John Green

One of the pitfalls of writing about illness is that it is very easy to imagine people with cancer as either these wise, beyond-their-years creatures or else these sad-eyed, tragic people. And the truth is people living with cancer are very much like people who are not living with cancer.

American Author

Jocelyn Bell Burnell

A search for truth seems to me to be full of pitfalls. We all have different understandings of what truth is, and we'll each believe - or we are in danger of each believing - that our truth is the one and only absolute truth, which is why I say it's full of pitfalls.

Irish Scientist

Rae Carson

Some of the most common pitfalls I see occur when authors don't check their privilege. Billions are living in a personal apocalypse right this second, so a little research and empathy can go a long way toward developing a convincing world.

American Writer

Jay Shetty

Knowledge is power, and it can help you overcome any fear of the unexpected. When you learn, you gain more awareness through the process, and you know what pitfalls to look for as you get ready to transition to the next level.

British Celebrity

John Malkovich

Quite often - a lot of the work I had done had been extensively with women. Most especially in the theater, but also quite often in the movies. That has its own delights, and maybe pitfalls too.

American Actor

Nayef Al-Rodhan

The ways in which readers encounter and relate to information is dramatically influenced by their education as well as their awareness of the pitfalls relating to the information source.

Scientist

Neena Gupta

The fact that my parents were both educated and held certain values very dearly, like honesty, self-respect and integrity, meant that I could steer clear of many pitfalls.

Indian Actress

Nick Sagan

As a science-fiction writer, I feel my responsibility is to look ahead and see the dangers of what might happen and try to warn people of the potential pitfalls.

American Novelist

Stephanie Coontz

Hyper-parenting has many pitfalls. Overprotected and overpraised children may develop an inflated sense of entitlement.

Gene Simmons

The biggest financial pitfall in life is divorce. And the biggest reason for divorce is marriage.

American Musician

Often used metaphorically to discuss potential problems in plans, projects, or activities.

Common Metaphor

Pitfall usually signifies a danger that's not immediately obvious rather than a physical hazard.

Abstract Danger

It implies a negative outcome that should be avoided or considered carefully.

Negative Connotation

The word can be taken literally to mean a physical hole or trap in the ground.

Literal Trap

Pitfalls were historically used for capturing animals, showing its original practical application.

Historical Usage

Represents ancient survival strategies and ingenuity in historical contexts.

Survival Strategy

 Roughly a month and a half after having been laid, the surviving eggs hatch, and the young turtles, each small enough to fit in the palm of your hand, squirm to the surface, emerging from the sand en masse, and making their desperate dash for the sea. Along the way, debris, pitfalls, crabs,

The Survival of the Sea...

 Do the math and you'll see it's right. That's what math is for. It's true that science, all types of science, only makes sense because it makes us better understand this beautiful world we live in. And in doing that, it helps us avoid the pitfalls of this painful world we live in.

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 data and my mum. Now, since she hates being on camera, this puppet is going to be as good as it gets. But before she weighs in, I wanted to look at the studies on how friendships fall apart in the hopes that I might be able to avoid some of those pitfalls. According to one study,

What makes a friendship...

 Well I've already told you about all of the benefits of the optimism bias, which probably makes you want to hold onto it for dear life. But there are, of course, pitfalls, and it would be really foolish of us to ignore them. Take for example this email I recieved

The optimism bias PIPE Tali...

 or the illuminator or optimizer or many, many other ones. They build and evolve the feedback loops that we talked about. And finally and most importantly, they don't just throw technology at it. In fact, this has been the biggest pitfall of companies

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 one-way trip down to the plant's digestive juices which are pooled below the slippery properties of pitfall traps and other plants are so incredible that they have inspired synthetic self-cleaning surfaces which repel contaminants

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 unscathed or unmarked by the experience, as if my successes in life have come about from an ability to sidestep or circumnavigate the presumed pitfalls of a life with prosthetics, or what other people perceive as my disability.

The opportunity of...

 Life is the story you tell yourself. But there's something that research hasn't much answered. What happens when we misplace the plot of that story, when we get sidetracked by a pitfall, a pothole, a pandemic?

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 fights to drugs to illegal relationships these are all pitfalls that can make time hard and complicate your chance of getting out but for some the biggest trap of all is letting prison life get

The Studs PIPE Hard Time

 know that the road and the journey is full of pitfalls when I was going to go to Africa a few people called me and put me inside and said women inventors in Africa have you really thought about