Quotes About Grounded

#1. My husband. He keeps me grounded. If I were in the world on my own, it would all be much more seductive. But I'm in a relationship that has nothing to do with the film world.

Emily Watson

#2. Your child's sense of security is not grounded in how perfect you are, but in the quality of the relationship you have.

Daniel Bates

#3. To be shame-bound means that whenever you feel any feeling, need or drive, you immediately feel ashamed. The dynamic core of your human life is grounded in your feelings, needs and drives. When these are bound by shame, you are shamed to the core.

John Bradshaw

#4. I can certainly be part of the socialite group and walk those carpets every day, but I choose not to because I prefer to be grounded. You can't be at home and on the red carpet.

Sandra Lee

#5. The opposite of envy and entitlement is gratitude. Gratitude comes from the feeling of freely receiving things, not because we deserve them, but because someone has graced us with them. We feel a thankfulness grounded in love,

Henry Cloud

#6. We had to be down early to get the best stuff for the pros we looked after and then get the rags that we were left ourselves for training. It seems very old school but it grounded me as a person and made me appreciate everything as a footballer, because all we got was a pair of boots.

Colin Cooper

#7. The idea of polytheism is grounded in the view that reality (divine or otherwise) is multiple and diverse ... Polytheism has allowed a multitude of distinct groups to exist more or less in harmony, despite great divergence in beliefs and practices ...

Margot Adler

#8. The first doorway (or chakra) is what I call in the book, the Doorway of Safety. This doorway relates to feeling safe in life and being present in the here and now. It's only when we are really grounded and safe that we're able to relax and open up our hearts.

Marci Shimoff

#9. I feel quite grounded, which is great.

Tom Weston-Jones

#10. Honestly, what keeps me grounded is my faith and my value system.

Alyson Stoner

#11. With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes, I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on my own experience. It will be but short; for the beginning, middle, and end converge to one charge: NEVER PURSUE LITERATURE AS A TRADE.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#12. The naturalist worldview is a good way to feel grounded and feel part of something that isn't based on fairy tales. It's based on observable facts in the human and in the biological history of the planet. I think that can be a source for comfort.

Greg Graffin

#13. The stage is a routine. It keeps you grounded, like a metronome. I find that soothing.

Michael Shannon

#14. Flying starts from the ground. The more grounded you are, the higher you fly.

J.R. Rim

#15. Stay in the Word. The moment you start letting go of that, you're on the road to compromise. Stay grounded, remain pure, keep your eyes fixed on Jesus.

Adam Young

#16. Joy isn't grounded in our circumstances; it is grounded in the unchanging character of God.

Carolyn Custis James

#17. The thing that keeps you grounded is doing the thing you love.

Tom Hiddleston

#18. Rashida Jones is simply glorious. Andy Samberg shines in a grounded performance that digs deep, sharply funny and touching, a breath of fresh comic air!

Peter Travers

#19. Productivity is grounded in the PC. Where does the computing power come from? How would you run 'USA Today' without PCs? Run a hospital without PCs? People don't want products, they want solutions.

Michael Dell

#20. Life is not quantifiable in terms of age, but I suppose in my fifties I am more grounded and more at ease in my own skin than when I was younger. I have a confidence that I didn't have before from the experiences I've had.

Annie Lennox

#21. If we want revivals, we must revive our reverence for the Word of God. If we want conversions, we must put more of God's Word into our sermons.8 His gospel preaching was grounded

Steven J. Lawson

#22. You must nurture a close walk with God through prayer, because humility's strength is grounded in God.

Jim George

#23. There is a big push that we all are engaged in, in wanting to have the newest in innovation - and I think that's all really great. But I also feel that human beings need to be aware of, and grounded in, history.

Bill Viola

#24. My family are too grounded, and I will go home to visit. I always need my dose of Liverpool to keep me grounded.

Rebecca Ferguson

#25. Working in Hollywood can be tumultuous, with incredible highs and lows and you need to be grounded.

Douglas Wood

#26. When we talk with our children about sexual abuse, we are not only taking a proactive step toward protecting them, we are building our relationship with them
grounded in honesty and trust. It's a win-win situation.

Carolyn Byers Ruch

#27. I came into an environment that was already grounded spiritually, so that helped me a lot.

Frances Newton

#28. The skill of mindfulness allows you to remain grounded in the present moment even when you face difficult stressors, so that your stressful feelings feel more manageable..

Melanie Greenberg

#29. Get yourself grounded and you can navigate even the stormiest roads in peace.

Steve Goodier

#30. Everything is in New York or L.A. or whatever, but Chicago is more of, like, a real world. It has the art and the music, but it's more centered and grounded.

Paul Scheer

#31. Literally, if someone says I am grounded, everyday I am at home, I actually have my hands in the ground and dirt under my fingernails. I don't have a staff to do it all for me. I still plant a seed and I'm amazed it grows.

Emilio Estevez

#32. Success is achieved by people who deeply understand reality and know how to use it to get what they want. The converse is also true: idealists who are not well-grounded in reality create problems, not progress.

Ray Dalio

#33. Wisdom comes from not only in the understanding that often times we say no to things too easily and quickly, but also in knowing that that 'no' for the sake of your physical and mental wellbeing can also be a reasonable and grounded decision for which you shouldn't feel the need to feel guilty.

Forrest Curran

#34. I got famous in my 30s. I already had a real life and kids and responsibilities, like laundry and cleaning bathrooms. It's hard not be grounded when you have that. I think, if you get super-famous and everyone tells you you're wonderful when you're 12, it's probably a lot harder.

Stephenie Meyer

#35. All you need is one safe anchor to keep you grounded when the rest of your life spins out of control.

Katie Kacvinsky

#36. I try to keep myself as sane and as grounded as possible by surrounding myself with normal people, such as all the friends that I've had from when I was little.

Emmy Rossum

#37. My parents kept me very grounded.

Danielle De Niese

#38. Being a mom has affected me in the greatest way possible - and in a necessary way. Having my son has helped me to be grounded, and I feel like with a child you have to really think about things all the way through.

Ciara

#39. You can have some stable things in life, and so long as you're not away from those things for too long, they can help keep you grounded.

Suki Waterhouse

#40. Although the notion of one god may give comfort to those in need of a daddy, it reminds the rest of us that the totalitarian society is grounded upon the concept of God the father. One paternal god, one paternal leader. Authority is absolute.

Gore Vidal

#41. A well-grounded assurance is always attended with three fair handmaids: love, humility and holy joy.

Thomas Brooks

#42. Fortunately, I grew up in a family that was grounded. My mother and father knew how to guide my career and look out for my best interests.

Larenz Tate

#43. Feel yourself grounded to the earth, while your mind is focusing on the sky of clarity.

Nawang Khechog

#44. Morals were restrictive, but they were grounded on human experience.

Charles Bukowski

#45. I have such a respect and fascination for dance. I can be light as air or stay grounded. Dance is really another universe.

Shakira

#46. Like an ox-cart driver in monsoon season or the skipper of a grounded ship, one must sometimes go forward by going back.

John Barth

#47. I had phenomenal parents. They kept me very grounded, and I lived a normal life.

Zachery Ty Bryan

#48. I just feel lucky to have grown up where I did because I think it gave me a nice base. Hollywood can really mess with your sense of self and I feel like coming from the South keeps me pretty grounded.

Amber Benson

#49. I have a really grounded group of friends, and they like me no matter what. I think it's really important to know who your real friends are.

Jackson Guthy

#50. The abstract way we think is really grounded in the concrete, bodily world much more than we thought.

John Bargh

#51. what if there was an uncanny moment when all the birds were grounded from Cape Town to Juneau, and everywhere between--all feathers frozen in a universal stutter, so quick as to make a snail of light, and even Stephen Hawking's mind would miss it?

