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Ballet is such a disciplined craft and it has given me a good grounding. -- Jennifer Ellison
My mum always told me I was precious, while my dad always told me I was worthless. I think that's a good grounding for a balanced life. -- Alan Cumming
There can be no better grounding for a lifetime as an author than to see humanity in all its various guises through the lens of the reporter for the town. -- Terry Pratchett
Grounding airplanes to cover your butt would never have let Orville or Wilbur change the world. We would still be spending weeks to cross the Atlantic to do business in London. -- Gordon Bethune
The academy gave me a grounding in discipline and hard work that has sustained me throughout my life, and the lessons I learned there I now try to impress on young people. -- Georg Solti
The whole concept of 'grounding' children is utterly stupid - they just go off and rebel and don't like you. When my kids eventually come along, I don't want them to not like me. -- Kate Winslet
No one's going to be able to operate without a grounding in the basic sciences. Language would be helpful, although English is becoming increasingly international. And travel. You have to have a global attitude. -- Rupert Murdoch
I feel like theatre gives me the grounding, and keeps me alive, basically. Film gives me the thrill, and it's like a one night stand. But I do enjoy being around people who love it so much. -- Marisa Tomei
Things like the financial markets - a proper grounding in mathematics could help the common man. I believe that if people are more familiar with mathematical concepts... it can help deal with modern life, which is increasingly complex. -- Viswanathan Anand
A theoretical grounding in agronomy must, therefore, include knowledge of biological laws. -- Trofim Lysenko
Putting your hands in the earth is very grounding, if you'll excuse the pun. -- John Glover
I think we need to start thinking about grounding our moral systems in our biology. -- Frans de Waal
On the whole, British actors star in theater, and I think there's something quite grounding about that. -- Jeremy Irvine
Love is the grounding of our existence as humans and is the basic emotioning in our systemic identity as human beings. -- Humberto Maturana
It is only by grounding our awareness in the living sensation of our bodies that the 'I Am,' our real presence, can awaken. -- G. I. Gurdjieff
First and foremost, praying about things and having the good Lord as a part of my life is a huge grounding thing for me. -- Ashton Shepherd
Energy and environmental regulation, transportation, and broadband policy all benefit when legislators have a basic grounding in the technical concepts behind business models, products, and innovation. -- John Sununu
Radicalization does not happen to young people with a strong grounding in the American Muslim mainstream; increasingly, it happens online, and sometimes abroad, among the isolated and disaffected. -- Suhaib Webb
Without grounding, it's easy to embrace the 'baller' lifestyle: dropping out of tech, throwing money at cars, boats and real estate, and slipping into a cycle of spending and indulgence. -- Ryan Holmes
The interesting trick of comedy, in a lot of ways, is to have both the comedy and the grounding of the real thing. You get a real sense of a human being. -- Natasha Lyonne
Although religion was around me my whole life I never felt it was forced upon me. It is my centring, my grounding, the soul of me. I feel I'm nothing without it. -- Nicole Scherzinger
Holly Black is the Real Thing: a gifted writer with a solid grounding in what matters. Her stories are dark and splendid blooms rising from roots sunk deep in myth and tradition. -- Ellen Kushner
Rotten Tomatoes is such a great website, in that it has one foot in the Internet world and one foot in the cinema world, and it keeps its grounding between them just perfectly. -- John Lasseter
I'm not into politics but I am committed to a cause: ensuring design technology and engineering stays on the U.K. curriculum, alongside science and maths - grounding abstract theory, merging the practical with the academic. -- James Dyson
The grounding in natural sciences which I obtained in the course of my medical studies, including preliminary examinations in botany, zoology, physics, and chemistry, was to become decisive in determining the trend of my literary work. -- Johannes V. Jensen
The grounding in natural sciences which I obtained in the course of my medical studies, including preliminary examinations in botany, zoology, physics, and chemistry, was to become decisive in determining the trend of my literary work. -- Johannes V. Jensen
If a person finds the negative people in his network, then he needs to mind or mend his own nature than others for his basic grounding decides only the level of acidic or toxic surrounding for him. -- Anuj
For me, my family and my faith have been what's really been my anchor, and grounding me, and helping me navigate through a lot of the things that really destroy marriages in Hollywood, and in your own personal integrity. -- Kirk Cameron
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The problem of good as it faces the atheist is this: Nature, which is the nuts-and-bolts reality for the atheist, has no values and thus can offer no grounding for good and evil. Values on the atheist view are subjective and contingent. -- William A. Dembski
I'm probably never happier than when I'm by myself in the water. What I've worked and sacrificed for is not to be on stage playing music but to surf in some secluded place. It's a grounding element. Waves don't care who you are. -- Eddie Vedder
Flair is a primitive kind of style. It is innate and cannot be taught. It can be polished and refined. When a person has flair, a grounding in the principle of design, and self-discipline, that person has the potential of being an outstanding designer. -- Albert Hadley
I think there's a fine line between being so obtuse that you lose the reader completely, which is the intention for some writers, though it isn't mine. I work hard at grounding the world as much as possible in the world we do recognize. -- Laurie Foos
