Grasp Quotes : Grasp Sayings In Life

These grasp quotes will inspire you. Grasp seize and hold firmly or a firm hold or grip.

A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging grasp quotes, grasp sayings, and grasp proverbs.

Best Grasp Quotes

1. “Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, Or what’s a heaven for?” Robert Browning
2. “Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.” Nathaniel Hawthorne
3. “But he that dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave the rose.” Anne Bronte

4. “A sense of humor… is needed armor. Joy in one’s heart and some laughter on one’s lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.” Hugh Sidey

5. “Life is like the monkey bars: you have to let go to move forward. Once you make the decision to leap into entrepreneurship, be sure to loosen your grasp on old concepts so you can swing your way to new ones.” Leah Busque
6. “I was born into a Christian family and brought up in a Lutheran church. My faith has been the center point of my life, really, since I was a child, but at 16 years of age, I fully surrendered my life over to Christ. At that point, as a teenager, I began to grasp the concept of Christ’s true love and forgiveness.” Michele Bachmann
7. “To become a villain, you had to have become disillusioned, and in order to become disillusioned you had to have been passionate about something you believed in that was shaken and ripped from your grasp as a protagonist in that stage of your life, leaving you disillusioned with God, if you will.” Matthew Davis

8. “True adulthood occurs the moment we grasp that the people who raised us do not exist solely for our comfort and reassurance. From that point on, the steady stream of unconditional love and support we’ve expected from them all our lives has to flow both ways.” Lynn Coady

9. “To grasp the full significance of life is the actor’s duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it his dedication.” Marlon Brando
10. “Not everything is going to be handed to you just because you’re talented with a big smile. Sometimes you just gotta get out and shoot jumpers for hours and hours and hours. That’s something I didn’t really get a grasp on until way later, waking up early and treating it like a job if you’re serious about it. Get the freak up and, you know, work.’ Anderson Paak
11. “Postmodernism surely requires an even greater grasp of symbolism, as it’s increasingly an art of gesture alone.” Andrew Eldritch

12. “My determination is not to remain stubbornly with my ideas, but I’ll leave them and go over to others as soon as I am shown plausible reasons which I can grasp.” Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

13. “It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.” Carl Sagan
14. “Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.” Abraham Lincoln
15. “Now science has presented us with a hope called stem cell research, which may provide our scientists with many answers that have for so long been beyond our grasp.” Nancy Reagan

16. “Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases.” Norman Ralph Augustine

17. “I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.” Saint Bernard
18. “Happiness is within the reach of everyone, rich or poor. Yet comparatively few people are happy. I believe the reason for this is that the majority don’t recognize happiness even when it is within their grasp.” Robert Baden-Powell
19. “Information technology is a formidable enabler of freedoms. For example, it lowers barriers to freedom of expression and allows people to get a better grasp of their lives. It should not be used to reduce the freedom of people.” Alexander De Croo

20. “Behind it all is surely an idea so simple, so beautiful, that when we grasp it – in a decade, a century, or a millennium – we will all say to each other, how could it have been otherwise? How could we have been so stupid?’ John Archibald

21. “Wheeler In twenty years you’ll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can’t grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked.” Mary Schmich
22. “Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.” Gustave Courbet
23. “One of the things you do as a writer and as a filmmaker is grasp for resonant symbols and imagery without necessarily fully understanding it yourself.” Christopher Nolan

24. “Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude.” Alfred North Whitehead

25. “It is astonishing that human brains, which evolved to cope with the everyday world, have been able to grasp the counterintuitive mysteries of the cosmos and the quantum.” Martin Rees
26. “I ascribe a basic importance to the phenomenon of language. To speak means to be in a position to use a certain syntax, to grasp the morphology of this or that language, but it means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization.” Frantz Fanon
27. “Slavery to monarchs and ministers, which the world will be long freeing itself from, and whose deadly grasp stops the progress of the human mind, is not yet abolished.” Mary Wollstonecraft

28. “You know, I was such a big Beatles fan, and when I’d buy a new album I’d invariably hate it the first time I heard it ’cause it was a mixture of absolute joy and absolute frustration. I couldn’t grasp what they’d done, and I’d hate myself for that.” Andy Partridge

29. “We dream of having a clean house – but who dreams of actually doing the cleaning? We don’t have to dream about doing the work, because doing the work is always within our grasp; the dream, in this sense, is to attain the goal without the work.” Marcus Buckingham
30. “Leaders grasp nettles.” David Ogilvy
31. “On a grassroots level we say that man can touch more than he can grasp.” Gabriel Marcel

32. “Something that is very special today might not be special tomorrow, but to hold it, to grasp it, to keep it, to make it special, to elevate it from the ordinary, that’s when you open up the champagne. To make it sparkle.” Christoph Waltz

