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Quotes About Pitfalls

Life was too short, the weather too fine, and the world too full of interesting and exciting pitfalls.
~ Douglas Adams
As a science-fiction writer, I feel my responsibility is to look ahead and see the dangers of what might happen and try to warn people of the potential pitfalls.
~ Nick Sagan
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
The person who knows only success can be more oblivious to all the pitfalls.
~ Randy Pausch
Literal religion is full of pitfalls.
~ Richard Adams
The parts of physics that are exact are the parts of physics that are exact. The parts that are inexact are vastly greater. Sensible scientists don't waste their time pushing against doors that endlessly will not give. They are opportunistic and go where they can, but there are pitfalls in that.
~ Paul Samuelson
While the Forbes Council does offer some benefits and opportunities for members, the Council may want to be careful going forward to avoid the many pitfalls that befell Trump University.
~ Fabrizio Moreira
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
I know more now than I did in the past about the process of democratization. I know more about the pitfalls.
~ Meles Zenawi
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
Political novels are full of pitfalls, particularly for a novelist with strong political leanings.
~ Phil Klay
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
Hyper-parenting has many pitfalls. Overprotected and overpraised children may develop an inflated sense of entitlement.
~ Stephanie Coontz
Conor has my characteristics but there are certain things I love about him that he didn't get from me, like the attitude towards women and the pitfalls I had.
~ Nigel Benn
two chief pitfalls into which the mystic is liable to fall--dreamy inactivity and Antinomianism.
~ William Ralph Inge
Summing up, 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
[I]t 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
Occasionally, patriarchal blessings will warn of certain weaknesses we have that might threaten our salvation. Thus, one reason to regularly read your blessing is so that you can avoid these dangers or pitfalls.
~ Alonzo L. Gaskill
Talk to successful entrepreneurs. Learn about what they've experienced so you can avoid some of the pitfalls that come with wealth.
~ Diane Hendricks
Since he has grasped the white-hot stuff of freedom, modern man must have an equally powerful grasp of consciousness if he is to avoid the pitfalls that are so common in our relationships today.
~ Robert A. Johnson
This is the weirdest industry. When you have a job, you can't fall into the pitfalls of thinking you're secure. If it's not a firing, it's a strike.
~ Chandra Wilson
be aware of the Emotional Pitfalls—complacency, boredom, grandiosity, and the like—that continually threaten to derail or block our progress.
~ Robert Greene
But rather than collapse under these threats and pulls, the self turns out to be surprisingly resilient. It makes use of bits and pieces here and there and somehow keeps going. What may seem to be mere tactical flexibility, or just bungling along, turns out to be much more than that. We find ourselves evolving a self of many possibilities, one that has risks and pitfalls but at the same time holds out considerable promise for the human future.
~ Robert Jay Lifton
Let him who cannot be alone beware of community... Let him who is not in community beware of being alone... Each by itself has profound perils and pitfalls. One who wants fellowship without solitude plunges into the void of words and feelings, and the one who seeks solitude without fellowship perishes in the abyss of vanity, self-infatuation and despair.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer