Paralyzed Quotes

• Some people are walking around with full use of their bodies and they're more paralyzed than I am.

  Christopher Reeve

  People, Use, Body

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• Most people are paralyzed by fear. Overcome it and you take charge of your life and your world.

  Mark Victor Hansen

  People, Overcoming, World

  FaceBook post by Mark Victor Hansen from Aug 03, 2013

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• Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Life, Marriage

  Martin Luther King (Jr.), Alex Ayres (1993). “The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr”, Plume

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• I've seen many politicians paralyzed in the legs as myself, but I've seen more of them who were paralyzed in the head.

  George C. Wallace

  Political, Legs, Politics

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• What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Education, Lost Love, Divorce

  R. Buckminster Fuller (2010). “Education Automation: Comprehensive Learning for Emergent Humanity”, p.20, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• Visionary people face the same problems everyone else faces; but rather than get paralyzed by their problems, visionaries immediately commit themselves to finding a solution.

  Bill Hybels

  Leadership, People, Creative

  Bill Hybels (2009). “Who You Are When No One's Looking: Choosing Consistency, Resisting Compromise”, p.47, InterVarsity Press

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• In constant pursuit of money to finance campaigns, the political system is simply unable to function. Its deliberative powers are paralyzed.

  John Rawls

  Political, Campaigns, Finance

  John Rawls (2001). “The Law of Peoples: With, The Idea of Public Reason Revisited”, p.140, Harvard University Press

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• When I was about 9, I had polio, and people were very frightened for their children, so you tended to be isolated. I was paralyzed for a while, so I watched television.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Children, Polio Vaccine, People

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• Only feeble minds are paralyzed by facts.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Mind, Facts, Feeble Minds

  Arthur C. Clarke (1968). “the Promise of Space”

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• My family knew, but most of the sporting world did not realize that my right hand been some 75% paralyzed.

  Bill Toomey

  Sports, Ghouls, Hands

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• I became paralyzed as an artist with writer's block.

  David Guterson

  Block, Artist, Literature

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• I may be paralyzed from the waist down, but unlike Gray Davis, I'm not paralyzed from the neck up.

  Larry Flynt

  May, Necks, Gray

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• We are the kind of people who obsess over one word... but we have only one shot to get it right in concert. It was hard the first time I practiced with them. I was so nervous that my vocal chords were paralyzed for about a half-hour.

  Amy Tan

  People, Half, Firsts

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• The problem, simply put, is that we cannot choose everything simultaneously. So we live in danger of becoming paralyzed by indecision, terrified that every choice might be the wrong choice.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Choices, Decision, Might

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.345, A&C Black

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• Better to be paralyzed from the neck down than the neck up

  Charles Krauthammer

  Necks

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• Modern man has so long preached a doctrine of false tolerance; he has so long believed that right and wrong were only differences in a point of view, that now when evil works itself out in practice he is paralyzed to do anything against it.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Men, Views, Practice

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• Face your path with courage, don't be scared of people's criticism. And, above all, don't let yourself get paralyzed by your own criticism.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, People

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• ... I feel tired to death, paralyzed by this mysteriously wasted life's stubborn concentration on hopelessness and dissolution. It occurs to me that if I lie still like this for long enough, then I'll be dead when I finally wake again, and nothing can ever again torment me, beset me, or present me with evidence of my baseness and decay. That thought is the only one that can comfort me.

  Christer Kihlman

  Depression, Lying, Tired

  Christer Kihlman (1990). “The blue mother”

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• And do not be paralyzed. It is better to move than to be unable to move, because you fear loss so much: loss of order, loss of security, loss of predictability.

  Judith Guest

  Moving, Loss, Order

  Judith Guest (1982). “Ordinary People”, p.242, Penguin

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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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• I can't be paralyzed anymore by the critics. My new mantra is, if you're not in the arena getting your ass kicked on occasion, then I'm not interested in your feedback. You don't get to sit in the cheat seat and criticize my appearance or my work with mean-spiritedness if you're also not in the arena.

  Brené Brown

  Mean, Arena, Ass

  "Brené Brown On Why Courage, Vulnerability And Authenticity Have To Be Practiced". Interview with Chantal Pierrat, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 25, 2013.

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• Maintaining the status quo is the same as regressing; while you are holding your own, others are passing you by. Be harsh on yourself. Do not ever think that you have made it; do not ever be staisfied by what you have done. Drive yourself for the rest of your life. If you do not move, you become paralyzed. Develop your potential to the fullest, for you, too, can wake the sleeping genius at will.

  Kim Woo-jung

  Moving, Sleep, Thinking

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• Look for small victories and build on that. Each small victory, even if it is just getting up five minutes earlier, gives you confidence. You realize that these little victories make you feel great, and you keep going. You realize that being paralyzed by fear of failure is worse than failure.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Giving, Victory, Looks

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• There's fear in everything, but we can't just succumb to that. We have to suppress it, so we get used to suppressing fear to make it through the our day. Otherwise, we'd become paralyzed by them.

  Eli Roth

  Used, Suppressing

  "Eli Roth Exclusive Interview THE LAST EXORCISM; Plus Updates on FUNHOUSE 3D, MAN WITH THE IRON FIST, ENDANGERED SPECIES, More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 25, 2010.

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• If you cannot trust yourself, you cannot even trust your mistrust of yourself - so that without this underlying trust in the whole system of nature you are simply paralyzed

  Alan Watts

  Trust Yourself, Mistrust, Whole

  Alan Watts (2010). “Tao: The Watercourse Way”, p.43, Souvenir Press

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