Paralysis Quotes - Page 5

• As art sinks into paralysis, artists multiply. This anomaly ceases to be one if we realize that art, on its way to exhaustion, has become both impossible and easy.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Art, Anomalies, Way

  Emile M. Cioran (1976). “The Trouble with Being Born”, Viking Books

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• The lack of resources is no longer an excuse not to act. The idea that action should only be taken after all the answers and the resources have been found is a sure recipe for paralysis. The planning of a city is a process that allows for corrections; it is supremely arrogant to believe that planning can be done only after every possible variable has been controlled.

  Jaime Lerner

  Believe, Taken, Cities

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• I can't stand the kind of paralysis that some people fall into because they're not happy with the choices they've made.

  Hillary Clinton

  Fall, People, Choices

  "Why Men Still Can't Have It All" by Richard Dorment, www.esquire.com. May 28, 2013.

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• I am optimistic. But I also know that, with time, I'm beginning to fight issues of aging as well as long-term paralysis.

  Christopher Reeve

  Optimistic, Fighting, Issues

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• When you have both parties who will not find ways to compromise, who won't meet in the middle, you have paralysis. It's the perversion of idealism.

  Beau Willimon

  Party, Way, Compromise

  "House of Cards' creator Beau Willimon plays a solid hand". Interview with Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. August 28, 2013.

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• I'm very lucky in that I still experience highs and lows. And I think those lows are important. But I am not totally paralyzed, and it keeps me from just complete state of paralysis - and emotionally and really kind of almost physically.

  Sarah Silverman

  Thinking, Important, Lucky

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• The truth is, what Americans enjoy about football is much of what makes the sport dangerous. However, I believe there must be a way to find the art of success and vitality in football, without the driving the level of impact that causes serious risk of head trauma, paralysis and other life-changing injuries.

  Naveen Jain

  Sports, Football, Art

  "Keeping Football Exciting While Reducing the Threat of Traumatic Head Injuries" by Naveen Jain, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 27, 2012.

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• Look at the reactions of liberal governments to the surveillance revelations during the last years. In the United States, we've got this big debate, but we've got official paralysis - because they're the ones who had their hand caught most deeply in the cookie jar.

  Edward Snowden

  Government, Hands, Years

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• The primary object of non-co-operation is nowhere stated to be paralysis of the Government. The primary object is self-purification.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Government, Self, Purification

  Mahatma Gandhi (1988). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• I wouldn't have been a health care nut if it hadn't been for my paralysis, so something good came from this.

  Michael Graves

  Health, Nuts, Care

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• But one thing is certain-in the case of nutrition and health, the science can be confusing and can lead to “paralysis by analysis” (a state in which you take no action because you're not sure what to do).

  Melissa Hartwig

  Confusing, Analysis, Nutrition

  Dallas Hartwig, Melissa Hartwig (2014). “It Starts With Food: Discover the Whole30 and Change Your Life in Unexpected Ways”, p.23, Victory Belt Publishing

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• There is, to be sure, sometimes only a small difference between being alert to possible danger and allowing oneself to become terrified to the point of paralysis by seeming or imagined portents.

  Sherwin B. Nuland

  Differences, Sometimes, Danger

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• If a person realized that everything people call happiness, love and joy was just a miscalculation based on a false premise, he'd feel a horrible emptiness inside. The only thing that could rouse him from his paralysis would be to gamble with his own face and the face of others. The person capable of that would be permitted anything.

  Vladimir Bartol

  People, Joy, Would Be

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• Too much horsing around with unrealistic stances and classic forms and rituals is just too artificial and mechanical, and doesn't really prepare the student for actual combat. A guy could get clobbered while getting into this classical mess. Classical methods like these, which I consider a form of paralysis, only solidify and constrain what was once fluid. Their practitioners are merely blindly rehearsing routines and stunts that will lead nowhere.

  Bruce Lee

  Guy, Too Much, Students

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• While feeling far less injured by toil than my friends took for granted I must be, I yet was always aware of the strong probability that my life would end as the lives of hard literary workers usually end, - in paralysis, with months or years of imbecility.

