“When I'm attached, I find that I don't see the other person as clearly because I'm more caught up in what I'm wanting.” PersonsCaughtCaught Up Author:Tara Brach
“The first year I had money, I really went shopping. I got really caught up in it. I bought all my brothers sets of luggage, and I bought 'em winter coats from Giorgio Armani - winter coats. And I got a pair of socks from this brother.” YearsFirstsBrotherWinterCaughtMy BrotherEmsPairsShoppingCoatsCaught UpSockLuggageArmani Author:Bill Murray
“You get caught up sometimes in the deadlines and the pressures and certain things that you can't really control that you forget that this is supposed to be an enjoyable journey.” SometimesCertainForgetJourneyPressureCaughtSupposed To BeCaught UpEnjoyableDeadline Author:Wilmer Valderrama
“I know what it's like to be so distracted by your surroundings and in the moment that it's seemingly impossible to not get caught up in 'em. I know what it's like to feel so much smaller than the activities of your environment that you can't see how not to succumb to 'em. I know what it's like to not be able to focus in class due to real life hunger pangs. I know what it's like to be disruptive just to pass the time and take your mind off what's lacking at home. I know what it's like to be laughed at by your teacher when you tell them what you hope to be in life.” KnowsFeelsMindRealMomentsHomeAbleClassEnvironmentFocusTeacherImpossibleActivityHungerCaughtDuesReal LifeEmsLaughedLackingCaught UpSurroundingsDistractedOur EnvironmentDisruptive Author:T.I.
“We cannot continue to get caught up in having material abundance and yet be fundamentally and spiritually broke.” MaterialsCaughtBrokeAbundanceCaught Up Author:T.I.
“I'm afraid of a couple things. I'm afraid of getting caught up in other people's expectations, because I feel like that's an ongoing battle.” PeopleFeelsCoupleBattleExpectationsCaughtCaught UpOngoingCouple Things Author:Jim Gaffigan
“I don't understand the fashion industry and the appeal of it. I understand that there are some people who think it's important to them, and they're designers, they're artists, but there seems to be a disproportionate amount of our culture that's caught up in that and the red carpet stuff. It seems like there's a disproportionate amount of attention placed on that.” PeopleThinkingImportantSeemsArtistCultureStuffAttentionFashionIndustryAmountRedCaughtAppealsDesignerCaught UpCarpetRed CarpetFashion Industry Author:Jim Gaffigan
“Don't get caught up in other people's expectations. Don't take anything for granted, either.” PeopleExpectationsCaughtGrantedCaught UpDon't Take Anything For Granted Author:Jim Gaffigan
“At any time the atmosphere in the West could change, for which determined political will I do not see at the moment is a necessary prerequisite. From the sidelines, it seems that he's caught up in his own exorbitant ambitions.” MomentsSeemsPoliticalAmbitionWestCaughtDeterminedAtmosphereCaught UpPrerequisitesSidelinesPolitical Will Author:Garry Kasparov
“You have to absolutely commit to whatever your process is and attack that process every single day, of trying to get better, take steps forward, without getting caught up in the immediate results that everybody wants to see. That's probably the biggest challenge.” WantTryingProcessChallengesResultsStepsCaughtCommitGet BetterCaught UpSteps Forward Author:Erik Spoelstra
“One of the tools I like a lot is the Just Like Me practice. It's one of the empathy practices where we put ourselves in the other's shoes. Rather than get caught up in the difference in the ideologies, we actually come back to the fundamental idea: just like me, this person on the opposite political spectrum wants to be happy, wants to be safe, wants to thrive, wants to be healthy, wants to find peace of mind.” WantMindPersonsIdeasPoliticalDifferencesPracticeHealthySafeEmpathyToolsOppositesFundamentalsShoesCaughtLike MeIdeologyThrivePeace Of MindCaught UpSpectrumFinding PeaceWant To Be HappyPolitical Spectrum Author:Mark Coleman
“When we kind of get caught up in the minutiae, the details that make us all different, I think there's two ways of seeing that. There's an opportunity to see the texture of that person, the characteristics that make them unique. And then there's an opportunity to go to war about it and to say that that person is different from me and I don't like you, so let's battle.” ThinkingWayKindPersonsTwoDifferentWarOpportunitySeeingLike YouBattleUniqueCaughtDetailsCharacteristicsCaught UpTextureTwo WaysMinutiaeI Don't Like You Author:Mahershala Ali
