Top 147 Paralysis Quotes & Sayings

High-level corruption, inefficiency, non-governance, and policy paralysis have crippled the nation's economy.

The maxim, "Nothing prevails but perfection," may be spelled PARALYSIS.

Jealousy is the paralysis of love.

If you don't know you're in a state of grace, then you're vulnerable to the paralysis of the accusations of the enemy.

Acting is like golf: analysis leads to paralysis.

We cannot afford the creeping paralysis that destroys the effective will of democracy - the paralysis carried by hate and rancor, between class and class, person and person, party and party, as plague is carried through the streets of a town.

You've heard the saying, 'Analysis creates paralysis.' You can't be 100 percent sure of anything.

He suffered from paralysis by analysis.

Want of will causes paralysis of every faculty. In spiritual things man is utterly unable because resolvedly unwilling.

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

I can't stand the kind of paralysis that some people fall into because they're not happy with the choices they've made.

Perfectionism spells paralysis.

When you have both parties who will not find ways to compromise, who won't meet in the middle, you have paralysis. It's the perversion of idealism.

All that was left for me was a terrible kind of paralysis, this waiting game, this heartbreak game.

So soon as prudence has begun to grow up in the brain, like a dismal fungus, it finds its first expression in a paralysis of generous acts.

Too much knowledge and analysis can be paralysis.

Be a self-starter. Do it now! When you don't know how to do something, start. Beware of the paralysis of analysis. Be a person of action.

I am optimistic. But I also know that, with time, I'm beginning to fight issues of aging as well as long-term paralysis.

We will remember UPA 2, if at all, it seems, as that period when things went mysteriously wrong - for the bribe-taking, buck-passing, foot-dragging, and general sense of paralysis.

Analysis paralysis occurs when you overthink and underwork.

I would prefer a thousand mistakes in extravagance of love to any paralysis in wariness of fear.

Only the fairy tale equates changelessness with happiness...Permanence means paralysis and death. Only, in movement, with all its pain, is life.

Experience is a form of paralysis.

Civilization is paralysis.

I've had sleep paralysis.

Some patients will report that they have sleep paralysis. If we see sleep paralysis alone and nothing else, we don't really think all that much of it, but if we see other symptoms, then it might be a red flag for something else that's going on.

When people have been traumatized, they are stuck in paralysis-the immobility reaction or abrupt explosions of rage.

There is a syndrome in sports called 'paralysis by analysis.'

In '81, my father had an attack of paralysis.

Paralysis in decision-making breeds frustration and contempt from the electorate, and provides the perfect seedbed for demagogues who fill the vacuum with populist simplicities, hatred of opposition and lies.

Political paralysis and partisanship are sabotaging American power.

Aiming for perfection causes frustration at best and paralysis at worst.

I had what would now be called sleep paralysis, from six years old until maybe I was 16.

Paralysis of leadership is due in part to the unseen grip of the special interests.

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

The sense of paralysis proceeds not so much out of the mammoth size of the problem but out of the puniness of the purpose.

Global warming - utterly disinterested in our political paralysis - worsens at a terrifying pace.

They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death.

My intention was to write a chapter of the moral history of my country and I chose Dublin for the scene because that city seemed to me the centre of paralysis.

Fear is a force that sharpens your senses. Being afraid is a state of paralysis in which you can't do anything.

I wouldn't have been a health care nut if it hadn't been for my paralysis, so something good came from this.

Confidence means non-paralysis, a willingness to act, and act decisively, to start new things and cut failing ventures off.

I don't reject caution, but you also have to be careful about caution because there's a stage when it turns into paralysis.

Obviously, the real issue has nothing to do with fear itself, but, rather, how we hold the fear. For some, the fear is totally irrelevant. For others, it creates a state of paralysis. The former hold their fear from a position of power (choice, energy, and action), and the latter hold it from a position of pain (helplessness, depression, and paralysis).

Let me explain: there are dragons, and then there are drakons. Drakons are several millennia older than dragons, andmuch larger. They look like giant serpents. Most don't have wings. Most don't breathe fire (though some do). All are poisonous. All are immensely strong, with scales harder than titanium. Their eyes can paralyze you; not the turn-you~to-stone Medusa-type paralysis, buttheoh~my~gods-that~big~snake~is~going~to~eat~me type of paralysis, which is just as bad.

Idleness is paralysis.

OPTION PARALYSIS: The tendency, when given unlimited choices, to make none.

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.

Gloating is a superficial glowing, floating is an idle flowing, and bloatedness is the paralysis of blowing up; because silent movement results in loud victories.

The great paralysis of our heart is unbelief.

But one thing is certain-in the case of nutrition and health, the science can be confusing and can lead to “paralysis by analysis” (a state in which you take no action because you're not sure what to do).

Pressure is an emotional paralysis. It's hard enough to do the dishes when you're feeling pressured, let alone make a movie.

Action based on hope just felt better than the paralysis of certainty.

Boredom is nothing but the experience of a paralysis of our productive powers.

Birth control has almost completely and totally disappeared from the global health agenda, and the victims of this paralysis are the people of Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.

We all dread a bodily paralysis, and would make use of every contrivance to avoid it; but none of us is troubled about a paralysis of the soul.

What occurs after revelation and paralysis?

When I was born, I had a birth injury in my second and third vertebrae. It gave me what they called spastic paralysis, which is actually cerebral palsy.

We have a paralysis in Washington that's not serving our country. We have to address these issues.

Unlimited choice is paralyzing. The Internet has made this form of paralysis due to option overload a standard feature of comfortable modern life.