Quotes About Obstacle

There was no light at the end of the tunnel--or if there was, it was an oncoming train.

The Departure Aria, a very important and romantic song - This damn door sticks, This damn door sticks It sticks no matter what I do. It is marked 'pull' and indeed I am pulling Perhaps it should be marked 'push'?

Aargh! I'm too short for this shit!

He isn't looking at the view because his past life keeps flashing in front of his eyes and getting in the way

And there was nothing you could do about a woman like that. She just turned herself into a hammer and you ran right into her.

If our minds are blocked, there is no device that will make up for our inability to communicate with ourselves or others.

While it's true that she's doing everything she can think of, the problem is precisely that she can't see how she's the problem. Having the problem she has, nothing she can think of will be a solution.

The issue, of course, is not the mountain, whether that mountain is the dishes or the lawn or the title; or whether, for that matter, the mountain is Mount Moriah itself. No, the issue lies beneath the mountain in the realities in our hearts that make these mountains our battlegrounds.

If we are caught by the obstacle of knowledge, even if truth comes knocking at our door, we will refuse to let it in.

If at some point in your life you adopt an idea or a perception as the absolute truth, you close the door of your mind. This is the end of seeking the truth. And not only do you no longer seek the truth, but even if the truth comes in person and knocks on your door, you refuse to open it. Attachment to views, attachment to ideas, attachment to perceptions are the biggest obstacle to the truth.

Attachment to views, attachment to ideas, attachment to perceptions are the biggest obstacle to the truth

Knowledge is the first obstacle of the mind that a meditator should be able to remove. We should not be too sure of anything.

In Buddhism, knowledge constitutes the greatest obstacle to Awakening.

Rule number one of journalism is that trying to get in between a journalist and a story he wants to tell is like trying to stop a herd of stampeding cattle.

I can't really say my height has hindered me in the theater, though it really has hindered me in TV. It's just something you have to embrace, your height.

I got injured when I was a kid, and it prevented me from becoming a footballer.

My old knee injury has never allowed me to get back to where I want to be as a football player; it's always hindered me.

Whatever each individual woman is facing - only she knows her biggest challenge.

The lack of financial strength to avail healthcare is a major challenge.

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

Search committees need to be easily able to imagine you as a faculty member in their departments. Invoking the names of other universities and colleges is an obstacle to that.

And I can't get to her. My girl is half naked and dying and I can't get to her! I push forward. I ice solid. I crack it and pull back. Fuck!

Fear is the enemy of learning. It's the negator of joy, the preventer of play, the inhibitor of trust and love. Fear just gets in the way, slows things down, and causes unnecessary pain.

Over my dead body was his first thought. His second? No, Over Carls.