- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Grounding Quotes
What keeps us steady when everything else moves.
This grounding quotes collection explores the practices and ideas that keep people steady, from repertory theatre training young performers to yoga building focus over time. See our Balance quotes for a related theme.
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- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Laws
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- Nov 07, 2020
A theoretical grounding in agronomy must, therefore, include knowledge of biological laws.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Attitude
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Real
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- Nov 07, 2020
Science fiction is about things that plausibly might happen. Grounding my work in the real world helps make that clear.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing can be a tough gig. Whenever you do something in which you put yourself out there - if that becomes the focus of your life, you miss the point of living. You've really got to get the grounding of family and the things that are important in your life and make that your focus.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, my preference for comedy is grounding it in the psychology of the character, and not just kind of making faces. Even when it's a crazy character, grounded comedy resonates more with people because it doesn't look like you're watching someone do vaudeville. No offense to vaudeville.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a very thorough grounding in music; I'd grown up around songs. My parents listened to a lot of music. My dad was majorly into jazz, which was absolutely a big influence on me, even if it was more subconsciously as a kid.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yoga changed my life. I go between 4 and 6 times a week. It's incredibly grounding and an intense level of focus.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel that doing theater does give you a good grounding to work on camera. The audience is the lens.
- Environmental
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Priorities
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have to start grounding our policies in facts and recognize that a strong economy is critical for funding progressive priorities.
- Determining
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020