Quotes About Obstacles

No matter how hard you work to bring yourself up, there's someone out there working just as hard, to put you down.

If you believe it will work out , you'll see opportunities. If you believe it won't you will see obstacles.

Sometimes skulls are thick. Sometimes hearts are vacant. Sometimes words don't work.

Victories in life come through our ability to work around and over the obstacles that cross our path. We grow stronger as we climb our own mountains.

Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.

How you get work done is by exploiting yourself and your feelings, and sometimes people get in the way.

Bureaucracy is the death of all sound work.

A person who is worried about the outcome of his work does not see his goal; he sees only his opposition and the obstacles before him.

We bury the men who do the nation's creative work under layers of administrators and mountains of memoranda. We shrivel creativity by endless frustrations.

Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.

Where the loser saw barriers, the winner saw hurdles.

Every good work has to face opposition, and the reaction of the opposition offered always helps the work.

Every work has got to pass through hundreds of difficulties before succeeding. Those that persevere will see the light, sooner or later.

Whatever prevents you from doing your work has become your work.

It seems like there are always gatekeepers. People between you and the people who are moved by your work. They often make a beautiful thing creepy.

You can't be afraid of failure and you can't be afraid of success, because either one gets in the way of your work.

Deal first with whatever is causing you the greatest emotional distress. