Obstacles Quotes - Page 11

• Art is always about overcoming obstacles between the inner condition and the skill for expression.

  Ai Weiwei

  Art, Expression, Skills

  "Enforced Disappearance". W Magazine, November 2011.

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• What I've done serves mostly to show that nearly all limits are self-imposed, a false construct of the mind. You can take on mind-boggling challenges. It may cause you grief, it may test your relationships and cause you to question your sanity, but you can do it! Yes, a fifty-seven year-old man can run across the United States and break a couple or records in the process. People of any age can accomplish what few others have done; we can endure the trials, overcome the obstacles, put up with the pain to realize our dreams. Why not try?

  Marshall Ulrich

  Running, Dream, Pain

  Marshall Ulrich (2011). “Running on Empty: An Ultramarathoner's Story of Love, Loss, and a Record-Setting Run Across Ameri ca”, p.117, Penguin

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• The past should remain firmly behind one. The present holds enough obstacles.

  Scott Frost

  Past, Enough, Should

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• The biggest obstacle to making Christ magnificent is the refusal to make yourself small.

  James MacDonald

  Christ, Refusal, Magnificent

  Twitter post from Aug 04, 2016

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• Games are unnecessary obstacles we volunteer to tackle.

  Jane McGonigal

  Games, Volunteer, Unnecessary

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• Religion is now the first obstacle to women's advancement. Religion pulls human beings backwards, it goes against science and progressiveness. Religion engulfs people with a fear of the supernatural. It bars people from laughing and never allows people to exercise their choice.

  Taslima Nasrin

  Exercise, People, Laughing

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• The search for truth is a cooperative, unending endeavor. We can, and should, engage in it to the extent we can and encourage others to do so as well, seeking to free ourselves from constraints imposed by coercive institutions, dogma, irrationality, excessive conformity and lack of initiative and imagination, and numerous other obstacles.

  Noam Chomsky

  Imagination, Conformity, Dogma

  "On Responsibility, War Guilt and Intellectuals". Interview with Gabriel Matthew Schivone, chomsky.info. August 3, 2007.

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• Love is a rare and valuable thing, and you don't get to choose its object. You just go around getting hung up on all the least convenient things-and if the only obstacle in your way is a little extra work, then that's the wonderful gift right there.

  Elif Batuman

  Love Is, Littles, Way

  Elif Batuman (2011). “The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them”, p.79, Granta Books

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• One of the biggest, and possibly the biggest, obstacle to becoming a writer... is learning to live with the fact that the wonderful story in your head is infinitely better, truer, more moving, more fascinating, more perceptive, than anything you're going to manage to get down on paper.

  Robin McKinley

  Moving, Stories, Paper

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• God loves to bring good out of bad. He loves to turn crucifixions into resurrections. Every obstacle is an opportunity. Every problem has potential. Every crisis is an opportunity for ministry. Every hurt God wants to use for His glory.

  Rick Warren

  Hurt, Opportunity, Ministry

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• When you reach an obstacle, turn it into an opportunity. You have the choice.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Opportunity, Choices, Entrepreneur

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• Every obstacle is destroyed through rigor.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Rigor, Destroyed

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• The first place we lose the battle is in our own thinking. If you think it is permanent then it's permanent. If you think you've reached your limits then you have. If you think you will never get well then you won't. You have to change your thinking. You need to see everything that's holding you back, every obstacle, every limitation as only temporary.

  Joel Osteen

  Motivational, Change, Positive

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• Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up.

  Terence McKenna

  Dream, Commitment, Dmt

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• Everyone has obstacles to overcome, but those with great faith can conquer whatever stands in the way.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Overcoming, Way, Conquer

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• Remember that, my child. Remember you are half water. If you can't go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.

  Margaret Atwood

  Patience, Children, Remember You

  Margaret Atwood (2003). “The Penelopiad”, p.43, Canongate Books

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• Grace removes obstacles that we don’t even know are there. Grace is what arranges our lives so we are forced to look within.

  Krishna Das

  Grace, Looks, Remove

  Twitter post from Nov 16, 2009

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• Business is always a struggle. There are always obstacles and competitors. There is never an open road, except the wide road that leads to failure. Every great success has always been achieved by fight. Every winner has scars.The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will-power to develop themselves. So choose to be among the few today.

  Chris Kirubi

  Moving On, Success, Perseverance

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• That's one of my biggest obstacles. I'm afraid of failure. I want to succeed so bad that I become afraid of failing.

  LeBron James

  Want, Succeed, Failing

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• The biggest obstacle to taking a bigger perspective on life is that our emotions capture and blind us.

  Pema Chodron

  Perspective, Emotion, Life Is

  Pema Chodron (2001). “The Wisdom of No Escape: And the Path of Loving Kindness”, p.39, Shambhala Publications

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• No obstacle is so big that one person with determination can't make a difference.

  Jay Samit

  Determination, Differences, Making A Difference

  Twitter post from Dec 15, 2016

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• Try not to turn your life into a race, least of all an obstacle race.

  Jose Bergamin

  Race, Trying, Turns

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• When mystics use the word love, they use it very carefully - in the deeply spiritual sense, where to love is to know; to love is to act. If you really love, from the depths of your Consciousness, that love gives you a native wisdom. You perceive the needs of others intuitively and clearly, with detachment from any personal desires; and you know how to act creatively to meet those needs, dexterously surmounting any obstacle that comes in the way. Such is the immense, driving power of love.

  Eknath Easwaran

  Spiritual, Love Is, Giving

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• The obstacles in our path are not blocking us-they are redirecting us. Their purpose is not to interfere with our happiness; it is to point us toward new routes to our happiness, new possibilities, new doorways.

  Barbara De Angelis

  Block, Purpose, Doorways

  FaceBook post by Dr. Barbara De Angelis from Oct 26, 2012

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• If God gives you (or makes you) a joke, what are you meant to do in response? (Receive it. Laugh.)
  If God gives you an obstacle, what are you meant to do in response? (Receive it. Climb it. Then laugh.)
  If God gives you more profound hardship, what are you meant to do in response? (Receive it. Climb it. Then laugh. Exhibit A: His Son.)

  N.D. Wilson

  Son, Giving, Profound

  N. D. Wilson (2013). “Death by Living: Life Is Meant to Be Spent”, p.41, Thomas Nelson

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