Trapped Quotes - Page 8

• But it is important to realize we are all trapped in mental constructs, and so we separate ourselves from reality; the whole world loses its aliveness-or, rather, we lose our ability to sense that aliveness, the sacredness of nature. When we approach nature through the conceptualizing mind, we see a forest as a commodity, a concept. We no longer see it for what it truly is, but for what we want to use it as. It is reduced. This is how it becomes possible for humans to destroy the planet without realizing what they are doing.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Reality, Mind, Important

  "Beyond Happiness And Unhappiness". Interview with Steve Donoso, thesunmagazine.org. July 2002.

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• You can have sex with whomever you want to; you're not trapped with the person you had the baby with. You can pick the name, religion, schools, what they wear. There's no consulting - you call all the shots. Single motherhood is an amazing thing; it's a blessing.

  Kelly Cutrone

  Baby, Sex, School

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Even if you enjoy the activity of exploring caves, to be trapped and not know whether you're going to get out alive is terrifying.

  Andrew Wight

  Caves, Alive, Enjoy

  Source: collider.com

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• Sometimes when you're the good guy, you're sort of trapped. "Oh, he can't say that." And even when you're playing a real person like a Steven Biko, you're sort of stuck within those confines. So yeah, bad guys do have more fun.

  Denzel Washington

  Fun, Real, Guy

  "Safe House: A Conversation With Denzel Washington". Interview with Prairie Miller, newsblaze.com. February 04, 2012.

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• Many people are leaders trapped in a follower's body.

  Myles Munroe

  People, Leader, Followers

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• Women come into marriage with great inflated expectations for what they want this relationship to be, and men don't give it that much thought. Men come into it with reluctance about being capsized or trapped or whatever their fear is. When you check in later, women are disappointed because their expectations have not come to pass, and men are pleasantly surprised.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Men, Expectations, Giving

  Source: www.goodreads.com

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• When you are trapped in a nightmare, your motivation to awaken will be so much greater than that of someone caught up in a relatively pleasant dream.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Dream, Motivation, Nightmare

  Source: www.qiwithoutborders.org

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• Ego means self-identification with thinking, to be trapped in thought, which means to have a mental image of "me" based on thought and emotions. So ego is there in the absence of a witnessing presence.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Mean, Thinking, Self

  Source: www.inner-growth.info

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• I like comic conventions. I genuinely like comic conventions. I like wandering around from table to table; I like wandering up and down Artist's Alley and saying "Hello" to people. I like hanging out on the DC booth. I can't do that anymore. I'd like to, but I can't. I physically can't. If I stop moving, somebody will come up to me with something to sign, and if I sign it, somehow it's like ants sensing sugar. There will be fifty or a hundred people around me and then fire marshals will come and then I'm trapped in a crowd. It's bizarre.

  Neil Gaiman

  Moving, Artist, Fire

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• Hotel bars are pretty good. No one bothers me there. Restaurants are safe. People are quite respectful when you're eating. But what I never do now is go to a busy bar on the weekend, or after 8 o'clock at night. That's the danger zone. Also being trapped. Never go on the Metro, or a bus.

  Ricky Gervais

  Weekend, Night, People

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. April 21, 2004.

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• WE ARE ALL TRAPPED in our own way of thinking, trapped in our own way of relating to people. We get so used to seeing the world our way that we come to think that the world is the way we see it.

  Brian Grazer

  Thinking, People, World

  Brian Grazer, Charles Fishman (2015). “A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

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• We seem to be trapped by a civilization that has accelerated many physical aspects of evolution but has forgotten that other vital part of man -- his mind and his psyche.

  Sybil Leek

  Men, Civilization, Mind

  Sybil Leek (1972). “ESP--The magic within you”, Abelard-Schuman Ltd

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• I once heard a sober alcoholic say that drinking never made him happy, but it made him feel like he was going to be happy in about fifteen minutes. That was exactly it, and I couldn't understand why the happiness never came, couldn't see the flaw in my thinking, couldn't see that alcohol kept me trapped in a world of illusion, procrastination, paralysis. I lived always in the future, never in the present. Next time, next time! Next time I drank it would be different, next time it would make me feel good again.

  Heather King

  Drinking, Procrastination, Thinking

  Heather King (2006). “Parched”, p.100, Penguin

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• In fact, people themselves are responsible for making the status quo so resistant to change. We are trapped by our own behavior.

  Chris Argyris

  People, Facts, Management

  Chris Argyris (2010). “Organizational Traps: Leadership, Culture, Organizational Design”, p.10, OUP Oxford

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• I believe there is a place where the restless souls wander. Burdened by the weight of their own sadness, they cannot enter heaven.... And so they wait, trapped between our world and the next, endlessly searching for a way to rid themselves of their pain- in the hope that somehow, someday they will be reunited with the ones they love. If two people really love each other, nothing can keep them apart.

  Sarah

  Pain, Believe, Sadness

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• The poor pay more, and that's one of the reasons people get trapped at the bottom of the economic ladder.

  Elizabeth Warren

  People, Ladders, Pay

  "Coming to a Post Office Near You: Loans You Can Trust?". www.huffingtonpost.com. February 01, 2014.

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• People say, ''I'm a woman trapped in a man's body'' or ''I'm a man trapped in a woman's body,'' but I say ''I'm trapped in a body.''

  Genesis P-Orridge

  Men, People, Body

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• I was trapped in admiration for what I had once admired, as a fly in amber remains the captive of some long-vanished pine.

  Gene Wolfe

  Long, Amber, Admiration

  Gene Wolfe (1994). “Shadow & Claw: The First Half of 'The Book of the New Sun'”, p.221, Macmillan

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• We are all alone, trapped in these bodies and our own minds, and whatever company we have in this life is only fleeting and superficial.

  Jennifer Niven

  Mind, Fleeting, Body

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• Trapped in the bureaucracy nightmare, real families suffer when the big banks and their servicers force foreclosures. The emotional toll on children packing up their rooms and on parents struggling to find a temporary roof is a deep one.

  Sheldon Whitehouse

  Children, Real, Struggle

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• You spend your whole life trapped inside your body. Everything you know about the world comes to you through your body.

  Bill Henson

  World, Body, Whole Life

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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• As a scientist, my attention became totally focused on global warming some 15 years ago by the elegant and powerful measurements of carbon dioxide trapped in ice cores taken as much as 2 miles deep from the great East Antarctica ice sheet.

  John Olver

  Powerful, Taken, Years

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• A man who will not leave his room because he does not know how, or is afraid to open the door, is trapped just the same whether or not the door is locked.

  Thomas Campbell

  Men, Doors, Doe

  Thomas Campbell (2007). “My Big Toe: Awakening, Discovery, Inner Workings: A Trilogy Unifying Philosophy, Physics, and Metaphysics”, p.769, Lightning Strike Books

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• If you have a fish intelligence, you will be easily trapped in the net.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Fishes, Ifs

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• With the best intentions, the job of acting can become a display of accumulated bad habits, trapped instincts and blocked energies. Working with the Alexander Technique has given me sightings of another way... Mind and body, work and life together. Real imaginative freedom.

  Alan Rickman

  Jobs, Real, Mind

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