Quotes About Obstacle

The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents and the ocean was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.

Old age is a hindrance to creativity but cannot crush my youthful spirit.

The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.

Anger, as long as it is controlled anger, is no obstacle to efficiency. Self-control is one thing the sociopath does not usually possess. Use yours to his undoing.

By heaven, I'll make a ghost of him that lets me.

It may be that when we no longer know which way to go we have come to our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.

How it was I don't understand, but we always seemed to be getting, with the best of motives, in one another's way. When I wanted to go up-stairs, there was my wife coming down; or when my wife wanted to go down, there was I coming up. That is married life, according to my experience of it.

Human life, Mr. Betteredge, is a sort of target—misfortune is always firing at it, and always hitting the mark.

The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way.

Seems like it aint no end to bad luck when once it starts.

But it seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.

The most difficult challenge to the ideal is its transformation into reality, and few ideals survive.

Whenever the media do try to pick it up, it slides like a lone noodle from their chopsticks.

No creo que aceptarais mi ayuda, porque os estoy esperando para mataros. —Eso constituye un obstáculo en nuestra relación

We have then walked, played, or worked enough, so we desist. That amount of fatigue is an efficacious obstruction on this side of which our usual life is cast. But if an unusual necessity forces us to press onward, a surprising thing occurs. The fatigue gets worse up to a certain critical point, when gradually or suddenly it passes away, and we are fresher than before. We have evidently tapped a level of new energy, masked until then by the fatigue-obstacle usually obeyed.

My father passed me. He looked briefly at me as you might at a stump or a broken machine or anything that's specific only in that it's in your way, to walk around it as my father did me.

A trap is only a trap if you don't know about it. If you know about it, it's a challenge.

A trap is only a trap if you don't know about it. If you know about it, it's a challenge.

Man who say it cannot be done should not interrupt man doing it.

A dog in desperation will leap over a wall

Big problem, small solution.

And as we'll see, that tendency explains the third and final surprise about change: What looks like resistance is often a lack of clarity.

If we get impressed with a problem, we will begin to exalt it.

Trouble came their way like sideways wind in winter.