Pitfalls Quotes · Page 2

The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.

— Horace

If you have a diversity of views at the table, you're much more likely to avoid pitfalls.

— Annamie Paul

Decorators should always remember that letting a client see too many beautiful things is a pitfall.

— Albert Hadley

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

— Guido van Rossum

A language not based on universal symbols or sensations is gibberish, a pitfall of modern art, no longer modern.

— Nelson Shanks

A system of pitfalls thoughtfully prepared for the feet for the self-made man, along the path by which he advances to distinction.

— Ambrose Bierce

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

— J. R. R. Tolkien

In a world where survival is always seen as a struggle, and in which some pitfalls always exist, if something brings into…

— Willard Gaylin

I enjoy the fact that, as a gay man, there's relatively little pressure on me to act like a grown-up, but also…

— Vestal McIntyre

One of the traps or the pitfalls of writing a trilogy - or a triptych, or whatever term you want to use…

— Justin Cronin

I hate the stereotype of the pitfalls of the child actor. There are so many amazing examples - Natalie Portman, Joseph Gordon-Levitt,…

— Jamie Bell

I would warn very sincerely against the pitfalls of copying photographs. A frozen, split-second bears little relationship to the continuing process of…

— Keith Shackleton

Realism is important in foreign policy. You have to be realistic about what you can achieve, and about the pitfalls, and problems…

— Daniel Fried

American Psychological Association, the girlie-girl culture’s emphasis on beauty and play-sexiness can increase girls’ vulnerability to the pitfalls that most concern parents:…

— Peggy Orenstein

In diplomacy, as in life itself, one often learns more from failures than from successes. Triumphs will seem, in retrospect, to be…

— Richard Holbrooke

Let him who cannot be alone beware of community... Let him who is not in community beware of being alone... Each by…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It was also her nature that caused her letters to avoid emotional pitfalls and confine themselves to relating the events of her…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Properly conducted scientific studies . . . give us a pretty good idea of when something is likely to be correct. To…

— Robert A. Burton

“The traps of unbridled passion that drive us to hold back the truth and hamper us from speaking candidly and truthfully must…

— Erik Pevernagie

Being a successful couple was learning what you were willing to compromise on, and what you weren't; learning when to stand your…

— Laurell K. Hamilton

There are a million moving parts to raising kids, and you can't always anticipate them all, especially when they are teenagers and…

— Anna Quindlen

There is no quality of the mind, or of the body, that so instantaneously and irresistibly captivates, as wit. An elegant writer…

— Charles Caleb Colton

To represent a bad thing in its least offensive light is, doubtless, the most agreeable course for a writer of fiction to…

— Anne Bronte

The person who failed often knows how to avoid future failures. The person who knows only success can be more oblivious to…

— Randy Pausch

“The road to success is full of pit stops, pitfalls, and self pity; my advice is simply don’t stop!”

— Noel DeJesus

I realized some of the pitfalls of being well-known; it was nice if you were successful, but it made it just that…

— Lawrence Welk

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

— Meles Zenawi

You know, its just a matter of working through the pitfalls sometimes and working through the challenges that lie ahead.

— Kurt Busch

The enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective.

— Agnes Martin

Now that I have created moe, men of the world will never know peace as they struggle with the pitfalls of 3D.

— Satoshi Kon

it is this broken road with pitfalls and sharp turns and unexpected traverses that has brought me joy and adventure.

— Alice Walker

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

— Guy Laliberte

A pitfall of making a comedy with a studio-and it's also an American cultural thing-is that I get tired of being encouraged…

— Alexander Payne

I think it creates so many more opportunities and pitfalls in that you are treading on fresh snow, so you're in a…

— Steven Knight

Everything I know now . . . the pitfalls, the highs and lows, everything . . . it taught me and made stronger.

— Ray Allen

Good planning avoids the need for fixing up a project that plowed ahead without thought... about potential pitfalls.

— Bobby Knight

While the Forbes Council does offer some benefits and opportunities for members, the Council may want to be careful going forward to…

— Fabrizio Moreira

Although the way ahead [for immunology] is full of pitfalls and difficulties, this is indeed an exhilarating prospect. There is no danger…

— Cesar Milstein

But the word "right" is one of the most deceptive of pitfalls; it is so easy to slip from a qualified meaning…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr