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• There are two obstacles to enlightenment: 1. Thinking you know. 2 Thinking you don't know.

  Gautama Buddha

  Thinking, Two, Enlightenment

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• The worst possible thing ... was to lie dead in the water with any problem. Solve it, solve it quickly ... If you solved it wrong, it would come back and slap you in the face, and then you could solve it right.

  Thomas Watson, Jr.

  Lying, Water, Faces

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• I need problems. A good problem makes me come alive.

  Tiny Rowland

  Needs, Alive, Problem

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• Work only on problems that are manifestly important and seem to be nearly impossible to solve. That way you will have a natural market for your product and no competition.

  Edwin Land

  Competition, Important, Way

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• One must think until it hurts. One must worry a problem in one's mind until it seems there cannot be another aspect of it that hasn't been considered.

  Roy Herbert Reinhart

  Hurt, Thinking, Worry

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• Every solution of a problem raises new unsolved problems.

  Karl Popper

  Problem, Raises, Solutions

  Karl Popper (2014). “Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge”, p.38, Routledge

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• Beware of the danger signals that flag problems: silence, secretiveness, or sudden outburst.

  Sylvia Porter

  Relationship, Silence, Flags

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• I've learned at the book signings that everyone has obstacles.

  Greg Louganis

  Book, I've Learned, Signing

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• With options thus foreclosed, in order to protect and defend the nation and clear the obstacles that stood in its path, a decisive appeal to arms was made.

  Hideki Tojo

  Order, Arms, Path

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• You have to go understand that life and baseball is littered with all kinds of obstacles and problems along the way. You have to learn how to overcome them to be successful in life.

  Dave Winfield

  Sports, Baseball, Successful

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• No matter how many obstacles that are thrown in our path, there are ways to except them and to live through them.

  Robert Zemeckis

  Matter, Way, Path

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• A successful woman preacher was once asked what special obstacles have you met as a woman in the ministry? Not one, she answered, except the lack of a minister's wife.

  Anna Garlin Spencer

  Women, Successful, Wife

  Anna Garlin Spencer (1908). “Woman's Share in Social Culture”

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• The word crisis- is from the Greek, meaning a moment to decide.- The recurrent moments of crisis and decision when understood, are growth junctures, points of initiation which mark a release from one state of being and a growth into the next.

  Jill Purce

  Decision, Greek, Growth

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• We live in an information economy. The problem is that information's usually impossible to get, at least in the right place, at the right time.

  Steve Jobs

  Information, Impossible, Problem

  Robert X. Cringley for a Public Broadcasting System [PBS] television series, "Triumph of the Nerds" (1995), "The Lost Interview: Steve Jobs Tells Us What Really Matters", Forbes, Steve Denning, November 17, 2011.

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• Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.

  Simone Weil

  Source, Consolation, True Faith

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• Sickness is a hindrance to the body, but not to your ability to choose, unless that is your choice. Lameness is a hindrance to the leg, but not to your ability to choose. Say this to yourself with regard to everything that happens, then you will see such obstacles as hindrances to something else, but not to yourself.

  Epictetus

  Responsibility, Choices, Body

  Epictetus (2012). “The Handbook of Epictetus”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• It is very rare that you meet with obstacles in this world, which the humblest man has not faculties to surmount.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Strength, Men, World

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.130, Xist Publishing

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• Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats. Yet each struggle, each defeat, sharpens your skills and strengths, your courage and your endurance, your ability and your confidence and thus each obstacle is a comrade-in-arms forcing you to become better... or quit. Each rebuff is an opportunity to move forward; turn away from them, avoid them, and you throw away your future.

  Og Mandino

  Inspirational, Motivational, Struggle

  Og Mandino (2011). “The Greatest Salesman in the World”, p.25, Bantam

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• I've been motivated by overcoming challenge and overcoming the hurdles and obstacles that face me. There still is plenty out there to get motivated by.

  Andre Agassi

  Challenges, Overcoming, Faces

  FaceBook post by Andre Agassi from Sep 18, 2013

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• I have a message for the young kids. Life is about obstacles, endeavors in life are not to be overlooked.

  Wade Boggs

  Kids, Messages, Life Is

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• Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models.

  Bill Bradley

  Motivational, Success, Sports

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• I don't really think in terms of obstacles. My biggest obstacle is always myself.

  Steve Earle

  Fear, Thinking, Term

  "Readers recommend: songs about obstacles" by Peter Kimpton, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2015.

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• Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Encouraging

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• It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities.

  Eric Hoffer

  Success, Opportunity, Men

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• There is no obstacle in the path of young people who are poor or members of minority groups that hard work and preparation cannot cure.

  Barbara Jordan

  Hard Work, Adversity, People

  "Wisdom for the Soul of Black Folk". Book edited Larry Chang and Roderick Terry, p. 117, 2007.

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