Quotes about Static

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself. Votes: 6

A static hero is a public liability. Progress grows out of motion. Votes: 6

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. Votes: 6

The most ominous of fallacies - the belief that things can be kept static by inaction Votes: 4

Spirituality isn't static. It's an evolving optimism that won't let hardship get the best of you. Votes: 4

Somehow, bad news, however ridden with static, however filled with echoes, always manages to be conveyed. Votes: 4

If you remain static and wait for success to come to you it will certainly not happen. Votes: 4

The only thing I fear more than change is no change. The business of being static makes me nuts. Votes: 4

Restless thoughts are a kind of mental 'static' which must be silenced if we are to hear the whispers of our inner self. Votes: 4

Fashion anticipates, and elegance is a state of mind ... a mirror of the time in which we live, a translation of the future, and should never be static. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

When you worry, there is static coming through your mind radio. God's song is the song of calmness. Nervousness is the static; calmness is the voice of God speaking to you through the radio of your soul. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

Life is all about change. If it were static, think about how boring it would be. You can't be afraid of it, and you can't worry that you'll mess things up. You deserve good things, and I want to be one of them. Votes: 4

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! Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

I would say that in my scientific and philosophical work, my main concern has been with understanding the nature of reality in general and of consciousness in particular as a coherent whole, which is never static or complete but which is an unending process of movement and unfoldment.... Votes: 4

That nothing is static or fixed, that all is fleeting and impermanent, is the first mark of existence. It is the ordinary state of affairs. Everything is in process. Everything - every tree, every blade of grass, all the animals, insects, human beings, buildings, the animate and the inanimate - is always changing, moment to moment. Votes: 4

The population suffers from a fear of change, for their conditioning assumes a static identity, and challenging ones belief system, usually results in insult and apprehension, for being wrong is erroneously associated with failure. When in fact, to be proven wrong should be a celebrated, for it is elevating someone to a new level of understanding. Votes: 4

Many [business] people focus on what is static, black and white. Yet great algorithms can be rewritten. A business process can be defined better. A business model can be copied. But the speed of execution is dynamic within you and can never be copied. When you have an idea, figure out the pieces you need quickly, go to market, believe in it, and continue to iterate. Votes: 4

Static in my head, the reflected sound of everything, tried to go to where it led, but it didn't lead to anything. Votes: 3

Life goes on, end of tunnel, TV set Spot in the middle Static fade, statistic bit And soon I fade away, fade away Votes: 3

Lost in Static 18 And the storm is closing in now Automatic 18 - Got to push through - Trapped in living hell You're a prisoner of the dark sky The propeller blades are still And the evil eye of the hurricane's Coming in now for the kill Votes: 3

I'm not good at being static. I have to be climbing a mountain. Votes: 2

Up until the 1920s, everyone thought the universe was essentially static and unchanging in time. Votes: 2

Scientific thought, then, is not momentary; it is not a static instance; it is a process. Votes: 2

Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic. Votes: 2

Security is an attempt to try to make the universe static so that we feel safe. Votes: 2

Objects in a park suggest static repose rather than any ongoing dialectic. Parks are finished landscapes for finished art . Votes: 2

I am restless. I don't mind leaving this comfortable, static life. I could live a year on my own in a remote village. Votes: 2

The rhythm of my career has always been very static, staccato and then silent, and then a lot of work, and then none. Votes: 2

Once you do away with the idea of people as fixed, static entities, then you see that people can change, and there is hope. Votes: 2

But when researchers at Bell Labs discovered that static tends to come from particular places in the sky, the whole field of radio astronomy opened up. Votes: 2

Every actor has to move in a Terrence Malick film - that's the requirement. If you stop, he'll tell you, 'No, no, keep moving.' You can't be static. It's a choreography. Votes: 2

Many leaders of big organizations, I think, don't believe that change is possible. But if you look at history, things do change, and if your business is static, you're likely to have issues. Votes: 2

Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people, their interaction with spaces and environmental condition. Votes: 2

There's this weird thing that happens when you contribute something to a static profile. You have to worry about how this new content fits in with your online persona that's supposed to be you. It's uncomfortable and unfortunate. Votes: 2

Why must art be static? You look at an abstraction, sculptured or painted, an entirely exciting arrangement of planes, spheres, nuclei, entirely without meaning. It would be perfect, but it is always still. The next step in sculpture is motion. Votes: 2

In the 'Nude Descending a Staircase,' I wanted to create a static image of movement: movement is an abstraction, a deduction articulated within the painting, without our knowing if a real person is or isn't descending an equally real staircase. Votes: 2

