Obstacles Quotes - Page 18

• For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle, confronting some stern and faceless judge who would condemn me to a pit of hell if I didn't achieve the "zone," if even for a moment. Not a particularly happy place to work from.

  Alan Arkin

  Years, Judging, Acting

  Alan Arkin (2011). “An Improvised Life: A Memoir”, p.51, Da Capo Press

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• There is not one obstacle standing in the way of your success anymore.

  Jon Taffer

  Way, Standing

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• If you believe you can only go so far, it is an obstacle.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Believe, Ifs, Believe You Can

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• Sometimes the tasks we take on seem virtually impossible. But amazingly, when we harness the incredible power of the subconscious in our lives, we can accomplish whatever we set out to do, no matter what obstacles we have to overcome.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Inspirational, Overcoming, Tasks

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• As the astronomer rejoices in new knowledge which compels him to give up the dignity of our globe as the centre, the pride, and even the final cause of the universe, so do those who have escaped from the Christian mythology enjoy their release from the superstition which fails to make them happy, fails to make them good, fails to make them wise, and has become as great an obstacle in the way of progress as the prior mythologies which it took the place of two thousand years ago.

  Harriet Martineau

  Wise, Christian, Giving Up

  Harriet Martineau (1877). “Harriet Martineau's autobiography, with memorials by M.W. Chapman”, p.356

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• When I needed to overcome the low expectations of others or the bias that would be expressed in one circumstance or another, I'd keep on keeping on. And I climb over the obstacle, go around it, dig under it, fly over it. That's what kept me going. Otherwise I would have never been an astrophysicist.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Expectations, Would Be, Overcoming

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Cynicism is the largest obstacle to social change. Cynicism is dangerous because people throw up their hands and say, "Well it's not possible. Why should I even try?"

  Robert Reich

  Hands, People, Trying

  Source: collider.com

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• If the people around you are negative and you can't change that, either remove yourself from the situation or view it simply as one obstacle you face in pursuing your own potential. Stay focused on your own goals and make the best of the situation.

  Terry Orlick

  Views, People, Goal

  Terry Orlick (1998). “Embracing Your Potential”, p.51, Human Kinetics

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• Out of a very intimate acquaintance with D. L. Moody, I wish to testify that he was a far greater pray-er than he was preacher. Time and time again, he was confronted by obstacles that seemed insurmountable, but he always knew the way to overcome all difficulties. He knew the way to bring to pass anything that needed to be brought to pass. He knew and believed in the deepest depths of his soul that nothing was too hard for the Lord, and that prayer could do anything that God could do.

  R. A. Torrey

  Prayer, Soul, Wish

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• Sometimes an obstacle is placed in front of us by God for the purpose of upgrading our vision and experiencing our dream at a higher level. The obstacle can only be here by permission of God, so it has to help us become what He is seeing about us.

  Graham Cooke

  Dream, Vision, Purpose

  FaceBook post by Graham Cooke from Nov 09, 2012

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• Most obstacles are inspiration.

  Millard Drexler

  Inspiration

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• Our inward power, when it obeys nature, reacts to events by accommodating itself to what it faces - to what is possible. It needs no specific material. It pursues its own aims as circumstances allow; it turns obstacles into fuel. As a fire overwhelms what would have quenched a lamp. What's thrown on top of the conflagration is absorbed, consumed by it - and makes it burn still higher.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Fire, Events, Needs

  Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.37, Modern Library

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• The War Party has two wings: the Democrats and the Republicans. All others are outsiders, whose ability to storm the gates is 'legally' restricted by a nearly impassable series of bureaucratic obstacles designed to keep them out while still maintaining the 'democratic' illusion, i.e. the phony two-party system, which is in reality a single entity.

  Justin Raimondo

  War, Party, Reality

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• The duration of a couple's passion is in proportion to the woman's original resistance or to the obstacles that social hazards have placed in the way of her happiness.

  Honore de Balzac

  Couple, Passion, Hazards

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• He who is content with what has been done is an obstacle in the path of progress.

  Helen Keller

  Progress, Path, Done

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.77, American Foundation for the Blind

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• It is only the first obstacle which counts to conquer modesty.

  Bill Vaughan

  Firsts, Modesty, Conquer

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• Leaps over walls - especially when taken late in life - can be extremely perilous. To leap successfully, you need a sense of humor, the spirit of adventure and an unshakable conviction that what you are leaping over is an obstacle upon which you would otherwise fall down.

  Monica Baldwin

  Wall, Fall, Taken

  Monica Baldwin (2016). “I Leap Over The Wall - Contrasts And Impressions After Twenty-Eight Years In A Convent”, p.7, Read Books Ltd

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• Men seldom think deeply on subjects in which they have no choice of opinion: they are fearful of encountering obstacles to their faith--as in religion--and so are content with the surface.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Faith, Men, Thinking

  Thomas Moore, Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1826). “Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan: In Two Volumes”, p.152

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• If your parents are billionaires, that might actually be an obstacle to your own happiness and self-development. If you go to Oxford or Harvard, that might actually thwart your desire to graduate with a science or math degree.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Math, Oxford, Self

  "Hi, I'm Malcolm Gladwell, author of The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers and--most recently--David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits and the Art of Battling Giants. Ask me anything!". Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. June 2, 2014.

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• To be made evident, truth must be sought for; for of itself it is slow to appear, and between ourselves and God the obstacles are so many!

  George Sand

  Made, Evident

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• Recently I began reading my old diaries. Back to before the war. Gradually I became very depressed. The reason for that is probably that I wrote only when there were obstacles and halts to the flow of life, seldom when everything was smooth and even. ... As I read I distinctly felt what a half-truth a diary presents.

  Kathe Kollwitz

  War, Reading, Flow

  Käthe Kollwitz, Hans Kollwitz (1988). “The Diary and Letters of Kaethe Kollwitz”, p.111, Northwestern University Press

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• about ten days ago I got started on a new book, and am completely, brazenly devoted to it: my hair is uncut, my letters are unwritten, the house is a shambles, and I sit here as happy as Mrs. Jellaby, though I am in 1836, not Africa. It won't go on like this, I shall fall over some obstacle, and wake out of my dreams with a black eye and broken shins: but while it does last, I daren't interrupt it. I haven't had such a spell of writing for nearly three years.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Dream, Book, Fall

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• Others may doubt us. They may criticize us. They may try to deny us what is rightfully ours. But they will fail. And I promise you, as long as I am mayor, I will never back away from fighting any opponent - or confronting any obstacle - that would prevent our people from achieving all of their dreams in Our New York.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Dream, New York, Fighting

  Michael Bloomberg's State of the City Address, www.gothamgazette.com. January 8, 2004.

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• Obstacles are an opportunity to create something new

  Skrillex

  Opportunity, Something New

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• Drama is about conflict and it's about putting obstacles in the path of people you who care about.

  Jim Beaver

  Drama, People, Who Cares

  "Jim Beaver Says Goodbye to Supernatural". Interview with Ileane Rudolph, www.tvguide.com. January 12, 2012.

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