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Many a false step was made by standing still. -- Tim Ferriss
I've always been better moving than I am standing still. -- Neil Young
There is no standing still because time is moving forward. -- Greg Lake
When God says go forward, don't even think about standing still. -- Beth Moore
The feeling of Sunday is the same everywhere, heavy, melancholy, standing still. -- Jean Rhys
There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Standing still is the fastest way of moving backwards in a rapidly changing world. -- Lauren Bacall
In a time of rapid change, standing still is the most dangerous course of action. -- Brian Tracy
He had been standing still; for an artist, one of the more painful forms of death. -- Irving Stone
We waste a lot of time running after people we could have caught by just standing still. -- Mignon McLaughlin
If I can hit a curveball, why can't I hit a ball that is standing still on a course? -- Larry Nelson
Standing still is never an option so long as inequities remain embedded in the very fabric of the culture. -- Tim Wise
The only way you can check Gretzky is to hit him when he is standing still singing the national anthem. -- Harry Sinden
It's not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change. -- Miles Davis
Life is change. If you aren't growing and evolving, you're standing still, and the rest of the world is surging ahead. -- Louise Penny
By improving yourself, the world is made better. Be not afraid of growing too slowly. Be afraid only of standing still. -- Benjamin Franklin
Let me keep my mind on what matters, which is my work, which is mostly standing still and learning to be astonished. -- Mary Oliver
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. -- Charles Kettering
Most days it feels as if the world is whirling around me and I am standing still. In slow motion, I watch the colors blur; people and faces all become a massive wash. -- Sarah Kay
America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still. -- e. e. cummings
A step in the wrong direction is better than staying on the spot all our life. Once you're moving forward you can correct your course as you go. Your automatic guidance system cannot guide you when you're standing still. -- Maxwell Maltz
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. -- Benjamin Franklin
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. -- Eric Milner-White
Eternity: a moment standing still for ever. -- James Montgomery
Don't fear moving slowly forward...fear standing still. -- Katherine Harris
Many a false step is made standing still. -- Patti LaBelle
It may look like I'm moving but I'm standing still. -- Bob Dylan
We still need to have one beautiful lady standing there. -- Joel Plaskett
I'd rather die on an adventure than live standing still. -- V. E. Schwab
Progressiveness means not standing still when everything else is moving. -- Woodrow Wilson
Your automatic guidance system cannot guide you when you're standing still. -- Maxwell Maltz
Be not afraid of rowing slowly. Be afraid of standing still. -- Hannah Whitall Smith
I'm never standing still and that makes my life pretty exciting. -- Maria Sharapova
Scars show toughness: that you've been through it, and you're still standing. -- Theo Rossi
You haven't broken me Taker, you haven't broken me, I'm still standing. -- Jeff Hardy
Failure in life does not matter; the greatest misfortune is standing still. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
Admirals extolled for standing still, or doing nothing with a deal of skill. -- William Cowper
I'm still standing up there tall and strong every night that I perform. -- Patti LaBelle
All motion is relative. Maybe it's you who've moved away by standing still. -- Jerome Lawrence
Real zeal is standing still and letting God be a bonfire in you. -- Catherine Doherty
In all the useful arts the world is either standing still or going backwards. -- George Orwell
For me, [John Wheeler] was the last Titan, the only physics superhero still standing. -- Max Tegmark
Taking steps is easy Standing still is hard... Everything is different The second time around. -- Regina Spektor
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As we drove, I imagined we were standing still and the world was coming toward us. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
Either you're growing or you're decaying; there's no middle ground. If you're standing still, you're decaying. -- Alan Arkin
I was only seven but I remember thinking that everything in the world was standing still. -- Eva Hart
A lot of actors in my age bracket look at being still standing as pretty good. -- Gary Cole
War's an auction where whoever can pay the most in damage and still be standing wins. -- David Mitchell
To be still standing 20 years in this business is a great feeling, I can't even tell you. -- Blair Underwood
Liam learned that it was possible to appear to move forward when you were really standing still. -- Kristin Hannah
Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore. -- Matthew Arnold
The only thing I know is this: I am full of wounds and still standing on my feet. -- Nikos Kazantzakis
