An absence of antecedents and of relatives is sometimes an aid rather than an impediment to social advancement . . . — Arthur Conan Doyle 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
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
We start from the presumption that our people are talented and want to contribute. We accept that, without meaning to, our company… — Edwin Catmull 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 mean, I'm 6-foot-11, I've got red hair, freckles, I'm a goofy, nerdy-looking guy, I've got a speech impediment-I stutter and stammer… — Bill Walton Copy Share Image
That religion may have served some necessary function for us in the past does not preclude the possibility that it is now… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
First the amendment of their own minds. For the removal of the impediments of the mind will sooner clear the passages of… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
People who worry about looking good typically hide what they don't know and hide their weaknesses, so they never learn how to… — Ray Dalio 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
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
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
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
The goal with my music is to maintain a certain honesty and quality. That sounds pretty pretentious as if I'm trying to… — Milo Copy Share Image
In a discussion of this kind our interest should be centered not on the weight of the authority but on the weight… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
People who don't have as much power as they would like often begin by attributing their difficulties to the environment - competitors,… — Jeffrey Pfeffer Copy Share Image
One of the biggest impediments for women is that they have never really understood, looked at or examined their own genitals. They… — Gail Saltz 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
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
The cause of so much suffering and pain and one of the impediments to our spiritual progress, is the conditioning of expecting… — Radhanath Swami Copy Share Image
We attain freedom as we let go of whatever does not reflect our magnificence. A bird cannot fly high or far with… — Alan Cohen Copy Share Image
When it comes to building character, wealth, good looks, athletic ability and even a high IQ are more likely to be impediments… — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
The security provided by a long-held belief system, even when poorly founded, is a strong impediment to progress. General acceptance of a… — Bernard Lown Copy Share Image
It is not the policy of the government in America to give aid to works of any kind. They let things take… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Just as nature takes every obstacle, every impediment, and works around it--turns it to its purposes, incorporates it into itself, so, too,… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
I was 35 when I first hit with Star Wars. I had some degree of maturity and some degree of experience, yet… — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
This is the bud of being, the dim dawn, The twilight of our day, the vestibule; Life's theatre as yet is shut,… — Edward Young Copy Share Image
Plants of great vigor will almost always struggle into blossom, despite impediments. But there should be encouragement, and a free genial atmosphere… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
For those struggling in midstream, in great fear of the flood, of growing old and of dying for all those I say,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Because I have become such a solitary, and not in the Aristotelian sense: not a beast, not a god. Rather, a loner… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Evangelicals have like millions of rules. And it's just, uh, we have sort of an accepted, rationalism within which we frame religion.… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
Conscription is an impediment to achieving the forces Australia needs. It is an alibi for failing to give proper conditions to regular… — Gough Whitlam Copy Share Image
The major impediment to experiencing the sacred depths of ordinary moments is the speed and distraction of contemporary life that moves to… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
If you're writing fiction, you're dealing with characters who, themselves, will have heartfelt sentiments but who, themselves, live in this culture right… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
It is impossible for me to reconcile myself to the idea of conversion after the style that goes on in India and… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I have not heard almost anybody suggest that raising the minimum wage to the level we have in Vermont has been an… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
I believe that we face incredible obstacles in our attempts to see the world. Everything in our nature tries to deny the… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
An undertaking of great magnitude and importance, the successful accomplishment of which, in so comparatively short a period, notwithstanding the unheard of… — John By Copy Share Image
