Grounded Quotes - Page 5

• I meditate and pray all the time. The faith and respect that I have in the power of God in my life is what I've used to keep myself grounded, and it has allowed me to move away from the storms that were in my life.

  Halle Berry

  Moving, Godly, Storm

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• With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes, I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on my own experience. It will be but short; for the beginning, middle, and end converge to one charge: NEVER PURSUE LITERATURE AS A TRADE.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Wish, Literature, Beginning Middle And End

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1834). “Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions”, p.133

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• Most of my photos are grounded in people, I look for the unguarded moment, the essential soul peeking out, experience etched on a persons face.

  Steve McCurry

  Photography, People, Soul

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• If you sincerely desire a truly well-rounded education, you must study the extremists, the obscure and "nutty." You need the balance! Your poor brain is already being impregnated with middle-of-the-road crap, twenty-four hours a day, no matter what. Network TV, newspapers, radio, magazines at the supermarket... even if you never watch, read, listen, or leave your house, even if you are deaf and blind, the telepathic pressure alone of the uncountable normals surrounding you will insure that you are automatically well-grounded in consensus reality.

  Ivan Stang

  Education, Reality, House

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• Majority rule rests on numbers; democracy rests on the well-grounded assumption that society is neither a collection of units nor an organism but a network of human relations.

  Mary Parker Follett

  Women, Majority Rule, Numbers

  Mary Parker Follett (1918). “The New State: Group Organization the Solution of Popular Government”, p.7, Penn State Press

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• Sadness, joy, wonder - all feelings come from a place of grounded strength that comes from trust in yourself. We spend so much time trying to control our feelings out of fear that something may happen, that somebody may not love us, or walk away or die. It's only when you stop living in that fear of what other people might do to you or how they will react, only then are you free to be alive.

  Elisabeth Shue

  Sadness, People, Joy

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• Grounded in international human rights, gender equality doesn’t just improve the lives of individual women, girls, and their families; it makes economic sense, strengthens democracy, and enables long-term sustainable progress.

  Helen Clark

  Girl, Women, Equality

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• My optimism is grounded in two worlds, myself and what is about me. I demand that the world be good, and lo, it obeys. I proclaim the world good, and facts range themselves to prove my proclamation overwhelmingly true.

  Helen Keller

  Two, Optimism, Facts

  Helen Keller (2012). “Optimism”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent. I therefore show you only the best works; and when you are grounded in these, you will have a standard for the rest, which you will know how to value, without overrating them.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Taste, Excellent, Contemplation

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann, Frédéric Jacob Soret (1850). “Conversations of Goethe with Eckermann and Soret”, p.137

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• The abstract way we think is really grounded in the concrete, bodily world much more than we thought.

  John Bargh

  Thinking, World, Way

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• I think a lot of times it just looks like Hollywood actors in Halloween costumes, you know? And I think what we’re going to do with Fantastic Four is going to be very grounded and it made sense to me. When I read the script, I didn’t feel like I was reading this larger-than-life, incredible superhero tale. These are all very human people that end up having to become I guess what is known as the Fantastic Four. So for me it was just a really good story and gives me an opportunity to play something different from my own skin. It’s a proper character and that’s my favorite stuff to do.

  Miles Teller

  Halloween, Reading, Character

  "Miles Teller On What Appealed To Him About The Fantastic Four Reboot" By Jim Vejvoda, www.ign.com. March 8, 2014.

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• I just feel lucky to have grown up where I did because I think it gave me a nice base. Hollywood can really mess with your sense of self and I feel like coming from the South keeps me pretty grounded.

  Amber Benson

  Nice, Thinking, Self

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My family has always supported me completely and kept me grounded. I never got lost in child Hollywood actor weirdness.

  Sara Paxton

  Children, Hollywood, Actors

  "Sara Paxton on The Innkeepers, Shark Night 3-D and Julia Roberts Marathons". Interview with Julie Miller, June 23, 2011.

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• I fully credit my family for keeping me grounded and for putting me back in line whenever necessary.

  Camilla Belle

  Credit, Lines, My Family

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• I try and have family time, all the time, so you know, I get to see them a lot. And I'm always with my friends, my boyfriend, it helps me keep grounded and kind of sane

  Nicole Polizzi

  My Boyfriend, Trying, Helping

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• I’m actually taking advantage of my time off. You know, I had a film that was pushed, so I’m home spending time with my family, going to the gym and actually enjoying taking care of myself…This year has been great for me because I’ve learned how to relax. The last three years have been amazing but kind of crazy. So I don’t know, I feel grounded. I feel really good.

  Eva Mendes

  Crazy, Home, Years

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• I've been lucky enough to be surrounded by close friends and family and they've definitely kept me grounded.

  Taylor Lautner

  Family And Friends, Lucky, Close Friends

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• I think I am staying in Toronto. It keeps me grounded and I can be with my family and friends.

  Dakota Goyo

  Thinking, Family And Friends, Toronto

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• All our language about the future ... is like a set of signposts pointing into a bright mist ... the New Testament image of the future hope of the whole cosmos, grounded in the resurrection of Jesus, gives as coherent a picture as we need or could have of the future that is promised to the whole world, a future in which, under the sovereign and wise rule of the creator God, decay and death will be done away with and a new creation born, to which the present one will stand as mother to child.

  N. T. Wright

  Wise, Mother, Jesus

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• Remember, having faith means recognizing the value of what you are here to contribute to the world and allowing your actions to be grounded in that truth.

  Marie Forleo

  Mean, World, Have Faith

  FaceBook post by Marie Forleo from Jan 11, 2015

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• I feel like only now in my life do I really get it -- do I feel that sense of calm. And I feel very grounded. I feel much more confident. I feel, you know, sexier, more intelligent, more to offer, more wisdom, more life experience to draw from.

  Sela Ward

  Intelligent, Calm, Life Experience

  FaceBook post by Sela Ward from Feb 18, 2013

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• I live in the same house I’ve lived in for 25 years. I haven’t gone off and bought mansions, you know, even though my subject is living… living in a mansion wouldn’t do for my readers. I have to keep my credibility alive with my readers, so we’re in the same place. I just make that place nicer and nicer. And… and that’s a secret. And people don’t know that. People think, oh, she lives in this fabulous place, it’s the same old place. It started out like a farm, it got to be a farmette, then it got to be an estatelet. I built a wall, it helped a lot. But it’s the same place, the same grounded nature.

  Martha Stewart

  Wall, Thinking, Years

  "Discovering Everyday Good Things". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 2, 1995.

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• Rules such as "Write what you know," and "Show, don't tell," while doubtlessly grounded in good sense, can be ignored with impunity by any novelist nimble enough to get away with it. There is, in fact, only one rule in writing fiction: Whatever works, works.

  Tom Robbins

  Writing, Novelists, Fiction

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• Every single problem that you have in your life, is the seed of an opportunity for some greater benefit. Stay alert to opportunities by being grounded in the wisdom of uncertainty! When your preparedness meets opportunity the solution will spontaneously appear!

  Deepak Chopra

  Opportunity, Benefits, Problem

  Deepak Chopra (2010). “The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams”, p.62, Amber-Allen Publishing

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• The worst day of my life was once that my mom didn't allow me to go to a Queen concert because I was grounded.

  Lars Ulrich

  Mom, Queens, Concerts

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