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Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order. -- Arthur Helps
There is a syndrome in sports called 'paralysis by analysis.' -- Arthur Ashe
Paralysis of leadership is due in part to the unseen grip of the special interests. -- John W. Gardner
How do I dance with the fear? Fear is not the enemy. Paralysis is the enemy. -- Seth Godin
Some days it is a heroic act just to refuse the paralysis of fear and straighten up and step into another day. -- Edward Albert
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
Paralysis seems to happen on the steepest slope of the survival arcâ??where almost all hope is lost, when escape seems impossible, and when the situation is unfamiliar to the extreme. -- Amanda Ripley
Paralysis, anxiety stomachs, arthritis and many ills and aberrations have been relieved by auditing them. An E-Meter shows them up and makes them confess their misdeeds. They are probably just compartments of the mind which, cut off, begin to act as though they were persons. -- Lawrence Wright
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
Shame produces trauma. Trauma produces paralysis. -- bell hooks
He suffered from paralysis by analysis. -- Bill Vaughan
The maxim, "Nothing prevails but perfection," may be spelled PARALYSIS. -- Winston Churchill
They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death. -- Anton Chekhov
Fear is a force that sharpens your senses. Being afraid is a state of paralysis in which you can't do anything. -- Marcus Luttrell
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
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
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. -- Narendra Modi
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
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. -- Brene Brown
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.
The madness of depression is, generally speaking, the antithesis of violence. It is a storm indeed, but a storm of murk. Soon evident are the slowed-down responses, near paralysis, psychic energy throttled back close to zero. Ultimately, the body is affected and feels sapped, drained. -- William Styron
Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities, but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step... -- Winston Churchill
Needless to say, jamming deformed, drugged, overstressed birds together in a filthy, waste-coated room is not very healthy. Beyond deformities, eye damage, blindness, bacterial infections of bones, slipped vertebrae, paralysis, internal bleeding, anemia, slipped tendons, twisted lower legs and necks, respiratory diseases, and weakened immune systems are frequent and long-standing problems on factory farms. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
You are innately designed to use your personal power. When you don't, you experience a sense of helplessness, paralysis, and depression-which is your clue that something is not working as it could. You, like all of us, deserve everything that is wonderful and exciting in life. And those feelings emerge only when you get in touch with your powerful self. -- Susan Jeffers
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
He suffered from paralysis by analysis. -- Bill Vaughan
Too much knowledge and analysis can be paralysis. -- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Worrying paralyzes progress; prayer, preparation and persistence ensures it. -- T.F. Hodge
Karate is action, survival, living; hesitation is paralysis, reaction, mortality -- Soke Behzad Ahmadi
Even the littlest things were now a challenge, one I didn't understand. -- Sarah Todd Hammer
To banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality. -- John Ruskin
You've heard the saying, 'Analysis creates paralysis.' You can't be 100 percent sure of anything. -- Mark Burnett
We have a paralysis in Washington that's not serving our country. We have to address these issues. -- Rob Portman
All of a sudden, my right hand was dead, unplugged, and my left was definitely not working right. -- Jennifer Starzec
When the doctors came in a little while later saying they thought they knew my diagnosis, I was afraid to know. -- Sarah Todd Hammer
I can't stand the kind of paralysis that some people fall into because they're not happy with the choices they've made. -- Hillary Clinton
Pressure is an emotional paralysis. It's hard enough to do the dishes when you're feeling pressured, let alone make a movie. -- Jennifer Lynch
Truth is not fully explosive, but purely electric. You don't blow the world up with the truth; you shock it into motion. -- Criss Jami
I am optimistic. But I also know that, with time, I'm beginning to fight issues of aging as well as long-term paralysis. -- Christopher Reeve
We live in a world where the laws are getting so tight that management has changed to micro-management to quantum-management to paralysis. -- Jane Siberry
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
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
I was really happy because the doctor had said I would be better by then, and I was ready for this terrible nightmare to be over. -- Sarah Todd Hammer
As I sat up I turned my head to the side, but immediately straightened it again when I felt a sharp pain shoot through my neck. -- Jennifer Starzec
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. -- Beau Willimon
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
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
It was a kind of paralysis you would get from tendonitis and I would last about five to ten minutes into the set and it would set in and I really couldn't play. -- Leo Kottke
You can handle the wheelchair," said the occupational therapist, with a smile intended to make the remark sound like good news, whereas to my ears it had the ring of a life sentence. -- Jean-Dominique Bauby
