Caught Up Quotes - Page 12

• Only in an open, nonjudgmental space can we acknowledge what we are feeling. Only in an open space where we're not all caught up in our own version of reality can we see and hear and feel who others really are, which allows us to be with them and communicate with them properly.

  Pema Chodron

  Reality, Space, Feelings

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.102, Shambhala Publications

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• I think we all get too caught up in doing instead of just being sometimes.

  Anne Rivers Siddons

  Thinking, Just Being, Serious

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• Think about all of the times, situations, and circumstances where you have gotten caught up in making your self right rather than happy... The harder you fight to win, the bigger you lose.

  Phil McGraw

  Motivational, Fighting, Winning

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• I think in life we get very caught up in the minutia and, unfortunately, it generally takes some sort of tragedy in your life to put things in perspective.

  Eli Roth

  Thinking, Perspective, Tragedy

  "The GQ+A: Eli Roth on New Disaster Horror Flick Aftershock". Interview with Jen Ortiz, www.gq.com. May 9, 2013.

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• You're so caught up in grumbling, complaining, and seeing what's wrong that you have no energy or time to appreciate what's good.

  Joyce Meyer

  Appreciate, Energy, Grumbling

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• The thing that we need in the world today, is a group of men and women who will stand up for right and be opposed to wrong, wherever it is. A group of people who have come to see that some things are wrong, whether they’re never caught up with. Some things are right, whether nobody sees you doing them or not.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Change, Wisdom, Men

  "Rediscovering Lost Values". Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Sermon at Detroit's Second Baptist Church, kinginstitute.stanford.edu. February 28, 1954.

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• Creating art or something beautiful makes you a more fulfilled person than they can ever be because they're caught up in what they hate rather than what they love.

  Andy Biersack

  Beautiful, Art, Hate

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• A shivery, delicious Southern Gothic with feuding families, dark spirits, ancient curses and caught up in the middle, a young girl learning to live and love for the first time. Atmospheric and suspenseful, Compulsion will draw you in and hold you until the very last page.

  Leah Cypess

  Girl, Dark, Southern

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• Shouldn't homophobic politicians and anti-gay bullies be presumed to be gay until they get caught up in a straight sex scandal?

  Dan Savage

  Sex, Gay, Bully

  "Psssssst! Hey, You! You There, Reading Slog at Work on Monday Morning! Wanna See an Anti-Gay Republican Senator's Butthole? Sure Ya Do..." by Dan Savage, www.thestranger.com. August 29, 2011.

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• It's easy to get caught up in how our figures look when we stand naked in front of the mirror. But we must remember that we are more than how we look. We are not boobs who happen to have hearts, minds, and souls; rather, we are souls that just happen to have mounds of flesh protruding from our chests.

  Lissa Rankin

  Heart, Mirrors, Soul

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• We conclude, therefore, that a Christian lives not in himself, but in Christ and in his neighbor. Otherwise he is not a Christian. He lives in Christ through faith, in his neighbor through love. By faith he is caught up beyond himself into God. By love he descends beneath himself into his neighbor.

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Neighbor, Caught

  Martin Luther (1970). “Three Treatises”, p.309, Fortress Press

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• In my fantasies, I was always caught up in heroic struggles, and I saw myself saving lives, sacrificing myself for others. I had far loftier ambitions than mere romance.

  Irene Gut Opdyke

  Struggle, Ambition, Sacrifice

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• At Leeds I've tried to concentrate on my club form, but you get caught up in all the World Cup fever once you come back to Ireland and see all the Irish boys again.

  Robbie Keane

  Boys, Fever, World

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• We all compromise ourselves, from time to time, because maybe it will lead to more opportunity...A ll of that’s cool, but we forget and we get caught up. If you want that nurturing, caring, empathetic, compassionate heart to keep on ticking and be around, and you want it to be strong, then don’t neglect #1. One way to feed it is just being truthful and listening to your heart.

  Paul Walker

  Strong, Heart, Caring

  FaceBook post by Paul Walker from Dec 13, 2013

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• By your hand, millions - billions - of lives will be altered, caught up in a chain of events begun by you this day.

  Andy Andrews

  Hands, Events, Chains

  FaceBook post by Andy Andrews from Oct 28, 2012

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• I should like, if I could, to leave a humble gift -- a bit of chaste prose that had caught up some noble moods.

  Max Ehrmann

  Humble, Noble, Mood

  Max Ehrmann (2003). “Desiderata: Words for Life”, p.45, Scholastic Inc.

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• Jesus came among us to show and teach the life for which we were made. He came very gently, opened access to the governance of God with him, and set afoot a conspiracy of freedom in truth among human beings. Having overcome death he remains among us. By relying on his word and presence we are enabled to reintegrate the little realm that makes up our life in the infinite rule of God. And that is the eternal kind of life. Caught up in his active rule, our deeds become an element in God’s eternal history. They are what God and we do together, making us part of his life and him a part of ours.

  Dallas Willard

  Jesus, Together, Overcoming

  Dallas Willard (2009). “The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life In God”, p.51, Harper Collins

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• Speakers find joy in public speaking when they realize that a speech is all about the audience, not the speaker. Most speakers are so caught up in their own concerns and so driven to cover certain points or get a certain message across that they can't be bothered to think in more than a perfunctory way about the audience. And the irony is, of course, that there is no hope of getting your message across if that's all the energy you put into the audience. So let go, and give the moment to the audience.

  Nick Morgan

  Letting Go, Thinking, Giving

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• Don't be caught up in your outer world. Pay greater attention to your inner world

  Alan Rufus

  Mind, Attention, World

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• I want my work to become part of our visual history, to enter our collective memory and our collective conscience. I hope it will serve to remind us that history's deepest tragedies concern not the great protagonists who set events in motion but the countless ordinary people who are caught up in those events and torn apart by their remorseless fury. I have been a witness, and these pictures are my testimony. The events I have recorded should not be forgotten and must not be repeated.

  James Nachtwey

  Photography, Memories, Collective Memory

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• Nerds get caught up in minutiae, because there is a tremendous and fulfilling sense of control in understanding every single detail of a thing more than any other living creature.

  Chris Hardwick

  Understanding, Nerd, Details

  Chris Hardwick (2011). “The Nerdist Way: How to Reach the Next Level (In Real Life)”, p.15, Penguin

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• After all, it was only a story,' I said, determined to prove her wrong. 'All manner of terrible things may happen in a story. They may be startling at the time, but it passes. One gets caught up in the narrative, but the dangers aren't real, are they? Things happen in any way the storyteller chooses. It is all just made up.

  Chris Priestley

  Real, Stories, May

  Chris Priestley (2010). “Tales of Terror from the Tunnel's Mouth”, p.35, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• People get caught up in wonderful, eye-catching pitches, but they don't do enough to close the deal. It's no good if you don't make the sale. Even if your foot is in the door or you bring someone into a conference room, you don't win the deal unless you actually get them to sign on the dotted line.

  Donald Trump

  Eye, Winning, Doors

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• Fame is fleeting, and you can't get caught up in it. Signing autographs, taking pictures, and being nice to people is a small price to pay for the upside that comes with this.

  Jerome Bettis

  Nice, People, Pay

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• I acquired more wealth, power, and prestige than most. But you can acquire all you want and still feel empty. What power wouldn't I trade for a little more time with my family? What price wouldn't I pay for an evening with friends? It took a deadly illness to put me eye to eye with that truth, but it is a truth that the country, caught up in its ruthless ambitions and moral decay, can learn on my dime.

  Lee Atwater

  Country, Eye, Ambition

  Life Interview, January 1991.

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