Quotes About Obstacle

The future felt like a herd of buffalo stampeding straight at me, and all I wanted was to get the fuck out of the way.

the window. 'But that isn't possible.

I should have been sorry for her, at any other time; but for now if they had laid her and ten more ladies like her down upon the floor and told me my way out was across their backs, I'd have run it with clogs on.

But Helen, Helen,' I said, 'if they expect it to be hard, why don't they change things, to allow it to be easier?

until they bump into an obstacle that stymies them. If you encounter a problem with no immediate solution, your response to that situation will take you either up or down. You can lash out at the difficulty, resenting it and feeling sorry for yourself. This will take you down into a pit of self-pity. Alternatively, the problem can be a ladder, enabling you to climb up and see your life from My perspective.

I don't know why it so happens in life that one absolutely can't do something simple but important.

Some people, if they didn't make it hard for themselves, might fall asleep.

Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive.

The bottleneck is never code or creativity; it's lack of clarity.

We have a new problem, fresh from the oven and hot as hell.

Oh whatever it is bitch, I promise you it won't be easy." --Jean Tannen

Q: Why can't Irishmen ever be lawyers? A: They can never make it past the bar.

This time you've dug yourself an anchor too heavy to move ahead with.

People put off writing thinking they don't have the time or enough of an opinion to matter and that is crap. You are the only one standing in your own way, so get started.

So with my luck, I'll never make it in time to save the boy in the forest because my hair will have snagged on a tree branch a mile back.

Every problem has a solution. Sometimes it just takes a long time to find the solution - even if it's right in front of your nose.

When I was a kid I wanted to be a musician. I used to play the trumpet. I practiced all the time, but I got braces and I couldn't play it anymore, so I had all of this free time.

You're either not hiring at all or it's probably your single biggest block of time.

The world is the closed door. It is a barrier. And at the same time it is the way through.

in order to make a man or boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.

Today the same thing over. I've got it up the tree again.

Hi-YI! YOU'RE up a stump, ain't you!

Senza rendersene conto, aveva scoperto una legge importantissima che regola l'agire umano: e cioè che per indurre un uomo o un ragazzo a desiderare qualcosa, basta far sì che quella cosa risulti difficile da ottenere.

The voice was crippled, but it dragged its way towards her.