Caught Up Quotes - Page 14

• 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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• As an independent artist it is so easy to get caught up in websites, social media, merchandise, when I am going to put out an EP, fining a producer, finding a studio to record in and you have to remember at the end of the day you should be writing music.

  Tyler Hilton

  Independent, Writing, Artist

  Source: mousertime.blogspot.com

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• When you are trapped in a nightmare, your motivation to awaken will be so much greater than that of someone caught up in a relatively pleasant dream.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Dream, Motivation, Nightmare

  Source: www.qiwithoutborders.org

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• Be neither attracted nor repulsed. You are watching a movie. If the visions are beautiful or horrible, Don't get caught up in them. Enjoy your popcorn.

  Frederick Lenz

  Beautiful, Buddhism, Meditation

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• Everybody here is so caught up in the game of life they don't see death. They don't see beyond their deaths. They are on the wheel of birth and death.

  Frederick Lenz

  Games, Suffering, Wheels

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• We fall into states of illusion - we forget all this. We get caught up in desires, frustrations, political movements, philosophies, religions, the getting of a living, the pain of a body, the pleasure of a body.

  Frederick Lenz

  Pain, Philosophy, Fall

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• You can get so caught up in learning all about reincarnation, you can get so caught up in learning about structures, fascinating though they may be, that you're not free; you're just studying a different textbook.

  Frederick Lenz

  Different, Textbooks, May

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• I love New York. I first came here with my Mom when I was in 9th grade. I took the subway for the first time and the doors closed between me and my Mom, and I was so scared. I could see her through the window and I didn't know what to do. I got off at the next stop and she caught up to me, but I couldn't stop crying.

  Skylar Grey

  Mom, New York, Doors

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't know how to put it, but yet you know we have so many people who the way they look at life, the way they work depends on what happens, us winning or losing. It's kind of crazy. So, I kind of got caught up in that, I'm gonna try to stay away from that.

  Mike Ditka

  Sports, Crazy, Winning

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• To remain caught up in ideas and words about Zen is, as the old masters say, to stink of Zen.

  Alan Watts

  Ideas, Stink, Masters

  Alan W. Watts (2011). “The Way of Zen”, p.130, Vintage

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• The difficulty with color is to go beyond the fact that it's color ? to have it be not just a colorful picture but really be a picture about something. It's difficult. So often color gets caught up in color, and it becomes merly decorative. Some photographers use it brilliantly to make visual statements combining color and content; otherwise it is empty.

  Mary Ellen Mark

  Photography, Color, Use

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• We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought -- that is being educated.

  Edith Hamilton

  Running, Teaching, Mad

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• I think it's important to look at the world as a bigger place than just the bubble that we live in. It's so easy to get caught up in things of a trivial nature.

  Pete Wentz

  Thinking, Important, Looks

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• Like stories, people have individual lives, and are all caught up in this murky thing. All of them have the best intentions. In that sense, you could just as easily tell the same story from another character's perspective. Maybe that's a good idea for a TV series.

  Anton Corbijn

  Character, Ideas, People

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• People are deeply imbedded in philosophical, i.e., grammatical confusions. And to free them presupposes pulling them out of the immensely manifold connections they are caught up in.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophical, People, Confusion

  Ludwig Wittgenstein, James Carl Klagge, Alfred Nordmann (1993). “Philosophical Occasions, 1912-1951”, p.185, Hackett Publishing

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• We get so caught up in what a man isn't. It's what he is that counts.

  Gloria Naylor

  Men, Caught

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• I feel like science fiction is so much more mainstream now than it has been. And I feel like thats because technology has caught up with us.

  Alaina Huffman

  Technology, Fiction, Mainstream

  "Exclusive Interview: Alaina Huffman Talks Smallville, Stargate Universe, and Agent Mom". Interview with Alex Zalben, www.mtv.com. January 27, 2011.

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• This, therefore, is a law not found in books, but written on the fleshly tablets of the heart, which we have not learned from man, received or read, but which we have caught up from Nature herself, sucked in and imbibed; the knowledge of which we were not taught, but for which we were made; we received it not by education, but by intuition.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Book, Heart, Men

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• Some guys lose their focus. They get caught up in the business deals or the endorsements, and they lose their focus. For me, it's always about football. I've never lost sight of what's making all these other things happen.

  Peyton Manning

  Football, Business Deals, Sight

  "Online Extra: Peyton Manning's IMG Dream Team". Interview with Diane Brady, www.bloomberg.com. July 12, 2004.

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• Some is, I think, the personal in any act of writing. You find yourself caught up: you start a sentence, and it becomes revelatory, not just of the character, but of you as well.

  David Bezmozgis

  Writing, Character, Thinking

  Interview with Ratik Asokan, logger.believermag.com. September 23, 2014.

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• ... clear thinking is not the characteristic which distinguishes our literature today. We are more and more caught up by the unintelligible. People like it. This argues an inability to think, or, almost as bad, a disinclination to think.

  Edith Hamilton

  Thinking, People, Literature

  Edith Hamilton (1964). “The Ever-Present Past”

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• We should not laugh at the person who becoming caught up in his prayer bends his body or moves about in strange ways. Perhaps he moves in this manner to wave off unwelcome thoughts that would interrupt the prayer. Would we find it funny if we saw a person drowning going through strange motions doing whatever was necessary to save his life?

  Baal Shem Tov

  Prayer, Moving, Laughing

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• We are 'writers,' we are not supposed to be interested in filthy lucre, we are supposed to be starry eyed artistes. ... In Reality Land, we all want to maybe put dinner on the table once in a while, but in Fantasy Land, we are not supposed to be even interested in money because we are so caught up in the emotion of it all. That's an illusion, but people like it and it makes us feel holy or something so we all play along.

  Max D. Adams

  Reality, Land, Play

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