Flexibility is crucial to my fitness. Incorporating a good warm-up and cool-down into every session decreases my chances of injury. I use both dynamic and static stretching in my training. I've starting doing a few yoga sessions which incorporates muscle strength and flexibility. Votes: 2

Rich people never go to war. You ask a college kid to go to war, and he's like, 'Umm, I'm taking this sociology class, and I think war is, like, really stupid, and my roommate's, like, half Afghani, so it's going to cause some static.' Votes: 2

Who wouldn't like to give up normal life? I mean, normal life, you know, is the second worst thing to death itself. I think normality is something that makes everything very static, and I try to make my days, my daily routines, as uneven and rich as possible. Votes: 2

Those who today always look for disciplinarian solutions, those who long for an exaggerated doctrinal 'security,' those who stubbornly try to recover a past that no longer exists - they have a static and inward-directed view of things. In this way, faith becomes an ideology among other ideologies. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

There is no more reason to think that they expected the world to remain static than there is to think that any of us holds a crystal ball. The only way to create a foundational document that could stand the test of time was to build in enough flexibility that later generations would be able to adapt it to their own needs and uses. Votes: 2

Science values static patterns. Votes: 0

Selling is not a static activity. Votes: 0

To remain static is to lose ground. Votes: 0

Poetry is a kinetic arrangement of static syllables. Votes: 0

Human was the music, natural was the static. Votes: 0

Intuition is a heart message minus the static. Votes: 0

Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static. Votes: 0

Perfection is static, And I am in full progress. Votes: 0

Talent is never static. It's always growing or dying. Votes: 0

Democracy cannot be static. Whatever is static is dead. Votes: 0

If your business is static, you're likely to have issues. Votes: 0

I don't like things to be static when I'm working. Votes: 0

I make static art, not dynamic art. That's what I do. Votes: 0

Democracy is not a static thing. It is an everlasting march. Votes: 0

A lot of parts on television are static. Nothing really changes. Votes: 0

Change is fundamental in story. If things go static, stories die. Votes: 0

One advantage of static factory methods is that, unlike constructors, they have names. Votes: 0

Psychological type is nothing static - it changes in the course of life. Votes: 0

I don't think anyone sees truth for a simple reason: we aren't static. Votes: 0

Nothing in life is static; it either gets better, or it gets worse. Votes: 0

Why have a locked wiki when you can instead just post static Web pages? Votes: 0

You know, I'm not comfortable with people whose politics are static in a democracy. Votes: 0

All science is static in the sense that it describes the unchanging aspects of things. Votes: 0

Great cities are not static, they constantly change and take the world along with them. Votes: 0

Nothing stays the same, nothing remains static. Which way a thing changes depends on you. Votes: 0

Being attractive in life is not something as static as a single frame in a picture. Votes: 0

no work of art is ever finished, nothing is ever static, no performance is for keeps. Votes: 0

Relationships are never static. They have to evolve over time as the individuals in them change. Votes: 0

It's not a good idea to conceptualize a static relationship with long-standing policies, like health care. Votes: 0

For me the most interesting characters are outwardly static, but inwardly charged by an overriding passion. Votes: 0

I've been feminist for most of my life, it is a constantly evolving idea, not something static. Votes: 0

By phonemic trans-formation into visual terms, the alphabet became a universal, abstract, static container of meaningless sounds Votes: 0

Nature is not static, but causes its own, internally-generated changes - both in climate and in biological systems. Votes: 0

That without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetitive, moribund. Votes: 0

The Christian life is never static. One must either grow in grace, or there will be backsliding and deterioration. Votes: 0

That which is static and repetitive is boring. That which is dynamic and random is confusing. In between lies art. Votes: 0

One problem with ideas, however valid, is that they are static and impersonal, whereas a person is active and dynamic. Votes: 0

We need words to name and designate things. But we have only a static language with which to express ourselves. Votes: 0

A novel is a static thing that one moves through; a play is a dynamic thing that moves past one. Votes: 0

Do not be content with a static Christian life. Determine rather to grow in faith and love, in knowledge and holiness. Votes: 0

Markets are not static entities that are 'intervened' in (for good or bad) but are outcomes of public and private interactions. Votes: 0

Our military plans should be based on the assumption of unpredictability, rather than on carefully drawn, static models of the world. Votes: 0

I am metaphysical inasmuch as I am looking for a non-eloquent painting, immobile and of atmosphere, which feeds on static situations. Votes: 0

