Best Grappling Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“When we are grappling with misery and our heart is in a knot, we may well do better to snap back to a new reality, make choices, refine and consolidate our self-image; and remodel the mould of our identity. ("Camera obscura of the mind" )”

Heart Choices Identity Misery Self Image Grappling New Reality Camera Obscura Knot Snap Back

Author:Erik Pevernagie

“Jiu Jitsu is the vehicle. Not the road.”

Self Improvement Martial Arts Grappling Jiu Jitsu

Book:My Mastery: Learning to Live through Jiu Jitsu

Source: My Mastery: Learning to Live through Jiu Jitsu

“If you can wrestle but not play Jiu Jitsu, or you can play Jiu Jitsu but not wrestle, you are not a complete grappler and lack the sufficient skills to safely subdue an opponent.”

Wrestling Grappling Jiu Jitsu Takedowns

Book:The Tao of Jiu Jitsu

Source: The Tao of Jiu Jitsu

“A person will tell you a lot about themselves on the mat.”

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Book:Worth Defending: How Gracie Jiu-Jitsu Saved My Life

Source: Worth Defending: How Gracie Jiu-Jitsu Saved My Life

“To me it is no mystery that we can only photograph effectively what we are truly interested in or-maybe more importantly-are grappling with. Often unconsciously. Otherwise the photographs are merely about an idea or a concept-that stuff eventually falls flat for me-there must be something more, some emotional hook for it to really work for me.”

Ideas Fall Stuff Interest Consciousness Mystery Emotional Photography Conscious Concepts Photograph Flats Hook Effectiveness Grappling Flatness

Author:Todd Hido

“When I am grappling with ideas which are radical enough to upset grown-ups, then I am likely to put these ideas into a story which will be marketed for children, because children understand what their parents have rejected and forgotten.”

Children Ideas Enough Stories Parent Forgotten Radical Upset Rejected Grappling

Book:Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

Source: Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

“Difficulty is a nurse of greatness-a harsh nurse, who rocks her foster children roughly, but rocks them in strength and athletic proportion. The mind, grappling with great aims and wrestling with mighty impediments, grows by a certain necessity to the stature of greatness.”

Mind Children Certain Grows Rocks Greatness Difficulty Aim Proportion Wrestling Nurse Harsh Athletic Foster Children Stature Impediments Grappling

Author:Kobe Bryant

“If literary fiction is reduced to only middle-class families dealing only with middle-class angst, then it’s really finished as a force for grappling with the world.”

Ifs World Force Fiction Class Middle Finished Middle Class Angst Grappling Middle Class Family

Author:J. M. Ledgard

“Drop your false ideas. See through people. If you see through yourself, you will see through everyone. Then you will love them. Otherwise you spend the whole time grappling with your wrong notions of them, with your illusions that are constantly crashing against reality.”

People Ifs Ideas Whole Reality Illusion Notion Grappling

Author:Anthony de Mello

“The receptive attitude enables one mind to fix itself to another as by spiritual grappling-irons. When you see that every word you utter us taken in, and weighed, and measured by your listener, you cannot free yourself from the influence of his presence. You are compelled to have in your thoughts not only the words you utter, but the man to whom they are spoken. You must not only talk, and talk well, but you must talk to him.”

Men Mind Wells Spiritual Attitude Taken Influence He Man Listening Iron Listeners Compelled Receptive Free Yourself Grappling

Author:Charles Dickens

“What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.”

Thinking Stills Television Grappling

Author:J. J. Abrams

“We do live in an unsafe world. That's the truth. I'm dealing with that now, with my seven-year-old. He's grappling with the fact that the world is unsafe, and that there are people who do harmful things. I don't think there's anything wrong with presenting that idea. We can't lie to our children and pretend that the world is perfect, and everybody's happy, and everybody's out there to do good. It's just part of a bigger conversation.”

People Thinking World Years Children Ideas Facts Lying Perfect Conversation Bigger Our Children Seven Seven Years Presenting Unsafe Grappling

Author:Gwyneth Paltrow

“Great Love has many attributes, and shrines For varied worshippers, but his force divine Shows most its many-named fulness in the man Whose nature multitudinously mixed-- Each ardent impulse grappling with a thought-- Resists all easy gladness, all content Save mystic rapture, where the questioning soul Flooded with consciousness of good that is Finds life one bounteous answer.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

“I don't believe that the American people want us to focus on our job security. They want us to focus on their job security. I don't think they want more gridlock. I don't think they want more partisanship. I don't think they want more obstruction. They didn't send us to Washington to fight each other in some sort of political steel-cage match to see who comes out alive. That's not what they want. They sent us to Washington to work together, to get things done, and to solve the problems that they're grappling with every single day.”

