Static Quotes

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.

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

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.