Understanding is better than ignorance. Ignorance, unlike life, unlike narrative, is static. Understanding implies a forward motion, thus the possibility of change. Votes: 0

Many in the modern world fell for the myth that we're living in a static, fixed, flat reality of just material things. Votes: 0

There is no such thing as static happiness. Happiness is a mixed thing, a thing compounded of sacrifices, and losses, and betrayals. Votes: 0

There are so many shows out there, so you really need to work hard to separate yourself and cut through the static. Votes: 0

That nothing is static or fixed, that all is fleeting and impermanent, is the first mark of existence. Everything is in process. Votes: 0

Dogma, static positions, consonance - all these are obstacles to catching the disease of art, at least in its more complex forms. Votes: 0

...consciousness is a coherent whole, which is never static or complete, but which is in an unending process of movement and unfoldment. Votes: 0

Leaders are lovers of change. Without change, growth is static. To lead, you have to appreciate change; else change will depreciate you! Votes: 0

The third-person or 'objective,' static, reductive models used in most science are important and yield significant results, but they have their limitations. Votes: 0

Disputing the commonsense notion that all events require the prior existence of some underlying matter or substance. There is no antecedent static cabinet. Votes: 0

Without birth and death, and without the perpetual transmutation of all the forms of life, the world would be static, rhythm-less, undancing, mummified. Votes: 0

Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incompetents in asylums, and those in cemeteries. Votes: 0

The rhythm of my career has always been very static, staccato and then silent, and then a lot of work, and then none Votes: 0

Everyone has an opinion; the question is which opinions are actually relevant to your journey and which are just static in the air? Votes: 0

In more static societies, like Ireland, you can tell where a person is from by their surname, or where their grandparents are from. Votes: 0

Dynamic typing is not necessarily good. You get static errors at run time, which you really should be able to catch at compile time. Votes: 0

There must always be a discrepncy between concepts and reality, because the former are static and discontinuous while the latter is dynamic and flowing Votes: 0

There are people who not only strive to remain static themselves, but strive to keep everything else so... their position is almost laughably hopeless. Votes: 0

The night crackled Everything had turned to static electricity in the heat. I combed my hair to watch the sparks fly from the ends. Votes: 0

The night crackled ... Everything had turned to static electricity in the heat. I combed my hair to watch the sparks fly from the ends. Votes: 0

Democracy is a process, not a static condition. It is becoming, rather than being. It can be easily lost, but is never finally won. Votes: 0

My photographs are not just about the instant of movement you capture in the camera. It's much more total, about constant movement that became static. Votes: 0

For something that is static, fixed, dead, there can be a way or a definite path; but not for anything that is moving and living. Votes: 0

I guess to the outside observer, all my movies look like musty old black-and-white artifacts, but my earlier movies had been more static and tableaux-ish. Votes: 0

Within a Metaphysics of Quality, science is a set of static intellectual patterns describing this reality, but the patterns are not the reality they describe. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Nothing remains static in war or military weapons, and it is consequently often dangerous to rely on courses suggested by apparent similarities in the past. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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... Votes: 0

Success can locate and visit you even if you are static wherever you are... But you are responsible for constructing the roads... Go, make the roads! Votes: 0

All human states are organic brain states - happiness, sadness, fear, lust, dreaming, doing math problems and writing novels - and our brains are not static. Votes: 0

The modern media environment is so overrun with bullshit and static and people trying to sell you stupid crap. It makes you want to bite yourself. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Life is never static. Despite catastrophic tragedies, life has persisted in evolving new varieties of unimaginable forms. I find comfort in the narrative of evolutionary history. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

take off your sweater in the darkness and static flares as a tiny lightning storm - I am the same at the end of your fingertips Votes: 0

Success will locate and visit you even if you are static wherever you are... But remember you are responsible for constructing the roads... Go, make the roads! Votes: 0

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, mechanism, materialism. Votes: 0

Success will locate and visit you even if you are static wherever you are... But remember you are responsible for constructing the roads... Go, make the roads!" Votes: 0

The problem with certainty is that it is static; it can do little but endlessly reassert itself. Uncertainty, by contrast, is full of unknowns, possibilities, and risks. (65) Votes: 0

The meaning of Sannyas is not well defined. Its meaning is not static; it is redefined after short periods of time in the life of a Sannyasi. Votes: 0

