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• Power lies in the details, and the tenacious pursuit of such hidden levers can pay off enormously. While you don't want to get a reputation as a prissy worrywart, worrying about the details in private is important. You may think you are the world's greatest speaker, but if the auditorium's sound system is singing static - well, forget it.

  Tom Peters

  Inspirational, Lying, Thinking

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• Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incompetents in asylums, and those in cemeteries.

  Everett Dirksen

  Inspirational, Life, Change

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• Free men and women... can think across time, viewing their own lives, inclusive of past, present, and future, as architectural wholes, static in mental space. They can therefore see, as others cannot, the cracks and buttresses of repeated action, the points of stress, the established framework. They are not perfect; but they are less imperfect than we by a full dimension of being.

  Robert Grudin

  Life, Stress, Future

  Robert Grudin (1997). “Time and the Art of Living”, p.5, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The genius of the Constitution rests not in any static meaning it might have had in a world that is dead and gone, but in the adaptability of its great principles to cope with current problems and current needs.

  William J. Brennan

  Principles, Needs, Gone

  "The Constitution of the United States: Contemporary Ratification" (speech),Washington, D.C., 12 Oct. 1985

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• You have so much going on. It comes off like a..." "Static?" I suggested. "Exactly!" He snapped his fingers and pointed at me. "You need to tune it, get your frequencies in check, like a radio." "I would love to.Just tell me how." "It's not a matter of turning a dial. You have no on or off switch." He walked around in a large lazy circle. "It's something you have to practice. It's more like being potty-trained. You have to learn when to hold it and when to release." "That's a pretty sexy analogy," I said.

  Amanda Hocking

  Sexy, Practice, Circles

  Amanda Hocking (2014). “Trylle: The Complete Trilogy”, p.264, Pan Macmillan

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• Now, almost one hundred years later, it is difficult to fully appreciate how much our picture of the universe has changed in the span of a single human lifetime. As far as the scientific community in 1917 was concerned, the universe was static and eternal, and consisted of a one single galaxy, our Milky Way, surrounded by vast, infinite, dark, and empty space. This is, after all, what you would guess by looking up at the night sky with your eyes, or with a small telescope, and at the time there was little reason to suspect otherwise.

  Lawrence M. Krauss

  Eye, Dark, Night

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• That without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetitive, moribund.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Food, Trying, Repetitive

  Anthony Bourdain (2010). “Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook”, p.193, A&C Black

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• I like to borrow a metaphor from the great poet and mystic Rumi who talks about living like a drawing compass. One leg of the compass is static. It is fixed and rooted in a certain spot. Meanwhile, the other leg draws a huge wide circle around the first one, constantly moving. Just like that, one part of my writing is based in Istanbul. It has strong local roots. Yet at the same time the other part travels the whole wide world, feeling connected to several cities, cultures, and peoples.

  Elif Safak

  Strong, Moving, Writing

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• Our military plans should be based on the assumption of unpredictability, rather than on carefully drawn, static models of the world.

  James Fallows

  Military, World, Assumption

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• In any case, ideals are something we strive for; they are somewhere on the horizon of our efforts; they provide meaning and direction; they are not, however, static quotas that we either fulfill or do not.

  Vaclav Havel

  Effort, Horizon, Quota

  Vaclav Havel (2009). “To the Castle and Back”, p.285, Vintage

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• One problem with ideas, however valid, is that they are static and impersonal, whereas a person is active and dynamic.

  William Hull

  Ideas, Problem, Active

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• That nothing is static or fixed, that all is fleeting and impermanent, is the first mark of existence. Everything is in process.

  Pema Chodron

  Change, Fleeting, Firsts

  Pema Chodron (2002). “The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times”, p.23, Shambhala Publications

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• A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

  Freya Stark

  Art, Lying, Clouds

  Freya Stark (2013). “Perseus In The Wind: A Life of Travel”, p.110, Tauris Parke Paperbacks

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• The subject matter... is not that collection of solid, static objects extended in space but the life that is lived in the scene that it composes.

  Wallace Stevens

  Space, Matter, Scene

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• I don't know how long a child will remain utterly static in front of the television, but my guess is that it could be well into their thirties.

  A. A. Gill

  Children, Long, Television

  A. A. Gill (2008). “Paper view: the best of the Sunday Times television reviews”, Orion Pub Co

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• The convenience of timekeeping is greatly overrated; and the people who practice it so faithfully that they lose the capacity for appreciating the fixed and the static and the spatially related experiences cut themselves off from a good part of reality.

  Lewis Mumford

  Time, Cutting, Reality

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• Clichés are static, the emotion behind them long spent. If you are tempted to use them, here is a saying of my mother’s: Fang pi bu-cho, cho pi bu-fang. Basically that translates to: "Loud farts don’t stink, and the really smelly ones don’t make a sound." In other words: When you’re full of beans, you just blow a lot of hot air. If you want to have a real impact, be deadly but silent. Oh, also recognize the difference between a bad cliché and a good quotation. My mother’s saying is a good quotation. You should use it often.

  Amy Tan

  Mother, Real, Blow

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• A novel is a static thing that one moves through; a play is a dynamic thing that moves past one.

  Kenneth Tynan

  Drama, Moving, Past

  1961 Curtains.

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• What a shame that Christianity had come here!If the white man had not intruded where he was not wanted, where he did not belong, even now protected by the mountains and the river,the village would have remained a last stronghold of a culture which was almost gone.Mark tried to say that no village,no culture can remain static. I have often thought that if this lively and magnificent land belongs to anyone,it's to the birds and the fish.They were here long before the first Indian and when the last man is gone from the Earth,it will be theirs again.

  Margaret Craven

  Men, Land, Rivers

  Margaret Craven (1973). “I Heard the Owl Call My Name”

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• Democracy is not a static thing. It is an everlasting march.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Democracy, March, Everlasting

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1935, Volume 4”, p.403, Best Books on

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• I think [Nikola Tesla] was always like that. And so it was inevitable that he would be an inventor. Because it was so easy for him to think fourth-dimensionally, dynamically. It wasn't just a static thing with him. In other words, it isn't the way an architect thinks, which is essentially static.

  Paul Laffoley

  Thinking, Tesla, Way

  Source: www.paranoiamagazine.com

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• Family isn’t something that’s supposed to be static, or set. People marry in, divorce out. They’re born, they die. It’s always evolving, turning into something else.

  Sarah Dessen

  Family, Divorce, People

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Lock and Key”, p.193, Penguin

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• Only after disaster can we be resurrected. It's only after you've lost everything that you're free to do anything. Nothing is static, everything is evolving, everything is falling apart.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Fall, Lost Everything, Disaster

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• Objects in a park suggest static repose rather than any ongoing dialectic. Parks are finished landscapes for finished art .

  Robert Smithson

  Art, Ongoing, Landscape

  Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.155, Univ of California Press

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• These things - the degree of vulnerability, the degree of skill, the degree of the longing to give - are influx all the time, And to lump all that under the word "creativity" assumes something much more static than it is. That's why an artist may be marvelous in her 20s, and be creating automatic crap in her 40s. A writer may be trivial in his 20s, and be writing incredibly in his 50s, because those things are always in flux.

  Michael Ventura

  Writing, Creativity, Artist

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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