Static Quotes - Page 5

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  One of the most destructive forces in the world is love. For the following reason: The world is a conglomeration of objects, no, of events and the approachings of events towards objects, therefore of becoming stases static stagnant, of all that is unreal. You get in the world, you get your daily life your routine doesn’t matter if you’re rich poor legal illegal, you begin to believe what doesn’t change is real, and love comes along and shows all these unchangeable for ever fixtures to be flimsy paper bits. Love can tear anything to shreds.

  Kathy Acker

  Real, Believe, Tears

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• You are an eternal being now on the pathway of endless unfoldment, never less but always more yourself.  Life is not static.  It is forever dynamic, forever creatingnot something done and finished, but something alive, awake and aware.  There is something within you that sings the song of eternity.  Listen to it.

  Ernest Holmes

  Song, Forever, Pathways

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• It must be noted that it is often the colleague or direct disciple of a new thinker who gets stuck in literal interpretations of the work, tending to freeze the new ideas and language into an inflexible, static condition.

  Uta Hagen

  Ideas, Language, Interpretation

  Uta Hagen (1991). “Challenge For The Actor”, p.46, Simon and Schuster

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• Once you abstract from this, once you generalize and postulate Universals, you have departed from the creative reality, and entered the realm of static fixity, mechanism, materialism.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Reality, Creative, Departed

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.9091, Delphi Classics

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• Life goes on, end of tunnel, TV set
  Spot in the middle
  Static fade, statistic bit
  And soon I fade away, fade away

  Dave Matthews

  Life, Tunnels, Goes On

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• Architects in planning rooms today have forgotten their faith in natural light.  Depending on the touch of a finger to a switch, they are satisfied with static light and forget the endlessly changing qualities of natural light, in which a room is a different room every second of the day.

  Louis Kahn

  Light, Quality, Different

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• Relationships are never static. They have to evolve over time as the individuals in them change.

  Sherryl Woods

  Individual, Evolve

  Sherryl Woods (2017). “A Chesapeake Shores Collection Volume 2: Driftwood Cottage\Moonlight Cove\Beach Lane\An O'Brien Family Christmas”, p.47, MIRA

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• Nature is not static, but causes its own, internally-generated changes - both in climate and in biological systems.

  Roy Spencer

  Climate, Causes, Climate Change

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• If you filter my words through any tradition or '-ism', you will miss altogether what I am saying. The liberating truth is not static; it is alive. It cannot be put into concepts and be understood by the mind. The truth lies beyond all forms of conceptual fundamentalism. What you are is the beyond—awake and present, here and now already. I am simply helping you to realize that.

  Adyashanti

  Lying, Missing, Mind

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• For me the most interesting characters are outwardly static, but inwardly charged by an overriding passion.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Passion, Character, Interesting

  "Sculpting in Time". Book by Andrei Tarkovsky, 1986.

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• The rhythm of my career has always been very static, staccato and then silent, and then a lot of work, and then none

  Holly Hunter

  Careers, Quiet, Silent

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• There is no such thing as static happiness. Happiness is a mixed thing, a thing compounded of sacrifices, and losses, and betrayals.

  John Updike

  Betrayal, Loss, Sacrifice

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• no work of art is ever finished, nothing is ever static, no performance is for keeps.

  Uta Hagen

  Art, Performances, Finished

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• I guess to the outside observer, all my movies look like musty old black-and-white artifacts, but my earlier movies had been more static and tableaux-ish.

  Guy Maddin

  Black And White, Looks, Artifacts

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it. ... pain will always either change or stop. Always. ... The confidence that it will change is what makes bearing it possible. So pain is fluid. It is only when you conceive of it as something static that it is unbearable.

  Audre Lorde

  Pain, Important, Unbearable

  Audre Lorde, Joan Wylie Hall (2004). “Conversations with Audre Lorde”, p.16, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Thus to act under the guidance coming from above, this is one side of the sadhana, the dynamic side. The other one is the discrimination between the Purusha and the Prakriti. The Purusha will calmly observe, give sanction, choose, but will realise that all this does not belong to him - all these are outside him. This is the static side of the sadhana. These two aspects constitute the basis of Yoga.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Yoga, Two, Giving

  Source: overmanfoundation.wordpress.com

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• Restless thoughts are a kind of mental 'static' which must be silenced if we are to hear the whispers of our inner self.

  John Novak

  Self, Kind, Restless

  John Novak (1994). “How to Meditate: A Step-by-step Guide to the Art and Science of Meditation”, p.12, Crystal Clarity Publishers

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• The fatal flaw of most utopian visions is that they're fundamentally static, and that's not a comfortable place for humans to live. Fourier was very good at imagining a utopia that is constantly changing and very busy, but a vision of paradise that would have been most tantalizing to an underfed overworked factory worker in 1840 doesn't have much appeal in fiction because it's not a story.

  Christine Jennings

  Vision, Fiction, Stories

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Poetry and code - and mathematics - make us read differently from other forms of writing. Written poetry makes the silent reader read three kinds of pattern at once; code moves the reader from a static to an active, interactive and looped domain; while algebraic topology allows us to read qualitative forms and their transformations.

  Stephanie Strickland

  Moving, Writing, Poetry

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• All human states are organic brain states - happiness, sadness, fear, lust, dreaming, doing math problems and writing novels - and our brains are not static.

  Siri Hustvedt

  Dream, Writing, Sadness

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• The constant buzz and pressure and noise and static of the Internet, and the way it makes young people feel makes it difficult to grow up and develop the way one might want to.

  Ethan Hawke

  Growing Up, People, Want

  "A Minute With: Ethan Hawke on acting, Selena Gomez and Shakespeare". Interview with Piya Sinha-Roy, www.reuters.com. August 28, 2013.

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• Consciously or unconsciously, most theists see in gods and devils, heaven and hell, reward and punishment, a whip to lash the people into obedience, meekness and contentment.... The philosophy of atheism expresses the expansion and growth of the human mind. The philosophy of theism, if we can call it a philosophy, is static and fixed.

  Emma Goldman

  Philosophy, Punishment, People

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• About half of all design patterns out there [...] appear to be ways take perfectly natural design ideas and twist them to fit into someones static type system: recipes for pounding square pegs into round holes

  Steve Yegge

  Ideas, Squares, Design

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• to give life to sculpture I found it must have a pulse, a breathing quality that could change in a flash, and it must never appear static, hard, or unrevealing. All these demands formed themslves in my thoughts, and became like an endless obsession.

  Malvina Hoffman

  Art, Breathing, Giving

  Malvina Hoffman (1965). “Yesterday is Tomorrow: A Personal History”, New York : Crown Publishers

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• Some of the most wonderful aspects and consequences of evolution have been discovered only recently. This is in stark contrast to creationism, which offers a static view of the world, one that cannot be challenged or tested with reason. And because it cannot make predictions, it cannot lead to new discoveries, new medicines, or new ways to feed all of us.

  Bill Nye

  Discovery, Views, Medicine

  Bill Nye (2014). “Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation”, p.5, St. Martin's Press

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