Top 14 Standstill Quotes

It’s easy to fall into the trap of thinking our careers will come to a standstill, or worse, crash and burn if we aren’t social media butterflies.

Then, with lots of people doing that without ever looking over their shoulders to see how they were affecting anybody else, it couldn’t work, and it didn’t work, and it just came to a standstill.

Before the Netflixs and the Amazons and the Hulus, there was nothing. TV came to a standstill. Movie actors were taking TV parts, and it was just nuts.

You always have to keep evolving. You’re always trying to improve. If you’re at a standstill, you’re falling behind.

The idea is not to reinvent myself by venturing into different media because my film career has come to a standstill, but I have the urge to interpret life through different media.

Whenever life’s at a standstill, I need some action.

I started working on a line of clothes last year, but right now we’re kind of at a standstill.

Trends carry on forever, until they stop. I want to be around after things come to a standstill. As a result, I tend to be pretty conservative.

Success cannot come from standstill men. Methods change and men must change with them.

The border between the Real and the Unreal is not fixed, but just marks the last place where rival gangs of shamans fought each other to a standstill.

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.

I had to lower my hands, I had to work my hips a different way. I also had to stride to get the power. I’d always been a standstill hitter and had to generate power from my upper body. Basically, I had to change everything I was doing. It was really difficult.

Never try to leap from a standstill.

If you say, ‘You’ve made it,’ then you kind of come to a standstill, and I don’t think any actor wants to do that.