Quotes About Obstacle

If you have somebody who can just do everything easily, then it's kind of boring. If you're handcuffed to a chair and you've got to fight while your handcuffed, or something like that, it just adds a cool element.

Ending a problem is not a solution for that Problem.

Nothing is impossible. If you can envision your dreams, you have the power to make your dreams a reality. Have faith in yourself and don't be afraid to dream big. The biggest obstacle is yourself.

They leave to test the waters but fail to realize the waters are full of rapids.

Believing there is a bridge from where you are to where you want to go is 99% of the battle. The other 1% is to cross it.

Modern nonreligious man makes himself, and he only makes himself completely in proportion as he desacralizes himself and the world. The sacred is the prime obstacle to his freedom. He will become himself only when he is totally demysticized. He will not be truly free until he has killed the last god.

All he knows is that something stepped in front of him, blocking his way, until in time he gave up on things, he gave up studying engineering and he gave up on the idea of traveling. He sat down in his life. And there he remained.

Perhaps we know more about the world than we used to, and insofar as knowledge is prerequisite to understanding, that is all to the good. But knowledge is not as much a prerequisite to understanding as is commonly supposed. We do not have to know everything about something in order to understand it; too many facts are often as much of an obstacle to understanding as too few. There is a sense in which we moderns are inundated with facts to the detriment of understanding.

Uma montanha de fatos [...] pode servir de obstáculo ao entendimento.

We do not have to know everything about something in order to understand it; too many facts are often as much of an obstacle to understand­ ing as too few. There is a sense in which we modems are inun­ dated with facts to the detriment of understanding.

I could almost have felt sorry for Jermaine, who'd worn the expression of a person trying to have an important conversation with a brick wall.

Failure is a trickster with a keen sense of irony and cunning. It takes great delight in tripping one when success is almost within reach

Most people go through life by the line of least resistance in every circumstance where they can make a choice. They do not recognize that following the lines of least resistance makes all rivers, and some men, crooked!

where there's a will, there's a way.

Where he had failed, I would triumph. Where he had lost his way, I would find the path out of the labyrinth.

All business opportunities stem from someone else's inability to resolve a simple and inevitable problem.

When a rat sneaks in, there's no way of getting rid of it. You give it poison, and it eats it. You set up a rat trap, and it shits on it. A rat is the most difficult thing in the world to get rid of. Because rats are cowards. Because they hide. Because they think they're cleverer than you.

El amor es la única piedra que siempre tropieza con el mismo hombre

Die Liebe ist der einzige Stein, der immer über denselben Menschen stoplert.

All business opportunities stem from someone else's inability to resolve a simple and inevitable problem.

Todo navegante que se precie tiene un iceberg en su destino.

A net across the Little Trickle won't catch fish in the Watercress River.

Coming down was the hardest part of any climbing.

Inveniam viam - I shall either find a way or make one.