Top 100 Quotes About Pitfalls
#1. American Psychological Association, the girlie-girl culture's emphasis on beauty and play-sexiness can increase girls' vulnerability to the pitfalls that most concern parents: depression, eating disorders, distorted body image, risky sexual behavior.
Peggy Orenstein
#2. Two chief pitfalls into which the mystic is liable to fall
dreamy inactivity and Antinomianism.
William Ralph Inge
#3. There are pitfalls in World Cups, there are players who can win penalties and players who get the slightest touch and go down holding their face or whatever and get someone sent off. There are all these little things and you're hoping that you're not on the wrong end of it.
Michael Owen
#4. Every profession has its pitfalls. Doctors, for example, are always being asked for free medical advice, lawyers are asked for legal information, morticians are told how interesting a profession that must be and then people change the subject fast.
Neil Gaiman
#5. The road to success is full of pit stops, pitfalls, and self pity; my advice is simply don't stop!
Noel DeJesus
#6. I hate the stereotype of the pitfalls of the child actor. There are so many amazing examples - Natalie Portman, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jodie Foster, Drew Barrymore - of people who have made it through.
Jamie Bell
#7. Virtue, should there be anyone who still ignores the fact, always finds pitfalls on the extremely difficult path of perfection, but sin and vice are so favoured by fortune ...
Jose Saramago
#8. It's not nice being inside my head. It's a nice place to visit but I don't want to live in here. It's too crowded; too many traps and pitfalls.
Carrie Fisher
#9. In a world where survival is always seen as a struggle, and in which some pitfalls always exist, if something brings into question our confidence in our own coping ability, it will threaten our safety.
Willard Gaylin
#10. I did not know it but I was already coming up against one of the great pitfalls of the small operator - the almost insoluble problem of when to enter the market.
Nicolas Darvas
#11. Flow is an alternative path toward mastery, but, like any path, not without its pitfalls. There's a serious dark side to flow,
Steven Kotler
#12. One of the traps or the pitfalls of writing a trilogy - or a triptych, or whatever term you want to use - is that the second book can be a long second act to get you from book one to book three, which borrows all of its energy from the first book.
Justin Cronin
#13. I've been through a lot of situations with women and if I can help someone else avoid the pitfalls that I've gone through then I'm happy to help.
Mayer Hawthorne
#14. Talk to successful entrepreneurs. Learn about what they've experienced so you can avoid some of the pitfalls that come with wealth.
Diane Hendricks
#15. Why was even the shallowest human conversation so fraught with pitfalls and tricky calibrations? Why couldn't people just keep silent until they had something essential to say, like the Oasans?
Michel Faber
#16. I am well aware that the path of the biographer is beset with pitfalls, and that, for him, suppressio veri is almost necessarily suggestio falsi - the least omission may distort the whole picture.
Stuart Dodgson Collingwood
#17. I don't believe in pitfalls. I believe in taking risks and not doing the same thing twice.
Guy Laliberte
#18. I must try to live in society and yet remain untouched by its pitfalls.
Mahatma Gandhi
#19. The ways in which readers encounter and relate to information is dramatically influenced by their education as well as their awareness of the pitfalls relating to the information source.
Nayef Al-Rodhan
#20. Not having a specified launch plan and process is one of the biggest pitfalls in the technology market.
Brian Lawley
#21. Life's journey is peppered with many bumps and pitfalls. If we make mountains out of each one, we will get nowhere.
Charles F. Glassman
#22. Being veterans of the struggle to push back against fundamentalist Christians, American liberals are well acquainted with the pitfalls of the neoconservative flirtation with the religious-right.
Maajid Nawaz
#23. Young people, your parents, with their maturity of years and experience you have not had, can provide wisdom, knowledge, and blessings to help you over life's pitfalls. You may find, that life's sweetest experiences come when you go to Mom and Dad for help.
Ezra Taft Benson
#24. In my experience nobody gets to lead a totally charmed existence. Nobody escapes the pitfalls of being a human being. It's what seperates us from the zebras. Or that's my theory anyway
Sarah-Kate Lynch
#25. Life was too short, the weather too fine, and the world too full of interesting and exciting pitfalls.
Douglas Adams
#26. Somehow, the company must stay true to the founding vision while avoiding the pitfalls of rapid growth - and perhaps survive the hiring of a previously successful executive who doesn't work out.
Bing Gordon
#27. Like a lot of people, I've got a self-loathing streak that's alive and well. It acts as a de facto engine when I'm working, but it also has its extraordinary pitfalls, too.
Ryan Reynolds
#28. there is anything to be learned from the conspiracy - other than when in doubt, bet on George Washington - it is to beware the pitfalls of certainty.
Sarah Vowell
#29. It is this broken road with pitfalls and sharp turns and unexpected traverses that has brought me joy and adventure.
Alice Walker
#30. 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
#31. To perceive how language works, what pitfalls it conceals, what its possibilities are, is to comprehend a crucial aspect of the complicated business of living the life of a human being.
