Misunderstanding of probability may be the greatest of all impediments to scientific literacy. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
It is not sex per se - your identification with the body is the impediment to your spiritual growth. — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
“Obstacles that seems insurmountable aren't. Impediments that we believe disqualify us don't.” — Bob Goff Copy Share Image
Privacy laws are our biggest impediment to us obtaining our objectives. — Michael Eisner Copy Share Image
There's been very little writing about speech impediments, even though it's this huge psychological barrier. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
When they're standing right in front of you, kings are a kind of speech impediment. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Timidity is a disease of the mind, obstinate and fatal; for a man once persuaded that any impediment is insuperable has given… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Then climate is a great impediment to idle persons; we often resolve to give up the care of the weather, but still… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Riches are oftener an impediment than a stimulus to action; and in many cases they are quite as much a misfortune as… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
He only is a well-made man who has a good determination. And the end of culture is not to destroy this, God… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I paid every effort to seek deregulation throughout FEDEX's start-up and expansion periods, because the biggest impediment to our growth was the… — Frederick W. Smith Copy Share Image
Be patient, if thou wouldst thy ends accomplish; for like patience is there no appliance effective of success, producing certainly abundant fruit… — J. K. Bharavi Copy Share Image
The time will come when the evil forms we have known can no more be organized. Man's culture can spare nothing, wants… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I grew up in the suburbs of Philadelphia and one of the things I like to say is that one of the… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
The character and the actor in a long-running series slowly become one. I think there must be funny stories about actors who,… — William H. Macy Copy Share Image
I think in terms of getting new artists who are not in that sort of stereotypical teenage boy demographic; there's been a… — Adrian Tomine Copy Share Image
Manners aim to facilitate life, to get rid of impediments, and bring the man pure to energize. They aid our dealing and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words. To this chiefly it is owing that… — Thomas Reid Copy Share Image
Difficulty is a nurse of greatness-a harsh nurse, who rocks her foster children roughly, but rocks them in strength and athletic proportion.… — Kobe Bryant Copy Share Image
We are merely instruments of the Almighty's will and therefore ignorant of what helps us forward and what acts as an impediment.… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
These people in the establishment have been telling us they're the ones to fix everything and everything they've tried to fix, they've… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Fasting is not bodily hunger but bodily elevation and purity. It is not a body that hungers and longs for food, but… — Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria Copy Share Image
It is significant that the socialist mentality is usually also an atheistic mentality, where atheism is understood not so much as the… — Roger Kimball Copy Share Image
It's always been you know, religion that has been the primary impediment to actual relationship with God, because it creates a mythology… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
The increasing technicality of the terminology employed is also a serious difficulty. It has become necessary to learn an extensive vocabulary before… — Thomas George Bonney Copy Share Image
Affirmative action was designed originally for "women and other minorities" but the phrase has become just another tortured euphemism. Female conscientiousness and… — Florence King Copy Share Image
Most people tell themselves these excuses - I've always been this way, this is my nature, I can't help it - that… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Just as riches are an impediment to virtue in the wicked, so in the good they are an aid of virtue. — Ambrose Copy Share Image
The inclination to aggression constitutes the greatest impediment to civilization. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The greatest impediments to personal change always come from within, not without. — Andy Greenwald Copy Share Image
An education, other than purely professional or technical, can even seem to be an impediment. — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
The federal budget deficit is the biggest single impediment to revitalizing the American economy. — Alice Rivlin Copy Share Image
VITUPERATION, n. Saite, as understood by dunces and all such as suffer from an impediment in their wit. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
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