Bruce Springsteen

Work creates an enormous sense of self and I saw that in my mother. She was an enormous, towering figure to me in the best possible way. I picked up a lot of things from her in the way that I work... I also picked up a lot of the failings of when your father doesn't have those things and that results in a house that turns into a minefield.

American Musician

Owen Jones

Grief is like wandering through a minefield, as my mother puts it: however carefully you tread, a sudden detonation can happen out of nowhere. A song played in a supermarket; an overheard phrase; someone in the distance who your mind cruelly suggests is your loved one for a fleeting moment.

British Journalist

Ian K. Smith

Death just comes, not happiness. Because when you're trying to find happiness, you're trying to navigate a very, very murky minefield of distractions, of disappointments, of deceptions. That's why you have to work on happiness.

American Author

Emily V. Gordon

Your wedding day is supposed to be your big day, and yet a lot of engaged couples find that instead of creating an event that will be important to them, they're dodging through a minefield of modern etiquette traps.

American Writer

Brene Brown

Ironically, parenting is a shame and judgment minefield precisely because most of us are wading through uncertainty and self-doubt when it comes to raising our children.

John Ortberg

Prudence is not the same thing as caution. Caution is a helpful strategy when you're crossing a minefield; it's a disaster when you're in a gold rush.

American Clergyman

Zhu Rongji

Even if a minefield or the abyss should lie before me, I will march straight ahead without looking back.

Chinese Statesman

Naval Ravikant

Getting in the middle of financial transactions is a regulatory minefield.

Businessman

Simon Sebag Montefiore

Writing about Jerusalem can be such a minefield.

British Historian

Michelle Williams

American Actress

The term often implies danger in military or war settings, signaling a need for caution.

War Associations

Used literally, 'minefield' refers to a real place with explosive mines, not just trouble or problems.

Literal Danger

When describing a situation, 'minefield' suggests severe risks, not minor or trivial ones.

Serious Risk

Refers to situations with complex problems that aren't obvious at first glance.

Hidden Complexities

Used figuratively in various contexts to express the presence of many potential difficulties.

Figurative Context

Implies that one should choose words carefully to avoid misunderstandings or conflicts.

Caution in Words

 through a simulated minefield. Don't say a word. Just kind of guide with energy, body language. Ready? I don't know that she's going to do that with me. That's not something that we-- Well, then let's make it happen. Got to see it in your mind. I want you to remember, the most important as you're starting, is calmness.

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 and it would walk around a minefield on its legs, and every time it stepped on a mine, one of the legs would blow up, and it would continue on the other legs to blow up more mines. And the colonel who was in charge of this testing exercise ends up calling it off, because, he says, it's too inhumane

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 I also know that teaching about these things in schools can feel like navigating a minefield. For example, what happens if parents or families aren't on board with having these conversations in schools? But to these people, I can these are some examples of things that students have said to me

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 to enabling groups of robots to search a minefield or a burning building collectively, without any central control. But you can observe these fascinatingly simple, yet effective, processes directly through some simple experiments, by allowing ants to enter empty spaces of various sizes

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 navigated a minefield of political dangers, faced repression and overcame, won major policy concessions, navigated and innovated through risks. In contrast, three years after Occupy sparked that global conversation about inequality,

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 a mental illness characterized by mood swings and paranoid delusions. Throughout my life, my mother's rage would turn our small house into a minefield. Yet, though I feared her rage on a daily basis,

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 deeply buried but it would place to cool off foraging decisions must be fast to be perfect back to the nest before they also died but they strayed into a minefield

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 it's very very important that you know people understand that we're not there to take elephant and put them into a learn minefield the idea is to bring the

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 But they've strayed into a minefield. Each of these strange, cone-shaped pits is a death-trap

Minefield