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
What paralyzes life is lack of faith and lack of audacity. The difficulty lies not in solving problems but identifying them. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Most people are paralyzed by fear. Overcome it and you take charge of your life and your world. — Mark Victor Hansen
Anesthesia: wounds without pain. Neurasthenia: pain without wounds. — Karl Kraus
We move in response to our conversation partner’s face, and our brain also fires as we move those muscles and stirs the passions. Paralyzing the face is idiotic. — John M. Gottman
Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being — Plato
There are movements which impinge upon the nerves with a strength that is incomparable, for movement has power to stir the senses and emotions, unique in itself. — Doris Humphrey
Nothing speeds brain atrophy more than being immobilized in the same environment. — Norman Doidge
When we're afraid, we lose all sense of analysis and reflection. Our fear paralyzes us. Besides, fear has always been the driving force behind all dictators' repression. — Marjane Satrapi
Tie two birds together. They will not be able to fly, even though they now have four wings. — Rumi
At times inactivity is preferable to mindless functioning. — Jenny Holzer
Inaction will cause a man to sink into the slough of despond and vanish without a trace. — Farley Mowat
If in an actor there appears an utter vacancy of meaning, a frigid equality, a stupid languor, a torpid apathy, the greatest kindness that can be shown him is a speedy sentence of expulsion. — Samuel Johnson
Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind. — Leonardo da Vinci
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
The Maxim, "Nothing but perfection", may be spelled "Paralysis".
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
You've heard the saying, 'Analysis creates paralysis.' You can't be 100 percent sure of anything. — Mark Burnett
Analysis paralysis occurs when you overthink and underwork. — Orrin Woodward
He suffered from paralysis by analysis. — Bill Vaughan
Motivational Quotes
You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending. — C. S. Lewis
If I have accomplished anything in life it is because I have been willing to work hard. — Madam C. J. Walker
I may not be a role model, but I most definitely could be motivation for a lot of people in the hoods. — Rick Ross
No Fear, No Hesitation, No Surprise, No Doubt — Miyamoto Musashi
I had to make my own living and my own opportunity. But I made it! Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them. — Madam C. J. Walker
For what it's worth, it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of and if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny. — Aristotle
Paralyses Quotes
I have been seriously afraid at times but have used my fear as a stimulating factor rather than allowing it to paralyse me. My abilities have not been outstanding, but I have had sufficient strength and determination to meet my challenges and have usually managed to succeed with them. — Edmund Hillary
Let positive, strong, helpful thoughts enter into your brains from very childhood. Lay yourselves open to these thoughts, and not to weakening and paralysing ones. — Swami Vivekananda
The Alexander Technique has helped me to undo knots, unblock energy and deal with almost paralysing stage fright — William Hurt
You know how it is with some girls. They seem to take the stuffing right out of you. I mean to say, there is something about their personality that paralyses the vocal cords and reduces the contents of the brain to cauliflower. — P. G. Wodehouse
Such a scheme.. the betrayal of the national democracy of Industrial Ulster, would mean a carnival of reaction both North and South, would set back the wheels of progress, would destroy the oncoming unity of the Irish labour movement and paralyse all advanced movements while it lasted. — James Connolly
There is nothing wrong with photography, if you don't mind the perspective of a paralysed Cyclops. — David Hockney
A reasonable estimate of economic organisation must allow for the fact that, unless industry is to be paralysed by recurrent revolts on the part of outraged human nature, it must satisfy criteria which are not purely economic. — R. H. Tawney
My fiancee's brother-in-law was recently paralysed in an accident and it really brought home the fact that thousands of young people live with spinal injuries. It's an issue I wish had more coverage. — Gary Lineker
Normal fear protects us; abnormal fear paralyses us. Normal fear motivates us to improve our individual and collective welfare; abnormal fear constantly poisons and distorts our inner lives. Our problem is not to be rid of fear but, rather to harness and master it. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralysed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as birds' wings. — Rumi
Nothing paralyzes our lives like the attitude that things can never change. We need to remind ourselves that God can change things. Outlook determines outcome. If we see only the problems, we will be defeated; but if we see the possibilities in the problems, we can have victory. — Warren W. Wiersbe
I need no bodyguard at all, for even the bravest men who approach me get weak at the knees and their hearts turn to water, whilst their heads become giddy and incapable of thinking as the sweat of fear paralyzes them. — Shaka
I strongly suspect that if we saw all the difference even the tiniest of our prayers make, and all the people those...prayers were destined to affect...we would be so paralyzed with awe...that we would be unable to get up off our knees for the rest of our lives. — Peter Kreeft
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Paralyze resistance with persistence. — Woody Hayes
Fear is inevitable, I have to accept that, but I cannot allow it to paralyze me. — Isabel Allende
Faith is a kind of immune system filtering out fears that otherwise would paralyze all activity. — Reinhard Bonnke
Shape without form, shade without color, Paralyzed force, gesture without motion; Those who have crossed With direct eyes, to death's other Kingdom Remember us-if at all-not as lost Violent souls, but only As the hollow men The stuffed men. — T. S. Eliot
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
Shaming is one of the deepest tools of imperialist, white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy because shame produces trauma and trauma often produces paralysis. — Bell Hooks
Some days it is a heroic act just to refuse the paralysis of fear and straighten up and step into another day. — Edward Albert
Only the fairy tale equates changelessness with happiness...Permanence means paralysis and death. Only, in movement, with all its pain, is life. — Jacob Burckhardt
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
Outwardly one's life may suffer every kind of limitation, from bodily paralysis to miserable surroundings, but inwardly it is free in meditation to reach out to a sphere of light, beauty, truth, love, and power. — Paul Brunton
Gloating is a superficial glowing, floating is an idle flowing, and bloatedness is the paralysis of blowing up; because silent movement results in loud victories. — Criss Jami
When people have been traumatized, they are stuck in paralysis-the immobility reaction or abrupt explosions of rage. — Peter A. Levine
They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death. — Anton Chekhov
Understanding the difference between healthy striving and perfectionism is critical to laying down the shield and picking up your life. Research shows that perfectionism hampers success. In fact, it's often the path to depression, anxiety, addiction, and life paralysis. — Brené Brown
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
My intention was to write a chapter of the moral history of my country and I chose Dublin for the scene because that city seemed to me the centre of paralysis. — James Joyce
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
Well, you have the public not wanting any new spending, you have the Republicans not wanting any new taxes, you have the Democrats not wanting any new spending cuts, you have the markets not wanting any new borrowing, and you have the economists wanting all of the above. And that leads to paralysis. — Michael Bloomberg
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
Judging yourself to be full of virtue paralyses. Judging yourself to be full of guilt also paralyses. — Paulo Coelho
The sense of paralysis proceeds not so much out of the mammoth size of the problem but out of the puniness of the purpose. — Norman Cousins
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
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
Depression was a very active state really. Even if you appeared to an observer to be immobilized, your mind was in a frenzy of paralysis. You were unable to function, but were actively despising yourself for it. — Lisa Alther
Shame produces trauma. Trauma produces paralysis. — Bell Hooks
Somewhere between the ages of eleven and fifteen, the average child begins to suffer from an atrophy, the paralysis of curiosity and the suspension of the power to observe. The trouble, I should judge, to lie with the schools. — Thomas A. Edison
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
Anyone who would attempt the task of felling a virgin forest with a penknife would probably feel the same paralysis of despair that the reformer feels when confronted with existing school systems. — Ellen Key
Boredom is nothing but the experience of a paralysis of our productive powers. — Erich Fromm
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
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
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
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