“Sometimes my poetry is an attempt to keep off existential terror; sometimes it is a grappling with philosophical problems; sometimes just fun.”

Sometimes Problem Poetry Fun Philosophical Terror Poetry Is Existential Grappling

Author:Gwen Harwood

“You don't learn to write by going through a series of preset writing exercises. You learn to write by grappling with a real subject that truly matters to you.”

Writing Real Matter Learning Subjects Exercise Series Grappling

Author:Ralph Fletcher

“Sundays are terrible because it is clear that there is no one in charge of the world. And this knowledge leave you drifting around, grappling with unfulfilled expectations and vague yearnings.”

World Clear Terrible Expectations Sunday Yearning Vague Drifting Grappling

Author:Sheila Ballantyne

“My mother was a trained nurse, and she'd tell me that patients would fight as they were administered anaesthetic, grappling to get the gas mask off their face.”

Faces Mother Fighting Patient Gas Mask Nurse Grappling Gas Masks

Author:Maeve Binchy

“I think I was the first executive to ever speak at a Greenpeace business conference, in London in 2001. That didn't play well here at Ford, but I thought it was an important signal to send internally, that these were the kind of issues we needed to be grappling with.”

Thinking Firsts Wells Kind Important Play Speak Issues Needed London Executives Signals Conferences Grappling Greenpeace

Author:Bill Ford

“I seem to have three categories of readers. The first is nonbelievers who are glad that I am reading the Bible so they don't have to bother. The second group, which is quite large, is very Biblically literate Jews. And the third, which is also very large, is Christians, most of them evangelical. The evangelical readers and the Jewish readers have generally been very encouraging, because they appreciate someone taking the book they love so seriously, and actually reading it and grappling with it.”

Firsts Book Seems Christian Three Reading Groups Reader Appreciate Thirds Jew Glad Bother Categories Evangelical Grappling Reading The Bible

Author:David Plotz

“Writing is like this -- you dredge for the poem's meaning the way police dredge for a body. They think it is down there under the black water, they work the grappling hooks back and forth.”

Thinking Way Writing Body Black Water Police Hook Back And Forth Grappling

Author:Paul Engle

“Our greatness, our talent has never been the question. It's been a matter of grappling for control over what we do.”

Matter Talent Greatness Grappling

Author:Spike Lee

“My soul's a little grief, grappling your chest, To climb your throat on sobs; easily chased On other sighs and wiped by fresher winds.”

Littles Soul Grief Wind My Soul Climbs Chests Throat Sigh Grappling

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Wilfred Owen (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Wilfred Owen (Illustrated)

“Humans have changed little over time. We think we've invented the modern world but they were making better speeches 2,000 years ago and grappling with issues of empire and terrorism.”

Thinking World Years Humans Littles Issues Modern Changed Speech Years Ago Terrorism Empires Modern World Grappling

Author:Robert Harris

“Good and evil, as we term them, are not antagonistic; they are ever found hand in hand. Humanity has never achieved a single conquest without the aid of both. Indeed how can she? What adds to moral strength, but a grappling with temptation?”

Hands Humanity Evil Found Term Moral Add Aids Temptation Good And Evil Conquest Hand In Hand Grappling Moral Strength

Author:Sarah Moore Grimke

“One of the most important revelations about a period comes in its theory of language, for that informs us whether language is viewed as a bridge to the noumenal or as a body of fictions convenient for grappling with transitory phenomena.”

Important Body Language Fiction Theory Periods Bridges Revelations Convenient Transitory Grappling

Book:Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition

Source: Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition

“Men have discovered their distinctive virtues and vices through grappling with the perennial dilemmas and demands of love, courage, pride, family, and country-the five paths whose proper ordering gives us the key to the secret of happiness for a man.”

