Traps Quotes - Page 24

• It is easier not to say anything. Shut your trap, button your lip, can it. All that crap you hear on TV about communication and expressing feelings is a lie. Nobody really wants to hear what you have to say.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Lying, Communication, Feelings

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.9, Macmillan

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• Obsessional does not necessarily mean sexual obsession, not even obsession for this, or for that in particular; to be an obsessional means to find oneself caught in a mechanism, in a trap increasingly demanding and endless.

  Jacques Lacan

  Mean, Doe, Obsession

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• You have to be like a lion and a fox. The fox is smart enough to recognize traps, and the lion is strong enough to scare away the wolves. Be like a lion and a fox, and no one will ever beat you.

  Carlo Gambino

  Strong, Smart, Scare

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• Buddhism advises you not to implant feelings that you don’t really have or avoid feelings that you do have. If you are miserable you are miserable; that is the reality, that is what is happening, so confront that. Look it square in the eye without flinching. When you are having a bad time, examine that experience, observe it mindfully, study the phenomenon and learn its mechanics. The way out of a trap is to study the trap itself, learn how it is built. You do this by taking the thing apart piece by piece. The trap can’t trap you if it has been taken to pieces. The result is freedom.

  Henepola Gunaratana

  Taken, Eye, Buddhism

  Bhante Gunaratana, Henepola Gunaratana (2011). “Mindfulness in Plain English: 20th Anniversary Edition”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

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• [Seeds Are Small.] Becoming a force of nature doesn't mean that all of our aspirations must be "grand." First steps are often small, and initial visions that focus energy effectively often address immediate problems. What matters is engagement in the service of a larger purpose rather than lofty aspirations that paralyze action. Indeed, it's a dangerous trap to believe that we can pursue onlhy "great visions."

  Peter Senge

  Believe, Mean, What Matters

  Peter Senge, C. Scharmer (2011). “Presence: Exploring Profound Change in People, Organizations and Society”, p.127, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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• A city that outdistances man's walking powers is a trap for man.

  Arnold J. Toynbee

  Journey, Men, Cities

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• The whole idea of motivation is a trap, forget motivation, just do it

  John C. Maxwell

  Motivation, Ideas, Forget

  John C. Maxwell (2010). “Maxwell 2in1 (Developing the Leader w/in You/Developing Leaders Around You)”, p.111, Harper Collins

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• I was struggling against the flypaper of other arts harnessing film to their own usages, which means essentially as a recording device or within the long historical trap of picture - by which I mean a collection of nameable shapes within a frame. I don't even think still photography, with few exceptions, has made any significant attempt to free itself from that.

  Stan Brakhage

  Photography, Art, Struggle

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• The United Nations is nothing but a trap-door to the Red World's immense concentration camp. We pretty much control the U.N.

  Harold Wallace Rosenthal

  Doors, World, Red

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• Sometimes maybe it's good to have someone doing a sci-fi show who's not actually necessarily from that background. It also means that sometimes I fall into the most elementary of traps.

  Ben Richards

  Fall, Mean, Sometimes

  "Ben Richards Exclusive Interview OUTCASTS". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 21, 2010.

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• Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

  Og Mandino

  Pride, Giving, Water

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• I AM happy”. They understood what we english people have long forgot. We're not our sadness. We're not our happiness or our pain but our language hypnotizes us and traps us in little labelled boxes ()

  Grant Morrison

  Pain, Sadness, Long

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• I liked Evel Knievel, and that game Mouse Trap. That was pretty cool.

  Pauly Shore

  Games, Mouse Traps, Mice

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• You might be a redneck if the receptionist checks the rat traps at your place of business.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Redneck, Might, Rats

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• It was a trap after all,” Alric said. He turned to Royce. “My apologies for doubting your sound paranoia.

  Michael J. Sullivan

  Apology, Doubt, Sound

  Michael J. Sullivan (2009). “The Crown Conspiracy”, p.132, Ridan Publishing

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• It just seems like right now we’re in a place where people are being witch-hunted for expressing an opinion. Even if it’s a lousy opinion or a shitty opinion, and comics I don’t think can ever fall into the trap of any groups that want to censor what a person says or thinks or punish a person for expressing what they think. Anything you say about a social issue is going to offend half the country. I don’t care how nicely you say it, I don’t care how well you construct the joke, simply by stating the opinion, you are for something and anti something else.

  Jim Norton

  Country, Fall, Thinking

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• Choice is bondage, choicelessness freedom. The moment you choose something, you have fallen in the trap of the world. If you can resist the temptation to choose, if you can remain choicelessly aware, the trap disappears on its own accord, because when you don`t choose you don`t help the trap to be there - the trap is also created by your choice.

  Rajneesh

  Choices, Temptation, World

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• Golf is a hard game to figure. One day you will go out and slice it and shank it, hit into all the traps and miss every green. The next day you go out and, for no reason at all, you really stink.

  Bob Hope

  Hope, Golf, Games

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• Many years ago, I was in a Broadway show and I had to wear a fox fur around my shoulders. One day my hand touched one of the fox's legs. It seemed to be in two pieces. Then it dawned on me.... her leg had probally been snapped in two by the steel trap that had caught it.

  Bea Arthur

  Animal, Hands, Years

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• To divide one's life by years is of course to tumble into a trap set by our own arithmetic. The calendar consents to carry on its dull wall-existence by the arbitrary timetables we have drawn up in consultation with those permanent commuters, Earth and Sun. But we, unlike trees, need grow no annual rings.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Birthday, Wall, Years

  Clifton Fadiman (1955). “Party of One: The Selectd Writings of Clifton Fadiman”

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• I never kick my ball in the rough or improve my lie in a sand trap. For that I have a caddie.

  Bob Hope

  Lying, Golf, Caddies

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• It's not a cold that you can get over. There is no anti-racist certification class. It's a set of socioeconomic traps and cultural values that are fired up every time we interact with the world. It is a thing you have to keep scooping out of the boat of your life to keep from drowning in it. I know it's hard work, but it's the price you pay for owning everything.

  Scott Woods

  Hard Work, Class, Racism

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• Unnecessary laws are not good laws, but traps for money.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Freedom, Law, Liberty

  Thomas Hobbes (2008). “Leviathan”, p.256, Simon and Schuster

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• The Americans are stuck in Iraq and have no way out. They are like a wolf whose tail has been caught in a trap.

  Ali Khamenei

  Iraq, Tails, Way

  "The Americans in Iraq are 'like a wolf whose tail has been caught in a trap'". MEMRI TV, May 2004.

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• Regret what? That secret operation was an excellent idea. It had the effect of drawing the Russians into the Afghan trap and you want me to regret it? The day that the Soviets officially crossed the border, I wrote to President Carter. We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war. Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war unsupportable by the government, a conflict that brought about the demoralization and finally the breakup of the Soviet empire.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Breakup, Regret, War

  "The CIA's Intervention in Afghanistan". Le Nouvel Observateur Interview, www.globalresearch.ca. January, 1998.

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