And Americans realized that native people are still here, that they have a moral standing, a legal standing. -- Dennis Banks
With all the injury problems we have in men's tennis at the moment, I'm happy to still be standing. -- Roger Federer
If Rosa Parks had taken a poll before she sat down in the bus in Montgomery, she'd still be standing. -- Mary Frances Berry
I always said, 'A blind dog with three legs could get a standing ovation for singing 'I'm Still Here!' -- Polly Bergen
I always said, 'A blind dog with three legs could get a standing ovation for singing 'I'm Still Here!'' -- Polly Bergen
The academic mind reflects infinity, and is full of light by the simple process of being shallow and standing still. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Ghana is one of the countries in Western Africa that still has quite a few of their slave castles still standing. -- Jay Ellis
Love is a condition where the world seems to be standing still, and it's you who are spinning on your axis. -- Robert Breault
Standing still is never a good option. Not in the ring, and not in life... When you stop moving, you're done. -- Georges St-Pierre
We are still awaiting Easter; we are not yet standing in the full light but walking toward it full of trust. -- Pope Benedict XVI
We still have prostitutes standing on our corner, and people crapping round the back of buildings. The charms are still there. -- Rachel
Passion and standing up for things can help create a sense of unity. But you still have to act a certain way. -- Arthur Blank
That's the thing about driving: You're alone but you're everywhere. You're standing still but moving really fast. It's just like perspectives constantly changing. -- Galcher Lustwerk
My experiences with violence in schools still echo throughout my life but standing to face the problem has helped me in immeasurable ways, -- Shane Koyczan
The world needs people who are more comfortable standing still. We keep the earth on it axis when everybody else is bouncing around. -- Bill Konigsberg
It don't matter what you tried to do, you couldn't destroy me! I'm still standing! I'm still strong! And I always will be. -- Antwone Fisher
The Dharma Path is to keep walking forward. But the true Dharma has no going forward, no going backward, and no standing still. -- Ajahn Chah
It was peculiar to be standing so close to him. He's just a man, but still, what a thing to be Neil Armstrong! -- George Meyer
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The Bible is full of dubious scientific impossibilities, from Jonah living inside a whale, to the sun standing still in the sky for Joshua. -- Lawrence M. Krauss
Ed?" Ritchie says later. We're still standing in the water. "There's only one thing I want." "What's that, Ritchie?" His answer is simple. "To want. -- Markus Zusak
Self - development should be a perpetual process. In life you are either growing or rotting. You're moving forward or backwards; there is no standing still. -- Al Duncan
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. -- Daniel Handler
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 ... -- Steven Wright
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
She sounded like she really meant it, and I wondered if I actually was standing here on the sidewalk with her, and not still asleep in my room. -- Claudette Melanson
Don't you know Iâ?m still standing better than I ever did. Looking like a true survivor, feeling like a little kid. I'm still standing after all this time. -- Elton John
The last time I saw something that tall standing so still for so long, it was perched on the edge of a cliff shining a light across the sea. -- David Icke
The breath must be enticed or cajoled, like catching a horse in a field, not by chasing after it, but by standing still with an apple in oneâ??s hand. -- B.K.S. Iyengar
Nintendo DS is not standing still. As a tenth serious competitor decides to make a run at Game Boy, DS raises the bar on portable gaming, before they even get started. -- Reggie Fils-Aime
[S]torytelling, in ancient and modern practice, is always a contemplation of the experience of time passing. A story depends on things not standing still, on the built-in condition of impermanence. -- Joan Silber
In New York, just standing still on the sidewalk is a weird feeling. You have this incessant need to do things. Los Angeles is about kicking back, relaxing, your inner child, peace. -- Esai Morales
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. -- Robert Kiyosaki
I move forward in my life every day, even if it's only a tiny step, because I know that great things are accomplished with tiny moves, but nothing is accomplished by standing still -- Zig Ziglar
We are creatures that are designed for continual challenge. We must grow or we begin to die....So just standing still isn't really an option. We have to move on. If not, disturbances will come. -- B.K.S. Iyengar
The reality is that SXSW is packed with brilliant entrepreneurs, investors and partners. They're everywhere, zipping back and forth like thousands of atoms. Your chances of colliding with one actually improve just by standing still. -- Ryan Holmes

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