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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• 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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• To remain static is to lose ground.

  David Packard

  Loses

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

  Lloyd Dobyns

  Life, Get Better, Life Is

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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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• 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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• 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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• Understanding is better than ignorance. Ignorance, unlike life, unlike narrative, is static. Understanding implies a forward motion, thus the possibility of change.

  Robert Charles Wilson

  Ignorance, Possibility Of Change, Understanding

  Robert Charles Wilson (2013). “Blind Lake”, p.117, Hachette UK

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• We talk about civilization as though it's a static state. There are no civilized people yet, it's a process that's constantly going on... As long as you have war, police, prisons, crime, you are in the early stages of civilization.

  Jacque Fresco

  War, Civilization, Long

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• Scientific thought, then, is not momentary; it is not a static instance; it is a process.

  Jean Piaget

  Process, Instance, Momentary

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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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• Luxury is not a static concept, but it shapes and changes with society. Now somebody who might not have the time to come to one of our boutiques can shop online.

  Stefano Gabbana

  Luxury, Shapes, Might

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