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
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
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
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
“Awkward approximations, dull stammerings which cannot convey my sense of exhilaration as I seem to burst impediments, to exceed bounds of the… — Steven Millhauser 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
Nothing worthwhile was ever accomplished without the will to start, the enthusiasm to continue and, regardless of temporary obstacles, the persistence to… — Waite Phillips Copy Share Image
There are times when the welfare system may appear as an impediment to growth. Yet the drive for growth should always bear… — Romano Prodi Copy Share Image
Resistance to improvement contradicts the noblest instincts of the race. It begets its opposite. The fanaticism of reform is only the raging… — Horace Mann 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I think there are so many little hurdles and impediments with stand-up that you'd need to have this insane desire to do… — Demetri Martin 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
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
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
He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune, for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The great law of culture is, Let each become all that he was created capable of being; expand, if possible, to his… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
If physicists could not quote in the text, they would not feel that much was lost with respect to advancement of knowledge… — J. H. Hexter 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
The IMF and the World Bank, the most opaque and secretive entities, put millions into NGOs who fight against "corruption" and for… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“A manager's most important work is helping the people doing the work. Give them a goal and let them work. Remove any… — Ken Schwaber 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
There is a common perception that compassion is, if not actually an impediment, at least irrelevant to professional life. Personally, I would… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“A thousand times, people may have touched each other, but never ever sensed a single vein of oneness or complicity in the… — Erik Pevernagie 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
But I also want kids who suffer from bullying to know that you can be whoever you want to be in life,… — Orlando Cruz Copy Share Image
We talk of regional conflicts, of economic and social crises, of political instability, of abuses of human rights, of racism, religious intolerance,… — Poul Hartling Copy Share Image
Childhood is a complex dialectical process characterized by periodicity, unevenness in the development of different functions, metamorphosis or qualitative transformation of one… — Lev S. Vygotsky Copy Share Image
no one expects all impediments to be miraculously whisked away. In insisting that others view our lives as ample and precious, we… — Nancy Mairs Copy Share Image
We like our current shareholders and don't want to entice anyone to become one. It would help current shareholders to hear our… — Charlie Munger 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
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
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