  Harriet Martineau

  Strong, Years, Feelings

  Harriet Martineau (2015). “Harriet Martineau's Autobiography (Vol. I: Abridged, Annotated)”, p.118, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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• A faith which we follow upon orders imposed from outside is no faith, and a community which puts its dependence upon such a pseudo-faith is ultimately bound to ruin itself because of the paralysis which the lack of a healthy growing science imposes upon it.

  Norbert Wiener

  Order, Community, Healthy

  "The Human Use of Human Beings". Book by Norbert Wiener, XI. Language, Confusion, and Jam. p. 193, 1950.

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• We must face the bitter fact that we have forsaken our great dream of a life of, for, and by the people; that the burning passions and ideals of the American dream lie congealed by cold cynicism. Great parts of the masses of our people no longer believe that they have a voice or a hand in shaping the destiny of this nation. They have not forsaken democracy because of any desire or positive action of their own; they have been driven down into the depths of a great despair born of frustration, hopelessness, and apathy. A democracy lacking in popular participation dies of paralysis.

  Saul Alinsky

  Dream, Lying, Believe

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• A dead language is not only one no longer spoken or written, it is unyielding language content to admire its own paralysis. Like statist language, censored and censoring. Ruthless in its policing duties, it has no desire or purpose other than maintaining the free range of its own narcotic narcissism, its own exclusivity and dominance. However moribund, it is not without effect for it actively thwarts the intellect, stalls conscience, suppresses human potential. Unreceptive to interrogation, it cannot form or tolerate new ideas, shape other thoughts, tell another story, fill baffling silences.

  Toni Morrison

  Ideas, Silence, Desire

  Nobel Prize for Literature Lecture, delivered 7 December 1993

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• Want of will causes paralysis of every faculty. In spiritual things man is utterly unable because resolvedly unwilling.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Spiritual, Men, Want

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1990). “The Quotable Spurgeon”, Shaw

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• Try to imagine a man setting out for the day without a single prejudice. ... Inevitably he would be in a state of paralysis. He could not get up in the morning, or choose his necktie, or make his way to the office, ... or, to come right down to the essence of the thing, even maintain his identity.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Morning, Men, Essence

  Richard M. Weaver (1966). “Life Without Prejudice: And Other Essays”

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• Kindness. The only possible method when dealing with a living creature. You'll get nowhere with an animal if you use terror, no matter what its level of development may be. That I have maintained, do maintain and always will maintain. People who think you can use terror are quite wrong. No, no, terror is useless, whatever its colour – white, red or even brown! Terror completely paralyses the nervous system.

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Kindness, Thinking, Animal

  Mikhail Bulgakov (2005). “The Heart of a Dog”, Vintage Books USA

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• We cannot define anything precisely. If we attempt to, we get into the paralysis of thought that comes to philosophers, who sit opposite each other, one saying to the other, "You don't know what you are talking about!" The second one says, "What do you mean by know? What do you mean by talking? What do you mean by you?"

  Richard P. Feynman

  Mean, Talking, Philosopher

  "The Feynman Lectures on Physics (volume I; lecture 8: "Motion")". Book by Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton and Matthew Sands, 1964.

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• You are innately designed to use your personal power. When you don't, you experience a sense of helplessness, paralysis, and depression-which is your clue that something is not working as it could. You, like all of us, deserve everything that is wonderful and exciting in life. And those feelings emerge only when you get in touch with your powerful self.

  Susan Jeffers

  Depression, Powerful, Self

  Susan Jeffers (2014). “Feel The Fear And Do It Anyway”, p.48, Random House

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• I once heard a sober alcoholic say that drinking never made him happy, but it made him feel like he was going to be happy in about fifteen minutes. That was exactly it, and I couldn't understand why the happiness never came, couldn't see the flaw in my thinking, couldn't see that alcohol kept me trapped in a world of illusion, procrastination, paralysis. I lived always in the future, never in the present. Next time, next time! Next time I drank it would be different, next time it would make me feel good again.

  Heather King

  Drinking, Procrastination, Thinking

  Heather King (2006). “Parched”, p.100, Penguin

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• It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Sadness, Emotion, Moments

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”

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