Impediments Quotes - Page 7

• 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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• Evangelicals have like millions of rules. And it's just, uh, we have sort of an accepted, rationalism within which we frame religion. And we think that belief, intellectually, is of the same as relationship. And in our Western family conversation, that's become an incredible impediment toward actual wholeness, where the heart and the head are aligned and relationship -- with not just God but with each other.

  William P. Young

  Heart, Thinking, Belief

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• I think the biggest impediment to fixing the food system in the United States is that we expect food to be cheap. We want to by other things with our money. We're so disconnected from agriculture - from the culture in agriculture.

  Alice Waters

  Thinking, Agriculture, United States

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It is impossible for me to reconcile myself to the idea of conversion after the style that goes on in India and elsewhere today. It is an error which is perhaps the greatest impediment to the world's progress toward peace. ... Why should a Christian want to convert a Hindu to Christianity? Why should he not be satisfied if the Hindu is a good or godly man?

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Christian, Godly, Men

  Mahatma Gandhi (1957). “Christian Missions, Their Place in India”

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• Just as riches are an impediment to virtue in the wicked, so in the good they are an aid of virtue.

  Ambrose

  Wicked, Riches, Virtue

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• There are no impediments now to corporations. None. And what they want is for us to give up. They want us to become passive. They want us to become tacitly complicit in our own destruction.

  Chris Hedges

  Giving Up, Want, Corporations

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. July 14, 2011.

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• These people in the establishment have been telling us they're the ones to fix everything and everything they've tried to fix, they've botched - TARP, the recession fix such as the stimulus bill. Look at the college - college education is an impediment because of how much it costs. A college education is no longer a step up.

  Rush Limbaugh

  College, People, Looks

  "Rush Limbaugh on rift that threatens the Republican Party; Mitt Romney talks Trump attack, future of the GOP". "Fox News Sunday", www.foxnews.com. March 6, 2016.

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• The IMF and the World Bank, the most opaque and secretive entities, put millions into NGOs who fight against "corruption" and for "transparency." They want the Rule of Law - as long as they make the laws. They want transparency in order to standardise a situation, so that global capital can flow without any impediment.

  Arundhati Roy

  Fighting, Order, Law

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The federal budget deficit is the biggest single impediment to revitalizing the American economy.

  Alice Rivlin

  Economics, Economy, Deficit

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• It's always been you know, religion that has been the primary impediment to actual relationship with God, because it creates a mythology about performance -- that you can perform your way into the appeasement of the deity. And you know, when you're born inside the cultural framework that I was, and you're born inside the religious traditions that I was, that becomes your understanding of spirituality: That it's about trying to please God. So, it's really not about God at all; it's about our ability to perform according to whatever the expectations are.

  William P. Young

  Religious, Expectations, Understanding

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• PRIVATE, n. A military gentleman with a field-marshal's baton in his knapsack and an impediment in his hope.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Hope, Military, Gentleman

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.171, 谷月社

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• There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words. To this chiefly it is owing that we find sects and parties in most branches of science [and politics]; and disputes that are carried on from age to age, without being brought to issue.

  Thomas Reid

  Party, Issues, Age

  Thomas Reid, Ronald E. Beanblossom, Keith Lehrer (1983). “Thomas Reid's Inquiry and Essays”, p.129, Hackett Publishing

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