“One of the high points in my career came from a time I had with Tim Conway on a film when I had him fall down with laughter. I had this scene with him where I was this mechanic down fixing his car. I can't remember what my line was as written, but they were okay with me doing a made-up line. So Tim asks me what's wrong with his car, and I look up and say, "Well, looks like you got a squirrel caught up in there."” WellsLooksMadeI CanRememberFilmFallAsksLinesCareersWrittenCarLike YouSceneLaughterOkayCaughtAsk MeLook UpCaught UpMechanicFalling DownFixingSquirrelsHigh Points Author:John Ratzenberger
“Why is it so many political parties never learn that lesson? There was an obsession on the right to get [Hillary] Clinton. There was an obsession on the left to get - frankly, look at - look at the liberals in the early 1980s with [Ronald] Reagan. They got so caught up in the personality that they could n`t see the forest.” LooksPoliticalLeftPartyPersonalityLessonsClintonCaughtForestsObsessionCaught UpPolitical Parties Author:Chuck Todd
“The story is whether or not the villains, in the eyes of the media, will win or can be stopped. But when you change the dynamic and make it [Donald] Trump versus Hillary [Clinton]? Well, we already know the media has already once gotten caught up and captured and totally engrossed in the Trump story 'cause they don't know how it's gonna end day to day.” KnowsWellsEndsStoriesEyeWinningCausesKnow HowMediaTrumpClintonCaughtVillainDay To DayCaught UpVersusCaptured Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Participation in the collective life of the polis both restrains the extraordinary individual and enlarges the ordinary individual, allowing him to participate in the extraordinary. An individual can achieve participatory excellence via the accomplishments of the polis and need not always be caught up in the agnostic struggle to outdo his peers.” NeedsIndividualStruggleAchieveOrdinaryExcellenceExtraordinaryCaughtAccomplishmentCollectivesAllowingPeersParticipationAgnosticCaught UpPolis Author:Rebecca Goldstein
“The wave of punitiveness that washed over the United States with the rise of the drug war and the get tough movement really flooded our schools. Schools, caught up in this maelstrom, began viewing children as criminals or suspects, rather than as young people with an enormous amount of potential struggling in their own ways and their own difficult context to make it and hopefully thrive. We began viewing the youth in schools as potential violators rather than as children needing our guidance.” PeopleWayChildrenWarStatesSchoolYoungDifficultUnitedUnited StatesStruggleMovementYouthAmountDrugToughWaveCaughtCriminalsEnormousHopefullyGuidanceThriveSuspectsCaught UpWar On DrugsMaelstrom Author:Michelle Alexander
“Refugees, especially in their early years, are still caught up in the experience that made them refugees. And they're much more melancholic. They're much more oriented towards the past and towards the country of origin. That can make the process of becoming a part of the new country much more fraught for them.” YearsMadeStillsCountryPastProcessBecomingCaughtCaught UpRefugee Author:Nguyen Viet Thang
“I think on all the debate on immigration, and all of that, the class of person that should be given the benefit of the doubt is the genuine refugee that is just in real desperate strait. Some of them are in the United States illegally because of [human] trafficking. They were caught up in trafficking, and you can argue to what extent it's their fault, to what extent they didn't know what they were getting into.” ThinkingKnowsShouldHumansPersonsRealStatesGivenUnitedClassUnited StatesDoubtBenefitsFaultsCaughtArguingDebateGenuineImmigrationDesperateCaught UpRefugeeHuman TraffickingTraffickingBenefit Of The Doubt Author:Preston Manning
“A lot of times people are too ego caught up where they made the decision and "We're going to stick with it" and then I had to suffer.” PeopleMadeSufferingDecisionEgoSticksCaughtCaught Up Author:Terry Crews
