Quotes About Obstacle

The laces had broken and were so short that tying them was like performing surgery on an insect.

Sometimes, Reynie, trouble itself is the key. - Mr. Benedict

Sometimes, Reynie, trouble itself is the key.

They're waiting at the barrier," Constance said as she and Kate left the control room. "Every one of them.

The individual who says it is not possible should move out of the way of those doing it.

A fly and a flea in a flue (3 beats) Were imprisoned, so what could they do? (3 beats) Said the fly, "Let us flee!" (2 beats) "Let us fly!" said the flea, (2 beats) So they fled through a flaw in the flue. (3 beats)

Gluppit the prawling strangles, there!

The world is your oyster... ...too bad you're allergic to shellfish.

You're the enemy. You're the one who's going to defeat yourself.

Reasoning that I would rather take a detour for hours on a bad road than sit in my car in a traffic jam, I thanked him and drove away, past the parked cars and the children and the protesting teachers, through the bowl of a green valley and into the hills that looked rockier and drier in the distance.

An airport is an obstacle course, and because of that it can sour you on the whole notion of travel. By degrees, over the years, the airport experience has become an extreme example of a totalitarian regime at work, making you small and suspect, depriving you of control. Such is the clumsy questioning of motives

like a medieval wall, it was merely a symbol of exclusion rather than anything practical, and easily climbed over or tunneled under.

The completion is always more difficult that the beginning

if one can surmount poverty and can love in moderation, there is no obstacle to happiness for anyone.

Opting for coziness, having that as your prime reason for existing, becomes a continual obstacle to taking a leap and doing something new, doing something unusual, like going as a stranger into a strange land.

Here's something that's very helpful to know about now. The biggest obstacle to taking a bigger perspective on life is that our emotions capture and blind us.

Whether we experience what happens to us as obstacle and enemy or as teacher and friend depends entirely on our perception of reality. It depends on our relationship with ourselves.

Ground which can be abandoned but is hard to re-occupy is called entangling.

There's no such thing beneath the heavens as conditions favorable to art. Art must crash through or perish.

Ground which can be freely traversed by both sides is called accessible.

Immaterial art is the strongest because there's no obstacle; there's just energy, and I believe in energy.

Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain way. Looked at in another way, the right course of action may be so obvious that the problem no longer exists.

The right attitude can transform a barrier into a blessing, an obstacle into an opportunity or a stumbling block into a stepping stone.

The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem. Got that? -Coach Brevin