Barriers Quotes - Page 25

• Even as a baby I quickly learned to crawl out of my crib. ... They'd put up barriers but I learned how to go over them.

  Mary Martin

  Baby

  "Mary Martin : Broadway Legend". Book by Ronald L. Davis (p. 6), 2008.

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• Courage is finding the inner strength and bravery required when confronting danger, difficulty, or opposition. Courage is the energy current behind all great actions and the spark that ignites the initial baby steps of growth. It resides deep within each of us, ready to be accessed in those moments when you need to forge ahead or break through seemingly insurmountable barriers. It is the intangible force that propels you forward on your journey.

  Cherie Carter-Scott

  Baby, Courage, Journey

  Cherie Carter-Scott (1999). “If Life Is a Game, These Are the Rules: Ten Rules for Being Human as Introduced in Chicken Soup for the Soul”, p.104, Harmony

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• Michael Jackson carried urban America and eventually American society on his vocal cords for a good 25 to 30 years before even hip-hop became the vox populi of America, and then as an adult he shattered racial barriers.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  America, Years, Hip Hop

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The world was sick, and the ills from which it was suffering were mainly due to the perversion of man, his inability to live at peace with himself. The microbe was no longer the main enemy; science was sufficiently advanced to be able to cope with it admirably. If it were not for such barriers as superstition, ignorance, religious intolerance, misery and poverty.

  Brock Chisholm

  Religious, Ignorance, Men

  "Public health, a progressive science". Monthly Bulletin of the Philippine Health Service, 24, 1948.

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• One of those professional drivers hit one of those blockade barriers. It was the first car accident I have ever been in, so I was a little startled.

  Matt Hasselbeck

  Car, Littles, Firsts

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• Only a large-volume market like space travel can attack the barrier of high costs.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Space, Cost, Volume

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• The virtue and the strength of UWC is that it provides small, but powerful cells of innovation, catalysts for change, breaking barriers of habit and opening broader vistas of experience for both pupils and educationalists.

  Nelson Mandela

  Powerful, Cells, Catalyst For Change

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• Most of our life is miscommunication, and when you add a language barrier to it, it just becomes total mayhem and confusion... It just adds to it with all of the cultural differences. It could be an American family meeting another American family and you could still have a total clash. With family, it's like visiting another planet.

  Julie Delpy

  Differences, Confusion, Add

  "Julie Delpy Talks 2 DAYS IN NEW YORK, Casting Chris Rock, Her Writing Process, Her Comedic Influences and Future Projects". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. August 10, 2012.

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• Some Secret Service guys crashed a car into the White House. And they had been drinking when it happened. Actually, they hit a barrier trying to get to the White House. It's the same thing that is happening to Hillary.

  David Letterman

  Drinking, White, Car

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• To draw around the whole nation the strength of the General Government
  as a barrier against foreign foes... is [one of the] functions of the General Government on which [our citizens] have a right to call.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government, Citizens, Function

  Letter to Amos Marsh, November 20, 1801.

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• Today the crime novelist has one advantage denied to writers of 'straight' or 'literary' novels. Unlike them he can range over all levels of society, for crime can easily breach the barriers that exist in our stratified society. Because of these barriers the modern literary novel, unlike its 19th-century predecessors, is often confined to the horizontal, dealing only with one class. But crime runs through society from top to bottom, and so the crime novelist can present a fuller picture of the way we live now.

  Allan Massie

  Running, Book, Class

  Allan Massie (2013). “Life & Letters: The Spectator Columns”, Quartet Books (UK)

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• The barrier between TV and movies has come down and film actors are willing to do TV and vice versa, because they just want to follow what's interesting.

  Tina Fey

  Interesting, Vices, Actors

  "Date Night - Tina Fey interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Michael Fassbender is a very masculine person. But he has a fragility that allows him to have a relationship with an audience that has no barrier.

  Steven R. McQueen

  Fragility, Masculine, Audience

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• I'm a business man and the reason I linked up with a major was because I understand they have that reach that I can't get no matter how hot I get in the streets. It's not always about money because I been had money. I want to be on TV and win awards. I want to be number one. You need a label to get through barriers.