“In television and films, you never know the fate of anything. Focusing on the present moment - not getting so caught up on what could happen - that's been my biggest focus. Everything's happening seemingly at once.” KnowsMomentsHappensFilmFocusFateTelevisionHappeningsCaughtPresent MomentCaught Up Author:Christine Evangelista
“I think it's true that, as is often observed, the writer is always an outsider. A writer is someone who is telling stories about what's going on, which is something you can't do if you're totally caught up in the moment.” ThinkingMomentsOutsidersCaught Up Author:Elif Batuman
“On 9-11, we discovered that we cannot escape from the world. To me personally, this was a life-changing experience, and I realized, as did all Americans, in a way that is impossible to describe, that we were not protected by the two oceans. It was necessary to eliminate threats before they showed up on our doorstep. I agree that we should not be getting caught up in far away wars. But I believe Iraq was central to our war on terrorism.” WorldBelieveWarI BelieveImpossibleOceanAgreeThreatTerrorismI RealizedFar AwayCaught UpWar On TerrorWar On Terrorism Author:George W. Bush
“People talk about Jim Crow as if it's dead. Jim Crow isn't gone. It's adjusted. Look at the disproportionate sentences meted out to blacks caught up in the criminal justice system. There's a problem when people profit from putting and keeping African Americans in prison. We need to do a better job as a nation understanding the real values the country's built upon in terms of fairness, equality and equal opportunity.” PeopleRealProblemValuesOpportunityUnderstandingTermJusticeEqualPrisonAfrican AmericanFairnessCaught UpCrowJustice SystemCriminal JusticeEqual OpportunityJim Crow Author:Aldis Hodge
“Jim Thompson understood something about the serial killer before the psychology caught up to it, which is that they are detached to it and they do want to get caught.” WantPsychologyUnderstoodCaughtKillersCaught UpDetachedSerialsSerial Killer Author:Val Kilmer
“I stopped reading William Faulkner because it's hard work. I want to read a good writer, but I also want to read something where the pages are going to move along. That's what I want. It doesn't have to be a thriller or a mystery. Just something where I get caught up in the story.” MovingReadingMysteryHard WorkCaught Up Author:John Grisham
“We are at this moment where what concerns me is that we're all so caught up in Donald Trump, James Comey, and David Kushner, and Mike Flynn, that it's in danger of overwhelming the real story, which is what the Russians did and tried to do. I contend that it was the most serious attack on our country since September 11, 2001. It was deliberate, it was sophisticated, it was conscious, and it was in some ways successful.” RealCountryMomentsSuccessfulDangerSeriousConsciousConcernOverwhelmingSophisticatedSeptemberCaught UpSeptember 11September 11 2001 Author:Angus King
“Mindfulness is a way to rebalance ourselves. Instead of being lost in thought, or caught up in emotional upheaval, we can tip the scale in the direction of greater equanimity, clarity, wisdom, and self-compassion by actually learning how to inhabit that other dimension of our being.” EmotionalMindfulnessClarityCaught UpEquanimityLost In Thought Author:Jon Kabat-Zinn
“Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman was one of those books I read in my mid-twenties that was life-changing. I think I had a very black-and-white view of Marie Antoinette before, but in reading that book, I developed a lot of empathy for her. She was just caught up in history. There was no place for a woman to do anything at that time anyway.” ThinkingBookReadingEmpathyCaught Up Author:Elizabeth Peyton
“Lady Bird was very, very shy and yet she would go out and speak publicly on behalf of her husband and on issues that mattered to her. Someone asked her once how she did it, and she said you have to "get so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid." And I have found that that absolutely captures those moments when I fought for something I cared about. I get so caught up in fighting for things that are important to me that it pushes me through fear and doubt.” ImportantMomentsFightingSpeakForgetDoubtHusbandBirdShyCaught Up Author:Wendy Davis
