Quotes About Obstacles

A wrong turn doesn't end the journey. If you feel lost, just look at your map and get back on the road. The map will always lead you in the right direction."

Some roads, once set out upon, reveal no possible path but forward. Every other track is blocked by snarls of thorns, steaming fissures or rearing walls of stone. What waits at the far end of the forward path is unknown, and since knowledge itself may prove a curse, the best course is simply to place one foot in front of the other, and think not at all of fate or the cruel currents of destiny.

We had no idea what we were in for when we started Blue Sky. We just had an idea of what we wanted to do. When we got to a point where it seemed impossible, we just kept doing it. After 18 years, we have a lot of it done.

I had doors slammed in my face; I had a lot of news directors who wouldn't give me the time of day. Some told me I wouldn't have a future in the business.

Anybody who's serious about their passion in life gets doors slammed in their face, literally and figuratively.

You find most of the interesting stories are the ones that are slightly harder to get made.

Getting that first foot on the rung of the ladder, that's where you find it easier to shrug off those times when your foot slips off, and you have to get yourself going again.

Make no mistake about it. Bad habits are called 'bad' for a reason. They kill our productivity and creativity. They slow us down. They hold us back from achieving our goals. And they're detrimental to our health.

Whenever you need something from someone else before you can move forward, it's a dependency. We believe dependencies slow people down. We want people to be more independent, because that will keep them moving forward.

I've been on the side of it where you have bad luck and slow cars.

Removing government-created obstacles to small business growth is what Washington should be addressing, and this focus should start with removing the herculean impediments to job creation found in the health care law.

Every government says they love small businesses, but what have they done for them? We should pull down all the barriers.

We will not let government bureaucracy stand in the way of helping small businesses.

You might have to go through some smaller rainbows to get at the big fish, but they're in there.

Our opponents maintain that we are confronted with insurmountable political obstacles, but that may be said of the smallest obstacle if one has no desire to surmount it.

Anybody with a good smart phone can shoot and edit a film. Distributing it is the hard part.

There are plenty of smart people who get nowhere.

From daycare to graduation, our education system stacks the odds against the poor. Predicted grades is just one of many hurdles that are set a little higher for those whose parents do not have the money to smooth their path in life or the inside knowledge of how the system works.

When you play this game long enough, everything is not going to be smooth sailing.

I don't want to pass through life like a smooth plane ride.

When I make a commitment to someone, it is for the smooth road and the rocky road.

Acting has not been a smooth sailing journey.

Things don't always go smoothly.

I have been in this business for over 30 years. I've seen a lot of development programmes. They don't all run smoothly.