Stumbling Quotes - Page 5

• Stumbling is the fruit of haste.

  Muhammad Ali

  Haste, Fruit

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• This idea that clumsy, stumbling people are real bright is ridiculous, because intelligence is related to neurologic function, and really intelligent people are very well-coordinated.

  Robert Jarvik

  Real, Intelligent, Ideas

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• The stumbling way in which even the ablest of the scientists in every generation have had to fight through thickets of erroneous observations, misleading generalizations, inadequate formulation, and unconscious prejudice is rarely appreciated by those who obtain their scientific knowledge from textbooks.

  James Bryant Conant

  Fighting, Science, Prejudice

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• It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought, a process stumbling through emotional entanglements, sudden irrational convictions, involuntary gleams of insight, rationalized prejudices, and blocks of panic and inertia, finally to reach a completely incommunicable intuition.

  Northrop Frye

  Block, Emotional, Thinking

  Northrop Frye (2015). “Anatomy of Criticism”, p.83, Princeton University Press

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• Yeah, I can't separate the art from the music and the music from the art. I think that stems from going to school for film first, and kind of stumbling onto music as my career.

  Karen O

  Art, School, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In Germany, you have a huge official memorial to the murdered Jews and then you have this artist who's been putting these stumbling blocks, these brass cobblestones, outside the houses Jews were taken away from. It's somewhat controversial and has met some resistance.

  Amy Waldman

  Block, Taken, Artist

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• Get Carter remains among the great crime novels, a lean, muscular portrait of a man stumbling along the hard edge - toward redemption. Ted Lewis cuts to the bone.

  James Sallis

  Cutting, Men, Crime Novels

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• Deep practice is built on a paradox: struggling in certain targeted ways-operating at the edges of your ability, where you make mistakes-makes you smarter. Or to put it in a slightly different way, experiences where you're forced to slow down, make errors, and correct them-as you would if you were walking up an ice-covered hill, slipping and stumbling as you go-end up making you swift and graceful without your realizing it.

  Daniel Coyle

  Inspirational, Mistake, Struggle

  "The Talent Code: Greatness isn't born. It's grown". Book by Daniel Coyle, 2010.

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• Successful people see adversity as a stepping stone rather than a stumbling block.

  Shawn Achor

  Block, Adversity, Successful

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• Hanifs (Muslims) are stumbling, Christians all astray
  Jews wildered, Magians far on error’s way.
  We mortals are composed of two great schools
  Enlightened knaves or else religious fools.

  Al-Maʿarri

  Christian, Religious, School

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• Sometimes we are given exactly what we need. The precise people that you need the most come stumbling into your life. Sometimes you don't notice, and this is very sad. Sometimes you lose them again. This is sad too, but not as sad. Because what you have once had together you have forever.

  Linda Olsson

  People, Forever, Together

  Linda Olsson (2013). “The Memory of Love: A Novel”, p.147, Penguin

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• Advocates for a single line of progress encounter their greatest stumbling block when they try to find a smooth link between the apparently disparate designs of the invertebrates and vertebrates.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Block, Design, Progress

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• The rest of the world in which I lived was still stumbling about in search of a weapon with which to exterminate this monster [homosexuality] whose shape and size were not yet known or even guessed at. It was thought to be Greek in origin, smaller than socialism but more deadly, especially to children.

  Quentin Crisp

  Children, Greek, Monsters

  "The Naked Civil Servant". Book by Quentin Crisp, Chapter 3, 1968.

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• Thought, stumbling, plods Past fallen temples, vanished gods, Altars unincensed, fanes undecked, Eternal systems flown or wrecked; Through trackless centuries that grant To the poor trudge refreshment scant, Age after age, pants on to find A melting mirage of the mind.

  Alfred Austin

  Past, Mind, Age

  Alfred Austin (1885). “At the Gate of the Convent: And Other Poems”

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• I think there are a number of things that you can do to encourage your kids' dreams but I do believe in speaking by experience of having a lot of help along the way, stumbling in the past. We've all stumbled and we certainly all deserve to get up and walk again.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Dream, Believe, Kids

  "Dwayne Johnson and Julie Andrews Interview TOOTH FAIRY". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintarub, collider.com. January 19, 2010.

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• In point of fact, Western philosophy has never set itself free of Christianity: wherever Christianity did not have a hand in the construction of modern philosophy it served instead as a stumbling block.

  Jacques Maritain

  Block, Philosophy, Hands

  Jacques Maritain (1955). “An essay on Christian philosophy”

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• The art of growing old is the art of being regarded by the oncoming generations as a support and not as a stumbling-block...

  Andre Maurois

  Art, Block, Support

  "The Art of Living". Book by Andre Maurois, 1939.

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• All the lessons learned, unlearned; The young, who learned to read, now blind, Their eyes with an archaic film; The peasant relapses to a stumbling tune, Following the donkey's bray; These only remember to forget. But somewhere some word presses, On the high door of a skull and in some corner, Of an irrefrangible eye, Some old man memory jumps to a child - Spark from the days of energy. And the child hoards it like a bitter toy.

  Stephen Spender

  Children, Memories, Eye

  "Selected Poems (Fall of a City)". Book by Stephen Spender, 1941.

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• The long history of mankind is studded with convergences, perhaps most notably in social systems and the use of artefacts and technology. But for human history, set in the arrow of time, there appears to be one intolerable stumbling-block. This is the catastrophic failure in human values and decency.

  Simon Conway Morris

  Block, Technology, Arrows

  "The Crucible of Creation". Book by Simon Conway Morris, 1998.

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• The prevailing tendency to regard all the marked distinctions of human character as innate, and in the main indelible, and to ignore the irresistible proofs that by far the greater part of those differences, whether between individuals, races, or sexes are such as not only might but naturally would be produced by differences in circumstances, is one of the chief hinderances to the rational treatment of great social questions, and one of the greatest stumbling blocks to human improvement.

  John Stuart Mill

  Sex, Block, Character

  John Stuart Mill (2009). “Autobiography of John Stuart Mill”, p.270, The Floating Press

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• And when one of you falls down he falls for those behind him, a caution against the stumbling stone. Ay, and he falls for those ahead of him, who though faster and surer of foot, yet removed not the stumbling stone.

  Khalil Gibran

  Fall, Feet, Judgement

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• Oh look at how she listens She says nothing of what she thinks She just goes stumbling through her memories Staring out on to Grey Street

  Dave Matthews

  Memories, Thinking, Looks

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• Invention is arrived at by intelligent stumbling.

  Amar Bose

  Intelligent, Invention, Programming

  "Spotlight: Amar Bose, the guru of sound design" by Roxana Popescu, www.nytimes.com. May 11, 2007.

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• Is it the fault of wine if a fool drinks it and goes stumbling into darkness?

  Avicenna

  Wine, Darkness, Fool

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• Many a professing Christian is a stumbling-block because his worship is divided. On Sunday he worships God; on weekdays God has little or no place in his thoughts.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Christian, Block, Sunday

  Dwight L Moody (1977). “D. L. Moody on the Ten Commandments”, p.20, Moody Publishers

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