S.I. Hayakawa
#32. Political novels are full of pitfalls, particularly for a novelist with strong political leanings.
Phil Klay
#33. You know, it's just a matter of working through the pitfalls sometimes and working through the challenges that lie ahead.
Kurt Busch
#34. Perhaps when the light of heaven shows us clearly the pitfalls and dangers of the earth road that led to the heavenly city, our sweetest songs of gratitude will be not for the troubles we have conquered, but for those we have escaped.
Amelia Barr
#35. Whatever the potential pitfalls, banks are increasingly enthusiastic about venture capital, particularly in new companies with strong prospects in fields like health care and technology.
Alex Berenson
#37. Early on, when you're working in a new area of science, you have to think about all the pitfalls and things that could lead you to believe that you had done something when you hadn't, and, even worse, leading others to believe it.
Craig Venter
#38. Between the happening of a historical process and its recognition by rulers, a lag stretches, full of pitfalls.
Barbara W. Tuchman
#39. Oh that I had the opportunity to rethink so many of my decisions, for the pitfalls into which I have so frequently fallen were often dug with the shovel of those very decisions.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#40. Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
#41. One of the pitfalls of childhood is that one doesn't have to understand something to feel it. By the time the mind is able to comprehend what has happened, the wounds of the heart are already too deep.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#42. If you decide to design your own language, there are thousands of sort of amateur language designer pitfalls.
Guido Van Rossum
#43. Listen much, keep silent when in doubt, and always take heed of the tongue; thou wilt make few mistakes. See much, beware of pitfalls, and always give heed to thy walk; thou wilt have little to rue. If thy words are seldom wrong, thy deeds leave little to rue, pay will follow.
Confucius
#44. I'm sure that there are many situations in life that are going to offer the same risks and pitfalls that you have to get past. That's just life.
Erol Alkan
#45. The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet.
H. P. Blavatsky
#46. I have even taught classes on writing about sex, and I've looked closely at different writers' sex scenes. On the level of craft I've given it a lot of thought. The pitfalls are simple: It can sound clinical or medical, which isn't right, or pornographic, because the characters disappear.
K.M. Soehnlein
#47. Once, he'd been sure the view from the peak would be worth the climb. But slowly he'd come to know that the path he was on, littered with boulders, pitfalls, and traps, crept onward forever but never reached the top.
S.J. Rozan
#48. Above all, we must avoid the pitfalls of tribalism. If we are divided among ourselves on tribal lines, we open our doors to foreign intervention and its potentially harmful consequences.
Haile Selassie
#49. Soon after faced a similar debacle building its 787 Dreamliner, which came into service in 2011. Both jet makers have used those pitfalls to fine-tune their current ramp-ups.
Anonymous
#50. She was afraid of numbers the way some people are of spiders. The sight of them made her want to hide. What I loved about them, their clarity, was for her duplicity. Behind an innocent 2,or 5, or 9, she spied a mass of traps and pitfalls.
Margot Livesey
#51. 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
#52. There are many pitfalls in life; one is dwelling on blame.
It's pointless. Move on.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#53. There are no clear paths. Only pitfalls and tripwires and darkness.
Robert Jordan
#54. Now that I have created moe, men of the world will never know peace as they struggle with the pitfalls of 3D.
Satoshi Kon
#55. 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
#56. The past sharpens perspective, warns against pitfalls, and helps to point the way.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#57. We are not fit to lead an army on the march unless we are familiar with the face of the country
its mountains and forests, its pitfalls and precipices, its marshes and swamps.
Sun Tzu
#58. Does the universe hate us? How many pitfalls lie ahead, waiting to shred our conceited molecule-clusters back into unthinking dust? Shall we count them?
David Brin
#59. I'm an optimist. My own fiction, while it has its own dark warnings about pitfalls ahead, depicts the potential of science to improve society by networking human minds.
Ramez Naam
#60. Good things do not come easy. The road is lined with pitfalls.
Desi Arnaz
#61. Fast thinkers aren't smarter than slow. Collaborating in real time and over time leverages our collective value and limits pitfalls of both kinds of thinkers. Discuss options both face-to-face and virtually to enable fast and slow thinkers to optimize value for the team
Kare Anderson
#62. One of the biggest pitfalls for performance measurement is to measure the "part" with ignorance of the "whole.
Pearl Zhu
#63. One of the main pitfalls of any theoretically 'niche' show is that you spend too much time on the 'niche' and not enough time on the 'show.'
Brad Falchuk
#64. One of life's greatest ironies is that we try so much to avoid the challenges and pitfalls, only to realize these are the very things which forge our character.
Tim Young
#65. Investing in renter's insurance is hugely worthwhile. It protects you from a whole load of financial pitfalls around your home. Your home should be the center of your sense of security - not the cause of you losing financial security.
Alexa Von Tobel
#66. Grammar, n. A system of pitfalls thoughtfully prepared for the feet of the self-made man, along the path by which he advances to distinction.
Ambrose Bierce
#67. I know more now than I did in the past about the process of democratization. I know more about the pitfalls.
