Quotes About Obstacle

The greatest enemy of progress is the illusion of knowledge.

Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.

Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress.

It quite often happens that they attach a name to a project and it doesn't get all the financing it needs.

Where the despair of loneliness and poverty haunts every hour, the optimism to embark on new projects cannot find a place to alight on the brain's cortex. Poverty itself is an enormous obstacle to an enlightened and enlightening - not to say healthy - old age.

I knew I didn't have the right name for a singer. Having a name that nobody could pronounce was hardly an asset.

It's hard. It's hard to get a film made properly.

There has to be a protagonist who has to overcome challenges, and there will be a race to finish.

No one who goes against her can win.

A bad driving and not even trying!

Back out,' he suggested after a moment. 'Put her in reverse.' 'But the WHEEL'S off!' He hesitated. 'No harm in trying,' he said.

Entre mim e a vida há um vidro ténue. Por mais nitidamente que eu veja e compreenda a vida, eu não lhe posso tocar.

Anything and everything, depending on how one sees it, is a marvel or a hindrance, an all or a nothing, a path or a problem. To see something in constantly new ways is to renew and multiply it. That is why the contemplative person, without ever leaving his village, will nevertheless have the whole universe at his disposal. There's infinity in a cell or a desert. One can sleep cosmically against a rock.

Entre la vida y yo hay un cristal tenue. Por más claramente que vea y comprenda la vida, no puedo tocarla.

Seré siempre el que esperó a que le abrieran la puerta, junto a un muro sin puerta

I've always felt that virtue lies in obtaining what is out of one's reach, in living where one isn't, in being more alive after death than during life, in achieving something impossible, something absurd, in overcoming – like an obstacle – the world's very reality.

O outro é sempre o obstáculo para quem procura. Só quem não procura é feliz; porque só quem não busca, encontra, visto que quem não procura já tem, e já ter, seja o que for, é ser feliz, como não pensar é a parte melhor de ser rico

I would love to be a fashion designer but that's easier said than done.

Usually, the best ideas come from having to fix a really hard problem.

So I think we need to set up an 'American Ninja Warrior' obstacle course at the border and whoever can make it - you can't fake it - they get through.

I'm always going to be a problem for whoever is standing across from me.

The surprise is half the battle. Many things are half the battle, losing is half the battle. Let's think about what's the whole battle.

More than once in the history of Whole Foods Market, the company was unable to collectively evolve until I myself was able to evolve - in other words, I was holding the company back. My personal growth enabled the company to evolve.

It is easy to go down into Hell; night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - there's the rub, the task.