Quotes About Static

Sufism is experience, and hence not to be defined – imprisoned – in perennial, static categories.

Static. "Over and out of my mind." "Roger that.

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.

And an author can never claim his Story is complete until it has been read by a reader, and only then can the circle be closed. A Story can never remain static, either. For each new reader brings to the Story afresh his own unique set of past experiences, giving him a peculiar lens through which to conjure different emotions out of the very same words . . .

Most of us come to therapy feeling trapped—imprisoned by our thoughts, behaviors, marriages, jobs, fears, or past. Sometimes we imprison ourselves with a narrative of self-punishment. If we have a choice between believing one of two things, both of which we have evidence for—I'm unlovable, I'm lovable—often we choose the one that makes us feel bad. Why do we keep our radios tuned to the same static-ridden stations

Industry structure is dynamic, not static, a point that Porter has to repeat often because there has been a remarkably persistent misconception that industry structure and positioning are static, and therefore irrelevant in a fast-changing world.

Film as a medium has limitations, you must understand its strong points and its shortcomings. Conflict and movement are close to its soul. But peace, hope and great truths are all of a static nature and can be but poorly served by the film medium.

That both Riley and Warren are attracted to independent young women is an interesting contradiction that serves to valorize the agency of the "girls" and to underline the static macho masculinity of those guys- they cannot or will not change, therefore they cannot keep the girl.

Dedilhou o pulso estático numa busca tão intensa que acabou por transferir para o pulso da morta o latejar do próprio dedo inflamado.

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.

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.

horses were afraid of only two things: things that moved and things that didn't.

Desire was a sharpness, a tear in the static of everyday life... it delivers not an ache, but a sudden state of grace.

It was partly the buzz you get at any big fight but also there was the build-up of static brought on by the rustling of pacamacs, and which had on occasion, so they said, given rise to the appearance of ball-lightning at these events.

Is your security going after the threat? Or is the security static?" Lucas asked.

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.

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

In Chapter 32, we'll also meet Python static methods (akin to those in C++), which are just self-less functions that usually process class attributes.

Funny, nothing ever happens nowadays.

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.

We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don't go anywhere. They shouldn't be restless.

I think I will never be any different than this

The misery embedded in the house wasn't static. It lived and grew. Anna could feel it like a fungus on her skin. The touch of the sun burned it away.

Because the Egyptians had no feeling that events of the moment were transitory, they viewed the present as eternal. The world was static; what seemed like change was only recurrence of the eternal order. Thus, Egyptian literature does not contain careful records of the deeds, or distinctive characteristics of the pharaohs. Rather they are portrayed as the divine ideal, always just, wise, bold, strong, and victorious.