Quotes About Obstacles

para llegar al cielo se necesitan, como ingredientes, una piedrita y la punta de un zapato

Act 2 is always a grind. With the exception of Acts 1 and 3, it's the hardest part of your standard three-act play.

We'll probably trip a few times along this road. But every time I think we'll grow a little stronger.

Many of the people I write about were deliberately left out of the history books that we were forced to read in school. For me, that history was "written wrong" and needed to be corrected. My intention was to make them visible so they could be role models for others. To show how each, in his or her own way, dribbled gracefully around that obstacle in the narrow corridor.

It is very difficult to score goals in Italy.

I truly believe that if I would make a bad film, I might be walking into director's jail and never out. And that I think is probably a little more true because I'm a woman.

To me, Def Jam put my career on hold. I was used to making 13-14 songs a year, and they trickled that down to nothing.

Jamaica has problems; America has problems; everywhere has problems.

In chatting to directors over the years, including James Wan, they always tell you the war stories. No one ever says, 'Oh, I had a great time on that film.' It's always this went wrong, that went wrong.

If my films did better at the box office in Japan, it would be easier to get them made.

The joke is that no matter how much we think we can evolve, we'll never escape our limitations.

The Church points only to Christ and anything that gets in the way of that proclamation weakens her mission.

Lo malo de un fracaso es que tapona la vida, cierra otros posibles caminos hacia el éxito.

If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.

Start with the difficult and when it gets easy, everything else is easier.

When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movements become headlong - faster and faster and faster. They put aside all thoughts of obstacles and forget the precipice does not show itself to the man in a blind rush until it's too late.

I wanted to be sure to reach you;though my ship was on the way it got caughtin some moorings. I am always tying upand then deciding to depart.

It is true that I can trip over anything and nothing – a speck of dust, a patch of sunlight, an idea. I move through life like a person with one eye, through a landscape that looks flat, but is really tricked out with hidden depths and shallows. It didn't use to be so, but no matter. I navigate the world well enough in my own way.

The brook would lose its song if you removed the rocks

Success is relevant to coping with obstacles... But no problem is ever solved by those, who, when they fail, look for someone to blame instead of something to do.

Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.

The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder.

No doubt the foregoing litany of obstacles in the path of success stands out more sharply in retrospect than it did at the time. Hindsight can distort; prophets become prophets only in time.

Alas! Alas! Life is full of disappointments; as one reaches one ridge there is always another and a higher one beyond which blocks the view.