Quotes About Obstacles

I have been around for a long, long time. I didn't make it 'til I was older. I went through the period when women were not getting signed, particularly if you were writing songs that were lyrically propelled.

We started shooting, and then Jodie found out she was pregnant. Forest broke it to me - he'd gone to work and heard it on the radio! It seemed like the movie was doomed. But, like these characters, there was a disregard for all the signs along the way.

Things are simple, it is us human beings that make it difficult.

Resistance is directly proportional to love. If you're feeling massive Resistance, the good news is that it means there's tremendous love there too.

Resistance will tell you anything to keep you from doing your work.

To yield to Resistance deforms our spirit. It stunts us and makes us less than we are and were born to be.

Like a magnetized needle floating on a surface of oil, Resistance will unfailingly point to true North - meaning that calling or action it most wants to stop us from doing. We can use this. We can use it as a compass. We can navigate by Resistance, letting it guide us to that calling or action that we must follow before all others.

We feed it [Resistance] with power by our fear of it. Master that fear and we conquer Resistance.

Resistance is the most toxic force on the planet.

We're wrong if we think we're the only ones struggling with Resistance. Everyone who has a body experiences Resistance.

The enemy is Resistance.

Its [Resistance] aim is to shove us away, distract us from doing our work.

Resistance has no conscience.

The highest treason a crab can commit is to make a leap for the rim of the bucket.

Resistance is implacable, intractable, indefatigable.

Resistance is experienced as fear; the degree of fear equates to the strength of Resistance.

You think Resistance isn't real? Resistance will bury you.

Resistance has no strength of its own. Every ounce of juice it possesses comes from us. We feed it with power by our fear of it. Master that fear and we conquer Resistance.

Resistance knows that the amateur composer will never write his symphony because he is overly invested in its success and overterrified of its failure.

The danger is greatest when the finish line is in sight. At this point, Resistance knows we're about to beat it. It hits the panic button. It marshals one last assault and slams us with everything it's got.

Resistance, his all-encompassing term for what Freud called the Death Wish — that destructive force inside human nature that rises whenever we consider a tough, long-term course of action that might do for us or others something that's actually good.

Every sun casts a shadow, and genius's shadow is Resistance.

I, on the other hand, believe that the source of creativity is found on the same plane of reality as Resistance.

The awakening artist must be ruthless, not only with herself but with others. Once you make your break, you can't turn around for your buddy who catches his trouser leg on the barbed wire. The best thing you can do for that friend (and he'd tell you this himself, if he really is your friend) is to get over the wall and keep motating.