The single most important impediment to global institutions is the concept of "my country, right or wrong". — U Thant Copy Share Image
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
“Obstacles that seems insurmountable aren't. Impediments that we believe disqualify us don't.” — Bob Goff 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
Misunderstanding of probability may be the greatest of all impediments to scientific literacy. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The greatest impediments to personal change always come from within, not without. — Andy Greenwald Copy Share Image
The inclination to aggression constitutes the greatest impediment to civilization. — Sigmund Freud 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
The equation of evolution with progress represents our strongest cultural impediment to a proper understanding of this greatest biological revolution in the… — Stephen Jay Gould 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
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
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
Therefore it is most expedient for the wise, if Don Worm (his conscience) find no impediment to the contrary, to be the… — William Shakespeare 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
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
When you go home tonight, make a list of the people who are impediments, who don't believe in you, and call them… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The less sophisticated of my forbears avoided foreigners at all costs, for the very good reason that, in their circles, speaking in… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Another advantage accruing from this ingredient in the constitution of a senate, is the additional impediment it must prove against improper acts… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Thoughts are impediments to seeing your deepest nature. Don't give rise to any thought, and discover who you are. That ocean of… — H. W. L. Poonja Copy Share Image
To do the right thing, at the right time, in the right way; to do some things better than they were ever… — Marshall Field 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
If what was said in the Ethics is true, that the happy life is the life according to virtue lived without impediment,… — Aristotle 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
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
When they're standing right in front of you, kings are a kind of speech impediment. — Terry Pratchett 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
Privacy laws are our biggest impediment to us obtaining our objectives. — Michael Eisner Copy Share Image
There are no impediments now to corporations. None. And what they want is for us to give up. They want us to… — Chris Hedges 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
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
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
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
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
The single greatest impediment to error prevention in the medical industry is that we punish people for making mistakes, — Lucian Leape 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
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
