A genuine passion is like a mountain stream; it admits of no impediment; it cannot go backward; it must go forward. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
There are no impediments to meditation. The very thought of such obstacles is the greatest impediment. — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
The single most important impediment to global institutions is the concept of "my country, right or wrong". — U Thant Copy Share Image
An education, other than purely professional or technical, can even seem to be an impediment. — Allan Bloom 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
The federal budget deficit is the biggest single impediment to revitalizing the American economy. — Alice Rivlin Copy Share Image
When they're standing right in front of you, kings are a kind of speech impediment. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I think the biggest impediment to fixing the food system in the United States is that we expect food to be cheap.… — Alice Waters Copy Share Image
We rigidify our self-image to portray a certain identity to the world, which is one of the key impediments to authenticity. — Chip Conley Copy Share Image
The single greatest impediment to error prevention in the medical industry is that we punish people for making mistakes, — Lucian Leape 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
When men, engaged in unjustifiable pursuits, are aware that obstructions may come from a quarter which bare apprehension of opposition from doing… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Who is journeying for freedom? The one who is already free. Thoughts are impediments to seeing your own face. Don't give rise… — H. W. L. Poonja Copy Share Image
In general, we should be able to agree that those who have greater opportunities and face fewer impediments have a greater responsibility… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The destruction of the inducement to invest by an excessive liquidity-preference was the outstanding evil, the prime impediment to the growth of… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Being a housewife, makes women sick.It may therefore be that married women say they are happy because they are sick.To be happy… — Jessie Bernard 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
Most impediments to scientific understanding are conceptual locks, not factual lacks. Most difficult to dislodge are those biases that escape our scrutiny… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Hurdles are those impediments which can be removed or overcome if only we make determined efforts. We should identify the hurdles without… — T Joseph Benziger Copy Share Image
One of the principal impediments to job creation is uncertainty on the part of American companies, large and small. We've all watched… — Tom J. Donohue 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
