Entrapment Quotes

• Do not use a cannon to kill a mosquito.

  Confucius

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

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• Procrastination is the soul rebelling against entrapment.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Procrastination, Soul

  FaceBook post by Nassim Nicholas Taleb from Sep 27, 2010

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• I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.

  Ma Jian

  Believe, Fall, Hands

  "Search Rings SEARCH China’s Olympic Crossroads: Author Ma Jian on Beijing, Spectacle and Reality". Interview with Flora Zhang, beijing2008.blogs.nytimes.com. August 5, 2008.

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• Apparently when we enter the Earth existence, the third dimensional reality, we exist with a façade as actors playing various roles. For some it is the adventure of the experience, the journey. For others it is entrapment in an illusion that takes on all the qualities of reality.

  Dolores Cannon

  Adventure, Journey, Reality

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• Once you create a self-justifying storyline, your emotional entrapment within it quadruples.

  Pema Chodron

  Emotional, Self, Storyline

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• Few understand that procrastination is our natural defense, letting things take care of themselves and exercise their antifragility.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Procrastination, Exercise, Defense

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2012). “Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder”, p.122, Random House

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• Perhaps it’s time, I muse, to close those chapters and remember the enduring lesson of my entrapment: that relationships, not accomplishments, are what’s important in life.

  Aron Ralston

  Accomplishment, Important, Lessons

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• Drug offenses ... may be regarded as the prototypes of non-victim crimes today. The private nature of the sale and use of these drugs has led the police to resort to methods of detection and surveillance that intrude upon our privacy, including illegal search, eavesdropping, and entrapment. Indeed, the successful prosecution of such cases often requires police infringement of the constitutional protections that safeguard the privacy of individuals.

  John Kaplan

  Successful, Police, Drug

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• When women make their image about youth and sexuality, and not about intellect, that's kind of a dead-end road. So I think it's a combination of self-entrapment and entrapment by society.

  K. D. Lang

  Thinking, Self, Youth

  "'I'm mistaken for a man every day'". Interview with Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. July 16, 2008.

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• Every conflict we face in life is rich with positive and negative potential. It can be a source of inspiration, enlightenment, learning, transformation, and growth-or rage, fear, shame, entrapment, and resistance. The choice is not up to our opponents, but to us, and our willingness to face and work through them.

  Kenneth Cloke

  Inspiration, Choices, Growth

  Kenneth Cloke, Joan Goldsmith (2001). “Resolving conflicts at work: a complete guide for everyone on the job”, Jossey-Bass Inc Pub

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• The anger. The terror. The feeling of entrapment. the profound distrust of people.The wistful, plaintive conviction that a window, a thing, was more important than she. These feelings and attitudes, expressed in the course of this hour, were symptoms of some profound disturbance.

  Flora Rheta Schreiber

  Attitude, People, Profound

  Flora Rheta Schreiber (1975). “Sybil”

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• But that hair? That is comedy entrapment. People are not attacking your hair, they are defending themselves from something that appears like it's about to attack them.

  Jon Stewart

  Hair, People, Comedy

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• Even in my town, even in San Francisco, thousands of gay men were arrested usually using entrapment techniques every single year for sexual behavior between consenting adults. That continued well into the 1970s until it was finally decriminalized in 1976, I believe.

  Cleve Jones

  Believe, Gay, Men

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Few understand that procrastination is our natural defense, letting things take care of themselves and exercise their antifragility; it results from some ecological or naturalistic wisdom, and is not always bad - at an existential level, it is my body rebelling against its entrapment. It is my soul fighting the Procrustean bed of modernity.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Procrastination, Fighting, Exercise

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2012). “Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder”, p.122, Random House

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