#paralyze

When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away - even if it's only a glass of water. Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#creative-writing #life #meaningless #meaninglessness #modern-life

Having unlimited choices can paralyze you creatively. ↗

— David Byrne

#creatively #having #paralyze #unlimited #you

If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything. ↗

— Katharine Butler Hathaway

#anything #how #paralyzed #realize #time

What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#capabilities #educational #faculties #happens #innate

There the union of Church and State tends strongly to paralyze some of the members of the body of Christ. Here there is no such influence to destroy spiritual life and power. ↗

— Josiah Strong

#christ #church #destroy #here #influence

I guess you're happy if you have some kind of balance in you. I'm a human being. I have days when I feel paralyzed, days when I feel like a slug. Then I have days when I have good energy, I've read the newspaper and I've done different things. ↗

— Frances Conroy

#being #days #different #different things #done

Visionary people face the same problems everyone else faces; but rather than get paralyzed by their problems, visionaries immediately commit themselves to finding a solution. ↗

— Bill Hybels

#else #everyone #face #faces #finding

I've seen many politicians paralyzed in the legs as myself, but I've seen more of them who were paralyzed in the head. ↗

— George C. Wallace

#i #legs #many #more #myself

Don't let your fear paralyze you. Prepare yourself not only technically, but also emotionally. ↗

— Bob Weinstein

#emotionally #fear #only #paralyze #prepare

I became paralyzed as an artist with writer's block. ↗

— David Guterson

#became #block #i #paralyzed #writer