Quotes About Obstacle

In stories, the external problem is often a physical, tangible problem the hero must overcome in order to save the day.

a story involves a character who wants something and overcomes conflict to get it.

He even says resistance, a kind of feeling that comes against you when you point toward a distant horizon, is a sure sign that you are supposed to do the thing in the first place. The harder the resistance, the more important the task must be, Pressfield believes. If I learned anything from thinking about my father, it's that there is a force in the world that doesn't want us to live good stories.

Step 1: Problem

The problem is the hook. If a story doesn't have a problem, the story never gets started.

The idea is that you place a gap between a character and what they want.

you have to create a character who wants something and overcomes conflict to get it.

A story that fails to get started always has the same problem: there is no conflict!

In fact, most stories start with a character who wants something followed by a scene in which an enormous challenge is placed between where the character is and what the character wants.

Remember, the greatest enemy our business faces is the same enemy that good stories face: noise.

When we're waiting for a story get started, we're really waiting for a problem the hero has to overcome. We're waiting for something tough or difficult or scary or painful to happen.

for always the greatest obstacle to intellectual and moral progress with Socrates is people's unwillingness to confront their own ignorance.

And that was it: infinite loop; no alt-tab out. You could force close, shut down the computer, start all over and run it again, and the game would still lock up and freeze at the same place. Where's Popper? No cheat code. Game over. There was no way past that moment.

What is unthinkable is undoable.

What is the difference between an obstacle and an opportunity? Our attitude toward it. Every opportunity has a difficulty, and every difficulty has an opportunity.

I can't do it, if I finish that, I'll have to attach a seat belt to the toilet. Maybe an airbag too.

It's the obligation of all writers to shoulder up against the wall of the permissible and shove . Writers must shove no matter how large the obstacle and without concern for the strength of those pushing back from the other side. This shoving is made more difficult by the fact that those pushing back are very often the same shovers who moved the wall to where it now stands--they nudged it forward as far as they could stomach it, and cannot tolerate a millimeter more.

school. No problem, I thought, until my

She taught me that no obstacle in life is too big to overcome. You just need to keep working at it—one step at a time.

Golf is a better game played downhill.

that a principal "obstacle to writing improvement is our tendency to dwell on either the final results or the mental origins of writing to the exclusion of the activity of writing, as if an empty gap separated writing from thinking.

Nothing was ever easy or simple, not one blasted thing.

Someday somebody's going to come along and knock this old fence down.

the debris nor the smoke which blocked the tunnel