Quotes About Groundedness

#1. I think groundedness is definitely something I grew up with.

Kate Winslet

#2. Every year, you will trade a little of your perfect skin and your ability to look great without exercising for wisdom and peace and groundedness, and every year the trade will be worth it. I promise.

Shauna Niequist

#3. As I entered this world, I would leave behind the nurturing of my family and my home, but in another sense I would take their protection with me. The lessons I had learned, the feelings of groundedness and belonging that have been woven into my character there, would be my companions on the journey.

Sidney Poitier

#4. I've always had a sense of groundedness as a person. I think that's helped me. My mother sort of beat into me the notion of humility, and I think my focus has always been on the right things or the things that I'm passionate about, which is just simply the work.

Elijah Wood

#5. I felt, as a lawyer, when I was mentoring and working with kids, that I gained a level of groundedness that I just couldn't get sitting on the forty-seventh floor of a fancy firm. Selfishly, it gives me joy - it makes me feel like my life has a purpose.

Michelle Obama

#6. Practically, Science is true; and Faith is foolish.

Aleister Crowley

#7. There is an extraordinary collaborative spirit when you are learning and growing.

Robbie Robertson

#8. I'm a very curious person. And most people are charmed by curiosity - especially if you are curious about them or what they are doing ... unless they are breaking into a car or something.

Ari Marcopoulos

#9. Root yourself in this earth
and it will root itself in you.

Sheniz Janmohamed

#10. Dig deep & pull the roots of confidence from the ground of your being, standing firm in the raging storm until sunlight blossoms inside you.

Curtis Tyrone Jones

#11. Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

Robert Frost

#12. God wants His people to be a voice in the wilderness

Sunday Adelaja

#13. Television is completely another medium. For me, Lady Gaga and HBO are bringing us to mass culture.

Marina Abramovic

#14. I splash my head with ice-cold water and turn to face the mirror. When my image appears I instinctively look away.
Is there a truth on the other side that we do not want to see?

Shan Sa

#15. A trap screenwriters can fall into is making scripts that are good reads, which doesn't necessarily mean it will make a good film.

Peter Straughan

#16. (One sign of possible overtraining is a lack of a pump during your workouts.)

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#17. [T]here is really nothing 'out there' to get because, already, within this moment, everything is whole and complete.

Steve Hagen

#18. It's a matter of choosing what is most important to you and putting that first. Once you have recognized your true purpose in life, this becomes much easier.

Clarence Clemons

#19. Well I guess my music came to prominence around one piece called 'In C' which I wrote in 1964 at that time it was called 'The Global Villages for Symphonic Pieces', because it was a piece built out of 53 simple patterns and the structure was new to music at that time.

Terry Riley

#20. I am very grateful for the dedicated work and intellectual contributions of generations of talented postdocs, students and research assistants without whom none of the work from my laboratory would have been possible.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

#21. The person with a safe center doesn't fear change. We can choose change without fear before a challenge only when we are strongly centered.

Ilchi Lee