Quotes About Obstacle

Every time I read the paper those old feelings come on.We are waist deep in the Big Muddy and the big fool says to push on.

When there is an invisible elephant in the room, one is from time to time bound to trip over a trunk.

Every time something bad happens, like we lose a day because of weather or an actor gets injured or anything else happens, the schedule has to change. It's the most challenging Tetris puzzle.

Each time I think I've reached a limit....there is a door....it opens....and the limit is gone.

It looms before us, an impenetrable wall, trying to crush us, but not yet able to.

I can easily quote the saying: Misfortunes never come singly.

may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.

I need to bring up radio station KFKD, or K-Fucked, here. It is perhaps the single greatest obstacle to listening to your broccoli that exists for writers.

You may feel a little as if writing a novel is like trying to level Mount McKinley with a dentist's drill.

I wanted to kiss her, but I couldn't do this, and so I labored to make my words so many kisses.

I'll come to thee by moonlight, though hell should bar the way

I couldn't unpeach the peaches.

Controlling someone by changing their brain is like trying to stop a hovercar by digging a ditch. If they think hard enough, they can fly right over.

A young couple who love each other but who can't be together as they long to be because someone is preventing it.4

She reached the final wooden plank, only to find her way blocked by the boy, whose posture reminded her oddly of Officer Luke. More familiar was his insistence that she do as he wanted. What was it with men in Hallden today?

If you took organic chemistry in college, you've experienced the Dip. Academia doesn't want too many unmotivated people to attempt medical school, so they set up a screen. Organic chemistry is the killer class, the screen that separates the doctors from the psychologists. If you can't handle organic chemistry, well, then, you can't go to med school.

The Cul-de-Sac and the Cliff Are the Curves That Lead to Failure If you find yourself facing either of these two curves, you need to quit. Not soon, but right now. The biggest obstacle to success in life, as far as I can tell, is our inability to quit these curves soon enough.

insulation prevents you from making the change and finding the understanding you set out to achieve in the first place.

If you want to be a superstar, then you need to find a field with a steep Dip—a barrier between those who try and those who succeed. And you've got to get through that Dip to the other side. This isn't for everyone. If it were, there'd be no superstars.

He was a rock that she would break herself on.

To call it a "setback" is like calling the Expulsion from Eden a minor misunderstanding.

She was dying and he was not, and that was a barrier not even love could breach.

Thinking we are only supposed to have loving & compassionate feelings can be a terrible obstacle to spiritual practice.

Where are we going? (Astrid) Up Shit Creek sans the paddles. (Zarek)