Top 244 Grasping Quotes & Sayings

Like many members of the uncultured, Cheez-It consuming public, I am not good at grasping modern art.

Since the end of the Cold War, America has been grasping left and right for an identity.

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

People who are hard, grasping and always ready to take advantage of their neighbors become very rich.

I'm grasping with how you do something on a large scale with multiple operations and not have quality decrease.

As infants, our first victory comes in grasping some bit of the world, usually our mother's fingers. Later we discover that the world, and the things of the world, are grasping us, and have been all along.

The idea of having a narrative guiding the viewer through and grasping their attention is a really compelling thing.

Radical simply means 'grasping things at the root.'

Meet this transient world with neither grasping nor fear, trust the unfolding of life, and you will attain true serenity.

People want to protect their way of life, and when they think it's in danger they start grasping for more extreme-seeming alternatives.

The State is a gang of thieves writ large - the most immoral, grasping and unscrupulous individuals in any society.

In grasping at uncertainties we lost that which is certain.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal while blaming our misery on the person who started the fire.

If we seek to be loved - if we expect to be loved - this cannot be accomplished; we will be dependent and grasping not genuinely loving.

Mystery is a birthright of theology and faith, but you often do find religious people grasping for answers that shut things down and narrow what is possible.

[Heraclitus had] pride not in logical knowledge but rather in intuitive grasping of the truth.

This child, who is grasping the stone, facing the tank, is it not the greatest message to the world when that hero becomes a martyr? We are proud of them.

'Deadwood' proved that viewers are smarter in terms of grasping intricate dialogue than they had been given credit for.

I use zero photography. I have a photographic memory and a complete knowledge of anatomy and physiology, and an interest in grasping the moment of what is happening, not just the outside, but the inside out.

The political is replacing the metaphysical as the characteristic mode of grasping reality.

Simply allow your thoughts and experiences to come and go, without ever grasping at them.

One uses power by grasping it lightly. To grasp too strongly is to be taken over by power, and thus to become its victim.

Opportunity: A favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment.

It is important to distinguish between sense-pleasure and sense-desire. There is nothing wrong with sense-pleasure. Pleasure and pain are part of our human experience. Sense-desire, on the other hand, is the grasping at pleasure or the avoidance of pain. This is what creates suffering-grasping and avoidance.

One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.

The practice is to make the non-arising of grasping and clinging absolute, final, and eternally void, so that no grasping and clinging can ever return. Just that is enough. There is nothing else to do.

Many troubled Midwestern towns are grasping for ways to fend off decline and, in some cases, extinction.

Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.

Procrastination is hardly more evil than grasping impatience.

Only when the mind is still, tranquil, not expecting or grasping or resisting a single thing, is it possible to see what is true. It is the truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.

We try more to profit from always remembering the obvious than from grasping the esoteric.

A hand up is worthier than one's own fist grasping a higher rung of the ladder.

For most people, the major hurdle in grasping modern insights into the nature of the universe is that these developments are usually phrased using mathematics.

To lay hold of the mean without taking into account the occasion is like grasping one thing only.

Seeing consists of the grasping of structural features rather than the indiscriminate recording of detail.

Buddhism helps us to overcome our endless ego grasping mind to open up to something so much more spacious and genuinely meaningful.

The Way of Tea lies in studying the ceremony, in understanding the principles, and in grasping the reality of things. These are its three rules.

To cultivate equanimity we practice catching ourselves when we feel attraction or aversion, before it hardens into grasping or negativity.

We can not escape tragic roads. It is like grasping at the sun & trying to catch air. We must take one step at-a-time. Keep going.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe.

Let new India arise out of peasants' cottage, grasping the plough, out of huts, cobbler and sweeper.

Nature gives all, without reservation, and loses nothing; man or woman, grasping all, loses everything.

The real glory of meditation lies not in any method but in its continual living experience of presence, in its bliss, clarity, peace, and most important of all, complete absence of grasping. The diminishing of grasping in yourself is a sign that you are becoming freer of yourself. And the more you experience this freedom, the clearer the sign that the ego and the hopes and fears that keep it alive are dissolving, and the closer you will come to the infinitely generous "wisdom of egolessness."

Ego is the movement of the mind toward objects of perception in the form of grasping, and away from objects in the form of aversion. This fundamentally is all the ego is. This movement of grasping and aversion gives rise to a sense of a separate 'me,' and in turn the sense of 'me' strengthens itself this way.

Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.

I had difficulty in grasping how music was made for films. It was a huge learning curve and the toughest phase of my life.

People are still grasping for the miracle, and unfortunately, there are no miracles, if you do not exercise for a year, and let your body remain dormant, then you will gain weight.

Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.

He did not care if she was heartless, vicious and vulgar, stupid and grasping, he loved her. He would rather have misery with one than happiness with the other.

The brain's strong point is its flexibility. It is unsurpassed at making shrewd guesses and at grasping the total meaning of information presented to it.

The usual disease of princes, grasping covetousness, had made them suspicious and quarrelsome neighbors.

A lot of the experiences I write about could be described as grasping for boundaries, trying to find the limits of things.

We don't have control over many things. We're always grasping for it, but in reality, we don't have a lot of control.

Grasping at things can only yield one of two results: Either the thing you are grasping at disappears, or you yourself disappear. It is only a matter of which occurs first.

Reading is not walking on the words; it's grasping the soul of them.

Most pastors have a hard time grasping a vision. But vision is the indispensable quality of a leader.

Awareness means grasping life just the way it is, without contamination by mental projections.

I think teams really want to see how you respond picking up and grasping things and if you can make changes and regurgitate that information.