Pitfalls Quotes

• 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

  Life, Graduation, Home

  Woody Allen (2007). “The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose”, Random House Incorporated

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• Good things do not come easy. The road is lined with pitfalls.

  Desi Arnaz

  Easy, Good Things

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• 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

  Kindness, Imagination, Way

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• 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

  Nice, Successful, Well Known

  Lawrence Welk, Bernice McGeehan (1973). “Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk”

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• Life's journey is not traveled on a freeway devoid of obstacles, pitfalls, and snares. Rather, it is a pathway marked by forks and turnings. Decisions are constantly before us. To make them wisely, courage is needed: the courage to say, 'No,' the courage to say, 'Yes.' Decisions do determine destiny. The call for courage comes constantly to each of us. It has ever been so, and so shall it ever be.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Courage, Journey, Destiny

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• If you decide to design your own language, there are thousands of sort of amateur language designer pitfalls.

  Guido van Rossum

  Design, Language, Ifs

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• I don't believe in pitfalls. I believe in taking risks and not doing the same thing twice.

  Guy Laliberte

  Believe, Risk, Cirque Du Soleil

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• The past sharpens perspective, warns against pitfalls, and helps to point the way.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Success, Past, Perspective

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• The biggest pitfall as you make your way through your life is impatience.

  Susan Jeffers

  Way, Life Is, Impatience

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• It is hard to communicate understanding because that is something you get by living with a problem for a long time. You study it, perhaps for years, you get the feel of it and it is in your bones. You can't convey that to anyone else. Having studied the problem for five years you may be able to present it in such a way that it would take somebody else less time to get to that point than it took you. But if they haven't struggled with the problem and seen all the pitfalls, then they haven't really understood it.

  Michael Atiyah

  Math, Years, Long

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• I must try to live in society and yet remain untouched by its pitfalls.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Society, Trying

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

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• Faerie is a perilous land, and in it are pitfalls for the unwary, and dungeons for the overbold.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Land, Dungeons, Fairy

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “Tales from the Perilous Realm”, p.315, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The person who failed often knows how to avoid future failures.

  Randy Pausch

  Persons, Know How, Knows

  Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (2008). “The last lecture”, Hyperion Books

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• I know more now than I did in the past about the process of democratization. I know more about the pitfalls.

  Meles Zenawi

  Past, Process, Knows

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• 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

  Success, Failure, Overcoming Adversity

  Randy Pausch (2008). “The Last Lecture”, p.147, Hachette UK

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• When you are in relationship with people, in a thousand and one ways you are provoked, challenged, seduced. Again and again you come to know your pitfalls, your limitations, your anger, your lust, your possessiveness, your jealousy, your sadness, your happiness all moods come and go, you are constantly in a turmoil. But this is the only way to know who you are.

  Rajneesh

  Relationship, Sadness, People

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• 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

  Heart, Childhood, Mind

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.43, Penguin

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• There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

  Way, Danger, Traps

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• The road to success, for me, was a long and arduous journey, strewn with obstacles and traps, pitfalls and hurdles-all created by myself. Painful as it is, I speak of those sad and frustrating times whenever I am invited to address sales gatherings, corporate conventions, and success rallies, in the hope that my personal experiences will serve as sufficient evidence for all who hear me that they have it in their own power to make their lives as glorious or as terrible as they choose.

  Og Mandino

  Success, Journey, Long

  Og Mandino (1991). “Og Mandino”, Outlet

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• The pains that you suffer, the loneliness that you encounter, the experiences that are disappointing or distressing, the addictions and seeming pitfalls of your life are each doorways to awareness. Each offers you an opportunity to see beyond the illusion that serves as the balancing and growth of your soul.

  Gary Zukav

  Pain, Loneliness, Opportunity

  FaceBook post by Gary Zukav from Apr 16, 2015

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• Realism is important in foreign policy. You have to be realistic about what you can achieve, and about the pitfalls, and problems along the way, of which there are plenty. Nothing is easy. It's always rough.

  Daniel Fried

  Important, Way, Problem

  Source: www.politico.com

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• He would wake for no reason in the middle of the night, and the memory of the self-absorbed love was revealed to him for what it was: a pitfall of happiness that he despised and desired at the same time, but from which it was impossible to escape.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Memories, Night, Self

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• Even a little of dharma saves one from many a pitfall.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Religion, Littles, Dharma

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• The biggest financial pitfall in life is divorce. And the biggest reason for divorce is marriage.

  Gene Simmons

  Divorce, Financial, Life Is

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• The corruption of the good by the belief in their own infallible goodnes is the most bloody dangerous pitfall in the human spectrum. Once you have conquered all your sins, pride is the one which will conquer you. A man starts off deciding he is a good man because he makes good decisions. Next thing, he's convinced that whatever decision he makes must be good because he's a good man. Most of the wars in the world are caused by people who think they have god on their side. Always stick with people who know they are flawed and ridiculous.

  Helen Fielding

  War, Pride, Men

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