I've always felt some kind of connection to people who are kind of over-smart. People who over-think things to the point of some sort of paralysis, and I think that certainly can be me on any given day. -- Noah Baumbach
Before I knew it, I was once again being whisked down the hallways at the new hospital into an even bigger room, one that, unbeknownst to me, would be my home for what would feel like a long, long time. -- Jennifer Starzec
Latin Americans hold on tight even to pain and suffering, preferring a certain present to an uncertain future. Some of this is only natural, entirely human. But for us, the fear is paralyzing; it generates not only anxiety but also paralysis. -- Oscar Arias
I owe my life and hope to the gospel. Without it I would still be strutting with racist pride, or I would be suffering the moral paralysis of 'white guilt.' But the gospel has an answer to both pride and guilt. -- John Piper
Positive health means becoming whole-heartedly engaged with our own health care. It means not outsourcing our health to the health care system. It means getting rid of the fear and paralysis we too often feel, and instead cultivating a sense of agency. -- Jane McGonigal
I wondered if there was anything [the doctor] could do to to make the pain disappear and my arms work again. I wondered if I was going to get any worse than I already was. If so, I wondered if he could fix that, too. -- Jennifer Starzec
Social paralysis is strong and stands firmly in the way of change on the ground level. As allies, we have to prepare ourselves to step into the fire when necessary, even - and especially - when said fire is merely a still-lit cigarette tossed carelessly onto the street. -- Jack Antonoff
The truth is, what Americans enjoy about football is much of what makes the sport dangerous. However, I believe there must be a way to find the art of success and vitality in football, without the driving the level of impact that causes serious risk of head trauma, paralysis and other life-changing injuries. -- Naveen Jain
The most venomous animal that lives in the ocean is the box jellyfish. And every one of those barbs is sending that venom into this central nervous system. So first I feel like boiling hot oil I've been dipped in. And I'm yelling out, 'Fire! Fire! Fire! Fire! Help me! Somebody help me!' And the next thing is paralysis. -- Diana Nyad
Idleness is paralysis. -- Roswell Dwight Hitchcock
Civilization is paralysis. -- Paul Gauguin
Perfectionism spells paralysis. -- Winston Churchill
Experience is a form of paralysis. -- Erik Satie
Jealousy is the paralysis of love. -- Luc de Clapiers
What occurs after revelation and paralysis? -- Jeff Vandermeer
The great paralysis of our heart is unbelief. -- Oswald Chambers
Analysis paralysis occurs when you overthink and underwork. -- Orrin Woodward
Fear of trying causes paralysis. Trying causes only trembling and sweating. -- Mason Cooley
OPTION PARALYSIS: The tendency, when given unlimited choices, to make none. -- Douglas Coupland
The paralysis of potential is essential to the manufacturing of victims. -- Stefan Molyneux
Aiming for perfection causes frustration at best and paralysis at worst. -- Sheryl Sandberg
Action based on hope just felt better than the paralysis of certainty. -- Christopher Moore
Boredom is nothing but the experience of a paralysis of our productive powers. -- Erich Fromm
I would prefer a thousand mistakes in extravagance of love to any paralysis in wariness of fear. -- Gerald May
When people have been traumatized, they are stuck in paralysis-the immobility reaction or abrupt explosions of rage. -- Peter A. Levine
Want of will causes paralysis of every faculty. In spiritual things man is utterly unable because resolvedly unwilling. -- Charles Spurgeon
All that was left for me was a terrible kind of paralysis, this waiting game, this heartbreak game. -- Paula McLain
Confidence means non-paralysis, a willingness to act, and act decisively, to start new things and cut failing ventures off. -- Tom Peters
The primary object of non-co-operation is nowhere stated to be paralysis of the Government. The primary object is self-purification. -- Mahatma Gandhi
His (Washington's) apparent paralysis was the result of balancing two imperatives: his reputation against the survival of the Continental Army. -- Joseph J. Ellis
Many stroke survivors look back on their attack as a stroke of luck. Of course, by luck they mean horrible paralysis. -- Dana Gould
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
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. -- R. C. Sproul
Get out of your own way... stop the paralysis by analysis... dream your dream... then, WAKE UP and bring it to life! -- Steve Maraboli
Only the fairy tale equates changelessness with happiness...Permanence means paralysis and death. Only, in movement, with all its pain, is life. -- Jacob Burckhardt
Shaming is one of the deepest tools of imperialist, white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy because shame produces trauma and trauma often produces paralysis. -- bell hooks
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
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. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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
Self distrust is good, but only if it leads to trust in God. Otherwise it ends as spiritual paralysis, inability and unwillingness to undertake any course of action. -- Alan Cole
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. -- Melinda Gates
She made me feel better than I have ever felt, better than I imagined I could feel, and it scared me, it scared me to the point of paralysis. -- James Frey
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. -- Emile M. Cioran
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

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