33. “I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.” Claude Monet
34. “What helps with aging is serious cognition – thinking and understanding. You have to truly grasp that everybody ages. Everybody dies. There is no turning back the clock. So the question in life becomes: What are you going to do while you’re here?” Goldie Hawn
35. “You have to remember we’re just performers, that we seldom have any kind of grasp on real life.” Tom Kenny

36. “Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.” Mahatma Gandhi

37. “Without the name, any flower is still more or less a stranger to you. The name betrays its family, its relationship to other flowers, and gives the mind something tangible to grasp. It is very difficult for persons who have had no special training to learn the names of the flowers from the botany.” John Burroughs
38. “After every massacre in a school, Americans grasp at quick cures. ‘Let’s install metal detectors and give guns to teachers’ Let’s crack down on troublemakers, weeding out kids who fit the profile of a gunman. Let’s buy bulletproof whiteboards for the students to scurry behind, or train kids to throw erasers or cans of soup at an attacker.” Bill Dedman
39. “The real problem with natural selection is that it makes no intuitive sense. It is like quantum physics; we may intellectually grasp it, but it will never feel right to us.” Paul Bloom

40. “People who didn’t live pre-Internet can’t grasp how devoid of ideas life in my hometown was. The only bookstores sold Bibles the size of coffee tables and dashboard Virgin Marys that glowed in the dark.” Mary Karr

41. “Suffering is a corrective to point out a lesson which by other means we have failed to grasp, and never can it be eradicated until that lesson is learnt.” Edward Bach
42. “You, too, will be driven away from your native land and ancient domains as leaves are driven before the wintry storms. Sleep not longer, O Choctaws and Chickasaws, in false security and delusive hopes. Our broad domains are fast escaping from our grasp.” Tecumseh
43. “I think a good entrepreneur has a very clear grasp of what the goal is, an unwavering sense of the goal, an utterly agile approach of getting there.” John Katzman

44. “The Hindu religions gave me the impression of a vast well into which one plunges in order to grasp the reflection of the sun.” Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

45. “The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.” Doug Larson
46. “I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.” Barbara Walters
47. “People are always jumping at what’s new – who’s the next person, who’s the hottest thing, or whatever – so to be able to grasp the attention of everybody is difficult.” Remy Ma

48. “For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.” Carl Sagan

49. “It’s hard for me to grasp the concept of somebody being nervous when I’m talking to them.” Kobe Bryant
50. “A statesman… must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment.” Otto von Bismarck
51. “I was dyslexic, I had no understanding of schoolwork whatsoever. I certainly would have failed IQ tests. And it was one of the reasons I left school when I was 15 years old. And if I – if I’m not interested in something, I don’t grasp it.” Richard Branson

52. “The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.” Daniel Webster

53. “I think music is about our internal life. It’s part of the way people touch each other. That’s very precious to me. And astronomy is, in a sense, the very opposite thing. Instead of looking inwards, you are looking out, to things beyond our grasp.” Brian May
54. “While one man can discover a certain thing by himself, another is never able to understand it, even if taught by means of all possible expressions and metaphors, and during a long period; his mind can in no way grasp it, his capacity is insufficient for it.” Maimonides
55. “We speak of ‘software eating the world,’ ‘the Internet of Things,’ and we massify ‘data’ by declaring it ‘Big.’ But these concepts remain for the most part abstract. It’s hard for many of us to grasp the impact of digital technology on the ‘real world’ of things like rocks, homes, cars, and trees. We lack a metaphor that hits home.” John Battelle

56. “The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek.” Henry Adams

57. “Science may provide the most useful way to organize empirical, reproducible data, but its power to do so is predicated on its inability to grasp the most central aspects of human life: hope, fear, love, hate, beauty, envy, honor, weakness, striving, suffering, virtue.” Paul Kalanithi
58. “Straight edge is everything about a personal decision to not live my life under the influence or not being aware. I pretty much don’t like anything that alters my view of reality or my perception or my grasp.” CM Punk
59. “But by reading them again and again finally I was able to grasp the essential part. What emotion, enthusiasm, enlightenment and confidence they communicated to me! I wept for joy.” Ho Chi Minh

60. “I’m fascinated by the fact that we can’t grasp anything about time.” Anthony Hopkins

61. “Sometimes it takes years to really grasp what has happened to your life.” Wilma Rudolph
62. “It is sometimes hard to grasp the difference between identifying with one’s own roots, understanding people with other roots, and judging what is good or bad.” Umberto Eco

63. “I don’t think I could have tackled ‘The Pura Principle’ until now. It takes me about twenty years to come to term with any difficult period in my life, to get enough of a grasp on it to fictionalize it.” Junot Diaz

64. “It’s slightly complicated for people to grasp the idea of a head of state in human form.” Prince Andrew
65. “Achieving net zero carbon emissions by 2050, identifying treatments to diseases like cancer, and harnessing the power of robotics and artificial intelligence to support everyday tasks are all within our grasp. The first country that gives birth to these discoveries will change life as we know it.” Alok Sharma

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