Jack Welch

What's important at the grocery store is just as important in engines or medical systems. If the customer isn't satisfied, if the stuff is getting stale, if the shelf isn't right, or if the offerings aren't right, it's the same thing. You manage it like a small organization. You don't get hung up on zeros.

American Businessman

Ricochet

When it comes to the moves themselves, after I created a style, a lot of guys started doing the same moves I was. I had to switch up my whole offense. Then, when it happened again, I had to switch it up again. It was a hard thing to do, but it helps me grow and helps me not become stale.

American Wrestler

Jon Lovett

We need people to point out groupthink - We need people to point out stale, old, dumb thinking - and we sometimes need to do that when it's considered dangerous, strange, or, by some, offensive. And we should be, all of us, trying to protect that. It's really important.

American Producer

Gabriel Iglesias

I'm all about showing people that I'm a little messed up, I have a lot of the same problems you have. By exposing myself and putting myself out there, people can relate to me and my act won't grow stale. I mean, nobody wants to hear a comedian say, 'Life is great.

American Comedian

Julie Plec

It doesn't matter if these characters are supposed to be together forever: if their chemistry gets stale, you want somebody to die, you want to put somebody in a coma, you want to write them off the show - anything to save you.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Sometimes in TV, it can get really stale, especially if you're doing these 23-episode years. It's a lot of work, and to put your family through that, on a location, is not always the greatest thing in the world.

American Actor

Robert Lopez

With comedy, the jokes will come out, and people will see them coming. Changes in daily life or current events can change the consciousness of audiences and can make the show less funny or feel more stale.

American Musician

William Shakespeare

O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!

English Playwright

Isaac Bashevis Singer

What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.

American Novelist

Jerry Saltz

Contrary to popular opinion, things don't go stale particularly fast in the art world.

American Critic

Stale often refers to bread or baked goods that are hard and dry from age.

Food Quality

'Stale' for drinks implies a loss of carbonation or flavor over time.

Aged Beverages

In a broader sense, things like ideas can figuratively become 'stale'.

Figurative Use

Stale describes situations or concepts lacking newness or excitement.

Lacks Freshness

Stale can convey a sense of dissatisfaction in personal relations.

Emotional Impact

Some foods stale quickly, meaning they don't stay fresh for long.

Short Shelf-Life

To avoid staleness, food is often stored in airtight containers.

Preventive Measures

In legal terms, 'stale' describes a claim that can't be asserted because it's outdated.

Legal Context

Legal documents can become stale, thus unusable after a certain period.

Time-Sensitive

 that but to me adapt all the time means something deeper too we have to break parents out of this straitjacket that the only ideas we can try at home are ones that come from shrinks or self-help gurus or other family experts the truth is their ideas are stale whereas in all these other worlds are these new ideas

Agile programming -- for...

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 We have to break parents out of this straitjacket that the only ideas we can try at home are ones that come from shrinks or self-help gurus or other family experts. The truth is, their ideas are stale, whereas in all these other worlds there are these new ideas

Bruce Feiler: Agile...

 was stale by the time I needed to make decisions about chronic disease interventions, or mental health or even violence or intimate partner violence issues in my community. And so the desire to make data useful and accessible to support people in communities

How tech companies can...

 No. I think the actual answer is that once you reframe it, once you get out of one set of stale expectations from a failed project that had its day, but now, for whatever reason, is tarnished, you can actually rekindle the kind of human kindness and sharing

Jonathan Zittrain: The...

 that I think can help make our democracy stronger. We actually have the power to change the outcome of elections, to introduce new issues into the policy debate and to change the face of the pale, male, stale leadership that we have in our country today.

Immigrant voices make...

 all of us to promise that next year here at Ted using the power of the Ted community we are going to construct a movement that's going to take the lab innovations and stale them across the United States of America and that's

Creating a public school...

 and it draws down the stale warm air from the colony above down long chimneys which go right round the edge of the cellar as it does so there's a seepage of gas through porous dimples and the walls

Fascinating Termite...

 My old stale modes of thinking were invited into the open to see if this is who I wanted to be in life. I was accompanied by skilled facilitators on a journey into the depths of myself

Stale

No longer fresh and good to eat or drink.

Often appears as...

Having lost interest, excitement, or novelty.

Often appears as...

To make or become stale.

Often appears as...

In law, an claim or idea which is no longer legally valid due to it being outdated.

Often appears as...

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