Trap Quotes - page 5

Worry compounds the futility of being trapped on a dead-end street. Thinking opens new avenues. (Cullen Hightower)
If you write a story based on a real person, you're trapped by the details of the real person and his life. It gets in the way of writing your own story. View quote
Caroline B. Cooney
People can be so apathetic. They continue to ignore the real people trapped in poverty and homelessness. It's almost maddening. View quote
Daphne Zuniga
Don't fall into the trap of having to have everything perfect to write or wait until the mood strikes you. If you want it as a job, treat it like a job, and just as you don't go to work only when you feel like it, you have to condition yourself to sit and write even when the ideas don't flow. View quote
Kim Harrison
The problem was the journalists who also did not understand much of my music, but they wrote about it. I think you fell into the usual trap laid out by parts of the press and other writers: that the poor musician has always to fight the evil companies and managers. View quote
Klaus Schulze
We're imperfect people trapped in an imperfect world until we get to that place beyond. View quote
Kathie Lee Gifford
The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out. View quote
Lance Morrow
If you meet people who have been successful in Hollywood, or look a their photographs, you see a haunted look in their eyes, you sense a trapped feeling. View quote
Meg Tilly
I've got a new relationship and I'm trapped in this old life. View quote
Moon Unit Zappa
I was almost kind of trapped by my own success into only doing rock. View quote
Rick Derringer
Humility is the true key to success. Successful people lose their way at times. They often embrace and overindulge from the fruits of success. Humility halts this arrogance and self-indulging trap. Humble people share the credit and wealth, remaining focused and hungry to continue the journey of success. (Rick Pitino)
One gets wrapped up in reacting to ones own reputation, which can be a kind of trap. View quote
Rirkrit Tiravanija
Mutual fund managers are trapped in this rather deadly vicious circle: the more successful they are, the more money flows into their mutual fund. Then, it is more difficult for them to beat the market averages or even to match their own past performance. View quote
Ron Chernow
I felt trapped and fabricated in the fifties living up to other people's expectations. View quote
Rosemary Clooney
A lot of people feel trapped by circumstance, by the expectations of others or the perception that they need a lot of money. They would like to have a different direction in their lives, but they're held back by fear or desires that are incompatible with that freedom. View quote
Roz Savage
The scarcity trap captures this notion we see again and again in many domains. When people have very little, they undertake behaviors that maintain or reinforce their future disadvantage. If you have very little, you often behave in such a way so that youll have little in the future. View quote
Sendhil Mullainathan
The characters are trapped within the lifestyle. It's about what goes on before the movie starts. View quote
Sam Mendes
The irony is that the people we tend to vote for actually look down on voters and voting. That's just idiotic, right? That's like a snake eating its own tail! A wolf in a trap gnawing off its own head to escape! View quote
Steven Weber
Even the Beatles found it hard to escape their image; they were trapped by it. View quote
Tina Weymouth
We remember the heroes who ran into the burning buildings to rescue those trapped inside, and the dauntless passengers on Flight 93 who laid down their lives to save others, including almost certainly those of us in the U.S. Capitol. View quote
Todd Tiahrt
In order to spare you any further repulsion, it would be best not to mention any of the unpleasant details of this story, particularly a secret message, a toboggan, a deceitful trap, a swarm of snow gnats, a scheming villain, a troupe of organized youngsters, a covered casserole dish, and a surprising survivor of a terrible fire. (Daniel Handler)
If you get trapped in the idea that what is most important is what image of yourself you're giving to the world, you're on a dangerous path. View quote
Jeanne Moreau
Marriage is obsolete and a trap. View quote
Catherine Deneuve
The male is completely egocentric, trapped inside himself, incapable of empathizing or identifying with others, or love, friendship, affection or tenderness. He is a completely isolated unit, incapable of rapport with anyone. His responses are entirely visceral, not cerebral; his intelligence is a mere tool in the services of his drives and needs; he is incapable of mental passion, mental interaction; he can't relate to anything other than his own physical sensations. He is a half-dead, unresponsive lump, incapable of giving or receiving pleasure or happiness; consequently, he is at best an utter bore, an inoffensive blob, since only those capable of absorption in others can be charming. View quote
Valerie Solanas
Fear can be good when you're walking past an alley at night or when you need to check the locks on your doors before you go to bed, but it's not good when you have a goal and you're fearful of obstacles. We often get trapped by our fears, but anyone who has had success has failed before. View quote
Queen Latifah