Static Quotes
Static Quote of the day
no work of art is ever finished, nothing is ever static, no performance is for keeps.
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.’
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.
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.
Spirituality isn't static. It's an evolving optimism that won't let hardship get the best of you.
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.
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 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.
Democracy is a process, not a static condition. It is becoming, rather than being. It can be easily lost, but is never finally won.
Scientific thought, then, is not momentary; it is not a static instance; it is a process.
The Christian life is never static. One must either grow in grace, or there will be backsliding and deterioration.
...consciousness is a coherent whole, which is never static or complete, but which is in an unending process of movement and unfoldment.
Somehow, bad news, however ridden with static, however filled with echoes, always manages to be conveyed.
Great cities are not static, they constantly change and take the world along with them.
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.
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.
Without birth and death, and without the perpetual transmutation of all the forms of life, the world would be static, rhythm-less, undancing, mummified.
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.
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.
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?
That which is static and repetitive is boring. That which is dynamic and random is confusing. In between lies art.
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.
I am restless. I don't mind leaving this comfortable, static life. I could live a year on my own in a remote village.
Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incompetents in asylums, and those in cemeteries.
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.
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.
A good trader loves an active market, you don't make money when the market is static.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Nature is not static, but causes its own, internally-generated changes - both in climate and in biological systems.
The only thing I fear more than change is no change. The business of being static makes me nuts.
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.
For me the most interesting characters are outwardly static, but inwardly charged by an overriding passion.
By phonemic trans-formation into visual terms, the alphabet became a universal, abstract, static container of meaningless sounds.
I do believe motion pictures are the significant art form of our time. And I think the main reason is, they're an art form of movement, as opposed to static art forms of previous times.
Do not be content with a static Christian life. Determine rather to grow in faith and love, in knowledge and holiness.
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.
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.
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.
