Impediments Quotes - Page 6

• I mean, I'm 6-foot-11, I've got red hair, freckles, I'm a goofy, nerdy-looking guy, I've got a speech impediment-I stutter and stammer all the time-and I'm a Deadhead.

  Bill Walton

  Basketball, Mean, Hair

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• The cause of so much suffering and pain and one of the impediments to our spiritual progress, is the conditioning of expecting things to go our way, even in our spiritual life.

  Radhanath Swami

  Spiritual, Pain, Suffering

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• One of the principal impediments to job creation is uncertainty on the part of American companies, large and small. We've all watched as companies have sat on a lot of capital. They're uncertain about what tax policy is going to be. They're clearly uncertain about how health care costs. They're uncertain about all the regulations on capital markets.

  Tom J. Donohue

  Jobs, Cost, Care

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• Who is journeying for freedom? The one who is already free. Thoughts are impediments to seeing your own face. Don't give rise to any thought, and discover who you are.

  H. W. L. Poonja

  Giving, Faces, Awareness

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• Sometimes the things we think are the impediments are actually the path.

  Bob Goff

  Thinking, Path, Sometimes

  FaceBook post by Bob Goff from Apr 13, 2014

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• Men and women yearners must realize their unity even while in the
  flesh; not by communion of the flesh, but by the Will to Freedom from
  the flesh and all the impediments it places in their way to perfect
  Unity and Holy Understanding

  Mikhail Naimy

  Men, Perfect, Understanding

  Mikhail Naimy (2011). “The Book of Mirdad: The strange story of a monastery which was once called The Ark”, p.108, Duncan Baird Publishers

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• Most impediments to scientific understanding are conceptual locks, not factual lacks. Most difficult to dislodge are those biases that escape our scrutiny because they seem so obviously, even ineluctably, just. We know ourselves best and tend to view other creatures as mirrors of our own constitution and social arrangements. ( Aristotle , and nearly two millennia of successors, designated the large bee that leads the swarm as a king.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Kings, Views, Two

  Stephen Jay Gould (1991). “Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

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• The destruction of the inducement to invest by an excessive liquidity-preference was the outstanding evil, the prime impediment to the growth of wealth, in the ancient and medieval worlds.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Evil, Growth, World

  John Maynard Keynes, Royal Economic Society (Great Britain) (1971). “The collected writings of John Maynard Keynes”

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• Resistance to improvement contradicts the noblest instincts of the race. It begets its opposite. The fanaticism of reform is only the raging of the accumulated waters caused by the obstructions which an ultra conservatism has thrown across the stream of progress; and revolution itself is but the sudden overwhelming and sweeping away of impediments that should have been seasonably removed.

  Horace Mann

  Should Have, Opposites, Race

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• Riches are oftener an impediment than a stimulus to action; and in many cases they are quite as much a misfortune as a blessing.

  Samuel Smiles

  Blessing, Riches, Action

  Samuel Smiles (1866). “Self-help: With Illustrations of Charakter, Conduct and Perseverance”, p.311

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• In a discussion of this kind our interest should be centered not on the weight of the authority but on the weight of the argument. Indeed the authority of those who set out to teach is often an impediment to those who wish to learn. They cease to use their own judgment and regard as gospel whatever is put forward by their chosen teacher.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Teacher, Wish, Atheism

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• There cannot be any impediment to science that will ultimately be good to the general public.

  Anthony S. Fauci

  Be Good, General Public

  "Bird flu: how two mutant strains led to an international controversy" by Ian Sample, www.theguardian.com. March 28, 2012.

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• Timidity is a disease of the mind, obstinate and fatal; for a man once persuaded that any impediment is insuperable has given it, with respect to himself, that strength and weight which it had not before.

  Samuel Johnson

  Fear, Men, Mind

  Samuel Johnson (1827). “The Rambler”, p.153

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• The less sophisticated of my forbears avoided foreigners at all costs, for the very good reason that, in their circles, speaking in tongues was commonly a prelude to snake handling. The more tolerant among us regarded foreign languages as a kind of speech impediment that could be overcome by willpower.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Snakes, Circles, Overcoming

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• a white person who claims to have no impediment of vision in this country is not, I think, telling the whole truth. And when it comes to race relations, not telling the whole truth about the fog one inhabits slows down the work of groping forward.

  Naomi Wolf

  Country, Thinking, Race

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• We rigidify our self-image to portray a certain identity to the world, which is one of the key impediments to authenticity.

  Chip Conley

  Keys, Self, Identity

  Chip Conley (2012). “Emotional Equations: Simple Truths for Creating Happiness + Success”, p.140, Simon and Schuster

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• no one expects all impediments to be miraculously whisked away. In insisting that others view our lives as ample and precious, we are not demanding that they be made perfect. ... If it is both possible and pleasant for me and my kind to enter, the world will become a livelier place. You'll see.

  Nancy Mairs

  Views, Perfect, World

  Nancy Mairs (2001). “Waist-High In The World: A Life Among the Nondisabled”, p.106, Beacon Press

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• If what was said in the Ethics is true, that the happy life is the life according to virtue lived without impediment, and that virtue is a mean, then the life which is in a mean, and in a mean attainable by every one, must be the best. And the same principles of virtue and vice are characteristic of cities and of constitutions; for the constitution is in a figure the life of the city.

  Aristotle

  Mean, Happy Life, Cities

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.311, Simon and Schuster

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• I think there are so many little hurdles and impediments with stand-up that you'd need to have this insane desire to do it if you didn't have something that clicked right away.

  Demetri Martin

  Thinking, Insane, Desire

  Interview with Litsa Dremousis, www.believermag.com. February 2006.

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• The extreme sophistication of modern technology - wonderful though its benefits are - is, ironically, an impediment to engaging young people with basics: with learning how things work.

  Martin Rees

  Technology, People, Benefits

  "Britain needs schools for science" by Martin Rees, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2011.

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• I suffered from a quite severe speech impediment when I was young, and keeping a journal was part of the therapy.

  George Fetherling

  Speech, Young, Therapy

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• Affirmative action was designed originally for "women and other minorities" but the phrase has become just another tortured euphemism. Female conscientiousness and eagerness to please have always made women good students and natural test takers. Jews have gloried in scholarship throughout the ages, and Asians of both sexes score so high on SATs and IQ tests that they regard affirmative action as an impediment. Affirmative action really means favoritism for blacks for the sake of racial peace, but the favor is pure chimera, and so, increasingly, is the peace.

  Florence King

  Sex, Mean, Race

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• The character and the actor in a long-running series slowly become one. I think there must be funny stories about actors who, in the pilot for a TV series, did some weird thing with their eyes, or some speech impediment or something, and the next thing you know, it's eight years later, and they're still doing that freaking gag.

  William H. Macy

  Running, Character, Eye

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• The greatest impediments to personal change always come from within, not without.

  Andy Greenwald

  Personal Change

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• Then climate is a great impediment to idle persons; we often resolve to give up the care of the weather, but still we regard the clouds and the rain.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Giving Up, Rain, Clouds

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.217, Modern Library

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