Impediments Quotes - Page 4

• Manners aim to facilitate life, to get rid of impediments, and bring the man pure to energize. They aid our dealing and conversation, as a railway aids travelling, by getting rid of all avoidable obstructions of the road, and leaving nothing to be conquered but pure space.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Space, Leaving

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.222

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• The attack did not succeed as well as I had hoped, no small impediment having been the loss of my right leg.

  Peter Stuyvesant

  Loss, Afterlife, Legs

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• There is a common perception that compassion is, if not actually an impediment, at least irrelevant to professional life. Personally, I would argue that not only is it relevant, but that when compassion is lacking, our activities are in danger of becoming destructive. This is because when we ignore the question of the impact our actions have on others' well-being, inevitably we end up hurting them.

  Dalai Lama

  Hurt, Compassion, Impact

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• It is not sex per se - your identification with the body is the impediment to your spiritual growth.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Love, Life, Spiritual

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• We go on a journey to be free of all impediments; to leave ourselves behind much more than to get rid of others

  William Hazlitt

  Journey, Goes On, Behinds

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• Just as nature takes every obstacle, every impediment, and works around it--turns it to its purposes, incorporates it into itself, so, too, a rational being can turn each setback into raw material and use it to achieve its goal.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Goal, Raw Materials, Purpose

  Marcus Aurelius, Plato, Aristotle (2012). “The Modern Library Collection of Greek and Roman Philosophy 3-Book Bundle: Meditations; Selected Dialogues of Plato; The Basic Works of Aristotle”, p.221, Modern Library

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• I always wanted to be an actor, but with a speech impediment it's kind of tough. I decided to roll the dice and take an acting class, which was very, very nerve-wracking... my stomach would just be in knots.

  Nicholas Brendon

  Class, Acting, Actors

  "Actor gets the word out on stuttering" by Kat Carney, www.cnn.com. April 4, 2003.

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• But I also want kids who suffer from bullying to know that you can be whoever you want to be in life, including a professional boxer. That anything is possible and that who you are or whom you love should not be an impediment to achieving anything in life.

  Orlando Cruz

  Bullying, Kids, Suffering

  "Orlando Cruz becomes first boxer to announce he is gay". Statement to the Press, www.theguardian.com. October 4, 2012.

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• VITUPERATION, n. Saite, as understood by dunces and all such as suffer from an impediment in their wit.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Understanding, Suffering, Dunces

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.462, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Science, Progress, Desire

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook K 72, 1799.

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• Governmental aid is a drawback rather than an assistance, as, although it may facilitate in the routine of artistic production, it is an impediment to the development of true artistic genius.

  John Philip Sousa

  Routine, Genius, Development

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• When they're standing right in front of you, kings are a kind of speech impediment.

  Terry Pratchett

  Kings, Speech, Kind

  "The Carpet People". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1971.

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• I paid every effort to seek deregulation throughout FEDEX's start-up and expansion periods, because the biggest impediment to our growth was the government regulations that restricted new entry into the air cargo market.

  Frederick W. Smith

  Government, Air, Effort

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• Privacy laws are our biggest impediment to us obtaining our objectives.

  Michael Eisner

  Law, Privacy, Obtaining

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• I have not heard almost anybody suggest that raising the minimum wage to the level we have in Vermont has been an impediment to our economy which is doing reasonably well ... If somebody is going to work that person has got to receive at least a wage that they can go out and live with dignity on. That's an extremely important point.

  Bernie Sanders

  Important, Minimum Wage, Levels

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• P.E. was my life in school. Without it, I wouldn't be standing here. It gave me confidence when I was an overweight kid with a speech impediment.

  Herschel Walker

  School, Kids, Speech

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• An education, other than purely professional or technical, can even seem to be an impediment.

  Allan Bloom

  Education, Seems

  Allan Bloom (1988). “Closing of the American Mind”, Simon & Schuster

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• I like to mumble when I act, 'cause I think it's more realistic. For some reason, the impediment has given me the accent of a Mexican gangster.

  David Arquette

  Thinking, Mexican, Causes

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

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• The increasing technicality of the terminology employed is also a serious difficulty. It has become necessary to learn an extensive vocabulary before a book in even a limited department of science can be consulted with much profit. This change, of course, has its advantages for the initiated, in securing precision and concisement of statement; but it tends to narrow the field in which an investigator can labour, and it cannot fail to become, in the future, a serious impediment to wide inductive generalisations.

  Thomas George Bonney

  Book, Science, Vocabulary

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• I'm probably a little more like my dad. But because of my mom, I never saw being a woman as being an impediment to being able to do something. She had her Ph.D. before I was born.

  Mary Cheney

  Mom, Dad, Littles

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• Religion can be one of the greatest impediments to finding God.

  Anne Graham Lotz

  Finding God, Findings

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• Rejection-and the fear of rejection-is the biggest impediment we face to choosing ourselves.

  James Altucher

  Rejection, Faces, Fear Of Rejection

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• One of the biggest impediments for women is that they have never really understood, looked at or examined their own genitals. They have not really figured out what kind of stimulation and where feels best for them, so they are not able to guide a partner in this.

  Gail Saltz

  Able, Kind, Guides

  "Dissatisfied, ladies? Tips to reach the Big O". TODAY interview, www.today.com. November 2, 2007.

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• All impediments in fancy's course Are motives of more fancy.

  William Shakespeare

  Fancy, Motive, Courses

  William Shakespeare (2001). “All's Well that Ends Well”, p.82, Courier Corporation

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• Honorable, adj.: Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary to mention all members as honorable; as, "the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.".

  Ambrose Bierce

  Gentleman, Affliction, Body

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.112, University of Georgia Press

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