Stumbling Quotes - Page 9

• Stumbling upon the next great invention in an 'ah-ha!' moment is a myth.

  James Dyson

  Great Inventions, Next, Moments

  "No innovator's dilemma here: in praise of failure" by James Dyson, www.wired.com. April 8, 2011.

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• I often wonder if my knowledge about God has not become my greatest stumbling block to my knowledge of God.

  Henri Nouwen

  Block, Knowledge Of God, Wonder

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (1981). “A cry for mercy: prayers from the Genesee”, Doubleday Books

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• This was a new recognition that perfection is admirable but a trifle inhuman, and that a stumbling kind of semi-success can be much more warming. Most of all, perhaps, these exultant yells for the Mets were also yells for ourselves, and came from a wry, half-understood recognition that there is more Met than Yankee in every one of us. I knew for whom that foghorn blew; it blew for me.

  Roger Angell

  Yankees, Perfection, Half

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• Love is not only blind, but a fool, a stumbling mess falling backwards through showroom doors into atmospheres unwelcoming of his presence.

  Alex Gaskarth

  Fall, Love Is, Doors

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• Ultimately, success is not measured by first-place prizes. It's measured by the road you have traveled: how you have dealt with the challenge and the stumbling blocks you've encountered along the way.

  Nicole Haislett

  Success, Block, Challenges

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• The only thing that I know is that, growing up, I came across stumbling blocks, and I always said to myself, 'If I ever get into a position to do something about this, I would like to, so that somebody does not deal with what I went through.

  Chandra Wilson

  Growing Up, Block, Doe

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

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• America now is stumbling through the darkness of hatred and divisiveness. Our values, our principles, and our determination to succeed as a free and democratic people will give us a torch to light the way. And we will survive and become the stronger - not only because of a patriotism that stands for love of country, but a patriotism that stands for love of people.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Love, Country, Determination

  Gerald R. Ford's address to the state conference of the Order of DeMolay in Grand Rapids, Michigan, September 7, 1968.

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• Great truths that are stumbling blocks to the natural man are nevertheless the very foundations upon which the confidence of the spiritual man is built.

  Henry Allen Ironside

  Christian, Spiritual, Block

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• People are stumbling over the simplest things. Take, for instance, that word believeth. You would think that was plain enough for anybody, but all my life I have heard people say, 'I have always believed, and yet I am not saved.' It does not say, 'Whosoever believeth the Bible, or creeds, or even the gospel story,' but it does say, 'Whosoever believeth in him.' What is it to believe in Him? It means to put your soul's confidence in Him, to trust in Him, God's blessed Son.

  Henry Allen Ironside

  Christian, Believe, Blessed

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• Robert Creeley has forged a signature style in American poetry, an idiosyncratic, highly elliptical, syntactical compression by which the character of his mind’s concentrated and stumbling proposals might be expressed … Reading his poems, we experience the gnash of arriving through feeling at thought and word.

  Forrest Gander

  Reading, Character, Feelings

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• We are such idiots, We think everyone else has it all figured out. But we're all stumbling around in dark rooms bumping into furniture and stifling our cries so no one will know.

  Joan Ryan

  Dark, Thinking, Rooms

  Joan Ryan (2009). “The Water Giver: The Story of a Mother, a Son, and Their Second Chance”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

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• Men, women and children too, ran hysterically, falling and stumbling, getting up, tripping and falling again, rolling over and over. Most of them managed to regain their feet and made it to the water. But many of them never made it and were left behind, their feet drumming in blinding pain on the overheated pavements amidst the rubble, until there came one last convulsing shudder from the smoking 'thing' on the ground, and then no further movement.

  Martin Caidin

  Children, Pain, Fall

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• I have grown into a Bestsellasaurus Rex - a big, stumbling book-beast that is loved when it shits money and hated when it tramples houses... I started out as a storyteller; along the way I became an economic force.

  Stephen King

  Book, House, Way

  Stephen King (1989). “The Stephen King companion”

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• The virgin birth has never been a major stumbling block in my struggle with Christianity; it's far less mind boggling than the Power of all Creation stooping so low as to become one of us.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Block, Struggle, Mind

  Madeleine L'Engle (2017). “A Stone for a Pillow: Journeys with Jacob”, p.107, Convergent Books

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• I'm not going to shoot seven days a week. I think it's counterproductive. I think you're going to have people stumbling around after a couple of weeks.

  Roger Corman

  Couple, Thinking, People

  Source: collider.com

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• Pride is the great stumbling block of Zion. I repeat: Pride is the great stumbling block of Zion.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Block, Pride, Zion

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• What we sometimes consider a stumbling block is rather a rock we can step on.

  Mother Teresa

  Block, Rocks, Steps

  Mother Teresa (2016). “No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition”, p.113, New World Library

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• I didn't know what to do. How do you tell an eight-year-old boy his mother's going to die? I tried. In my own stumbling way I tried to prepare Jim for it. Nowadays, he lives in a world we don't understand too well, the actor's world. We don't see too much of him. But he's a good boy, my Jim. A good boy, and I'm very proud of him. Not easy to understand, no sir. He's not easy to understand. But he's all man, and he'll make his mark. Mind you, my boy will make his mark.

  James Dean

  Mother, Boys, Men

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