Obstacles Quotes - Page 28

• 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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• There are days when either filmmaking feels like an insurmountable practice - here's a lot of obstacles in the way to make it happen - or you think, "What does this all add up to?" You don't know what to do with the footage, and you've asked a lot of people for their time and a lot of people to be patient with you. And then you lose faith that you can actually make a worthwhile story out of this.

  Debra Granik

  Thinking, Practice, People

  "Debra Granik on "poverty porn," self-worth, and her new film, Stray Dog". Interview with Sam Fragoso, film.avclub.com. July 11, 2015.

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• Always follow your dreams, even if they lead you down a few dark alleys.

  Teresa Mummert

  Dream, Dark, Overcoming

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• It is not every calamity that is a curse, and early adversity is often a blessing. Perhaps Madame de Maintenon would never have mounted a throne had not her cradle been rocked in a prison. Surmounted obstacles not only teach, but hearten us in our future struggles; for virtue must be learnt, though, unfortunately, some of the vices come as it were by inspiration.

  James Sharp

  Struggle, Inspiration, Adversity

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• I think the world offers so many wonderful varieties of obstacles, but that shouldn't be one for kids - is the worry that 'my parents wont be there.'

  Drew Barrymore

  Kids, Thinking, Worry

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• Conscience is a blushing, shamefaced spirit than mutinies in a man's bosom; it fills one full of obstacles.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Mutiny, Spirit

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• The job of president is to motivate, to inspire, to be side by side with people making sure that they develop all their capacities and that I remove all the obstacles they have to grow by themselves.

  Vicente Fox

  Jobs, People, Inspire

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• Obstacles are only obstacles if you see them as obstacles. They can also be called opportunities.

  Tucker Max

  Opportunity, Ifs

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• I firmly believe that deep in their soul everyone has a champion that can overcome obstacles and do great things.

  Bruce Jenner

  Believe, Soul, Champion

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• At the outset, it is only liking, not understanding, that matters. Gaps in understanding ... are not only important, they are perhaps even welcome, like clearings in the woods, the better to allow the heart's rays to stream out without obstacle. The unlit shadows should remain obscure, which is the very condition of enchantment.

  Andre Breton

  Heart, Poetry, Understanding

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• Obstacles are Opportunities in disguise.

  Deepak Chopra

  Opportunity, Soul, Disguise

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• There are a lot of obstacles in the way of our understanding animal intelligence - not the least being that we can't even agree whether nonhuman species are conscious. We accept that chimps and dolphins experience awareness; we like to think dogs and cats do. But what about mice and newts? What about a fly? Is anything going on there at all?

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Inspirational, Motivational, Dog

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• In or towards whomsoever the Holy Spirit puts forth His power, or acts his grace for their regeneration, he removes all obstacles, overcomes all oppositions, and infallibly produces the intended effect.

  John Owen

  Grace, Overcoming, Spirit

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• So closely interwoven have been our lives, our purposes, and experiences that, separated, we have a feeling of incompleteness--united, such strength of self-association that no ordinary obstacles, difficulties, or dangers ever appear to us insurmountable.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Friendship, Self, Feelings

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• God's righteousness and His unchangeable law make Christianity a stumbling block for many. Organizations and individuals carry a political and moral agenda that aims to remove all obstacles to their sin. Their goal is to 'break God's bands asunder and cast away His cords.' They counsel together to rid themselves of the law of God; anyone who preaches the gospel or stands for righteousness stands in the way of their agenda.

  Carman

  Christian, Religious, Block

  Carman Walker, Carman, Walter Walker (1994). “Raising the Standard/Reclaiming Your World for God”, Chordant Distribution

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• My best life lessons and education didn't come from a classroom - they've come from the wild. How you act in the big moments, the ones that challenge you, scare you, tempt you, and force you to make the right decisions, is what defines you.

  Bear Grylls

  Motivational, Education, Life Lesson

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• Intellectual work is an act of creation. It is as if the mental image that is studied over a period of time were to sprout appendages like an ameba—outgrowths that extend in all directions while avoiding one obstacle after another—before interdigitating with related ideas.

  Santiago Ramon y Cajal

  Time, Work, Ideas

  Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Neely Swanson, Larry W. Swanson (2004). “Advice for a Young Investigator”, p.59, MIT Press

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• Difficulties come not to obstruct, but to instruct. Within every setback or obstacle lie seeds of an equal or greater benefit or opportunity.

  Brian Tracy

  Lying, Opportunity, Benefits

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• Scars are reminders of the obstacles we've overcome. Wear them proudly.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Overcoming, Scar, Reminders

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• In one word, one should desire of God desirelessness. For desire alone is at the root of all suffering. It is the cause of repeated births and deaths. It is the obstacle in the way of liberation.

  Sarada Devi

  Roots, Suffering, Desire

  "Sri Sarada Devi, the Holy Mother; Life and Conversations" by Swami Tapasyananda, Swami Nikhilananda, (p. 369), 2004.

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• Success in business does not depend upon genius. Any young man of ordinary intelligence who is normally sound and not afraid to work should succeed in spite of obstacles and handicaps if he plays the game fairly and keeps everlastingly at it.

  James Cash Penney

  Success, Men, Play

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• The problems with willpower are many, but they may hardly be noticed by the person focused narrowly on success. First, there is little economy of means; in systems thinking terms, we act without leverage. We attain our goals, but the effort is enormous and we may find ourselves exhausted and wondering if it was worth it when we have succeeded. Ironically, people hooked on willpower may actually look for obstacles to overcome, dragons to slay, and enemies to vanquish--to remind themselves and others of their own prowess.

  Peter Senge

  Mean, Thinking, Dragons

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• In retirement, the passage of time seems accelerated. Nothing warns us of its flight. It is a wave which never murmurs, because there is no obstacle to its flow.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Retirement, Flow, Flight

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• All the living hold together, and all yield to the same tremendous push. The animal takes its stand on the plant, man bestrides animality, and the whole of humanity, in space and in time, is one immense army galloping beside and before and behind each of us in an overwhelming charge able to beat down every resistance and clear the most formidable obstacles, perhaps even death.

  Henri Bergson

  Army, Animal, Men

  Henri Bergson (2015). “Creative Evolution”, p.224, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• The man of frank and strong prejudices, far from being a political and social menace and an obstacle in the path of progress, is often a benign character and helpful citizen. The chance is far greater, furthermore, that he will be more creative than the man who can never come to more than a few gingerly held conclusions, or who thinks that all ideas should be received with equal hospitality. There is such a thing as being so broad you are flat.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Strong, Character, Men

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