Obstruction Quotes

62 Obstruction quotes by 56 unique authors

Each man has his own vocation. The talent is the call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him. He has… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sorrow and happiness are the heresies of virtue; joy and anger lead astray from TAO; love and hate cause loss of virtue. The heart unconscious… — Zhuangzi
If there is a nuclear tactic being used here, I submit it is the use of that obstruction where a willful minority blocks a bipartisan… — John Cornyn
With a penetrating vision you can dissipate the obstruction, remove the obstacle, dissolve the wrong condition. — Ernest Holmes
The process of making pieces in Chess do something useful (whatever it may be) has received a special name: it is called the attack. The… — Emanuel Lasker
Healing is embracing what is most feared; healing is opening what has been closed, softening what has hardened into obstruction, healing is learning to trust… — Jeanne Achterberg
In building a statue, a sculptor doesn't keep adding clay to his subject. Actually, he keeps chiseling away at the nonessentials until the truth of… — Bruce Lee
In general, 'Buddha' means 'Awakened One', someone who has awakened from the sleep of ignorance and sees things as they really are. A Buddha is… — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
Only thru a mucus-free diet can we expect to eliminate the accumulation of waste and obstructions deposited in the body tissues during a lifetime of… — Arnold Ehret
The denial of "self" challenges only the notion of a static self independent of body and mind-not the ordinary sense of ourself as a person… — Stephen Batchelor
Just as eagles soar through the vast expanse of the sky without meeting any obstructions, needing only minimal effort to maintain their flight, so advanced… — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
When Congress gets through investigating Attorney General Janet Reno, will her agency become known as the Obstruction of Justice Department? The civil rights movement was… — Thomas Sowell
Al Gore seems to have found a great political ploy: Picking up whatever issue he is most vulnerable on and championing the cause. Perhaps he… — Barbara Olson
Obstructions on the way to enlightenment, are you kidding? Hey, they crucify people here. You think this is an easy place? — Frederick Lenz
I like anything that is like an obstruction, something that I have to act through is good. — Peter Sarsgaard
As long as I focus on what I feel and don't worry about where I'm going, it works out. Having no expectations but being open… — Marketa Irglova
A person obsessed with the need to be happy will never be so. The obsession is the obstruction. — Vernon Howard
In any problem where an opposing force exists and cannot be regulated, one must foresee and provide for alternative courses. Adaptability is the law which… — B. H. Liddell Hart
There is obstruction. Enlightenment is not very popular in this world. History tells us that enlightened teachers who made themselves largely available to human beings… — Frederick Lenz
A wise Government seeks to provide the opportunity through which the best of individual achievement can be obtained, while at the same time it seeks… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Shadow is the obstruction of light. Shadows appear to me to be of supreme importance in perspective, because, without them opaque and solid bodies will… — Leonardo da Vinci
I'm not threatening you. I'm just informing you of police procedure. If you continue to obstruct me, I remove the obstruction, in this case you,… — Eoin Colfer
Beyond the very extreme of fatigue and distress, we may find amounts of ease and power we never dreamed ourselves to own; sources of strength… — William James
This is how great intellectual breakthroughs usually happen in practice. It is rarely the isolated genius having a eureka moment alone in the lab. Nor… — Steven Johnson
By the plain form of my delirium I will blast the obstruction of every form around me into something barely called shadow. I sail. I… — Steve Erickson

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