Jane Pauley

I envy people with dreams and passions, but I don't think that way. I still don't have a 'bliss' to follow. For people like me - I suspect that's most people - holding out for a 'dream' or a 'passion' is paralyzing. I just like having work I enjoy that feels meaningful. That's hard enough... but it's enough.

American Journalist

Perez Hilton

I reached a point in my private life where I started having these thoughts about changing. But I was paralyzed by fear, that I would lose everything that I had worked very hard to achieve up until that point.

Hornswoggle

I was six years old and I had major back surgery and that paralyzed me for three months. When my back got fixed the first thing the doctor said was no contact sports and no trampolines.

American Wrestler

Raphael Bob-Waksberg

I think we're so often, as writers, afraid of writing something that is less than perfect, and that fear paralyzes us. I'm a big fan of writing less than perfect things.

American Comedian

Pavel Durov

In my past, it looked like I could get into trouble in Russia - but I was not afraid then, and I'm not afraid now. Fear paralyses you and doesn't let you go forward.

Russian Businessman

Nikki Bella

I think any time you hear that you're about to paralyze yourself, or even worse, it's just scary because you start to realize how precious life is.

American Athlete

Nicolas Chamfort

It must be admitted that there are some parts of the soul which we must entirely paralyse before we can live happily in this world.

French Writer

Julie Bowen

I'm on a strict gossip diet. No gossip websites, no gossip magazines. Otherwise, I find it paralyzing to exist.

American Actress

Bernice Johnson Reagon

Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.

American Musician

Judit Polgar

How you lose matters. Don't be afraid of losing - it paralyzes you.

Hungarian Celebrity

Refers specifically to the loss of muscle function in the body or a body part.

Physical Impairment

Can describe an emotional state that hinders physical action, like fear or shock.

Emotional Overwhelm

Often used to describe a condition that is not permanent, such as a transient paralysis.

Temporary State

Used metaphorically to mean a system or process is completely halted.

System Failure

Implies the action is sudden, causing immediate cessation of normal functions.

Sudden Disruption

Highlights paralysis as a response to fear, rendering someone incapable of action.

Extreme Fear

Stresses that paralysis can result from acute panic, causing a freeze response.

Panic-Induced Freeze

 As a young man, I imagined a future world where technology so advanced could rid the world of disability, a world in which neural implants would allow the visually impaired to see. A world in which the paralyzed could walk, via body exoskeletons. Sadly, because of deficiencies in technology, disability is rampant in the world.

New bionics let us run,...

 the instinct to hide was almost paralyzing. I wanted to hide from the judgement of my family, who I knew would never speak to me again -- people whose thoughts and opinions had meant everything to me. And I wanted to hide from the world I'd rejected for so long -- people who had no reason at all to give me a second chance

I grew up in the...

 one final push is all that is needed to ensure that polio will never paralyze another child. Disease eradication is one public health effort that benefits all of humanity and challenges us to work together as a global community. Beyond eliminating specific diseases,

Learning from smallpox:...

 Or does it? If you're like most people, you'd probably be paralyzed by this task. Without more guidance, where would you even begin? As it turns out, boundless freedom isn't always helpful. In reality, any project is restricted by many factors, such as the cost,

The power of creative...

 As an example, a little while ago I was wrestling with an issue in my life that I knew I needed to talk to my guy friends about, but I was so paralyzed by fear that they would judge me and see me as weak and I would lose my standing as a leader

Why I'm done trying to...

 Now, in my research, I discovered there are two different kinds of doubt. There's self-doubt and idea doubt. Self-doubt is paralyzing. It leads you to freeze. But idea doubt is energizing. It motivates you to test, to experiment, to refine,

The surprising habits of...

 and can change the way we're telling them. Your life isn't just a list of events. You can edit, interpret and retell your story, even as you're constrained by the facts. I met a young man named Emeka, who'd been paralyzed playing football.

There's more to life...

 on solid ground with their hind legs and eventually sprint and climb stairs and what we observe is that over time the animal regains the capacity to perform one two steps and then long run and eventually of paralyzed rods regain the

Paralyzed Rats Walk...

 It was the water shrew. Yeah. Which has venomous saliva, which when it bites, it injects into its prey to stun it and to paralyse it. But I've got to say that venomous mammals are very, very rare

The Killer Rat with...

 and yet this is what happened I would have been paralyzed by guilt about my privilege except that Kennedy said to me with great compassion

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