Quotes by Pitfalls At a very young age I was predicting outcomes, trying to take all the information and find the best route to wherever I was going. I avoided a lot of pitfalls because of that. Jennifer Carpenter pitfallsagetrying Help, then, is the ballast that keeps us steady, that recognizes where along the path are the dangers and pitfalls that can throw us off; hope tempers fear so we can recognize dangers and then bypass or endure them. Jerome Groopman pitfallspathhope Quite often - a lot of the work I had done had been extensively with women. Most especially in the theater, but also quite often in the movies. That has its own delights, and maybe pitfalls too. John Malkovich pitfallsmovieactors I always say, "Never give your lead character an infant. Make them a recovering alcoholic, or the victim of a horrible violent crime because you can really never truly recover from that." It's a story pitfall. Julie Plec pitfallsgivingcharacter I would warn very sincerely against the pitfalls of copying photographs. A frozen, split-second bears little relationship to the continuing process of living reality. It is better to look, look again, and keep on looking. Keith Shackleton pitfallsphotographyreality I realized some of the pitfalls of being well-known; it was nice if you were successful, but it made it just that much harder to take when you failed. Lawrence Welk pitfallsnicesuccessful I must try to live in society and yet remain untouched by its pitfalls. Mahatma Gandhi pitfallssocietytrying Even a little of dharma saves one from many a pitfall. Mahatma Gandhi pitfallslittlesreligion Extravagance is the rich man's pitfall. Martin Farquhar Tupper pitfallsextravagancemen I know more now than I did in the past about the process of democratization. I know more about the pitfalls. Meles Zenawi pitfallsprocesspast A language not based on universal symbols or sensations is gibberish, a pitfall of modern art, no longer modern. Nelson Shanks pitfallslanguageart I think all these great comforts that come from the human condition of trying to make things easier on ourselves also have these pitfalls, where things become so easy that we forget how enjoyable building a fence can be. Nick Offerman pitfallstryingthinking The biggest pitfall to avoid is not writing. Not writing is really, really easy to do, especially if you're a young writer. The hope that elves will come in the night and finish it for you, is a very common one to have. That is my main recommendation - you have to write, and you have to finish what you write and beyond that, it's all detail. Neil Gaiman pitfallswritingnight But the word "right" is one of the most deceptive of pitfalls; it is so easy to slip from a qualified meaning in the premise to an unqualified one in the conclusion. Most rights are qualified. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. pitfallsrightslaw And when you look at the twentieth-century experiment with collectivism-that Ayn Rand, more than anybody else, did such a good job of articulating the pitfalls of statism and collectivism-you can't find another thinker or writer who did a better job of describing and laying out the moral case for capitalism than Ayn Rand. Paul Ryan pitfallsjobslooks The person who failed often knows how to avoid future failures. The person who knows only success can be more oblivious to all the pitfalls. Randy Pausch pitfallsfailuresuccess The person who failed often knows how to avoid future failures. Randy Pausch pitfallsknow-howpersons Everything I know now . . . the pitfalls, the highs and lows, everything . . . it taught me and made stronger. Ray Allen pitfallstaughtstronger In diplomacy, as in life itself, one often learns more from failures than from successes. Triumphs will seem, in retrospect, to be foreordained, a series of brilliant actions and decisions that may in fact have been lucky or inadvertent, whereas failures illuminate paths and pitfalls to be avoided. Richard Holbrooke pitfallstriumphdecision The semanticists are exactly wrong in regarding language as an obstruction or series of pitfalls. Language, on the contrary, appears as a great storehouse of universal memory, or it may be said to serve as a net, not imprisoning us but supporting us and aiding us to get at a meaning beyond present meaning through the very fact that it embodies others' experiences. Richard M. Weaver pitfallsmaymemories«123»
