Quotes About Obstacles

You know, that's kind of always been our philosophy: not letting the place that we are get in the way of making great music.

My characters are not underachievers; they aspire to great things, but they are limited by the world around them.

Greece is not an easy country to do business in.

Starting in Greece, you couldn't really say, 'I'm going to become a film-maker.' A 15-year-old boy in Greece in the '80s and '90s? There was nothing like that happening.

I think the biggest thing is to continue grinding and not let the crowds of people get in the way of you're trying to do.

As per usual, trouble comes in several directions at once.

Fears, worries, weariness, discouragement . . . all these things can impede our mobility.

We are kept from our goal, not by obstacles but by a clear path to a lesser goal." —Robert Brault

Upon the whole, I am inclined to think that the far greater part, if not all, of those difficulties which have hitherto amused philosophers, and blocked up the way to knowledge, are entirely owing to ourselves--that we have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see.

Banyak orang mengeluh tentang problem-problem yang selalu menghadang mereka untuk mencapai kesuksesan. Tetapi aku tidak percaya akan adanya problem-problem didunia ini justru yang mencari-cari problem yang mereka inginkan, dan bila tidak mereka temukan, mereka menciptakan problem-problem itu

I had some ambition. I meant everything to be different with me. I thought I had more strength and mastery. But the most terrible obstacles are such as nobody can see except oneself.

Here and there is born a Saint Theresa, foundress of nothing, whose loving heart-beats and sobs after an unattained goodness tremble off and are dispersed among hindrances, instead of centring in some long-recognizable deed.

It will always remain true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.

Having once embarked on your marital voyage, it is impossible not to be aware that you make no way and that the sea is not within sight - that, in fact, you are exploring a closed basin.

When you're born, your life (past Karma) is like a piece of string with knots in it and you've got to try, before you die, to undo all the knots: but you tie another twenty trying to get one undone.

Every path hath a puddle.

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

I wonder how many times people give up just before a breakthrough - when they are on the very brink of success.

Some players are wonderful hitters of the ball, but they can't figure out ways to get out of trouble. Eighty percent of the time, there is a way. You just have to know how to look for it.

I hate thinking about writer's block! I don't have writer's block much, knock on wood, but if I do, I think it's usually because I haven't done enough research and am therefore unable to create a fully realized world.

Wonder knows that while you cannot look at the light, you cannot look at anything else without it. It is not exhausted by childhood, but finds its key there. It is a journey like a walk through the woods over the usual obstacles and around the common distractions while the voice of direction leads, saying, 'This is the way, walk ye in it.'

I don't have my own garden; we're on shale and in the woods. And if I did have a garden, the deer and chipmunks and squirrels and bears would eat everything anyway.

I faced a number of challenges whilst I built Biocon. Initially, I had credibility challenges where I couldn't get banks to fund me; I couldn't recruit people to work for a woman boss. Even in the businesses where I had to procure raw materials, they didn't want to deal with women.

So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.