Stevie Ray Vaughan

I've put my life back together, but it's all a growing process and that's neat, too, because if you stop growing, what good is it musically? So that is what I am looking forward to - growing. In some ways, I felt stagnant in my life and it showed.

American Musician

Thomas Ligotti

Human life moves only in one direction - toward disease, damage, and death. The best you can hope for is to remain stagnant or, in certain cases, return to a previous condition when things weren't as bad as they've become for you.

American Author

Terri Clark

The best thing to do is stare it in the face and move on. We have to face our fears and plow through. I think taking chances takes a lot more courage than staying stagnant and doing what's safe and comfortable.

Canadian Musician

Kevin-Prince Boateng

Stadiums can be places where people of different colour come to support their teams, or they can be seen as stagnant areas where healthy people will be infected by racism.

German Athlete

Jan Schakowsky

The truth is the middle class is not only stagnant but it is my fear that, without sustained and focused action, it is at risk of disappearing.

American Politician

Ivan Moody

I don't understand why some people get access to the universe and other people feel like they're meant to just be stagnant and fail.

Peter Diamandis

Online games for data-mining have a short virtual shelf life. People get bored, especially if the game seems stagnant.

American Businessman

Mikhail Gorbachev

A society should never become like a pond with stagnant water, without movement. That's the most important thing.

Statesman

John Sterling

Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one.

American Entertainer

Hussein of Jordan

Personality is reduced and deformed with depleted thoughts and stagnant mind.

Jordanian Royalty

When used literally, 'stagnant' refers to water or air with no movement. It implies a lack of freshness.

Literal Stillness

'Stagnant' often has a negative connotation, suggesting problems or undesirability.

Negative Connotation

Metaphorically, 'stagnant' describes situations or places lacking activity or change.

Metaphorical Use

In economics, 'stagnant' indicates a situation where there is little or no economic growth.

Economic Context

'Stagnant' can describe a lack of development in skills, projects, or personal growth.

Lack of Progress

Using 'stagnant' can imply dissatisfaction with the lack of change or progress.

Implies Discontent

 So on large scale what do they use? We use open pond systems. Now, around the world they are growing algae, with this racetrack design that you see here. Looks like an oval with a paddle wheel and mixes really well, but when it gets around the last turn, which I call turn four — it's stagnant.

Bilal Bomani: Plant...

 civilization-destroying apocalypse caused by events half a globe away will remain a powerful and terrifying vision. Less fictional than we would like to believe. "The winds were withered in the stagnant air, and the clouds perish'd; darkness had no need of aid from them --

The colossal consequences...

 but median wages are stagnant and the percentage of working families dropping below the poverty line is up by four percent. The percentage of working families without health care up by four percent. So this interdependent world which has been pretty good to most of us --

Bill Clinton: TED Prize...

 Those are the problems in the developing world. And it's easy for us not to be empathetic with those people who seem so distanced from us. But even in our own world, the developed world, we see the tension of stagnant economies impacting the lives of people around us.

We need nuclear power to...

 So as other countries in the world innovated, in the sense both of developing newer technologies, but also developing newer rules, the Chinese were cut off from those advances. Income there stayed stagnant, as it zoomed ahead in the rest of the world.

Paul Romer: Why the...

 the corresponding bill in a city without any sewer system at all with people unable to relate to the problem unmoved to solve it or overwhelmed by its magnitude progress is stagnant half the world's population has been left

Why We Need To Talk Shit...

 filter it, treat it, and then send it around camp where I want it. That's stagnant right they're. Not interested in that. Why is it important to have rapidly moving water? In a stagnant pond, what do you get if you're down

Getting Water in the...

 Before cancer, the world was something other. It was as if I was living in a stagnant pool and cancer dynamited the boulder that was separating me from the larger sea. Now I am swimming in it. Now I lay down in the grass

Eve Ensler: Suddenly, my...

 It's a legitimate complaint. Even as globalization brought deepening inequality and stagnant wages, its proponents offered workers some bracing advice.

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 All the predator's bones were found alongside the edge of an ancient stagnant lake.