Top 66 Static Quotes

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

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

If trees can create art, if they can encircle the globe seven times in one year, if prisoners can grow plants and raise frogs, then perhaps there are other static entities that we hold inside ourselves, like grief, like addictions, like racism, that can also change.

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.

You’re never static as a performer. You either get better or you get worse. As I see it, you have an equal chance at either.

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.

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

I grew up with the idea of the cyborg and the robot, but at the same time I felt this intense disconnection between the things I was engaged with and inspired by in terms of fun and play. It seemed like paintings and drawings were so static.

A static universe isn’t physically self-consistent.

I actually studied literature at university, so I’m much more of an arts-based person, but I remember I actually did enjoy physics because you got to do weird experiments. I remember we did this thing with static where we all had to put our hands on this static ball to see that your hair would all stand on end.

Real people – the interesting ones, anyway – don’t remain static, and neither do the ones I write about. Changes take place, and they react to them.

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.

When we conceive of happiness as a static state, effectively a place toward which we are aimed but at which most of us will never feel we’ve quite arrived, then the vision becomes exclusionary.

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

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

I make static art, not dynamic art. That’s what I do.

There’s so much interference, so much static and people’s voices talking about what you do and why you do it that I’ve learned to be like, ‘No, no.’ It’s actually simple. I just do this.

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.

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

Obviously, as a marketer, I love to work with brands that aren’t static, that have life and personality.

A question is a pursuit, an invitation to envision and explore a series of possibilities, to struggle and empathize and doubt and believe. The question moves, whereas our sense of what an answer is can often be static, a stopping point.

My first film was very static.

There is a sort of genre of optimistic science fiction that I like, and I don’t think there is enough of. One of my favourites is a short story by Arthur C. Clarke, ‘The City and the Stars.’ It’s set in this far future on Earth in this somewhat static society and trying to break out.

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.

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.

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

Stasis is something that has marked my life since I was a boy growing up in Pittsburgh with my mother. It was the natural state that we existed in. For one thing, she suffered from a debilitating depression throughout my childhood, and depression is nothing if not static.

When I saw ‘Chess’ in London, I thought it was horrible. It was so static. People were coming down front and just facing the audience, singing.

History is how we have learnt to think about ourselves. It’s not as though the Greeks and Romans are static entities out there to be discovered and translated. We make them speak, we talk to them, and they inform what we say.

Bouldering on real rock, which I’m more used to climbing on, is a lot more static and requires mostly finger power, whereas competition-style boulder problems are about coordination.

I don’t talk to old people; they try to find ways to stay static. Young folks are the ones with the ideas and constantly moving forward.

After the 2009 ‘Cult Of Static’ touring cycle ended, I felt that, as a band, Static-X had accomplished everything we set out to accomplish, and now I could finally take the time to do my own thing and make a record that is completely my vision without compromising for anyone or anything.

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.

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

Democracy is not static. It is a living force. Every new idea, every new invention offers opportunity for both good and evil.

Time Team’ is by definition very static. Once you’re in that field and you’ve dug your trenches, that’s it.

As the chord changes go by, I don’t so much think about a static chord voicing changing. I just see the notes on the neck change.

The UFC want me as their champion. The welterweight division needs me as its champion. It’s been static for too long. I’ll win the title, defend it a couple of times, and then move up to middleweight.

You’re always carrying something that’s interfering. It’s like static noise that doesn’t have to be there, and you have to school yourself to clean that out.

Animated editorial cartoons are completely different from static editorial cartoons.

I believe that the talents of Static and Ben-El will speak to music lovers around the world.

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.

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.

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

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

What history taught me is that societies are not static and that the straight line of progressive ideals – this thinking we have that a society will just magically become more egalitarian over time – is patently false.

I don’t like to read contemporary fiction while writing – I need a sense of isolation, a kind of silence, and I don’t want a jumble of other people’s voices or visions getting in my way. Nineteenth-century voices don’t create static in that silence.

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.

Cities are not static objects to be feared or admired, but are instead a living process that residents are changing all the time.

For me, grief is a static thing, and my movies have an extremely dynamic sort of movement.

‘Sugarcoat the Galaxy’ is inspired by color-inflected photographs of galaxies. It likens sounds to spun sugar and confection, wrapping static harmonies inside energy and pace.

I might not like a statute… but if you know what to expect, you can plan. The law is static. It’s stable. It gives you confidence. You know you have to act a certain way.

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

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

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.

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.’