Men Giving Country Secret Virtue Path Five Pride Keys Demand Vices Manhood Masculine Dilemma Distinctive Grappling Courage To Love

Author:Waller R Newell

“I love to exercise my creativity in many ways but as each year of specialization goes by I feel further and further from my other creative selves. I used to be able to see myself doing many things and sometimes I still long for a job that involves less pressure and grappling with people but, as you say, I am one of the lucky ones so I try to just focus on feeling lucky and carry on!”

People Way Feels Trying Years Long Stills Self Sometimes Feelings Able Jobs Used Creativity Creative Focus Exercise Lucky Pressure Used To Be Specialization Grappling

Author:Ani DiFranco

“See yourself reacting to threats, not by running away or evading them, but by meeting them, dealing with them, grappling with them in an aggressive intelligent manner.”

Running Intelligent Threat Meetings Aggressive Running Away Reacting Grappling

Book:Psycho-Cybernetics Deluxe Edition: The Original Text of the Classic Guide to a New Life

Source: Psycho-Cybernetics Deluxe Edition: The Original Text of the Classic Guide to a New Life

“One of the things I really respect about Doug Moo is that he is constantly grappling with the text. Where he hears the text saying something which is not what his tradition would have said, he will go with the text. I won't always agree with his exegesis, but there is a relentless scholarly honesty about him which I really tip my hat off to.”

Said Honesty Tradition Agree Hats Relentless Scholarly Grappling Hats Off Exegesis

Author:N. T. Wright

“When you're dealing with an ambivalent relationship, you're constantly on guard, grappling with questions of trust.”

Grappling Ambivalent

Author:Adam Grant

“One of the unspoken themes that I'm grappling with in Day of Honey is the relationship between violence and cosmopolitanism. It's one thing to comprehend violence as an outgrowth of ignorance, poverty, and backwardness. It's another matter entirely to confront incredible atrocities in a country with a rich civic and intellectual life.”

Country Matter Poverty Rich Violence One Thing Ignorance Intellectual Incredibles Theme Honey Civics Atrocities Unspoken Grappling Intellectual Life Cosmopolitanism

Author:Annia Ciezadlo

“As a John Kerry supporter, I wanted to send him a check. But then it occurred to me that most of that money would end up in the hands of advertising agencies and television networks. And the money would be used to create deceptive commercials that flatter our point of view and shade the facts our way. And I wasn't comfortable with that. But on the other hand, that's how the game is played. You're always grappling.”

Way Ends Facts Hands Would Be Wanted Used Games Views Television Comfortable Point Of View Checks Advertising Agency Shade Supporter Deceptive John Kerry Advertising Agencies Grappling

Author:George Meyer

“We are personalities in the making, limited, and grappling with things too high for us. Obviously we, at very best, will make many mistakes, but these mistakes need not be sins.”

Needs Sin Mistake Personality Grappling

Author:E. Stanley Jones

“When you look at things like social media, that's an immensely powerful tool that I'm all in favor of. I think it's amazing. It's a powerful tool, and it's one that we're, as a species, still grappling with learning to use. It's like we've grown an extra tail and we inadvertently lash out and knock over all of the furniture.”

Thinking Looks Stills Use Social Powerful Media Tools Species Social Media Favors Extras Tails Furniture Lashes Grappling

Author:Charlie Brooker

“I think that the next two generations of Americans will be grappling with the very real specter of finding themselves living in a new and bizarre kind of digital totalitarian state - one that looks and feels democratic on the surface, but has a fierce undercurrent of fear and technologically enforced fascism any time you step out of line. I really hope this isn't the case, but it looks really bad right now, doesn't it?”

Thinking Feels Looks Kind Two Real States Next Lines Steps Cases Generations Right Now Findings Democratic Surface Digital Fascism Fierce Bizarre Grappling Totalitarian State

Author:Chelsea Manning

“Instead of confronting its real and difficult problems and grappling honestly with a dark past, Hungary embraced a reactionary government and a self-pitying image of itself as the victimized nation, and went looking for scapegoats in the Roma, Jews, and, most recently, Syrian migrants.”

Real Self Problem Government Past Nations Difficult Dark Jew Honestly Reactionaries Confronting Migrants Scapegoat Hungary Grappling Difficult Problems

Author:Susan Faludi

“The beauty of the literary art, the grappling with the black church, the wrestling with one's identity in the bosom of a complicated black community that was both bulwark to the larger white society as well as a threshing ground, so to speak, to hash out the differences that black people have among ourselves.”

