Static Quotes

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.

Samuel Butler

Fear, Halloween, Inspiration

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In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.

John Fowles

Nature, Moving, Tree

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Intuition is a heart message minus the static.

Sue Thoele

Heart, Intuition, Messages

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Change is fundamental in story. If things go static, stories die.

Andrew Stanton

Motivation, Inspiration, Stories

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A family is something very static and hard to escape, so everybody has a certain role over the years, no matter if you like it or not.

Maren Ade

Years, Roles, Matter

Source: www.avclub.com

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That which is static and repetitive is boring. That which is dynamic and random is confusing. In between lies art.

John Locke

Art, Lying, Confusing

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Nothing in life is static; it either gets better, or it gets worse.

Lloyd Dobyns

Life, Get Better, Life Is

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To remain static is to lose ground.

David Packard

Loses

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If you end your story, it's a static work of art, a finite circle. But if you don't, it belongs to anyone's imagination. It stays alive forever.

Jodi Picoult

Art, Circles, Imagination

Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.459, Simon and Schuster

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Spirituality isn't static. It's an evolving optimism that won't let hardship get the best of you.

Judith Orloff

Spiritual, Godly, Optimism

Judith Orloff (2009). “Emotional Freedom: Liberate Yourself from Negative Emotions and Transform Your Life”, p.43, Harmony

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A static hero is a public liability. Progress grows out of motion.

Richard E. Byrd

Hero, Progress, Grows

"Struggle: The Life and Exploits of Commander Richard E. Byrd". Book by Charles John Vincent Murphy, 1928.

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I think all of us struggle with how to keep relationship alive. And yet it can't be static either. It's never going to be how it was when you first met because you're not in that place anymore; you're not necessarily the same people. So, that's the struggle - you're trying to make the relationship move forward with the rest of your life and make it special and meaningful. And I think it's incredibly challenging.

Julianne Moore

Meaningful, Moving, Struggle

Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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The human body is not a thing or substance, given, but a continuous creation. The human body is an energy system which is never a complete structure; never static; is in perpetual inner self-construction and self-destruction; we destroy in order to make it new.

Norman O. Brown

Health, Exercise, Self

Norman O. Brown (1990). “Love's Body, Reissue of 1966 edition”, p.155, Univ of California Press

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Our intellectual powers are rather geared to master static relations and that our powers to visualize processes evolving in time are relatively poorly developed. For that reason we should do (as wise programmers aware of our limitations) our utmost to shorten the conceptual gap between the static program and the dynamic process, to make the correspondence between the program (spread out in text space) and the process (spread out in time) as trivial as possible.

Edsger Dijkstra

Wise, Learning, Space

"A Case against the GO TO Statement" by Edsger Dijkstra, 1968.

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Amidst all the clutter, beyond all the obstacles, aside from all the static, are the goals set. Put your head down, do the best job possible, let the flak pass, and work towards those goals.

Donald Rumsfeld

Jobs, Best Job, Goal

Donald Rumsfeld (2001). “Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001”

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For myself, I like a universe that, includes much that is unknown and, at the same time, much that is knowable. A universe in which everything is known would be static and dull, as boring as the heaven of some weak-minded theologians. A universe that is unknowable is no fit place for a thinking being. The ideal universe for us is one very much like the universe we inhabit. And I would guess that this is not really much of a coincidence.

Carl Sagan

Knowledge, Science, Thinking

Carl Sagan, Jerald F. TerHorst, Allan J. Mayer, Sharon S. McKern, Laurence J. Peter (1980). “Broca's brain: reflections on the romance of science”

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Perfection is static,
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I am in full progress.

Anais Nin

Perfection, Progress

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Psychological type is nothing static - it changes in the course of life.

Carl Jung

Psychological, Type, Courses

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Once you do away with the idea of people as fixed, static entities, then you see that people can change, and there is hope.

Bell Hooks

Ideas, People, Fixed

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...consciousness is a coherent whole, which is never static or complete, but which is in an unending process of movement and unfoldment.

David Bohm

Unity, Movement, Consciousness

David Bohm (2005). “Wholeness and the Implicate Order”, p.10, Routledge

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It is the fragrant lack of practicality that makes high-heeled shoes so fascinating: in terms of static mechanics they induce a sort of insecurity which some find titillating. If a woman wears a high-heeled shoe it changes the apparent musculature of the leg so that you get an effect of twanging sinew, of tension needing to be released. Her bottom sticks out like an offering. At the same time, the lofty perch is an expression of vulnerability, she is effectively hobbled and unable to escape. There is something arousing about this declaration that she is prepared to sacrifice function for form.

Stephen Bayley

Fashion, Sacrifice, Offering

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Another reality about relationships is that they are never static. All of us experience changes in relationships but a few stop to analyse why a relationship gets better or worse.

Gary Chapman

Reality, Get Better

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It is the fragrant lack of practicality that makes high-heeled shoes so fascinating: in terms of static mechanics they induce a sort of insecurity which some find titillating.

Stephen Bayley

Shoes, Insecurity, Mechanic

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Poetry is a kinetic arrangement of static syllables.

Carl Sandburg

Poetry Is, Arrangements, Syllables

Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.319, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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Nothing is static. Even the Mona Lisa is falling apart. Since fight club, I can wiggle half the teeth in my jaw. Maybe self-improvement isn't the answer. Maybe self-destruction is the answer.

Chuck Palahniuk

Suicide, Self Harm, Fall

Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.49, W. W. Norton & Company

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