“Qian Xuesen, the father of the Chinese Space Program, studied in the United States, and he was a protégé of Theodore Von Carmen's at Cal Tech and helped start the jet propulsion laboratory there, and then he got caught up in the anti-communism wave and was accused of being a spy and was actually deported back to China where he built from nothing, their entire missile and space program. So, in a way, in a very real way, the United States in trying to protect so-called protect our secrets and throwing this guy out of the country, we helped seed and start the Chinese missile program.” TryingRealCountryGuyFatherSecretProtectProgramWaveChineseCaught UpAccusedSpyLaboratoryJetTheodore Author:Leroy Chiao
“You really get caught up in this system of the world - the Instagram world, society - we really get caught up in what our friends want and what our jobs want. I think the priority in life is to feel secure and safe and solid, truly. Just feeling good, just being okay with sitting alone. I think that's a big thing people need to realize and get used to that it's okay to be alone. It's good to be alone, and you need to be able to sit by yourself and just be peaceful and silent, and learn to read a book again; learn to just be. It's hard to be when you are so used to static input.” PeopleThinkingWorldBookFeelingsRealizingOkaySilentPrioritiesFeel GoodPeacefulCaught Up Author:Chloe Grace Moretz
“When you finish reading a script and you realise that you didn't think of anything else, that you were just focusing on the script and were caught up in the story, then that's when I am amazed.” ThinkingReadingRealisingAmazedCaught Up Author:Louis Hofmann
“What does success look like for you? Maybe your definition of success is too different from what the label defines as success. Perhaps your definition of success is simply being able to live off your art for the rest of your days. Don't get caught up in this crazy business. I'd say that's one of the most important things.” ArtImportantDifferentCrazyCaught Up Author:Yukimi Nagano
“Touring is a rough thing. You don't have any time to look around or stop and think if what you're doing is making you happy. The more you tour, the better the band gets, and you get caught up in a lot more things than just traveling. It becomes a way to survive.” ThinkingRoughCaught Up Author:Adam Granduciel
“Ronald Reagan was this actor who was going to be president, and he was very charming. What he had was, he talked about America in ways that got people all caught up in it. He was creating this America - it could even be the mythical "America" - that we subscribe to.” PeoplePresidentCharmingCaught Up Author:Barry Levinson
“I think sometimes you get too caught up in the business side, and you make compromises, and then the brand becomes unexciting. I think in the early stages you have to be bold. You have to define yourself. Everyone wants to understand who you are and why you're here. I think the best brands are forever surprising people.” PeopleThinkingSometimesForeverWho You AreCompromiseCaught UpDefine Yourself Author:Reed Krakoff
“I felt like I needed to get a few side projects out of my system before I settled in to do the new record. Usually what's asked of you, everything's a year cycle. When you get caught up in that cycle, it can be kind of brutal, actually. It was good I got to take a year off, with no pressure coming from anywhere.” KindBe KindBrutalCaught Up Author:Zach Condon
“I don't want to pretend like I'm clairvoyant or anything, but I had a tremendous sense of malaise about our political future. This is right around the millennium, right around 1999, when I wrote it. The Sopranos certainly reflected that; when I saw that on the air, I was like "Oh my God, I'm not alone." But it doesn't seem that the culture really caught up with that. George W. Bush won two elections... I'm not even trying to say this from a political standpoint. I think there is a resonance to the kind of glory of that period, and the foreboding of what happened.” ThinkingTryingKindPoliticalCultureGloryElectionCaught UpNot AloneSopranosForeboding Author:Matthew Weiner
“When I write something simple I'm always really proud of it. When you write something that simple with that much air in it and the whole premise behind it is something pretty obvious - that everybody wants to be happy and free - the song is sort of an exercise in not forgetting that's what you really want and what you really need. We can get caught up in a lot of other stuff.” WritingSongSimpleForgetProudExerciseObviousCaught UpWant To Be Happy Author:Steve Earle