People Wells Art Speak Black Community Differences Church White Identity Complicated Wrestling Black People Bosoms Black Community Grappling Black Church Hash Literary Art

Author:Michael Eric Dyson

“With John Wick we wanted to do something like that. So rather than punching, kicks - and for the kind of way we wanted to shoot it, which is longer takes - our initial instinct was let's go with a throwing or grappling arm.”

Way Kind Wanted Arms Instinct Kicks Throwing Initials Punching Grappling

Author:Chad Stahelski

“We need to get back into grappling with people we disagree with if we want to restore the Republic.”

People Ifs Want Needs Get Back Republic Disagree Grappling

Author:Naomi Wolf

“If you're dealing with grappling [with] problems of feeding people, the biggest impact in fertility reduction is girls' schools. Schooled girls make a bigger impact on that than any other factor - not these various regulations [such as] you have to have one child or that. It turns out that none of these are effective.”

People Ifs Children Problem School Turns Girl Bigger Impact Various Factors Regulation Feeding Reduction Schooled Fertility Grappling

Author:Amartya Sen

“There's something to play if there's conflict going on. Whatever that conflict is, that's where drama is; if the character is grappling with something you've got something to play, there's layers to it.”

Ifs Play Character Drama Conflict Layers Grappling

Author:Clive Owen

“The poet, therefore, is truly the thief of fire. He is responsible for humanity, for animals even; he will have to make sure his visions can be smelled, fondled, listened to; if what he brings back from beyond has form, he gives it form; if it has none, he gives it none. A language must be found…of the soul, for the soul and will include everything: perfumes, sounds colors, thought grappling with thought”

Ifs Giving Soul Form Humanity Found Language Sound Animal Vision Fire Color Poet Responsible Thieves Perfume Grappling

Author:Arthur Rimbaud

“You may look back on your life and accept it as good or evil. But it is far, far harder to admit that you have been completely unimportant; that in the great sum of things all a man's endless grapplings are no more significant than the scuttlings of a cockroach. The universe is neither friendly nor hostile. It is merely indifferent. This makes me ecstatic. I have reached a nirvana of negativity. I can look futility in the face and still see promise in the stars.”

“They would grow up grappling with ways of living with what happened. They would try to tell themselves that in terms of geological time it was an insignificant event. Just a blink of the Earth Woman's eye. That Worse Things had happened. That Worse Things kept happening. But they would find no comfort in the thought.”

Way Trying Eye Earth Grows Term Growing Up Happened Events Comfort Happenings Insignificant Blink Grappling Geological Time

Book:The God of Small Things

Source: The God of Small Things

“For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be.”

World Humans Would Be Eye Science Poetry Space Wonder Vision History Saws Future Graduation My Future Grappling Human Eyes Visions Of The Future Seesaw Future Science

Author:Alfred Lord Tennyson

“Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own brains and instincts; hence, grappling with hard work.”

Thinking Mean Hard Use Brain Responsibility Talking Feminism Hard Work Independent Instinct Self Determination Strong Women Critical Thinking Independent Thought Independent Thinking Grappling

Author:Adrienne Rich

“You, why are you so afraid of war and slaughter? Even if all the rest of us drop and die around you, grappling for the ships, you’d run no risk of death: you lack the heart to last it out in combat—coward!”

Ifs Heart War Running Lasts Dies Risk Ships Coward Combat Greece Slaughter Grappling Fate In The Iliad Rage From The Iliad Achilles Fate

Author:Homer

“The search for scapegoats is essentially an abnegation of responsibility: it indicates an inability to assess honestly and intelligently the true nature of the problems which lie at the root of social and economic difficulties and a lack of resolve in grappling with them.”

Problem Lying Social Responsibility Economic Roots Difficulty Honestly Resolve Inability True Nature Scapegoat Grappling Abnegation

Book:Towards a true refuge

Source: Towards a true refuge

“Grappling with fate is like meeting an expert wrestler: to escape, you have to accept the fall when you are thrown. The only thing that counts is whether you get back up.”

Fall Accepting Fate Meetings Experts Thrown Get Back Wrestling Wrestler Grappling

Author:Ming-Dao Deng

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