Obstacles Quotes - Page 37

• Recognize that there will be failures, and acknowledge that there will be obstacles. But you will learn from your mistakes and the mistakes of others, for there is very little learning in success.

  Michael Dell

  Mistake, Littles, Acknowledge

  Michel Dell's commemencement speech at the University of Texas at Austin, www.graduationwisdom.com. May 2003.

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• Americans like to believe we can overcome all obstacles and always triumph in the end, but that's not real life and a steady diet of stories like that will give you a pretty unhealthy view of reality.

  Bartlett Sher

  Real, Believe, Views

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• Nothing puts a greater obstacle in the way of the progress of knowledge than thinking that one knows what one does not yet know.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Ignorance, Thinking, Progress

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• I think great romance needs great obstacles and textures.

  Ang Lee

  Thinking, Romance, Needs

  "Ang Lee Talks Brokeback Mountain". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. December 7, 2005.

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• We have a fear of facing ourselves. That is the obstacle. Experiencing the innermost core of our existence is very embarrassing to a lot of people. A lot of people turn to something that they hope will liberate them without their having to face themselves. That is impossible. We can't do that. We have to be honest with ourselves. We have to see our gut, our excrement, our most undesirable parts. We have to see them. That is the foundation of warriorship, basically speaking. Whatever is there, we have to face it, we have to look at it, study it, work with it and practice meditation with it.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Fear, Practice, People

  Chogyam Trungpa (2008). “Ocean of Dharma: The Everyday Wisdom of Chogyam Trungpa”, p.5, Shambhala Publications

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• The more two people open to each other, the more this wide-openness also brings to the surface all the obstacles to it: their deepest, darkest wounds, their desperation and mistrust, and their rawest emotional trigger points. Just as the sun's warmth causes clouds to arise by prompting the earth to release its moisture, so love's pure openness activates the thick clouds of our emotional wounding, the tight places where we are shut down, where we live in fear and resist love.

  John Welwood

  Fear, Emotional, Clouds

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• No matter the style, the farther one goes the more obstacles increase, and the more distant appears the object it is desired to attain. Again, the most strenuous labor affords the greatest artists but a disquieting gleam which only reveals their inadequacy, while the self-satisfied ignoramus surrounded by the deepest gloom flatters himself that he has nothing more to learn.

  Jean-Georges Noverre

  Artist, Self, Ballet

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• One of the biggest obstacles in the way of people coming to Christianity is that they think they know about it already.

  Timothy Keller

  Thinking, People, Way

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• But I have contrived an explanation which has every advantage; is inviting to christians of every communion; gradually frees them from all religious prejudices; cultivates the social virtues; and animates them by a great, a feasable, a speedy prospect of universal happiness, in a state of liberty and moral equality, freed from the obstacles which subordination, rank, and riches, continually throw in our way. My explanation is accurate and complete, my means are effectual, and irresistable. Our secret association works in a way that nothing can withstand, and man shall soon be free and happy.

  Adam Weishaupt

  Christian, Religious, Mean

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• What is the biggest obstacle facing the family right now? It is over-commitment; time pressure. There is nothing that will destroy family life more insidiously than hectic schedules and busy lives, where spouses are too exhausted to communicate, too worn out to have sex, too fatigued to talk to the kids. That frantic lifestyle is just as destructive as one involving outbroken sin. If Satan can't make you sin, he'll make you busy, and that's just about the same thing.

  James Dobson

  Sex, Stress, Kids

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• A devotee who can call on God while living a householder's life is a hero indeed. God thinks: 'He is blessed indeed who prays to me in the midst of his worldly duties. He is trying to find me, overcoming a great obstacle -- pushing away, as it were, a huge block of stone weighing a ton. Such a man is a real hero.

  Ramakrishna

  Prayer, Block, Real

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• Woman was the Church's rival, the temptress, the distraction, the obstacle to holiness, the Devil's decoy.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Women, Church, Devil

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• The national sport of England is obstacle-racing. People fill their rooms with useless and cumbersome furniture, and spend the rest of their lives in trying to dodge it.

  Herbert Beerbohm Tree

  Sports, Home, People

  Quoted in Hesketh Pearson Beerbohm (1956).

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• I have to pick myself up every day and say, 'The show must go on,' meaning life as I know it must go on, whatever the obstacle is, I know I can handle it, and I can get through it.

  Jennie Garth

  Goes On, Shows, Meaning Life

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• It is a great obstacle to happiness to expect too much.

  Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

  Happiness, Too Much

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• Nature has given to each conscious being every power she possesses, and one of these abilities is this: just as Nature converts and alters every obstacle and opposition, and fits them into their predestined place, making them a part of herself, so too the rational person is able to finesse every obstacle into an opportunity, and to use it for whatever purpose it may suit.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Nature, Opportunity, May

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• Creating new paths requires moving old obstacles.

  Anthony D. Williams

  Wise, Wisdom, Clever

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• We have now got what seems to be definite proof that an X ray which spreads out in a spherical form from a source as a wave through the aether can when it meets an atom collect up all its energy from all round and concentrate it on the atom. It is as if when a circular wave on water met an obstacle, the wave were all suddenly to travel round the circle and disappear all round and concentrate its energy on attacking the obstacle. Mechanically of course this is absurd, but mechanics have in this direction been for some time a broken reed.

  Henry Moseley

  Science, Circles, Broken

  Henry Moseley's letter to Margery Moseley (February 2, 1913), as quoted in "H. G. J. Moseley: The Life and Letters of an English Physicist 1887-1915" edited by J. L. Heilbron (p. 201), 1974.

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• The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment.

  Christopher Lasch

  Common Sense, Community, Progress

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• Part of my driving desire as a pastor is to remove every obstacle except the cross that would keep people from coming to faith in Christ.

  Mark Batterson

  People, Desire, Driving

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• What's really interesting and fun to explore is not just the falling in love and everything being great, but the obstacles to falling in love.

  Patrick J. Adams

  Falling In Love, Fun, Interesting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's just a question of eliminating obstacles.

  Sheryl Crow

  Inspirational, Eliminating

  Song: No One Said It Would Be Easy, Album: Tuesday Night Music Club, 1993

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• Considerable obstacles generally present themselves to the beginner, in studying the elements of Solid Geometry, from the practice which has hitherto uniformly prevailed in this country, of never submitting to the eye of the student, the figures on whose properties he is reasoning, but of drawing perspective representations of them upon a plane. ...I hope that I shall never be obliged to have recourse to a perspective drawing of any figure whose parts are not in the same plane.

  Augustus De Morgan

  Country, Eye, Science

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• The first, sickness (vyadhi), is a physical obstacle, but the other eight can be considered mental. These include languor (styana), doubt (samshaya), heedlessness (pramada), sloth (alasya), dissipation (avirati), false vision (bhranti-darshana), nonattainment of yogic states (alabdha-bhumikatva), and instability in these states (anavasthitatva).

  Richard Rosen

  Eight, Vision, Doubt

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• In my career I have never felt that my being a woman was an obstacle or an advantage. I guess I've been oblivious.

  Carole King

  Careers, Being A Woman, Advantage

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