#paralysis

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

#carelessly #change #cigarette #especially #even

Some days it is a heroic act just to refuse the paralysis of fear and straighten up and step into another day. ↗

— Edward Albert

#another #another day #day #days #fear

There is a syndrome in sports called "paralysis by analysis." ↗

— Arthur Ashe

#called #paralysis #sports #syndrome

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

#any #borrowing #cuts #democrats #economists

Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order. ↗

— Arthur Helps

#more #order #organization #paralysis #routine

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

#five #get #i #into #kind

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

#being #boxing #devastating #feeling #hit

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

#body #curing #good #keep #paralysis

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

#also #am #beginning #fight #i

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

#getting #laws #live #management #paralysis