Hurdle Quotes - Page 6

• The gentle art of gastronomy is a friendly one. It hurdles the language
  barrier, makes friends among civilized people, and warms the heart.

  Samuel Chamberlain

  Art, Food, People

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• Instead of encouraging the student to devote himself to his studies for the sake of studying, instead of encouraging in him a real love for his subject and for inquiry, he is encouraged to study for the sake of his personal career; he is led to acquire only such knowledge as is serviceable in getting him over the hurdles which he must clear for the sake of his advancement.

  Karl Popper

  Education, Real, Careers

  Karl R. Popper (2013). “The Open Society and Its Enemies”, p.128, Princeton University Press

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• Where the loser saw barriers, the winner saw hurdles.

  Robert Breault

  Attitude, Opportunity, Work Out

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• Everybody has barriers and obstacles. If you look at them as containing fences that don't allow you to advance, then you're going to be a failure. If you look at them as hurdles that strengthen you each time you go over one, then you're going to be a success.

  Benjamin Carson

  Softball, Looks, Obstacles

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• Your biggest hurdle isn't your opponent, it is yourself.

  Brandon Todd

  Inspiring, Sports, Opponents

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• There are two ways to pass a hurdle: leaping over or plowing through... There needs to be a monster truck option.

  Jeph Jacques

  Inspirational, Funny, Two

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• We are the hurdles we leap to be ourselves.

  Michael McClure

  Humanity, Leap

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• When you're home or you're working, your mind just isn't allowed to just roll on like it does when you're watching the scenery go by. You're hurdling through space but you're not really moving. ...It's that dreaminess, that ability to just get dreamy while you're looking out the window and you see something...and it makes you think of something else, and all of a sudden the words are just flowing out of you.

  Pegi Young

  Moving, Home, Writing

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• There are hurdles, there are handicaps, hardships you have to face in life, but you hope for a great future.

  Anil Kapoor

  Hardship, Faces, Hurdling Obstacles

  Interview With Hannah Pool, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2009.

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• One of the biggest hurdles in the path of entrepreneurship is home loans!

  Vishwas Mudagal

  Powerful, Home, Entrepreneur

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• Like running the hurdles. Work so hard, jump over every one, fast, high enough but no higher, because you can't afford to hang in the air. And then, when the race is over, you're dripping with sweat, either they beat you or you beat them ... and then a couple of guys come out and move the hurdles out of the way. Turns out they were nothing. All that work to jump over them, but now they're gone.

  Orson Scott Card

  Running, Couple, Moving

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• Greatness finds us by obstacles in front of us. I don’t look at hurdles as obstacles blocking my path but opportunities to overcome.

  Lolo Jones

  Inspirational, Success, Sports

  FaceBook post by Lolo Jones from Aug 04, 2012

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• Passionate conviction ... sparks romances, wins battles, and drives people to pursue dreams others wouldn't dare. Belief in ourselves and in what is right catapults us over hurdles, and our lives unfold.

  Howard Schultz

  Dream, Winning, People

  Howard Schultz, Joanne Gordon (2012). “Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul”, p.7, Rodale

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• Being negative is easy. There will always be a downside to everything good, a hurdle to everything desirable, a con to every pro. The real courage is in finding the good in what you have, the opportunities in every hurdle, the pros in every con.

  Carolyn Hax

  Wisdom, Real, Opportunity

  "Carolyn Hax Live: Advice Columnist Tackles Your Problems". Live Discussion, www.washingtonpost.com. August 7, 2009.

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• Hurdling, sprinting, athletics in general, is always in the back of your mind.

  Sally Pearson

  Mind, Athletics

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Students are too busy jumping through the next hurdle in the résumé race to figure out what they really want. They are too frantic tasting everything on the smorgasbord to have life-altering encounters. They have a terror of closing off options. They have been inculcated with a lust for prestige and a fear of doing things that may put their status at risk.

  David Brooks

  Jumping, Race, Lust

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• Your fears are not walls, but hurdles.

  Dan Millman

  Wall

  Dan Millman (2008). “Everyday Enlightenment: The Twelve Gateways to Personal Growth”, p.128, Hachette UK

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• We are currently facing countless hurdles and obstacles, BUT will never lose the sight of infinite hope.

  Widad Akrawi

  Sight, Infinite Hope, Obstacles

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• I feel that talent means little unless coupled with an insatiable desire to give an excellent personal demonstration of ability...talent must be in company with a capacity for unlimited effort which provides the power that eventually hurdles the difficulties that would frustrate lukewarm enthusiasm.

  Andrew Loomis

  Mean, Giving, Effort

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• Complacency is the last hurdle standing between any team and its potential greatness.

  Pat Riley

  Team, Greatness, Complacency

  Pat Riley (1993). “The winner within: a life plan for team players”, Putnam Adult

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• Life is a hurdle and you'll never clear it. Death is the end of the ride and you fear it.

  Henry Rollins

  Death, Life Is, Ends

  Song: I Want So Much More

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• Delayed energy projects and regulatory hurdles to domestic oil production not only cost the United States economy billions of dollars and millions of jobs, but they also stand in the way of an elusive goal: true American energy security.

  John Hoeven

  Jobs, Oil, Goal

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• I think I'm well on the way of overcoming a very big hurdle that's been in my way for several years. Which is trying to find a way to not let the insecurity of my profession get the better of me and make me crazy. I'm trying to find a way to maintain my own personal balance in the midst of everything.

  Rebecca De Mornay

  Crazy, Thinking, Years

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• As we women know, there are so many other hurdles that we have to cross that I would love it if we could stop having the race conversation so that we can get women further on. You know, a female president now that we have an African American president. Maybe we can get an Asian female, a gay person?

  Octavia Spencer

  Gay, Race, African American

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• I firmly believed throughout 1971 that the major hurdle to winning the presidency was winning the Democratic nomination. I believed that any reasonable Democrat would defeat President Nixon. I now think that no one could have defeated him in 1972.

  George McGovern

  Winning, Thinking, President

  George Stanley McGovern (1974). “An American Journey: The Presidential Campaign Speeches of George McGovern”, New York : Random House

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