Thinking Trap Quotes

#1. Thinking that every idea and piece of content you create must be the first of its kind is a trap.

Sujan Patel

#2. We've had mass shootings in the United States in the part of violent antiabortion protesters, in the part of violent pro-ISIS militants. The trick and the trap and the horror is not faith.I don't think the trap and the horror is fanaticism.

Adam Gopnik

#3. Worth noting here is a common little mind trap that you humans frequently fall into: thinking much more about whether the other person likes you than whether you actually like them.

Leah Konen

#4. If you feel trapped quit thinking about the trap and start thinking about your value. Life favors value. Value is your way out.

Bryant McGill

#5. The real problems are cultural. The problems of the people who take drugs as a cultural trap - I think there's a real problem there, the crack stuff, the hopelessness of the junkie. The urban angst.

Jerry Garcia

#6. I think I've been really lucky to keep my career so varied, and to be open. There's safety in repetition, but there's also a trap there.

Martin Short

#7. It's easy to fall into the trap of thinking our careers will come to a standstill, or worse, crash and burn if we aren't social media butterflies.

M.J. Rose

#8. The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.

Christopher Morley

#9. I have no interest in behaving or thinking cynically. But it's an easy trap to be cynical about anything, certainly when you're talking about politics or the media.

Stephen Colbert

#10. Do not fall into the terrible trap of thinking that life depends on money and that, in comparison with money, anything else is devoid of value or dignity. This is nothing but an illusion! We cannot take money with us into the life beyond. Money does not bring us happiness.

Pope Francis

#11. Sometimes I fall into the trap of keeping too much to myself, but I think it's important to preserve certain things, it leaves something to the imagination.

Keiynan Lonsdale

#12. school people must not fall into the trap of thinking that early preparation for an unjust world requires early exposure to injustice

Oakes Jeannie

#13. Do not fall into the trap of thinking that just because a kata begins to the left that the opponent is attacking from the left.

Kenwa Mabuni

#14. Never think too much of yourself. Realize you are only an instrument of eternity. Do not get stuck in that terrible trap. You can lose everything.

Frederick Lenz

#15. We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap.

Anthony Hopkins

#16. Thoughts are circular, they don't take you anywhere. They don't have feet-they can't gain any ground. They can trap you if you don't eventually stand up and make a move.

Katie Kacvinsky

#17. You can fall into a trap, worrying too much about what the audience might think, rather than going from the inside out.

Vik Sahay

#18. Let's not fall into the trap of thinking that all of our Muslim American neighbors in this country are somehow our enemies here. They are our first line of defense.

Martin O'Malley

#19. That word again. Happy. It's a curse. The pursuit of happiness makes us deeply unhappy. It's a trap.Before anything else happened, there was me in bed, thinking of who you used to be.
I don't want you to think I forgot.

David Levithan

#20. I think "post-racial" is a dangerous trap. You can fall into complacency and give your complicity a much more dangerous character.

Allan Boesak

#21. Your own ego is the only trap that I think you can fall into.

Robert Altman

#22. Don't fall in trap of mediocrity and loose thinking. Surround yourself with intellectual people and thinkers. Be an awesome version of yourself day after day!!

Reshma Wable

#23. Don't fall into the trap of thinking about politics in your workplace too much. Just work hard, be cheerful, ignore distractions.

Mindy Kaling

#24. A stupid is one who thinks that those in power today had clandestine means of getting there, yet wants to get there without thinking of the clandestine route they would be taking.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#25. Don't think that this people are stupid, probably you have caught one, but you didn't finish your work and what now???
You were in their trap...

Deyth Banger

#26. If you want to stay here, that's something different. But thinking that you are the only one who can possibly keep her company - that's a trap. (p. 320)

Patricia Briggs

#27. Too often, we fall into the trap of thinking 'equal' means 'the same' and that we achieve equality by treating everyone identically.

Stella Young

#28. Some evangelists spend too much time thinking and even planning about how to achieve visible results. This is an easy trap to fall into.

Billy Graham

#29. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way that I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked.

Oliver Burkeman

#30. We often talk about how we are God's "hands and feet," which is true. That being said, we can't fall into the trap of thinking God needs us like we need Him. He's God - which makes the reality that He wants to use us and be in relationship with us an even sweeter, more profound truth.

Mark Hart

#31. Music, first of all, is completely about abstraction, which is exactly what architecture is not. In a way, it has been incredibly constructive to know what true abstraction is. So you don't fall into the trap of thinking that what you do is abstract.

Rafael Vinoly

#32. Beware! Success is not what you think it is. It's a trap.

Bryant McGill

#33. It is actually quite exciting when you're flying headfirst into a barrier - the initial part, the initial part is actually quite fun, especially when you hit the gravel trap and you get some air, and then you see it coming and you think 'erk - it's gonna hurt!

Lewis Hamilton

#34. Realize that significance is not dependent upon success. Too many people fall into the trap of thinking, "Once I make it rich, I'll become significant." This is rarely the case. Begin striving for it now.

Joshua Becker

#35. A good work can be communicated across languages ... [provided one does not] fall into the trap of narrow-minded nationalistic or chauvinistic thinking.

Gao Xingjian

#36. Life is a vexatious trap; when a thinking man reaches maturity and attains to full consciousness he cannot help feeling that he is in a trap from which there is no escape.

Anton Chekhov

#37. The great trap for non-American actors trying to play Americans, I think, is to start thinking of American-ness as a characteristic. It isn't. It is no more a character trait than height. It is just a physical fact, and that's all there is to it.

Hugh Laurie

#38. Many computer scientists have fallen into the trap of trying to define languages like George Orwell's Newspeak, in which it is impossible to think bad thoughts. What they end up doing is killing the creativity of programming.

Larry Wall

#39. The problem with University degrees, particularly the more spectacular ones, is that people who possess them can fall into the trap of thinking people who don't have them don't know anything.

Robert Genn

#40. Luckily I haven't fallen into the trap, which has claimed so many writers, of living from day to day thinking 'Ah, I'll write a book about that.'

Amelie Nothomb