Kristen Henderson

#52. The journalistic endeavor - at least theoretically - is grounded in objectivity. The goal is to get you to understand what happened, when and to whom.

Victor LaValle

#53. The stories that I like to tell and the movies I like are always grounded in the emotional arc of the characters.

Eric Balfour

#54. Strong relationships are not rocked by a truth that is grounded by resolute monogamy.

J.R. Ward

#55. A cross between a foreign legion boot-camp and a secret-society initiation ritual, the ordeals were grounded in pain. One thing was obvious: the agenda, which was dedicated to grave discomfort, had been drawn up by a passionate sadist.

Tahir Shah

#56. The worst day of my life was once that my mom didn't allow me to go to a Queen concert because I was grounded.

Lars Ulrich

#57. I love everyone that supports me, and things can get wild at times, but my parents raised me to be grounded and to always remain humble. I think that's one of the main reasons that my fans support me.

Lance Gross

#58. Ideas are not free-floating in consciousness but are grounded in the social world in the most concrete ways.

James Davison Hunter

#59. I'm lucky to have a wife and a child that keep me grounded.

Rainn Wilson

#60. Elves are like trees, grounded and focused from the trunk down but graceful and agile on top.

Orlando Bloom

#61. Find your passion and follow it. You wont find that passion in things or money. Your passion must come from what fuels you from the inside. It will be grounded in the relationships you have with people and what they think of you when your time comes.

Randy Pausch

#62. I always look for the writers and what they're creating. If it's something I don't buy, it's really hard for me to play it. To me, it has to be grounded in some sort of reality. It's really hard to go to these extreme places if they're not grounded.

Sarah Clarke

#63. Did this mean every impossible fairy tale was grounded somewhere in absolute truth? Was there anything sane or normal at all, or was everything just magic and ghost stories?

Stephenie Meyer

#64. I thought that the grounded-ish nature of the first Iron Man and where I think the success of it was based was I think people got excited that this was a technologically possible occurrence; and didn't Obama order an Iron Man?

Robert Downey Jr.

#65. One way to stay grounded in the entertainment industry is to surround yourself with very good people that will constantly remind you how uncool you are.

Lauren Conrad

#66. Fundamentalist Islamic terror is not grounded in the terrorists' conviction of their superiority and in their desire to safeguard their cultural-religious identity from the onslaught of global consumerist civilization.

Slavoj Zizek

#67. I'm a person that's grounded in faith and believe that my core values, motivation, inspiration, draw from a conception of the world in that way.

Cory Booker

#68. In the food case in particular, one of the technologies that could help there - genetic technologies that could create better crops with higher yields and less need for water and fertilizer - is tremendously feared. Very little of that fear is scientifically grounded.

Ramez Naam

#69. Our affections and beliefs are wiser than we; the best that is in us is better than we can understand; for it is grounded beyond experience, and guides us, blindfold but safe, from one age on to another.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#70. [Show] business is tough. You never know who or what's real. It's tough when you get in this business, if you have no grounded foundation other than Hollywood, because this business isn't real. We're getting paid to do what we love, but it isn't real.

Columbus Short

#71. The one: how it is (what it, Being, is) and also how not-Being (is) impossible. This is the pathway of grounded trust,

Martin Heidegger

#72. As with everything in nature, if your life isn't supported by a grounded source of energy, it will wither and lose its vitality.

Sonia Choquette

#73. I do a lot of reading, meditating, and praying to stay as grounded as I can be in this crazy world.

Jada Pinkett Smith

#74. I'm very fortunate to have parents who have kept me grounded, so I hopefully won't end up in a bad situation when I grow up.

Raven-Symone

#75. I'm very domestic, and I think that keeps me sane. My personal relationships keep me grounded.

Megan Fox

#76. I'm not opposed to adoption. It's not in my immediate future because I'm on the move a lot and if I were going to be father I would like to be more grounded.

John Corbett

#77. The colors black and white are my uniform, to honor the working class. People like my parents, who were janitors and had to wear a uniform every day. It keeps me grounded.

