenda Taylor
The Legislature's low public-approval ratings reflect citizens' frustrations with the partisan bickering, inactivity, and stalemate at the highest levels of state government. As a result, the state remains stagnant and unrepresentative.
Keith Richman
We just did not come out ready, I think we were stagnant. We were trying to run our offense and got in UK mode. We did a lot of standing, a lot of negative things.
Keith Monson
The work we do here is stagnant. We can't expand to meet the need.
Robert Stuart
This is a fickle place. You see the same thing over and over and over. Art here seems stagnant to me. Especially some of these so-called 'Native artists' that are producing craft-type work. But that's the only way you can make any money at it.
Jack Abraham
We have lots of homes for upper income people, but the middle class is being squeezed stagnant wages and the cost of homes rising so fast -- 8 percent, 9 percent a year.
Glen Lewinski
For the past five years, the market has been stagnant. Everybody has been looking around and saying, is this what the industry is becoming? Or is it just part of a cycle, a temporary lull before a boom?
Marco Caceres
The Pistons always had great defense, but there were times where this team really had some stagnant periods.
Tim Legler
We were kind of stagnant on offense and they were sagging off of me a little bit and it was making it difficult for our offense to run. So, I knew I had to take a couple of shots to get my teammates open and get them started.
Sharnee Zoll
Our offense got complacent. We got up by four or five runs and the offense just went stagnant.
Eric Etchison
We've got stagnant general funds and obligations. We've got looming deficits on the riverfront but there are no clear answers there.
Eric Stuckey
You know, I never have been a stagnant kind of individual. I've been in the Senate 22 years. I'm still stimulated by the challenges that it offers, but here's a whole new arena in which to deal, whole new set of challenges, whole new kind of authority, a chance for growth, and how could I say no?
Edmund S. Muskie
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