I live in New York. I have an amazing apartment over there; I have this amazing life over there that's full of glamour. I get treated like a queen over there - and that's one of the reasons I love coming home. It's very grounding. -- Nicole Trunfio
So dogma, doctrine, unexamined assumptions, that's what it is to be sharing that, the hippies shadow, no way of grounding it to reality. It's where we're just cut off from reality unless we can argue, we can substantiate, we can justify, we can convince each other. -- Rebecca Goldstein
Psychology, unlike chemistry, unlike algebra, unlike literature, is an owner's manual for your own mind. It's a guide to life. What could be more important than grounding young people in the scientific information that they need to live happy, healthy, productive lives? To have good relationships? -- Daniel Goldstein
Maybe it's just a personal thing, but I get so much grounding from Iceland because I know it's always going to be there. I have a very happy, healthy relationship with the country, so it's really easy to go everywhere because I always have Iceland to go back to. -- Bjork
When you come from a big family, you see that, growing up, you're learning how to share. Your sisters have got your back; you're not alone in this - 'We all support you!' Your family provides that; it gives you a sense of safety, and it's a very grounding feeling. -- Gisele Bundchen
Contemplation: I read a lot of books on philosophy and religion, and try to keep always growing in that part of my life, because without having a spiritual grounding, I think you can get really swayed by the winds of all the praise or the criticism; it's all very, kind of, up and down. Try to stay up and focused. -- Kimbra
Maybe it's just a personal thing, but I get so much grounding from Iceland because I know it's always going to be there. I have a very happy, healthy relationship with the country, so it's really easy to go everywhere because I always have Iceland to go back to. It's sort of a contradiction, but that's how it works somehow. -- Bjork
All the world's major religions, with their emphasis on love, compassion, patience, tolerance, and forgiveness can and do promote inner values. But the reality of the world today is that grounding ethics in religion is no longer adequate. This is why I am increasingly convinced that the time has come to find a way of thinking about spirituality and ethics beyond religion altogether. -- Dalai Lama
There's a lesson in everything. Looking for the lesson is grounding. -- Kim Coles
I'm kind of all over the place, and I need grounding. -- Courteney Cox
Buddhist practice is the grounding for this work, this life, this way. -- Joan Halifax
Like many others, I sometimes find that cooking can be naturally grounding. -- Surya Das
The strategy behind the Kyoto Protocol has no grounding in economics or environmental policy. -- William Nordhaus
Citizens can have their own grounding in their comprehensive doctrines, whatever they happen to be. -- John Rawls
I was brought up by a really proud, supportive family, so I have that sort of grounding. -- Aaron Taylor-Johnson
Fundamentally I am a wrestler and like being on top and I like my grounding and pounding. -- Charlie Brenneman
To share your spiritual self or grounding with anyone brings about a reality that must assert itself. -- Roger A. Kaufman
I think, for East and West, the first thing we need is a good grounding in basic Buddhadharma. -- Tenzin Palmo
The absolutist parades his good solid grounding in observation, reason, objectivity, truth and fact; the relativist sees only fetishes. -- Simon Blackburn
Yoga changed my life. I go between 4 and 6 times a week. It's incredibly grounding and an intense level of focus. -- Katharine Towne
We hold on to so much in our bodies. Yoga helps you let go of things, and it's incredibly grounding. -- Michaela Conlin
I think there's a certain sense of grounding that comes from not being a rich kid from a media-elite school. -- Shepard Smith
I feel that doing theater does give you a good grounding to work on camera. The audience is the lens. -- Julian Ovenden
I found going to school when I was modeling very grounding. It's really kept my perspective on bigger things in my life. -- Lily Cole
Some of my songs are about the feeling you belong somewhere else. But there's also something grounding about coming from a small town. -- James Bay
What happens [in a coma] is that you lose the grounding of the self, you no longer have access to any feeling of your own existence. -- Antonio Damasio
One way of grounding the magic is by putting in lots of stuff about street lamps, carriages, and how difficult it is to get good servants. -- Susanna Clarke
In order to deal with the chaos that exists in the world today, you need some grounding. That grounding best comes from knowing who you are. -- Michael Ray
I am part of an age-old profession of musicianship. I believe these times require grounding, real-ness and fun. Let's do it. Whatever happens is all good. -- Jane Siberry
I've had enough experience with knowing that things will turn out just fine. I pray for that. There's a lesson in everything. Looking for the lesson is grounding. -- Kim Coles
The goal of education should be to dismantle the Middle Pole view, not to reinforce it in the name of the need for a grounding in one's own civilisation. -- Jay L. Garfield
Coming from a working-class background, where my father did manual labor, was a good grounding; I was obsessed with getting a job or getting out of the house at 15. -- Johnny Marr
If you want to act, do school plays. If they're not there, create them, and the same with local repertory. They are the grounding for a lot of people. Make it happen. -- William Kircher
My wife and family, to say the least, are the center of my life; they are my grounding. I don't want to sound schmaltzy, but they are my inspiration and you name it. -- Bill de Blasio
The praise helps on a deep level, which gives you the grounding that encourages you to trust yourself. On another level, each film is a risk, and the praise doesn't save you from that risk. -- Ira Sachs

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