We're receiving information from all the planes of our consciousness all the time, but we don't acknowledge their existence; we treat the information as static, as noise. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I think ideas should be flying about and banging into each other. It is a kind of energy. If you occupy static positions, then things sort of ossify. Votes: 0

The world is complex, dynamic, multidimensiona l; the paper is static, flat. How are we to represent the rich visual world of experience and measurement on mere flatland? Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

People often mistake technology for a static picture. It's less like a picture and more like a movie. It's the velocity of technology innovation that matters. It's the acceleration. Votes: 0

Getting things straight in your head is a major achievement because there's so much clutter out there. You've got to push aside the static to really hear the music. Votes: 0

Boys' brains are being digitally rewired for change, novelty, excitement and constant arousal. That means they're totally out of sync in traditional classes, which are analog, static, interactively passive. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Life is neither static nor unchanging. With no individuality, there can be no change, no adaptation and, in an inherently changing world, any species unable to adapt is also doomed. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Systems thinking is a discipline for seeing wholes. It is a framework for seeing interrelationships rather than things, for seeing ‘patterns of change' rather than static ‘snapshots.' Votes: 0

My life hasn't been static - I spent a lot of time in Europe, a lot of time in India. So I traveled around a lot, and I kept moving. Votes: 0

God is not a static thing...but a dynamic, pulsating activity, a life, almost a kind of drama. Almost, if you will not think me irreverent, a kind of dance. Votes: 0

We think of our land and water and human resources not as static and sterile possessions but as life giving assets to be directed by wise provisions for future days. Votes: 0

The transistor was a small plastic unit that would take us from a world of static bricks piled on top of each other to a world where everything was interactive. Votes: 0

Conservatism is less a set of ideas than it is a pathological distemper, a militant anger over the fact that the universe is not closed and life is not static. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Rather than a universe of static certainty, at the most fundamental level of matter, the world and its relationships were uncertain and unpredictable, a state of pure potential of infinite possibility. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Monopolies are bad and deserve their reputation when things are static and the monopolies function as toll collectors... But I think they're quite positive when they're dynamic and do something new. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Nothing is static, Energetic frequencies are changing all the time. We, and everything in our world, are made of energy and as such, we too are changing---with or without our awareness. Votes: 0

My writing habits are pretty static. I get up every morning between 6 and 7 am, grab a cup of coffee, say a few prayers, and go downstairs to my office and start writing. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I guess I would say first of all that we tend to go back to the 60s and we tend to see these struggles and these goals in a relatively static way. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The scripture notion of truth is not an abstract, static, and timeless formula, but is something that comes true in time as the fulfillment of a divine promise. Truth happens in history. Votes: 0

True wealth is not a static thing. It is a living thing made out of the disposition of men to create and distribute the good things of life with rising standards of living. Votes: 0

The constant buzz and pressure and noise and static of the Internet, and the way it makes young people feel makes it difficult to grow up and develop the way one might want to. Votes: 0

There is a natural progression to 'Lost,' and as the story goes forward, it's going to change. It's not a static story. The franchise of 'Lost' is not characters sitting on a beach. Votes: 0

Jesus Christ was the most perfect being to ever walk this planet and he was persecuted and nailed to the cross … so please don't be surprised when we get a little static. Votes: 0

Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people, their interaction with spaces and environmental condition. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

A lot of my works deal with a passage, which is about time. I don't see anything that I do as a static object in space. It has to exist as a journey in time. Votes: 0

A game of chess is a visual and plastic thing, and if it isn't geometric in the static sense of the word, it is mechanical, since it moves. It's a drawing; it's a mechanical reality. Votes: 0

I want to force myself again and again to leave the warmth and security of static situations and move into the world of growth and suffering where the real books are people's minds and souls. Votes: 0

Vanity is a static thing. It puts it faith in what it has, and is easily wounded. Pride is active, and satisfied only with what it can do, hence accustomed not to feel small stings. Votes: 0

Love is never static, but always evolving. Love is simultaneously random and ordered, so intangible and yet a part of everything, and when we attempt to limit it or categorize it, we get into trouble. Votes: 0

The key to pursuing excellence is to embrace an organic, long-term learning process, and not to live in a shell of static, safe mediocrity. Usually, growth comes at the expense of previous comfort or safety. Votes: 0

Most countries are static, and they need to do is keep having babies. But America's like this big old clanking smoking machine that just lumbers across the landscape scooping up and eating everything in sight. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

Most countries are static, all they need to do is keep having babies. But America's like this big old clanking smoking machine that just lumbers across the landscape scooping up and eating everything in sight. Votes: 0