Paralysis Quotes

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Shaming is one of the deepest tools of imperialist, white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy because shame produces trauma and trauma often produces paralysis.

Fear is a force that sharpens your senses. Being afraid is a state of paralysis in which you can't do anything.

Experience is a form of paralysis.

Only the fairy tale equates changelessness with happiness...Permanence means paralysis and death. Only, in movement, with all its pain, is life.

Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order.

I would prefer a thousand mistakes in extravagance of love to any paralysis in wariness of fear.

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.

Perfectionism spells paralysis.

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.

When people have been traumatized, they are stuck in paralysis-the immobility reaction or abrupt explosions of rage.

There is a syndrome in sports called 'paralysis by analysis.'

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

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.

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.

Aiming for perfection causes frustration at best and paralysis at worst.

Civilization is paralysis.

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

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.

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.

Shame produces trauma. Trauma produces paralysis.

How do I dance with the fear? Fear is not the enemy. Paralysis is the enemy.

Boredom is nothing but the experience of a paralysis of our productive powers.

The sense of paralysis proceeds not so much out of the mammoth size of the problem but out of the puniness of the purpose.

He suffered from paralysis by analysis.

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.

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.

Just get out of your own way.

The maxim, "Nothing prevails but perfection," may be spelled PARALYSIS.

You've heard the saying, 'Analysis creates paralysis.' You can't be 100 percent sure of anything.

Idleness is paralysis.

Birth control has almost completely and totally disappeared from the global health agenda, and the victims of this paralysis are the people of Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.

Indian economy is suffering from policy paralysis and lack of optimism. I am confident that with right kind of decisions, we can once again generate hope and confidence and turnaround our economy.

If you don't know you're in a state of grace, then you're vulnerable to the paralysis of the accusations of the enemy.

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

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.

Analysis paralysis occurs when you overthink and underwork.

Action based on hope just felt better than the paralysis of certainty.

Paralysis seems to happen on the steepest slope of the survival arc—where almost all hope is lost, when escape seems impossible, and when the situation is unfamiliar to the extreme.

Life too near paralyses art.

So soon as prudence has begun to grow up in the brain, like a dismal fungus, it finds its first expression in a paralysis of generous acts.

The great paralysis of our heart is unbelief.

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

All that was left for me was a terrible kind of paralysis, this waiting game, this heartbreak game.

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

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

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.

Pressure is an emotional paralysis. It's hard enough to do the dishes when you're feeling pressured, let alone make a movie.

OPTION PARALYSIS: The tendency, when given unlimited choices, to make none.

Many stroke survivors look back on their attack as a stroke of luck. Of course, by luck they mean horrible paralysis.

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