Quotes About Obstacles

Here's the thing, Grace," Cal said, a smile playing at the corner of his mouth. "Ever since that first day when you smacked me in the head with your field hockey stick-" "You just can't let that go, can you?" I muttered. He grinned fully now. "-and even when you hit me with the rake and dented my truck, and when you were spying on me from your attic and your dog was mauling me, Grace, I always knew you were the one for me.

Life is full of bad surprises.

Aquilo que você resiste, persiste.

The greatest enemy of a good plan is the dream of a perfect plan

Human beings are on a journey of awareness, which has been momentarily interrupted by extraneous forces.

Good is somebody who delivered and allowed the company to overcome obstacles, without leaving a profound impact on its culture. Great is somebody who leads his company to achievements and performance and value that nobody was expecting it had.

So what should we praise? The effort, the strategies, the doggedness and persistence, the grit people show, the resilience that they show in the face of obstacles, that bouncing back when things go wrong and knowing what to try next. So I think a huge part of promoting a growth mindset in the workplace is to convey those values of process, to give feedback, to reward people engaging in the process, and not just a successful outcome.

growth mindset: a zest for teaching and learning, an openness to giving and receiving feedback, and an ability to confront and surmount obstacles.

growth mindset—think about learning, challenge, confronting obstacles. Think about effort as a positive, constructive force, not as a big drag. Try it out.

The fixed mindset stands in the way of development and change. The growth mindset is a starting point for change,

Some days the universe simply conspires against you.

I guess you've grown up anyway, Janie. Even with all the bricks I put on your head to keep you little.

It is possible never to have done with knocking our heads over the same few biographical incidents that insist upon being the arbitrary markers of our lives.

As you see the patterns and meaning emerge in your own personal experience of the world dream, you begin to realize that everything is happening on your behalf, even the obstacles and the challenges that you experiment with. The obstacles and challenges that you find are there to dare you to become vast and wise enough to surmount them. At this stage, it helps to ask yourself: What is the myth I'm living? And what must I do to live it well?

To understand why sludge matters, let's begin with the assumption that people are fully rational and that in deciding whether to wade through sludge, they make some calculation about costs and benefits. Even if the benefits of that wading are high, the costs might prove overwhelming.

There were no aisles, so to get to the empty cot I had to climb over other senators. The first was Ted Kennedy. He was a big man, and at that moment he looked to me like Mount Everest.

Spikes, " he sighed. "Heads. Walls.

Show me the path I must walk and do not let me stumble in the dark places that lie ahead.

My enemies are legion.

When I went to Catholic high school in Philadelphia, we just had one coach for football and basketball. He took all of us who turned out and had us run through a forest. The ones who ran into the trees were on the football team.

You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

Love, bumping his head blindly against all the obstacles of civilization.

The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.

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