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Quotes About Grounded

Rideva volentieri, in un modo meravigliosamente terreno, luminoso.
~ Andrea De Carlo
The whole publicity machine is a very weird one. It's kind of a necessary part of what we do here, but this helps me keep grounded.
~ Wendie Malick
My family has always supported me completely and kept me grounded. I never got lost in child Hollywood actor weirdness.
~ Sara Paxton
My dad speaks a lot of sense and keeps me grounded. He'll watch me play and, if I've done well, he'll have a quiet word with me and say, 'Well done.' If I've had a not-so-good game, he'll let me know about it.
~ Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain
Personally, I can handle criticism, especially when it is deserved, and it's because my dad never, ever said 'Well done' to me. He did it on purpose so that I kept my feet on the ground.
~ Granit Xhaka
I am very down to earth and practical.
~ Ashley Olsen
I guess I'm quite practical. Or at least like to think I am.
~ Sam Heughan
I'm a practical woman.
~ Mumtaz
We have to keep our feet on ground, stay humble, and collect all praise, well-wishes, and prayers because these will help us in future.
~ Inzamam-ul-Haq
More than anything I prefer the ball on the floor. I think I play my best football on the floor. There is a delicacy to this big giant.
~ Adebayo Akinfenwa
I think I'm pretty down to earth.
~ Lindsay Davenport
I am not a daydreamer.
~ Arjen Robben
People, including me, can get so detached from everything, but when you can focus on a defined place, a home, it gets you back in touch.
~ Tawni O'Dell
In the States, I get recognised all the time. I met a fan once who had a tattoo of my face on his arm. I can see how some people get carried away with it, but I don't have trouble staying grounded.
~ Luol Deng
I almost moved into a place over a funeral parlor. My father said, 'That's just too macabre,' but I thought I'd be embracing my mortality. I told him it would keep me grounded - like when people get skull tattoos.
~ Jennifer Connelly
Animals are everything to me. I always say, 'Who rescued who?' with my horse Belle. She is my greatest teacher. She teaches me to be grounded, present, and in the moment, which I feel is key to happiness. My panic attacks become nonexistent when spending time with my animals, especially out in nature.
~ Beth Behrs
It wounded me enough to ground me, but not so much as to knock all the life out of me.
~ Robert A. Johnson
This book, in other words, is another empirically grounded speculation, another conceptual itinerary.
~ Robert Kegan
Christianity is grounded in history, not sensation. The earliest believers followed Jesus Christ not because it felt good, but because they discovered the Son's rising was the only reality that could be counted on in a world of constant change.
~ Robert L. Wise
Perhaps he would have gone in the direction I'm now about to go in if this second wave of crystallization, the metaphysical wave, had finally grounded out where I'll be grounding it out, that is, in the everyday world. I think metaphysics is good if it improves everyday life; otherwise forget it. But unfortunately for him it didn't ground out. It went into a third mystical wave of crystallization from which he never recovered.
~ Robert M. Pirsig
To know that everyone starts on the ground. Trees, flowers, people, even the mighty sidhe must stand upon the dirt in order to move forward.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Look at your feet. You are standing in the sky. When we think of the sky, we tend to look up, but the sky actually begins at the earth.
~ Diane Ackerman
My feet are definitely more grounded than before. And I know that I'm not holding onto a dream. I'm holding onto my life.
~ Celine Dion
To stay present in everyday life, it helps to be deeply rooted within yourself; otherwise, the mind, which has incredible momentum, will drag you along like a wild river.
~ Eckhart Tolle