Meles Zenawi
#68. I think one of the pitfalls of doing your own music is that sometimes you can never be satisfied with it: you're afraid to say that it's done, and you keep reworking it or re-recording it or re-writing it.
Adam Schlesinger
#69. Good planning avoids the need for fixing up a project that plowed ahead without thought ... about potential pitfalls.
Bobby Knight
#70. 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
#71. I enjoy the fact that, as a gay man, there's relatively little pressure on me to act like a grown-up, but also I see the pitfalls that we're susceptible to, addiction, isolation, loneliness, mental illness, not to mention the embarrassing fashion choices.
Vestal McIntyre
#72. Pitfalls he must find on that journey, blind paths perhaps, but through it all the philosophy of belief in the essential goodness, the actual significance of things created, the state of being, 'in love with life.
Frances Chesterton
#73. It is clear the future holds great opportunities. It also holds pitfalls. The trick will be to avoid the pitfalls, seize the opportunities, and get back home by six o'clock.
Woody Allen
#74. I just remember when I came out of film school - and I loved film school - that the industry was such a mystery. How to break in, and once you are in, how to make a film; that is such a large undertaking. There are thousands of pitfalls.
Gina Prince-Bythewood
#75. Everything I know now ... the pitfalls, the highs and lows, everything ... it taught me and made stronger.
Ray Allen
#76. So I float in silence, watching the final touches of this perfect moonrise, and in a moment of heavenly revelation, it occurs to me that detours are not without purpose. They provide safe passage to a destination, avoiding pitfalls in the process.
David Arnold
#77. Although the way ahead [for immunology] is full of pitfalls and difficulties, this is indeed an exhilarating prospect. There is no danger of a shortage of forthcoming excitement in the subject. Yet, as always, the highlights of tomorrow are the unpredictabilities of today.
Cesar Milstein
#78. 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
#79. 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
#80. It will likely come as no surprise to anyone that jealousy is at the top of the list when it comes to potential pitfalls of a polyamorous relationship.
Michael Makai
#81. Of all the traps and pitfalls in life, self-disesteem is the deadliest, and the hardest to overcome: for it is a pit designed and dug by our own hands, summed up in the phrase, 'It's no use - I can't do it.'
Maxwell Maltz
#82. I'm drawing from two generations back how to think about music, how to think about why you travel to make music, what the possible pitfalls of that are for the way your life is structured. The good and bad of all of it get into the mix of what's created, what you're creating.
Elvis Costello
#83. Never view obstacles in your path as the enemy. Rather, view any obstacles as detour signs to avoid pitfalls.
Donald L. Hicks
#84. To help staff recharge and think better, companies are setting aside quiet places to relax, practise yoga or even take a nap. With hi-tech giants such as Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft underlining the pitfalls of being 'always on,' firms are imposing speed limits on the information superhighway.
Carl Honore
#85. One of the pitfalls of writing about illness is that it is very easy to imagine people with cancer as either these wise, beyond-their-years creatures or else these sad-eyed, tragic people. And the truth is people living with cancer are very much like people who are not living with cancer.
John Green
#86. I credit my mom Debbie for creating a solid family base, ... She gave me a strong sense of reality so I could avoid falling into the normal pitfalls of child actors.
Elijah Wood
#87. 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.
#88. The whole world is strewn with snares, traps, gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women.
George Bernard Shaw
#89. If you love God, surrender to God, you can live in the moment, free of anxiety. Without God? You look ahead and see traps and pitfalls, you look behind and you see loss and death.
Suzanne Morrison
#90. 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
#91. There are many pitfalls in the marathon of life. But regardless of what you go through, you can count on God's sustaining grace.
Rick Warren
#92. We must experiment, fail, and try again, but beginning with a critique of legal reform and a commitment to center the most vulnerable moves us away from some of the most common, obvious pitfalls of neoliberal social movement strategies.
Dean Spade
#93. It is imperative that we make consumers more aware of the long-term effects of their financial decisions, particularly in managing their credit card debt, so that they can avoid financial pitfalls that may lead to bankruptcy.
Daniel Akaka
#94. It is clear the future holds opportunities - it also holds pitfalls. The trick will be to seize the opportunities, avoid the pitfalls, and get back home by 6:00. - Woody Allen
Anonymous
#95. And then a strange calm fell over her and the snow and limbs were no longer obstacles. In this moment she became a part of the forest and avoided pitfalls and roots with ease. She felt free as the howling winds and the birds of prey that trailed them.
Jennifer Silverwood
#96. Like the early days of the Internet, the dawn of personal genomics promises benefits and pitfalls that no one can foresee.
Steven Pinker
#97. It's fun for me to go on other folks' talk shows. When you've endured the ups and downs and tensions and pitfalls of hosting, being a guest is a piece of angel food.
Dick Cavett
#98. One of the pitfalls of a romantic comedy is that you know how it's going to end.
Jason Segel
#99. 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
#100. Too many people are endowed with a feeling of entitlement, but born without God-given empathy.
C. JoyBell C.
