Barriers Quotes - Page 15

• I was stuck for 16 months without a win there, and now I've had five this year. Once you break that barrier for yourself it makes it easier; you're not thinking about it... It opened up the floodgate for me.

  Kelly Slater

  Winning, Thinking, Years

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• Over the long term, absent of other barriers, economics always win.

  Andy Bechtolsheim

  Winning, Long, Economics

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• I hope, too, that my book will illuminate my belief that love of art - be it poetry, storytelling, painting, sculpture, or music - enables people to transcend any barrier man has yet devised.

  Mary Ann Shaffer

  Art, Book, Men

  Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows (2009). “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society”, p.221, A&C Black

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• Money can be more of a barrier between people than language or race or religion.

  Vera Caspary

  Race, People, Language

  Vera Caspary (1964). “A chosen sparrow”

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• When we are honest, we admit how agreeable it can feel to be singled out for favored treatment.  The biggest barrier to equality for all is that inequality for some feels good.

  Philip Gulley

  Feel Good, Honest, Treatment

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• There is no age barrier when it comes to Christlike service. … As we look beyond our differences in age, culture, and circumstance to nurture and serve one another, we will be filled with the pure love of Christ and the inspiration which leads us to know when and whom to serve.

  Bonnie L. Oscarson

  Inspiration, Differences, Age

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• The fact of the matter is, we really and truly need each other. Women naturally seek friendship, support, and companionship. We have so much to learn from one another, and we often let self-imposed barriers keep us from enjoying associations which could be among the greatest blessings in our lives.

  Bonnie L. Oscarson

  Blessing, Self, Support

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• There is no age barrier when it comes to Christlike service.

  Bonnie L. Oscarson

  Age

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• To hell with tomorrow. To hell with all problems and barriers. Nothing matters but the Spectacular Now.

  Tim Tharp

  Matter, Tomorrow, Problem

  Tim Tharp (2008). “The Spectacular Now”, p.232, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• This stage in the life of the buzz is truly fabulous. It’s not even a buzz anymore. It’s a roar. The world opens up and everything’s yours right here, right now. You’ve probably heard the expression—All good things must come to an end. Well, this stage in the life of the buzz never heard anything close to that. This stage says, 'I will never end. I am indestructible. I will last fabulously forever.' And, of course, you believe it. To hell with tomorrow. To hell with all problems and barriers. Nothing matters but the Spectacular Now.

  Tim Tharp

  Believe, Expression, Forever

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• We have to move away from the concept of screening in cinemas. This can be achieved with the new technologies. I enjoy my films and the fact that I can include you in them as well. Cinema is only a small part of a much greater phenomenon. We transcend the barriers of culture. DVDs' image quality and longevity provide us with new prospects. They are a powerful medium. I think they were invented especially for me.

  Peter Greenaway

  Powerful, Moving, Technology

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• Second law: The complexity barrier. Software complexity (and therefore that of bugs) grows to the limits of our ability to manage that complexity.

  Boris Beizer

  Law, Limits, Bugs

  Boris Beizer (1990). “Software Testing Techniques”, Van Nostrand Reinhold Company

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• The tennis ball doesn't know how old I am. The ball doesn't know if I'm a man or a woman or if I come from a communist country or not. Sport has always broken down these barriers.

  Martina Navratilova

  Sports, Country, Men

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• Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Science, World

  Speech by King Willem-Alexander at the Diplomatic Corps dinner, Royal Palace, Amsterdam, www.royal-house.nl. June 24, 2015.

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• Do you know there is always a barrier between me and any man or woman who does not like dogs?

  Ellen Glasgow

  Friendship, Dog, Men

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow, Pamela R. Matthews (2005). “Perfect Companionship: Ellen Glasgow's Selected Correspondence with Women”, p.26, University of Virginia Press

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• The barrier has begun to yield.

  John Herschel

  Yield, Astronomy, Cosmology

  John Herschel (2014). “Essays from the Edinburgh and Quarterly Reviews”, p.550, Cambridge University Press

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• Young love needs dangers and barriers to nourish it.

  George Sand

  Young Love, Needs, Danger

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• The Eucharist is the life of the people. The Eucharist gives them a center of life. All can come together without the barriers of race or language in order to celebrate the feast days of the Church. It gives them a law of life, that of charity, of which it is the source; thus it forges between them a common bond, a Christian kinship

  Peter Julian Eymard

  Christian, Race, Order

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• Forgiveness is an embrace, across all barriers, against all odds, in defiance of all that is mean and petty and vindictive and cruel in this life.

  Kent Nerburn

  Mean, Odds, Embrace

  Kent Nerburn (2010). “Calm Surrender: Walking the Path of Forgiveness”, p.130, New World Library

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• Here's what I mean by the miracle of language. When you're falling into a good book, exactly as you might fall into a dream, a little conduit opens, a passageway between a reader's heart and a writer's, a connection that transcends the barriers of continents and generations and even death ... And here's the magic. You're different. You can never go back to being exactly the same person you were before you disappeared into that book.

  Anthony Doerr

  Dream, Book, Fall

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• The Rubicons which women must cross, the sex barriers which they must breach, are ultimately those that exist in their own minds.

  Freda Adler

  Sex, Mind, Crosses

  "Sisters in Crime: The Rise of the New Female Criminal". Book by Freda Adler, 1975.

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• A barrier is of ideas, not of things.

  Mark Cane

  Ideas, Overcoming, Obstacles

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• Evil, in this system of ethics, is that which tears apart, shuts out the other person, raises barriers, sets people against each other.

  Rollo May

  People, Evil, Tears

  Rollo May (1985). “My Quest for Beauty”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

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• Getting out and staying out of debt is key. debt is the biggest barrier, a parasite to wealth.

  Ann Wilson

  Keys, Debt, Wealth

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• That morning each of us found a breaking point. Not only a physical barrier, but a point where determination, stamina and duty clashed and were overcome not so much by pain but by absurdity.

  Stefan Kieszling

  Morning, Determination, Pain

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