Flailing Quotes
The messy middle before things click.
Some quotes admit to years spent flailing in their twenties and thirties without a clear plan, pushing back on the idea that they were simply chaotic. See Advice quotes for guidance on getting unstuck.
I want people to know that I'm not just this crazy person flailing around. A lot of thought goes into what I do.
My No. 1 piece of advice, especially for someone who's an actor-singer-dancer - a triple threat, they're called! - people say, 'What's the most important?' I always say acting. Without knowing why you're singing or what you're singing about, it's...
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I spent a lot of time flailing around, not really sure what I wanted to do, in my 20s and early 30s.
Growing up in Vancouver in the 1950s, I was often capricious and temperamental, quick to laugh, even quicker to feel despair, prone to flailing my arms, pouting and crying when things didn't go my way, or I thought something was...
Action Quotes
We all know what flopping is when we see it. The stuff that you see is where guys aren't really getting hit at all and are just flailing around like a fish out of water.
I was 16 years old, and I was just flailing around, looking for an interest. I heard, you know, these jazz records. They were modern records, at the time in the '50s, and I realized that I didn't fully get...
When you take other people's opinions, you end up flailing and you have no center.
Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat.
I fear that our true motivation is about oil and our own flailing economy; about the failure to destroy Al Qaeda and about revenge.
Advice Quotes
In voiceover, you have to restrain yourself when you're acting in the sound booth in front of the microphone. If you lean left or you lean right, you're going to lose the voice. Yet you yourself become animated when you're...
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Others describe flailing more physically, like childhood tantrums or restless energy that needed an outlet. Browse Action quotes or Balance quotes for related themes of movement and steadiness.
