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  • There is no standing still because time is moving forward.

  • This is what a memorial is: standing still, staring at something that isn’t ther

  • You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.

    Time   Science   Progress  
  • How do you become better tomorrow? By improving yourself, the world is made better. Be not afraid of growing too slowly. Be afraid of standing still. Forget your mistakes, but remember what they taught you. So how do you become better tomorrow? By becoming better today.

  • There's not even room enough to be anywhere/It's not dark yet, but it's getting there.../I was born here and I'll die here against my will/I know it looks like I'm moving, but I'm standing still.

    Moving   Dark   Rooms  
    "Song: "Not Dark Yet" ("Time Out of Mind")". 1997.
  • I changed my headlights the other day. I put in strobe lights instead! Now when I drive at night, it looks like everyone else is standing still.

  • Great. So if I saw a guy standing still, and he wasn't wearing an old uniform, I just had to ask him to walk through furniture. If he stared at me like I was crazy, then I'd know he wasn't a ghost. - Chloe

    Crazy   Guy   Chloe  
  • It takes some little time to accept and realize the fact that while you have been growing old, your friends have not been standing still, in that matter.

    Mark Twain (2015). “Life On The Mississippi: Mark Twain's Collections”, p.264, 谷月社
  • Let the business of the world take care of itself... My business is to get the world saved; if this involves the standing still of the looms and the shutting up of the factories, and the staying of the sailing of the ships, let them all stand still. When we have got everybody converted they can go on again, and we shall be able to keep things going then by working half time and have the rest to spend in loving one another and worshipping God.

    "The Risks". The War Cry, December 20, 1884.
  • You're not ever going to get it done. Every time you evaluate contrast and conclude and then line up your Energy and allow it into your experience... at the same time you are achieving the result that you intended, you also achieve a new perspective from which to intend. You can't stand still. In every moment, there is a whole new set of stuff... new ideas, new desires being born.

  • In the spiritual world there are no time divisions such as the past, present and future; for they have contracted themselves into a single moment of the present where life quivers in its true sense. The past and the future are both rolled up in this present moment of illumination, and this present moment is not something standing still with all its contents, for it ceaselessly moves on.

  • If I can hit a curveball, why can't I hit a ball that is standing still on a course?

  • We waste a lot of time running after people we could have caught by just standing still.

    Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.78, BookBaby
  • Either you're growing or you're decaying; there's no middle ground. If you're standing still, you're decaying.

  • Suffer me never to think that I have knowledge enough to need no teaching, wisdom enough to need no correction, talents enough to need no grace, goodness enough to need no progress, humility enough to need no repentance, devotion enough to need no quickening, strength sufficient without Your spirit; lest, standing still, I fall back for evermore.

  • If I'm doing some weird tick with my mouth, or not standing still or something, I'll be the first person to notice it, and then want to change that. I think it's important just to maintain trajectory, to not just use your same tricks over and over.

    Interview with Tasha Robinson, tv.avclub.com. September 16, 2008.
  • Many a false step is made standing still.

    Patti Labelle (2003). “Patti Labelle's Lite Cuisine”, p.109, Penguin
  • All motion is relative. Maybe it's you who've moved away by standing still.

  • It's not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.

    Miles Davis, Quincy Troupe (1990). “Miles”, Simon and Schuster
  • Children like their mothers especially to be standing still and watching them, even if they are sleeping. At least that's how I felt. There's nothing wrong with the self-interest of children; it's just the way they are.

  • In all the useful arts the world is either standing still or going backwards.

    Art   World   Futuristic  
    George Orwell (1983). “1984”, p.418, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • The word of God is definitely above culture, in terms of what or who should have authority in our lives. However, we must remember that we are within culture, and our calling in Christ is to play our part in the redemption and transformation of individuals and cultures. I believe the recent history of the religious subculture teaches all too clearly that unless we are moving forward in seeking the genuine transformation of culture, then we are standing still and it is transforming us.

  • In a time of rapid change, standing still is the most dangerous course of action.

    FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Sep 15, 2012
  • If you are moving, even fire will not hurt you. If you are standing still near the fire, even though you are not in the fire, the heat will eventually get to you.

  • Don't fear moving slowly forward...fear standing still.

  • I was only seven but I remember thinking that everything in the world was standing still.

  • There are two types of panicking: standing still and not saying a word, and leaping all over the place babbling anything that comes into your head.

  • Taking steps is easy Standing still is hard... Everything is different The second time around.

    Different   Steps   Easy  
  • Don't be scared to embrace the way that it hurts just to grow. You'll look back and your heart will thank you for not standing still when what you needed the most was to move forward

    Hurt   Moving   Heart  
  • He had been standing still; for an artist, one of the more painful forms of death.

    Artist   Painful   Form  
    Irving Stone (1961). “the Agony and the Ecstasy”
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