Quotes About Obstacle

Define 'absolute shit.

the building of bridges and the defence of fortresses against enemies when necessary'.

and he would have also to endure his book like a form of fatigue, to accept it like a discipline, build it up like a church, follow it like a medical regime, vanquish it like an obstacle, win it like a friendship, cosset it like a little child, create it like a new world without neglecting those mysteries whose explanation is to be found probably only in worlds other than our own and the presentiment of which is the thing that moves us most deeply in life and in art.

But hard be hardened, blind be blinded more, that they may stumble on, and deeper fall

Scratching their fingernails on blackboards of futility.

High-risk, high-reward situations where the path to success isn't laid out but has to be cut by machetes through a jungle filled with poison toads.

I can't do that, Harry said. I don't have the math for it.

No matter how good a man is, there's always some horse can pitch him.

It seems to me that man has engaged in a blind and fearful struggle out of a past he can't remember, into a future he can't foresee nor understand. And man has met and defeated every obstacle, every enemy except one. He cannot win over himself. How mankind hates himself.

Man hates something in himself. He has been able to defeat every natural obstacle but himself he cannot win over unless he kills every individual. And this self-hate which goes so closely in hand with self-love is what I wrote about. - in a letter to George Albee

tell ya, a one-eye' fella got a hard row

Her faith is a mountain, and you, my son, haven't even got a shovel yet.

I want to conquer the world and it seems like my own family is putting a stop to that.

We also knew it would be difficult, because of the financial condition of the family, for me to go to college.

Yes, " he replied. "We are --- how do you say on Midgard -- between a hard place and tree.

The dragon sits by the side of the road, watching those who pass. Beware lest he devour you. We go to the Father of Souls, but it is necessary to pass by the dragon.

Fear is the highest fence.

In order to overcome fear, your dream must become bigger than fear.

Let me fall. Let me climb. There's a moment where fear and dream must collide.

But I will not tell you how long or short the way will be; only that it lies across a river. But do not fear that, for I am the great Bridge Builder.

fear is a dreadful drawback because it stops us living in the moment.

Fear is a good thing because it keeps you alive, but if it becomes so great that it hinders you from doing what you want, you need to confront it head-on

f fear is too strong, the genius is suppressed

Fear is one thing that can ruin everything. It's the greatest problem.