Obstacle Quotes
469 Obstacle quotes by 351 unique authors
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I'm a songwriter first...In my career I have never felt that my being a woman was an obstacle or an advantage. I guess I've been…
— Carole King
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Wherever indeed a right of property is infringed for the general good, if the nature of the case admits of compensation, it ought to be…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Rather then focusing on the obstacle in your path, focus on the bridge over the obstacle.
— Mary Lou Retton
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The cost of adding a feature isn't just the time it takes to code it. The cost also includes the addition of an obstacle to…
— John Carmack
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Controlling the position of one's body and keeping a straight back are not contemplation, but can in fact become an obstacle to contemplation. ...when leaving…
— Namkhai Norbu
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When you look across the ring at me, and you look into my eyes, you are not immmortal, you are not an icon; you are…
— Triple H
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Perhaps the biggest obstacle in destroying white supremacy is the hatred and hostility that Africans have for each other.
— Runoko Rashidi
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At every level the greatest obstacle to transforming the world is that we lack the clarity and imagination to conceive that it could be different
— Roberto Unger
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The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States.
— George Soros
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After I had been studying with him for two years, Schoenberg said, ‘In order to write music, you must have a feeling for harmony.’ I…
— John Cage
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Greed for enlightenment and immortality is no different than greed for material wealth. It is self-centered and dualistic, and thus an obstacle to true attainment.…
— Laozi
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The mind of an artist, in order to achieve the prodigious effort of freeing whole and entire the work that is in him, must be…
— Virginia Woolf
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Faith comes in different tempers: there's the hard, brittle faith that shatters when it meets an obstacle it can't cut through, and the tough, springy…
— K.J. Parker
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Perhaps the biggest obstacle to loving yourself and living your Spirit is the belief that you can only do so when all your problems are…
— Sonia Choquette
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Life . . . is a joyful expression of love, praise and thanksgiving instead of a hopeless struggle which eventually ends in death. Giving thanks…
— Robert Scheid
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One would think that [persecution] would be an obstacle to church growth when joining the church meant a death sentence. And yet, the age of…
— Gene Veith
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Nothing puts a greater obstacle in the way of the progress of knowledge than thinking that one knows what one does not yet know.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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We have a fear of facing ourselves. That is the obstacle. Experiencing the innermost core of our existence is very embarrassing to a lot of…
— Chogyam Trungpa
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Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
— Simone Weil
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In the United States of America, unfortunately we still live in a bubble of unreality. And the Category 5 denial is an enormous obstacle to…
— Al Gore
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There are those, on the one hand, who hope to achieve the social revolution through the State by preserving and even extending most of its…
— Peter Kropotkin
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There is no obstacle too great, no challenge too difficult, if we have faith.
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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The greatest obstacle to international understanding is the barrier of language
— Christopher Dawson
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Many's very human habit of trusting in himself is generally the last great obstacle blocking his pathway to victory in Christian experience.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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The materialistic paradigm of Western science has been a major obstacle for any objective evaluation of the data describing the events occurring at the time…
— Stanislav Grof
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