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• Space expands or contracts in the tensions and functions through which it exists. Space is not a static, inert thing. Space is alive; space is dynamic; space is imbued with movement expressed by forces and counterforces; space vibrates and resounds with color, light and form in the rhythm of life.

  Hans Hofmann

  Light, Rhythm Of Life, Color

  Hans Hofmann, Sara T. Weeks, Bartlett H. Hayes (1967). “Search for the Real: And Other Essays”, p.66, MIT Press

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• It should also be born in mind that the research on 'movement' and the dynamic outlook on the world, which were the basis of Futurist theory, in no way required one to paint nothing but speeding cars or ballerinas in action; for a person who is seated, or an inanimate object, though apparently static, could be considered dynamically and suggest dynamic forms. I may mention as an example the 'Portrait of Madame S.' (1912) and the 'Seated Woman' (1914).

  Gino Severini

  Car, Mind, Research

  "Letters of the great artists". Book by Richard Friedenthal, p. 248, 1963.

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• In that the wisdom of the few becomes available to the many, there is progress in human affairs; without it, the static routine of tradition continues.

  Joseph Jastrow

  Progress, Routine, Tradition

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• Selling is not a static activity.

  Scott Kahn

  Selling, Activity

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• One practice I rely on all the time is basic meditation which allows me to strip away the noise. It's like the old-fashioned dial on the radio, where you were getting static and then you found that clear, sweet spot on the dial, where the music would come through. That's what meditation is for me. Dialling out the static, the noise, the anxiety, the fear, and coming into a place that's deep and quiet. It's like dropping into a well of inspiration and wisdom.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Sweet, Inspiration, Practice

  "Modern Feminism & Spirituality". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.eomega.org. May 8, 2012.

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• Why have a locked wiki when you can instead just post static Web pages?

  Ward Cunningham

  Pages, Posts, Locked

  Bo Leuf, Ward Cunningham (2001). “The Wiki Way: Quick Collaboration on the Web”, Addison-Wesley Professional

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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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• Over the years, I have become convinced that Hellenism as a culture represents not a static condition of uniform sublimity mysteriously achieved and maintained as an effect of some racial advantage. Rather it should be understood as an evolving process, governed by a dynamic of change, as both language and thought underwent transformational alteration caused by a transition from orality to literacy. The instrument of change is discerned to be the invention of the Greek alphabet, at a quite late stage in the history of developing cultures.

  Eric A. Havelock

  Years, Greek, Uniforms

  "Chinese Characters and the Greek Alphabet". Sino-Platonic Papers, Issue no. 5, sino-platonic.org. December 1987.

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• Change is a continuous process. You cannot assess it with the static yardstick of a limited time frame. When a seed is sown into the ground, you cannot immediately see the plant. You have to be patient. With time, it grows into a large tree. And then the flowers bloom, and only then can the fruits be plucked.

  Mamata Banerjee

  Flower, Tree, Limited Time

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• The character can never be static from book to book. People might think you just come up with a new plot and stick this guy in. Well, he has to be as new as the plot every time.

  Michael Connelly

  Book, Character, Thinking

  "Crime writer Michael Connelly". The Tavis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. December 7, 2012.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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