#pitfalls

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. ↗

— John Green

#cancer #creatures #easy #either #else

You know, it's just a matter of working through the pitfalls sometimes and working through the challenges that lie ahead. ↗

— Kurt Busch

#challenges #just #know #lie #matter

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. ↗

— John Malkovich

#been #delights #done #especially #extensively

If you decide to design your own language, there are thousands of sort of amateur language designer pitfalls. ↗

— Guido van Rossum

#decide #design #designer #language #own

What sets science and the law apart from religion is that nothing is expected to be taken on faith. We're encouraged to ask whether the evidence actually supports what we're being told - or what we grew up believing - and we're allowed to ask whether we're hearing all the evidence or just some small prejudicial part of it. If our beliefs aren't supported by the evidence, then we're encouraged to alter our beliefs. ↗

— Gary Taubes

#beliefs #confirmation-bias #empiricism #faith #law

It is imperative that we make consumers more aware of the long-term effects of their financial decisions, particularly in managing their credit card debt, so that they can avoid financial pitfalls that may lead to bankruptcy. ↗

— Daniel Akaka

#aware #bankruptcy #card #consumers #credit

Good things do not come easy. The road is lined with pitfalls. ↗

— Desi Arnaz

#easy #good #good things #lined #pitfalls

Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships. ↗

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

#danger #deliver #failures #human #human relationships

What I tried to make clear in Good Calories, Bad Calories was that nutrition and obesity research lost its way after the Second World War with the evaporation of the European community of scientists and physicians that did pioneering work in those disciplines. It has since resisted all attempts to correct it. As a result, the individuals involved in this research have not only wasted decades of time, and effort, and money but have done incalculable damage along the way. Their beliefs have remained imperious to an ever-growing body of evidence that refutes them while being embraced by public-health authorities and translated into precisely the wrong advice about what to eat and, more important, what not to eat if we want to maintain a healthy weight and live a long and healthy life. ↗

— Gary Taubes

#carbohydrates #confirmation-bias #diet #dieting #government

I don't believe in pitfalls. I believe in taking risks and not doing the same thing twice. ↗

— Guy Laliberte

#doing #i #i believe #i believe in #pitfalls