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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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• 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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• I want the Church to go out onto the streets, I want us to resist everything worldly, everything static, everything comfortable...eve rything that might make us closed in on ourselves.

  Pope Francis

  Church, Want, Might

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• To err is to wander, and wandering is the way we discover the world; and, lost in thought, it is also the way we discover ourselves. Being right might be gratifying, but in the end it is static, a mere statement. Being wrong is hard and humbling, and sometimes even dangerous, but in the end it is a journey, and a story.

  Kathryn Schulz

  Journey, Might, Way

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• Rivers are the primal highways of life. From the crack of time, they had borne men's dreams, and in their lovely rush to elsewhere, fed our wanderlust, mimicked our arteries, and charmed our imaginations in a way the static pond or vast and savage ocean never could.

  Tom Robbins

  Dream, Ocean, Men

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates”, p.62, Bantam

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• We are living in a world where access trumps knowledge every time. Those who know how to search, find and make the connections will succeed. Those who rely on static knowledge and skills alone will fail.

  Charles Jennings

  Skills, Connections, World

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• Where some may see flat, static narratives, I see a spectrum of tonal gradations and realities. What I am creating is literally black portraiture with ballpoint pen ink. I'm looking for that in-between state in an individual where the overarching definition is lost. Skin as geography is the terrain I expand by emphasizing the specificity of blackness, where an individual’s subjectivity, various realities and experiences can be drawn onto the diverse topography of the epidermis. From there, the possibilities of portraying a fully-fledged person are endless.

  Toyin Odutola

  Reality, Creating, Black

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• Thinking in terms of two realms understands the paired concepts worldy-Christia n, natural-superna tural, profane-sacred, rational-revela tions, as ultimate static opposites...and fails to recognize the original unity of these opposites in the Christ-reality.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Reality, Thinking, Opposites

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• Direct your attention inward. Have a look inside yourself. What kind of thoughts is your mind producing? What do you feel? Direct your attention into the body. Is there any tension? Once you detect that there is a low level of unease, the background static, see in what way you are avoiding, resisting, or denying life-by denying the Now.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Mind, Inward

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.77, New World Library

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• The urge to explore has propelled evolution since the first water creatures reconnoitered the land. Like all living systems, cultures cannot remain static; they evolve or decline. They explore or expire. . . . Beyond all rationales, space flight is a spiritual quest in the broadest sense, one promising a revitalization of humanity and a rebirth of hope no less profound than the great opening out of mind and spirit at the dawn of our modern age.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Spiritual, Land, Space Flight

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• Security is not a static thing. Security would only lie in a man's confidence in reaching his goals and, indeed, in his having goals to reach.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Lying, Men, Goal

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• One advantage of static factory methods is that, unlike constructors, they have names.

  Joshua Bloch

  Names, Factories, Advantage

  Joshua Bloch (2008). “Effective Java”, p.5, Addison-Wesley Professional

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• Do not allow past experiences to be imprinted on your mind.  Perform asanas each time with a fresh mind and with a fresh approach.  If you are repeating what you did before, you are living in the memory, so you are living in the past.  That means you don't want to proceed beyond the experience of the past.  Retaining that memory is saying, 'Yesterday I did it like that.' When I ask, 'Is there anything new from what I did yesterday?' then there is progress.  Am I going forward or am I going backward? Then you understand how to create dynamism in a static asana.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Memories, Mean, Past

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• Genuine peace must be the product of many nations, the sum of many acts. It must be dynamic, not static, changing to meet the challenge of each new generation. For peace is a process-a way of solving problems.

  John F. Kennedy

  Challenges, Way, Generations

  American University Commencement Address, delivered 10 June 1963

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• Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point of the universe. This idea is not novel... We find it in the delightful myth of Antaeus, who derives power from the earth; we find it among the subtle speculations of one of your splendid... Throughout space there is energy. Is this energy static or kinetic! If static our hopes are in vain; if kinetic - and this we know it is, for certain - then it is a mere question of time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature.

  Nikola Tesla

  Men, Ideas, Space

  "Experiments With Alternate Currents Of High Potential And High Frequency". Nikola Tesla's Address to the Institution of Electrical Engineers, February 1892.

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• All science is static in the sense that it describes the unchanging aspects of things.

  Frank Knight

  Unchanging, Aspect

  Frank Hyneman Knight (1997). “The Ethics of Competition”, p.178, Transaction Publishers

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• Television has never known what to do with grief, which resists narrative: the dramas of grief are largely internal - for the bereaved, it is a chaotic, intense, episodic period, but the chaos is by and large subterranean, and easily appears static to the friendly onlooker who has absorbed the fact of loss and moved on.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Drama, Grief, Loss

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• Human was the music, natural was the static.

  John Updike

  Science, Mystery, Natural

  John Updike (2012). “Facing Nature”, p.20, Knopf

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• Individuals inherit a particular space within an interlocking set of social relationships; lacking that space, they are nobody, or at best a stranger or an outcast. To know oneself as such a social person is however not to occupy a static and fixed position. It is to find oneself placed at a certain point on a journey with set goals; to move through life is to make progress - or to fail to make progress - toward a given end.

  Alasdair MacIntyre

  Life, Moving, Journey

  Alasdair MacIntyre (2013). “After Virtue”, p.39, A&C Black

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• Archetypes, in spite of their conservative nature, are not static but in a continuous dramatic flux. Thus the self as a monad or continuous unit would be dead. But it lives inasmuch as it splits and unites again. There is no energy without opposites!

  Carl Jung

  Self, Opposites, Energy

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• Ran out of bullets and still had static, grabbed a pregnant lady and out the automatic. Pointed at her head and said the gun was full of lead, he told the cops, back off or honey here's dead.

  Slick Rick

  Gun, Order, Law

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• Religion for a long time has come to be static in India. What we want is to make it dynamic. I want it to be brought into the life of everybody.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Long, Want, India

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1284, Manonmani Publishers

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• Static in my head, the reflected sound of everything, tried to go to where it led, but it didn't lead to anything.

  Elliott Smith

  Sound

  Song: Tomorrow, Tomorrow, Album: XO

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