Static Quotes

214 quotes by 192 authors

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… — Arthur Koestler
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,… — John Ralston Saul
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
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
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.… — Robert Grudin
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… — William J. Brennan
Great cities are not static, they constantly change and take the world along with them. — Edward Glaeser
Change is fundamental in story. If things go static, stories die. — Andrew Stanton
The rhythm of my career has always been very static, staccato and then silent, and then a lot of work, and then none — Holly Hunter
Relationships are never static. They have to evolve over time as the individuals in them change. — Sherryl Woods
Architects in planning rooms today have forgotten their faith in natural light.Â Depending on the touch of a finger to a switch, they are satisfied… — Louis Kahn
It must be noted that it is often the colleague or direct disciple of a new thinker who gets stuck in literal interpretations of the… — Uta Hagen
You are an eternal being now on the pathway of endless unfoldment, never less but always more yourself.Â Life is not static.Â It is forever… — Ernest Holmes
There is no such thing as static happiness. Happiness is a mixed thing, a thing compounded of sacrifices, and losses, and betrayals. — John Updike
One of the most destructive forces in the world is love. For the following reason: The world is a conglomeration of objects, no, of events… — Kathy Acker
For me the most interesting characters are outwardly static, but inwardly charged by an overriding passion. — Andrei Tarkovsky
If you filter my words through any tradition or '-ism', you will miss altogether what I am saying. The liberating truth is not static; it… — Adyashanti
Nature is not static, but causes its own, internally-generated changes - both in climate and in biological systems. — Roy Spencer
Once you abstract from this, once you generalize and postulate Universals, you have departed from the creative reality, and entered the realm of static fixity,… — D. H. Lawrence
Our problem isn't that we're individualists. It's that our individualism is static rather than dynamic. We value what we think rather than what we do.… — Fernando Pessoa

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