There’s nothing I missed out on. I do everything a normal kid does. My parents keep me grounded. I still play sports. I still go to a rec center every day.
When people say, ‘You seem so grounded; you seem so normal,’ I think it’s the way I was raised and the way my sister and I were brought up by our parents.
Having a child keeps you very grounded. So when I decided to have a child, I made it clear to the people I work with that my job was no longer my priority.
Staying grounded, eating healthy, doing yoga, staying out of the sun to protect my skin – I think that the daily decisions we make to protect our bodies are the best ways we can care for them.
I would absolutely recommend against excessive positivity and optimism. Any positive emotion that you’re infusing into a workplace needs to be grounded in reality. If it’s not realistic, sincere, meaningful, and individualized, it won’t do much good.
I’m lucky to attribute my success to the foundation my family gave me. I’ve always felt grounded in them.
That late success has happened is OK. I’m grounded. I use my seniority to my advantage. That’s helped me out. Who’d have thought? So, yeah. I’m a lucky guy.
My brother, Christian, helps me stay focused and grounded.
There is a big push that we all are engaged in, in wanting to have the newest in innovation – and I think that’s all really great. But I also feel that human beings need to be aware of, and grounded in, history.
Also, most people read fiction as an escape – and I wonder whether my books aren’t a bit too grounded in reality to reach the widest possible audience.
A lot of people my age who are working right now have never acted; they get a show and suddenly they’re making millions. It’s always those people who get it fast who have the most trouble staying grounded and being themselves.
I really like supernatural stories, but, to me, ‘Witches of East End’ is really grounded. It’s not just going for the magic tricks and keeping it superficial and action-y.
Cultural inequality is not grounded in race or ethnicity.
I think my favorite horror films are really grounded in human psychology, which is to say I think through sort of extreme dislocations of reality.
I like to stay grounded.
The one thing that’s going to get you through this business is having strong roots, being grounded and knowing what is true.
I think one of the great things about ‘Bridesmaids’ is that it’s a big studio comedy, but all of the relationships in it are so grounded that you’re watching a real movie.
While it may take generations of nurturing, nations founded on and grounded in freedom will eventually overcome and prosper. Once free, folks rarely accept anything less, and that includes Iraqis.
Family is very important to me. People often ask me how I managed to stay grounded and sane, having started as a child star and growing up in the industry, and really, it’s God. But it’s also my family and God in my family.
Tamannaah is not just pretty on the outside but from within too. She’s extremely friendly and grounded. We had mutual admiration for each other and bonded so well. I think I found a sister in her.
Unless you are really grounded and have a true sense of reality, you can get lost in that and a lot of people do and that’s why you see so many people with successful careers but with destructive lives.
Win or lose, I always like to get back to my friends and family. They keep me grounded. When I’m home with my friends, I’m always the same Gabriel. I’m no better or worse in their eyes because of my results. It’s good to be with your true friends. It always reminds me of where I’m from and who I am.
Each of the ‘Toy Story’s are telling an emotional story, but they’re comedic. They’re so successful creatively in terms of the stories they’re telling. And they’re pretty grounded.
I really like school. I like going to school, which sounds a bit stupid, but I do. And I love the social aspect of it: it keeps me grounded, and it’s nice to have that routine.
If I’m naughty, I’m grounded for two weeks or Mum takes my phone and my laptop because she knows I can’t live without them. Sometimes I’ll say, ‘Mum, do you just want to take my laptop?’ because I can still use the Internet on my phone. But now she’s going to read this and see what I’ve been doing.
Working with real firefighters keeps us really grounded. How can you possibly complain that your trailer is not at the correct temperature when you are working with a man who ran out of a burning building to save someone’s life?
I was on the beach, and I was just thinking to myself that I have no one place where I actually feel like I’m at home. I came up with the idea of having no roots – never being grounded to a certain place but having your home with people who you love.
You can’t have the word ‘fantasy’ or ‘fantastical’ without a contrast. It has to stem from a grounded experience.
Authority is supposedly grounded in wisdom, but I could see from a very early age that authority was only a system of control. And it didn’t have any inherent wisdom. I quickly realized that you either became a power or you were crushed.
I’ve tried to be graceful and I’ve tried to make sure my arguments are grounded in reason and insight.
My musical education was grounded in blues and Chicago blues – John Lee Hooker and Otis Redding.
If we approach other people understanding our own value, being confident in who we are, being centered and grounded, it’s actually easier for us to connect with them because we can listen more deeply and we can express ourselves more authentically without fear of being judged or not being enough.
I love Pittsburgh because it’s a humble city. It’s really grounded in its rich history and culture.
When I do get free time, I spend a lot of it at home with my family and my close friends and I think that’s what keeps me happy, healthy, grounded, and totally in check.
I’m very grounded – that’s how I would put it. If you met my mother, you’d probably say the same thing about her. I had a very sane upbringing, though some very insane things happened.
For me, even in my first book, the pleasures of writing anything magical is that it has to be physical. It has to be grounded and very much in this world. Then, I get to play with all the consequences of this new thing.
We have enough to worry about with what’s happening in our nation to worry about what’s happening in California. Keep your feet grounded in your own backyard and together we’re going to build communities that work.
My husband does say it is Australia’s job and my family’s job to keep me grounded. They do a very good job!
Keeping our priorities straight, our faith, our family, and values will keep us grounded.
I wish my grandmother and grandfather were still alive, because they were able to keep me grounded.
If you’ve got people around you that are like, ‘Oh, you’re so good,’ this and that, it becomes unhealthy. My friends are like, ‘You look like a doofus.’ I’m like, ‘Thank you. Thank you for that.’ It keeps me grounded.
I make sure I always surround myself with good, down to earth, fun, real people, who always keep me grounded.
When I watched The Outs,’ I was like, ‘Oh my god, this is just such a great, grounded, lived-in story about people my age living where I happen to live.’
I didn’t know how to socialise with other people. I went to Harefield and it was strange at first but then I realised I was only here for one thing and that was the football. That was one of the many things that kept me grounded and kept me going.
I’ve come from a grounded family and had a good upbringing.
My parents kept me very grounded.
I love everyone that supports me, and things can get wild at times, but my parents raised me to be grounded and to always remain humble. I think that’s one of the main reasons that my fans support me.
The journalistic endeavor – at least theoretically – is grounded in objectivity. The goal is to get you to understand what happened, when and to whom.
God keeps me grounded as well as my husband, Keith Douglas, who is such an inspiration to me. He’s an author, speaker, and businessman. He’s just a great husband and blessing.
My faith helped me stay grounded in defeat and victory, to not get too excited about the successes and too low about the failures.
I live in a flat with my three best mates from university, none of whom are actors. It keeps you grounded.
Just practice hard and stay grounded. Treat people like you want to be treated and work hard.
I’m lucky to have a wife and a child that keep me grounded.
As professional athletes, we live such a privileged life. We make tons of money, everything goes our way and we play a game for a living. It’s hard to stay grounded at times.
‘Scary Movie’ has lost its way as a franchise. It has turned into ‘Disaster Film’ and ‘Epic Movie’ and ‘Date Movie’ and that isn’t what I wanted. I wanted to do a movie that was just grounded in a reality that went to crazy places.
Staying true to who I am was tougher when I first got wealthy. Having great friends kept me grounded.
I think, ultimately, if you create characters that people like and can relate to, your characters are grounded on a human level even if your cars are not.
For me, my preference for comedy is grounding it in the psychology of the character, and not just kind of making faces. Even when it’s a crazy character, grounded comedy resonates more with people because it doesn’t look like you’re watching someone do vaudeville. No offense to vaudeville.
