Hurdle Quotes - Page 2

• For a few years, more people have been leaving our country than entering it. Wherever it is possible, we must lower the entry hurdles for those who bring the country forward.

  Angela Merkel

  Country, Years, Umpires

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The first thing a hurdler learns is how to fall.

  Tonie Campbell

  Motivational, Fall, Track

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• You must see yourself run the race over and over, time and time again. You must put yourself in critical positions and see how you would react in those positions before the race so when and if they do happen, the feedback is automatic.

  Rod Milburn

  Motivational, Running, Race

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• When I was in high school, I ran hurdles, but I was really short, so I'd barely clear them. I was pretty quick, but I had little legs, so I had to take 50 steps in between each hurdle.

  Chris Kirkpatrick

  School, Legs, Littles

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You have to find something that you love enough to be able to take risks, jump over the hurdles and break through the brick walls that are always going to be placed in front of you. If you don't have that kind of feeling for what it is you're doing, you'll stop at the first giant hurdle.

  George Lucas

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Cinematic Phenomenon". The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. June 19, 1999.

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• Getting over those unexpected hurdles may not be exactly enjoyable, but ultimately I believe that such challenges and the solutions we find give us more confidence.They teach us with common sense and determination we can turn what looks like a disaster into a triumph.

  Martha Stewart

  Determination, Believe, Common Sense

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• You've just got to get over that mental hurdle and those battles in your own head during matches when things aren't going so well. It takes time. It's probably all things I already knew, but for someone to talk about it maybe in a different way makes you realise things.

  Samantha Stosur

  Tennis, Battle, Different

  "Samantha Stosur Recaps Her 2011 U.S. Open Title Run". Interview with Long Island Tennis Magazine, longislandtennismagazine.com. September 12,2011.

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• We need all hands on deck, and that means clearing hurdles for women and girls as they navigate careers in science, technology, engineering, and math.

  Michelle Obama

  Girl, Mean, Math

  "Michelle Obama Lends a Hand For Women In Science" by Helene McLaughlin, www.wired.com. September 28, 2011.

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• I never really worried about those hurdles. They were just standing there, and I was always zooming past them just to get back on the ground again.

  Rod Milburn

  Motivational, Past, Track

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• The biggest hurdle to writing Fargo Rock City was that I couldn't afford a home computer - I had to get a new job so I could buy a computer. It could all change though. In five years, I could be back at some daily newspaper, which wouldn't be so bad.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Jobs, Home, Writing

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• When you envision yourself doing something, you'll be surprised at how much that helps you to actually do it.

  Selim Nurudeen

  Motivational, Track, Helping

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• It was being young and sensitive and an actor. There was a lot of pressure, everything was a hurdle.

  Matt Dillon

  Actors, Pressure, Sensitive

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• Hurdling is like Kung-fu. Everyone comes from a different school. And everybody says 'my Kung-fu is better than your Kung-fu.' You have to find the technique that best fits your body size.

  Larry Shipp

  School, Track, Technique

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• You're a dancer; don't strain, don't force it. Be one with the hurdle, let it happen, relax while running fast.

  Renaldo Nehemiah

  Motivational, Running, Track

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• I used to get so comfortable running the hurdles, I was just like a ballet dancer going out there and going through the routines.

  Rod Milburn

  Running, Track, Dancer

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• Ego is the greatest hurdle for your ascent. You see that ego is at a place where you have to just cross to go to Sahasrara, and to break Sahasrara is very easy otherwise. But if there is ego, you are already lost in that ego.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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• What is defeat in life? It is not merely making a mistake; defeat means giving up on yourself in the midst of difficulty. What is true success in life? True success means winning in your battle with yourself. Those who persist in the pursuit of their dreams, no matter what the hurdles, are winners in life, for they have won over their weaknesses.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Dream, Giving Up, Mistake

  Daisaku Ikeda (2000). “The Way of Youth: Buddhist Common Sense for Handling Life's Questions”, p.107, Middleway Press

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• Success comes after you conquer your biggest obstacles and hurdles.

  Stephen Curry

  Obstacles, Conquer, Basketball Success

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• You really have to focus on what you're doing and just plow ahead no matter what hurdles are thrown in front of you.

  George Lucas

  Focus, Matter, Thrown

  "Cinematic Phenomenon". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 19, 1999.

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• I don't really see the hurdles. I sense them like a memory.

  Edwin Moses

  Confidence, Memories, Belief In Self

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• The eager or dutiful persons who subject themselves to these tidal waves of the classics and the moderns find everything wonderful in an absent-minded way. The wonder washes over them rather than into them, and one of its effects is to make anything shocking or odd suddenly interesting enough to gain a month's celebrity. And so another by-product of our come-one, come-all policy is the tendency to reward cleverness, not art, and to put one more hurdle in the path of the truly original artist.

  Jacques Barzun

  Art, Interesting, Rewards

  "A Surfeit of Fine Art". Essay by Jacques Barzun (1986) published in his book "The Culture We Deserve" (p. 127), 1989.

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• BLINDSIGHT is fearless: a magnificent, darkly gleaming jewel of a book that hurdles the contradictions inherent in biochemistry, consciousness, and human hearts without breaking stride.

  Elizabeth Bear

  Book, Heart, Jewels

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• Always expect the best. Then if you have to hurdle a few tough problems, you will have generated the strength and courage to do so.

  George Matthew Adams

  Expectations, Tough, Problem

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• I feel like winning a world championship was a hurdle I had to get over.

  Lindsey Vonn

  Winning, World, Championship

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• I'm always looking for the next major hurdle and doing something that the world has never seen.

  Nik Wallenda

  World, Next, Majors

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