Paralysis Quotes - Page 2

• Boxing is about being hit rather more than it is about hitting, just as it is about feeling pain, if not devastating psychological paralysis, more than it is about winning.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Pain, Winning, Boxing

  Joyce Carol Oates (2009). “On Boxing”, p.25, Harper Collins

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• All the scientists who are working on solving the problem of curing paralysis say that it won't do you any good if you don't keep your body in shape.

  Christopher Reeve

  Body, Shapes, Problem

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• Unlimited choice is paralyzing. The Internet has made this form of paralysis due to option overload a standard feature of comfortable modern life.

  Susan Orlean

  Choices, Modern Life, Internet

  "Bootless" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. November 30, 2010.

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• Fear paralyses you - fear of flying, fear of the future, fear of leaving a rubbish marriage, fear of public speaking, or whatever it is.

  Annie Lennox

  Leaving, Flying, Rubbish

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• Sleep paralysis is something that is actually very common. Many people have it, I've had it myself. And what happens is, when you're in that REM stage of sleep, your brain is very active. You're dreaming your most during that stage, you're mind, your eyes are moving, there's a lot going on. It's like fireworks going on in your brain.

  Shelby Harris

  Dream, Moving, Sleep

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• Civilization is paralysis.

  Paul Gauguin

  Art, Philosophy, Civilization

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• Jealousy is the paralysis of love.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Jealousy

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• Be a self-starter. Do it now! When you don't know how to do something, start. Beware of the paralysis of analysis. Be a person of action.

  Mamie McCullough

  Self, Analysis, Action

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• Some patients will report that they have sleep paralysis. If we see sleep paralysis alone and nothing else, we don't really think all that much of it, but if we see other symptoms, then it might be a red flag for something else that's going on.

  Shelby Harris

  Sleep, Thinking, Red Flags

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• We all dread a bodily paralysis, and would make use of every contrivance to avoid it; but none of us is troubled about a paralysis of the soul.

  Epictetus

  Soul, Use, Dread

  Epictetus (1866). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.17

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• Shame produces trauma. Trauma produces paralysis.

  Bell Hooks

  Shame, Produce, Trauma

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• Fear of trying causes paralysis. Trying causes only trembling and sweating.

  Mason Cooley

  Trying, Causes, Trembling

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• Life is full of physical infirmities that some might see as discriminations - total paralysis or serious mental impairment being two that are relevant to marriage. If we believe in God and believe in His mercy and His justice, it won't do to say that these are discriminations because God wouldn't discriminate. We are in no condition to judge what discrimination is. We rest on our faith in God and our utmost assurance of His mercy and His love for all of His children.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Children, Believe, Two

  Source: www.mormonnewsroom.org

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• Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action.

  Cyril Connolly

  Christian, Atheism, Poison

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• Sometimes with the most intense pain a paralysis of sensibility occurs. The soul disintegrates--hence the deadly frost--the free power of the mind--the shattering, ceaseless wit of this kind of despair. There is no inclination for anything any more--the person is alone, like a baleful power--as he has no connection with the rest of the world he consumes himself gradually--and in accordance with his own principle he is--misanthropic and misotheos.

  Novalis

  Pain, Soul, Mind

  Novalis (1997). “Novalis: Philosophical Writings”, p.34, SUNY Press

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• When a branch of mathematics ceases to interest any but the specialists, it is very near its death, or at any rate dangerously close to a paralysis, from which it can be rescued only by being plunged back into the vivifying source of the science.

  Andre Weil

  Branches, Mathematics, Source

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• The chief danger of the Church today is that it is trying to get on the same side as the world, instead of turning the world upside down. Our Master expects us to accomplish results, even if they bring opposition and conflict. Anything is better than compromise, apathy, and paralysis.  God give to us an intense cry for the old-time power of the Gospel and the Holy Ghost!

  A. B. Simpson

  God, Faith, Christian

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• I woke up one morning, and I couldn't move my arm. It was the oddest thing, the paralysis. I called up a friend and said, "I think I've had a stroke," and, in fact, that's what my doctor told me. It wasn't terrible, but it was enough to scare me. Now I think about death all the time. I have my death arm, my right arm.

  Doris Lessing

  Morning, Moving, Thinking

  Interview with Jonah Raskin, progressive.org. November 19, 2013.

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• Boredom is nothing but the experience of a paralysis of our productive powers and the sense of unaliveness. Among the evils of life, there are few which are as painful as boredom, and consequently every attempt is made to avoid it.

  Erich Fromm

  Evil, Boredom, Painful

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Sane Society Ils 252”, p.202, Routledge

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• Specialisation paralyses, ultra-specialisation kills. Palaeontology is littered with such catastrophes.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Ultras, Catastrophe

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• Just get out of your own way.

  Rajneesh

  Love, Way, Self Defeating Behavior

  Osho Rajneesh (1999). “Lovers' Mysteries”, p.105, Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd

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• I'm in my 30's, and I'm still struggling with defining myself. I'm working every day to take control of things that are out of my control, and not letting them bring me down or frustrate me, to the point of paralysis.

  Lauren Iungerich

  Struggle, Defining, Take Control

  Source: collider.com

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• Confidence means non-paralysis, a willingness to act, and act decisively, to start new things and cut failing ventures off.

  Tom Peters

  Motivational, Mean, Cutting

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• It's not just the embarrassment of tears. That's part of it, no doubt, but what embarrasses me much more, and always will, is the paralysis that took my heart. A moral freeze: I couldn't decide, I couldn't act, I couldn't comport myself with even a pretense of modest human dignity.

  Tim O'Brien

  Heart, Doubt, Tears

  Tim O'Brien (2009). “The Things They Carried”, p.54, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If they succeed in creating an inclusive structure in virtually any peaceful form, Iraq succeeds. If they fail, the U.S.-led coalition fails almost regardless of its military success and that of the new Iraqi forces, and Iraq will move towards division, paralysis, civil conflict and/or a new strongman.

  Anthony H. Cordesman

  Military, Moving, Civilization

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