“I was so poor for so long that I didn't use anything. I didn't drive cars, I didn't eat very much. So, I figured the world owed me a debt, so I've been eating very well and have had a very big car for a long time. But I still haven't caught up with my youth.” WorldLongPoorCarYouthEatingCaught Up Author:Michael Caine
“Often you find actors have big hearts; they're quite emotional people. Talking to actors who date other actors, and talking to people who deal with other actors, they often get emotionally caught up in lots of different things. They often wear their hearts on their sleeves. They feel things quite a lot - often to the nth degree, which I can imagine could make it quite difficult to date some of us. I think it's about having an emotional availability that you can kind of draw on. But I'm also searching for that. I'll be searching for the answer to that question for the rest of my life.” PeopleThinkingHeartKindDifferentDifficultImagineEmotionalCaught UpPeople TalkingBig Heart Author:Douglas Booth
“We, as athletes, have our suspicions about who's cheating, but I'm not convinced that the testing has yet caught up with what people are using or what they are using to disguise it.” PeopleAthleteCheatingSuspicionDisguiseCaught Up Author:Paula Radcliffe
“I think that that phrase from the Bible is one of the best definitions of "creative." When you are creative, you are in the world in the sense that you see what it is and know its problems and possibilities. But you are not of the world in the sense that you are not caught up in external things and are coming from your inner resources to create approaches that are yours alone and have potential to change the world.” ThinkingWorldProblemCreativePossibilityChanging The WorldCaught Up Author:Michael Ray
“So many actors get caught up in their technique, and to be honest, I see it really getting in the way. I see them forcing things. I definitely do my best work when I'm free of that. But I think as an actor, I work really hard in preparing the roles. I spend like 90 percent of my waking moments walking around thinking: "What does this character do? What is his relationship with so-and-so?" Always, really. Too much!” ThinkingMomentsCharacterHonestWalkingBeing HonestCaught Up Author:Gerard Butler
“Japoneese people take themselves very serious and you can see it by everything they do - it's like a different part of the scale or spectrum in being a human, and it's something we're not used to seeing in America. And then when you see it, you do have the moments of infatuation; you get caught up in it, but there's so much more to it.” PeopleDifferentMomentsSeriousCaught UpInfatuation Author:Stephen Bruner
“In my opinion, having worked in the games industry and still keeping in touch with a lot of those guys, there was definitely a time when they saw themselves as the little brother of the film industry. But they kind of went off in a different direction and now see themselves, I think, as being far more interesting and ahead of the film industry. They haven't just caught up. They've gone off in a different direction and exceeded the film industry.” ThinkingKindDifferentFilmGuyInterestingOpinionBrotherCaught UpLittle Brother Author:Duncan Jones
“Being in unfamiliar places has no effect on my writing, except that it often means I'm caught up in the logistics of travel, the places and people on the spot, etc., etc., which can mean that I don't have the time to write. But I try, wherever I am, to take a couple of hours in the early evening to go off and write. Because I never write from personal experience, per se, where I am makes no difference except for this element of available time.” PeopleWritingTryingMeanHoursCoupleCaught Up Author:Cole Swensen
“I was having pretty bad anxiety attacks and stuff, and I think a lot of it had to do with my physical environment. Deep down I've always had a pretty strong connection with nature, but I've suppressed it for so long while living in the city. I think it caught up to me. I started really bugging out and needing wide-open space. So it was that simple. That and social anxiety. I felt like I was existing too much in nightlife.” ThinkingLongStrongSimpleEnvironmentAnxietyCaught UpSocial Anxiety Author:Brian Degraw