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• I think ideas should be flying about and banging into each other. It is a kind of energy. If you occupy static positions, then things sort of ossify.

  Tom Paulin

  Thinking, Ideas, Flying

  "Literature's loose cannon" by Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2002.

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• One can only display complex information in the mind. Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.

  Alan Perlis

  Views, Lovely, Mind

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• Many in the modern world fell for the myth that we're living in a static, fixed, flat reality of just material things.

  Rob Bell

  Reality, World, Modern

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• My photographs are not just about the instant of movement you capture in the camera. It's much more total, about constant movement that became static.

  Gabriel Orozco

  Cameras, Movement, Photograph

  Gabriel Orozco (1998). “Clinton is innocent”

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• During photography's first decades, exposure times were quite long... So, similar to the drawings produced with the help of a camera obscura, which depicted reality as static and immobile, early photographs represented the world as stable, eternal, unshakable.

  Lev Manovich

  Photography, Reality, Drawing

  Lev Manovich (2001). “The Language of New Media”, p.168, MIT Press

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• My writing habits are pretty static. I get up every morning between 6 and 7 am, grab a cup of coffee, say a few prayers, and go downstairs to my office and start writing.

  Mitch Albom

  Morning, Prayer, Coffee

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• Photographs offer more than decisive moments. They are not alone, they add and subtract and change with time. They are metaphors for our lives... Even a static photograph can change in the blink of a day or decade.

  Edmundo Desnoes

  Add, Moments, Metaphor

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• Always the rationalization is the same-"Once this situation is remedied, then I will be happy." But it never works that way in reality: The goal is achieved, but the person who reaches it is not the same person who dreamed it. The goal was static, but the person's identity was dynamic.

  Phillip Moffitt

  Reality, Goal, Identity

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• Much of the world is focused on answers. This unfortunate. Situations change, the earth turns, and our needs fluctuate. Focusing on static answers puts one at a disadvantage. Empower yourself by searching for the right question as if it were a buried treasure and treasures will find you.

  John Fairclough

  Empowering, Needs, Answers

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• People who want a sane, static, measurable world take the first aspect of an event or person and stick to it, with an almost self-protective obstinacy, or by a natural limitation of their imaginations. They do not indulge in either deepening or magnifying.

  Anais Nin

  Self, Indulge In, People

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• I think the main figure that matters to all of us, including people in the media, is: How does GDP per capita grow? And those figures have been very good. There is a huge flux both up and down, so it isn't like we're all static in status. What's important is that pie grows.

  Charlie Munger

  Thinking, Media, Gdp

  "Berkshire Behind the Scenes: Part 2". Interview with Rick Casterline, www.fool.com. May 27, 2006.

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• The best defence [for a democracy, for the public good] is aggressiveness, the aggressiveness of the involved citizen. We need to reassert that slow, time-consuming, inefficient, boring process that requires our involvement; it is called 'being a citizen.' The public good is not something that you can see. It is not static. It is a process. It is the process by which democratic civilizations build themselves.

  John Ralston Saul

  Civilization, Democracy, Needs

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• The world is complex, dynamic, multidimensiona l;
  the paper is static, flat. How are we to represent
  the rich visual world of experience and
  measurement on mere flatland?

  Edward Tufte

  World, Paper, Measurement

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• A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self is always becoming.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Children, Self, Becoming

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.22, Open Road Media

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• There is something infinitely better than happily-ever-after. There is happiness. Happiness is a living, dynamic thing, Eve, and has to be worked on every moment for the rest of our lives. It is a far more exciting prospect than that silly static idea of a happily-ever-after. Would you not agree?" - Aidan Bedwyn

  Mary Balogh

  Silly, Ideas, Ever After

  Mary Balogh (2003). “Slightly Married”, p.342, Dell

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• People often mistake technology for a static picture. It's less like a picture and more like a movie. It's the velocity of technology innovation that matters. It's the acceleration.

  Elon Musk

  Mistake, Technology, People

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• Nothing stays the same, nothing remains static. Which way a thing changes depends on you.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Way, Things Change, Conversations With God

  Neale Donald Walsch (1996). “Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.67, Penguin

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• The denial of "self" challenges only the notion of a static self independent of body and mind-not the ordinary sense of ourself as a person distinct from everyone else. The notion of a static self is the primary obstruction to the realization of our unique potential as an individual being. By dissolving this fiction through a centered vision of the transiency, ambiguity, and contingency of experience, we are freed to create ourself anew.

  Stephen Batchelor

  Independent, Unique, Self

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• We read privately, mentally listening to the author's voice and translating the writer's thoughts. The book remains static and fixed; the reader journeys through it.

  Lynne Truss

  Book, Journey, Voice

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• You want to know the biggest illusion about success? That it's like a pinnacle to be climbed, a thing to be possessed, or a static result to be achieved. If you want to succeed, if you want to achieve all your outcomes, you have to think of success as a process, a way of life, a habit of mind, a strategy for life.

  Tony Robbins

  Success, Thinking, Mind

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Unlimited Power: The New Science of Personal Achievement”, p.412, Simon and Schuster

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• Without birth and death, and without the perpetual transmutation of all the forms of life, the world would be static, rhythm-less, undancing, mummified.

  Alan Watts

  Would Be, World, Birth

  Alan Watts (2011). “The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are”, p.61, Souvenir Press

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• When a chess player looks at the board, he does not see a static mosaic, a 'still life', but a magnetic field of forces, charged with energy - as Faraday saw the stresses surrounding magnets and currents as curves in space; or as Van Gogh saw vortices in the skies of Provence.

  Arthur Koestler

  Stress, Player, Curves

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• Confidence is a static state. Determination is active. Determination allows for doubt and for humility - both of which are critical in the world today. There is so much that we don’t know, and so much that we know we don’t know. To be overly confident or without doubt seems silly to me. Determination, on the other hand, is a commitment to win, a commitment to fight the good fight.

  Anna Deavere Smith

  Determination, Silly, Humility

  Anna Deavere Smith (2008). “Letters to a Young Artist: Straight-up Advice on Making a Life in the Arts-For Actors, Performers, Writers, and Artists of Every Kind”, p.25, Anchor

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• Democracy is a process, not a static condition. It is becoming, rather than being. It can be easily lost, but is never finally won.

  William H. Hastie

  Democracy, Becoming, Lost

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• When you worry, you go over the same ground endlessly and come out the same place you started. Thinking makes progress from one place to another; worry remains static.

  Harold Bridgwood Walker

  Thinking, Worry, Progress

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