  Yo Gotti

  Winning, Men, Awards

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• If you just go out there and run 100 miles, it breaks down a lot of barriers in terms of self-imposed limitations.

  Dean Karnazes

  Running, Self, Breaking Down

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• The freedom of an individual depends upon that individual's freedom to alter his considerations of space, energy, time and life and his roles in it. If he cannot change his mind about these, he is then fixed and enslaved amidst barriers such as those of the physical universe, and barriers of his own creation. Man thus is seen to be enslaved by barriers of his own creation. He creates these barriers himself, or by agreeing with things which hold these barriers to be actual.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Men, Space, Mind

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• What an honor it was to step into the shoes of Nelson Mandela and portray a man who defied odds, broke down barriers, and championed human rights before the eyes of the world.

  Idris Elba

  Eye, Men, Shoes

  "Harvey Weinstein and Idris Elba React to Nelson Mandela’s Passing". www.indiewire.com. December 5, 2013.

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• Write down your barrier thoughts, and then consider ways to reinterpret the situation. In the process, ask yourself questions like... What else could this situation or experience mean? Can anything good come from it? Does it present any opportunities for me? What lessons can I learn and apply to the future? Did I develop any strengths as a result?

  Sonja Lyubomirsky

  Mean, Writing, Opportunity

  Sonja Lyubomirsky (2007). “The How of Happiness: A New Approach to Getting the Life You Want”, p.96, Penguin

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• If once a woman breaks through the barriers of decency, her ease is desperate; and if she goes greater lengths than the men, and leaves the pale of propriety farther behind her, it is because she is aware that all return is prohibited, and by none so strongly as by her own sex.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Sex, Men, Break Through

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• The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man's thoughts and another's.

  William James

  Men, One Man

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• [The greatest barriers to forming alliances] are not figuring out what would make others want to join with you. Assuming that what excites you excites others. Spend more time assuming people have good reasons for what they do or say and then figure out those good reasons.

  John Daly

  People, Alliances, Want

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• One of the greatest hindrances in coming to Jesus is the excuse of temperament. We make our temperament and our natural affinities barriers to coming to Jesus. The first thing we realize when we come to Jesus is that He pays no attention whatever to our natural affinities. We have the notion that we can consecrate our gifts to God. You cannot consecrate what is not yours; there is only one thing you can consecrate to God, and that is your right to yourself (Romans 12:1). If you will give God your right to yourself, He will make a holy experiment out of you. God’s experiments always succeed

  Oswald Chambers

  Jesus, Giving, Attention

  Oswald Chambers (1994). “My Utmost for His Highest: The Golden Book of Oswald Chambers : Features the Author's Daily Prayers”, Discovery House Pub

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• As if to demonstrate, by a striking example, the impossibility of erecting any cerebral barrier between man and the apes, Nature has provided us, in the latter animals, with an almost complete series of gradations from brains little higher than that of a Rodent, to brains little lower than that of Man.

  Thomas Huxley

  Animal, Men, Brain

  Thomas H. Huxley (2013). “Man's Place in Nature”, p.115, Courier Corporation

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• Parents and children cannot be to each other, as husbands with wives and wives with husbands. Nature has separated them by an almost impassable barrier of time; the mind and the heart are in quite a different state at fifteen and forty.

  Sara Coleridge

  Husband, Children, Heart

  Sara Coleridge Coleridge (1873). “Memoir and Letters”, p.65

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• Man's quest for knowledge is an expanding series whose limit is infinity, but philosophy seeks to attain that limit at one blow, by a short circuit providing the certainty of complete and inalterable truth. Science meanwhile advances at its gradual pace, often slowing to a crawl, and for periods it even walks in place, but eventually it reaches the various ultimate trenches dug by philosophical thought, and, quite heedless of the fact that it is not supposed to be able to cross those final barriers to the intellect, goes right on.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Men

  Stanislaw Lem (1984). “His Master's Voice”, p.36, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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