I'm always fascinated by the disjunct between what's really happening on the ground and the propaganda machine that feeds America alarmist news about immigration.
You can't put your feet on the ground until you've touched the sky.
When you face terror, you have to meet it right on the ground.
You never know what's going to happen, so you just continue with your head down and never expect things to start being handed to you.
I actually understand what a Marine on the ground goes through. I've seen generals and admirals struggle with different situations.
Listen to the people on the ground. They have all the solutions in the world.
We used to look up at the sky and wonder at our place in the stars. Now we just look down, and worry about our place in the dirt.
It's kind of hard for you to be doing huge things and still be knowing what's happening on the street level.
When you are a people's movement, you have one thing. Your only asset is people. And you have to deal with real people. Not the people of your imagination. Not the people you wish people would be. But people as they exist actually out there in the real world.
What I know in my heart is that women and girls on the ground are powerful and that they are leaders.
Look, I'm a coach, I'm not Harry Potter. He is magical, but in reality there is no magic. Magic is fiction and football is real.
Any of these contemporary war situations, whether civilian or soldier on either side - that's what I was interested in. The people who are being affected. Not so much the political speak at the top of the food chain, but the people who are affected by it on the ground.
More than anything, what we do as actors is to sit and watch, and I would never want to get so lost in the celebrity bubble I couldn't do that because my feet no longer touch the ground.
No policy is worth anything outside of reality.
The trouble, dollIs not moving mountains, butDigging the ground that you're on
The most marvelous experience of life is to transform life according to reality, not imagination.
You must never get carried away by your success; many people tend to do so after they achieve success in the initial stages of their life. Your feet must be on the ground all the time.
If you are not diverse and you are not listening to all voices and have your ear to the ground, you're not going to make the best decisions.
At a certain point you can't help but lose some feel for what's on the ground because you're not on the ground.
I think conditions on the ground determine what you need in a particular area.
People don't know much about what's going on on the ground in Iraq: what you see in the media is heavily censored.
I think it is a very important point for India to create a bureaucracy that lives on the ground and gets its stimulus from how life is on the ground.
When you are playing on the ground, you are a cricketer, but the moment you step off it, you are just another person. You need to talk to people nicely because you are who you are because of the people.
The more time goes on, the closer I am to the ground. I've been exposed to so many issues and people living under different pressures. It's helped me realize that a lot of glamorous things that people prioritize really don't matter.
Elections come and go, people win and lose, that is part of politics. It doesn't anyway change things on the ground.
