Grounding Quotes - Page 3

• The absolutist parades his good solid grounding in observation, reason, objectivity, truth and fact; the relativist sees only fetishes.

  Simon Blackburn

  Objectivity, Absolutism, Facts

  Simon Blackburn (2005). “Truth: A Guide”, p.15, Oxford University Press

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• I live in New York. I have an amazing apartment over there; I have this amazing life over there that's full of glamour. I get treated like a queen over there - and that's one of the reasons I love coming home. It's very grounding.

  Nicole Trunfio

  New York, Queens, Home

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• Fundamentally I am a wrestler and like being on top and I like my grounding and pounding.

  Charlie Brenneman

  Wrestler

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• Radicalization does not happen to young people with a strong grounding in the American Muslim mainstream; increasingly, it happens online, and sometimes abroad, among the isolated and disaffected.

  Suhaib Webb

  Strong, People, Religion

  "The Daily Debate" by Robert Tracinski, www.realclearpolitics.com. April 25, 2013.

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• On the whole, British actors star in theater, and I think there's something quite grounding about that.

  Jeremy Irvine

  Stars, Thinking, Actors

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I feel like theatre gives me the grounding, and keeps me alive, basically. Film gives me the thrill, and it's like a one night stand. But I do enjoy being around people who love it so much.

  Marisa Tomei

  Night, People, Giving

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• What do you mean? Grace Brisbane, you do not mean that you're not going back home again. Tell me that this was just because you were momentarily angry at them for grounding you. Or even tell me it's because you could not live without The Boy's stunning Boyfruits for another night. But don't tell me you think it's forever!

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Home, Mean, Boys

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.531, Scholastic Inc.

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• The closest thing I could think of that men go through is like a prisoner of war being tortured, and then coming back from that experience. It's traumatic and grounding and makes you commit to the world. Also, because you want all of these things for your kid.

  Larkin Grimm

  War, Kids, Men

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think we need to start thinking about grounding our moral systems in our biology.

  Frans de Waal

  Thinking, Needs, Moral

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• Energy and environmental regulation, transportation, and broadband policy all benefit when legislators have a basic grounding in the technical concepts behind business models, products, and innovation.

  John Sununu

  Innovation, Environmental, Benefits

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• The goal of education should be to dismantle the Middle Pole view, not to reinforce it in the name of the need for a grounding in one's own civilisation.

  Jay L. Garfield

  Views, Names, Goal

  "Buddhist howls". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. December 28, 2012.

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• Coming from a working-class background, where my father did manual labor, was a good grounding; I was obsessed with getting a job or getting out of the house at 15.

  Johnny Marr

  Jobs, Father, Class

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I really have been enjoying performing more lately than I have in a long time and you know, it's all about that sort of centered feeling that I have now. You know, thanks to, not just my kid, but her father before her. You know, I have a kind of a grounding through them that I really relish, and I think is also good for my work, you know.

  Ani DiFranco

  Father, Kids, Thinking

  "Ani DiFranco Thrives With 20th Album". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. September 29, 2008.

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• When you come from a big family, you see that, growing up, you're learning how to share. Your sisters have got your back; you're not alone in this - 'We all support you!' Your family provides that; it gives you a sense of safety, and it's a very grounding feeling.

  Gisele Bundchen

  Growing Up, Support You, Safety

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• we should write because writing brings clarity and passion to the act of living. writing is sensual, experiential, grounding. we should write because writing is good for the soul. we should write because writing yields us a body of work, a felt path through the world we live in.

  Julia Cameron

  Passion, Writing, Yield

  Julia Cameron (1999). “The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life”, p.11, Penguin

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• To share your spiritual self or grounding with anyone brings about a reality that must assert itself.

  Roger A. Kaufman

  Spiritual, Reality, Self

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• The strategy behind the Kyoto Protocol has no grounding in economics or environmental policy.

  William Nordhaus

  Kyoto Protocol, Environmental, Strategy

  William D. Nordhaus, Joseph Boyer (2003). “Warming the World: Economic Models of Global Warming”, p.167, MIT Press

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• Today, we turn to one person to provide what an entire village once did: a sense of grounding, meaning, and continuity. At the same time, we expect our committed relationships to be romantic as well as emotionally and sexually fulfilling. Is it any wonder that so many relationships crumble under the weight of it all?

  Esther Perel

  Weight, Village, Today

  "How Jupiter in Libra Might Mess Up Marriage for Good" by The Astrotwins, www.elle.com. September 27, 2016.

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• My wife and family, to say the least, are the center of my life; they are my grounding. I don't want to sound schmaltzy, but they are my inspiration and you name it.

  Bill de Blasio

  Inspiration, Names, Wife

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

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• We hold on to so much in our bodies. Yoga helps you let go of things, and it’s incredibly grounding.

  Michaela Conlin

  Letting Go, Yoga, Body

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• Poems infatuated with their own smarts and detached from any emotional grounding can leave the reader feeling lonely, empty and ashamed for having expected more. Like icy adolescents, such poetry is more interested in commiserating than acknowledging that feelings — the sentiments that make us susceptible to sentimentality — actually exist.

  Tracy K. Smith

  Lonely, Smart, Emotional

  "Wipe That Smirk Off Your Poem". www.nytimes.com. March 16, 2015.

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• What happens [in a coma] is that you lose the grounding of the self, you no longer have access to any feeling of your own existence.

  Antonio Damasio

  Self, Feelings, Brain

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• Love is the grounding of our existence as humans and is the basic emotioning in our systemic identity as human beings.

  Humberto Maturana

  Love Is, Identity, Existence

  "Biology of love". 1996.

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• Like many others, I sometimes find that cooking can be naturally grounding.

  Surya Das

  Cooking, Sometimes

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• Before I had a kid, I was off in some kind of cosmic state all of the time, and thinking about the world beyond, thinking about intellectual stuff. And then, after I had a kid, just the whole process of giving birth is just so earthy and grounding and insane and it's all just an intense physical ordeal.

  Larkin Grimm

  Kids, Thinking, Giving

  Source: therumpus.net

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