Quotes About Obstacle

That mist was thick. It was hard to see at times. The wind was wild. It'd come at me one way and hit me from the front, and hit me from the back.

I have played in rain before. I have played in wind before. I have played in cold before, but not all put together. They were the hardest conditions I ever played in.

I can't go to the hardware store, cut a sheet in half and staple it to the window anymore. It doesn't fly.

On the first 'Indiana Jones' movie, I tore an ACL in one of my knees - can't remember which knee. The scene in which I was fighting the big German mechanic on an airplane called a flying wing, I was run over by the landing gear and injured my knee, but I can't remember which one it was. Lots of bumps and injuries along the way.

But that is the only thing that slows me down is the system. No one, two or three was big enough to slow me down, only the system. It was the system that slowed me down to make my numbers fall. Not because I am older.

What's the problem with 'never?' It keeps you from trying. It ensures that you will fail. End of story.

I can't do theatre in the US,' she says, 'because I don't have a green card.

Once the censorship board clears a film, there should not be any other obstacle for a film's theatrical run.

The main question in drama, the way I was taught, is always, 'What does the protagonist want?' That's what drama is. It comes down to that. It's not about theme, it's not about ideas, it's not about setting, but what the protagonist wants.

He who is outside the door has already a good part of his journey behind him. —Dutch proverb

All doorways are narrow for Gianna.

The great obstacle to the 'struggle toward clear vision of the universal' is the human trait that Mondrian variously calls 'individuality,' 'personality'... [p.73]

the headwaters of Shit Creek are a cruel and treacherous expanse.

All difficulties in this life, every moment of difficulty, come from the distance between what is and what we want to be.

Les Américains ne peuvent supporter l'idée d'un problème sans solution.

But now—why, we have got into a mess, a quagmire from which each fresh step renders the difficulty of extrication immensely greater.

Every bit of communication from then on related to the "wall"; every silence was evidence of its enduring presence.

Every problem, every dilemma, every dead end we find ourselves facing in life, only appears unsolvable inside a particular frame or point of view. Enlarge the box, or create another frame around the data, and problems vanish, while new opportunities appear.

They came from the four corners of the earth, driven by hunger, plague, tumors, and the cold, and stopped here. They couldn't go any futrther because of the ocean. That's France, that's the French people.

there was a fold between them—a wrinkle in their relationship, in their universe—and it was big, and came between them.

We have got onto slippery ice where there is no friction and so in a certain sense the conditions are ideal, but also, just because of that, we are unable to walk. We want to walk so we need friction. Back to the rough ground!

a barnacle on the yacht of prosperity

ballocking when

A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points.