Janelle Monae

#78. You know, making fun of the excessiveness and the priorities that are most stilted out here which does make it difficult to have a very sort of grounded, normal life because there's really nothing normal about Hollywood.

Debra Messing

#79. Continuously ask yourself, "What makes me feel confident, comfortable, grounded, joyful, connected, and mischievous?" Start noticing when you feel that way and why.

Elle Chase

#80. I mean really, how could an artistic individual stay grounded in the nitty-gritty of how many minutes per pound meat has to stay in the oven when trying to fathom the creative philosophy behind the greatest artistic minds of the world?

E.A. Bucchianeri

#81. I am sober, grounded, focused, I'm writing again, I like where I am. I'm real positive and I got this great family that came along with my wife - I'm happily married and she's a great part of me that was missing - and I feel real good.

Joe Walsh

#82. I strove to maintain a spiritual practice, but since I was being pulled in so many directions, I couldn't seem to stay steady and grounded. I used to get overwhelmed when I thought about everything there was to do, and I was exhausted much of the time.

Brenda Strong

#83. In America right now, we use words like 'smart' to talk about bombs. American rhetoric is grounded in ideas of capital-G Good, capital-E Evil, and it's very clear who is on which side. But in a book you can do just the opposite. You can use all lower-case words.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#84. We all must develop a grounded clarity for ourselves.

Tori Amos

#85. I really believed that if I could play that character, who is grounded in the earth and the history of the United States - not the kind of role I usually play - it would help me change the perception out there and my own perception of what I can accomplish as a performer.

Andrea Martin

#86. You need to be grounded internally and excited about the world around you. If I were out of touch, it would be hard for me to know why Michael Cera is so cool.

Stacey Snider

#87. There is no doubt that the planet is going through a transformation where all of us are learning to recognize our wholeness. The soul is being grounded in a new way. As we bring love into all things we transform the planet into a higher vibration.

Dorothy Maclean

#88. I like being in the workforce; it keeps me grounded.

Cathy Freeman

#89. Must be grounded in a philosophy whose foundation is on the solidarity of the human race, a philosophy which will not waver when the race happens to be represented by a drunken woman or an idiot boy.

Jane Addams

#90. My family and my friends-they keep me grounded. Especially my mom, because she would kick my ass if I was to change.

Lil' Wayne

#91. charismatic people are more resilient and do know how to stay positive when most people would panic. But that positivity is grounded in reality. It's how they really feel. On those occasions where the charismatic person is genuinely hurt, nervous, or pissed, they reveal those feelings.

Charlie Houpert

#92. Want a happier, more content life? I highly recommend the down-to-earth methods you'll find in 'Mindfulness.' Professor Mark Williams and Dr Danny Penman have teamed up to give us scientifically grounded techniques we can apply in the midst of our everyday challenges and catastrophes.

Daniel Goleman

#93. Now that he was no longer grounded in his hate, we were going to talk about women.

Philip Roth

#94. My optimism is grounded in two worlds, myself and what is about me. I demand that the world be good, and lo, it obeys. I proclaim the world good, and facts range themselves to prove my proclamation overwhelmingly true.

Helen Keller

#95. Marriage is ... OK, it's rooted and grounded on love and attraction.

Mary Archer

#96. People who practice Zen correctly are not spaced-out or unrealistic. They are balanced and grounded.

Frederick Lenz

#97. My responsibility in the past, when I was sleeping outside every night, was just to survive. My responsibility now is to stay real, stay grounded, and just tell the truth.

Jimmy Wayne

#98. I don't know how the other senators see me. I hope they see me as a farmer. That's really what I am. But I don't think they see me on a tractor or fixing equipment. I hope they see me grounded, as somebody who has common sense.

Jon Tester

#99. And it's easy to stay grounded. The ground is very close. And we walk on it every day.

Keanu Reeves

#100. Our life is all grounded and rooted in love, and without love we may not live.

Julian Of Norwich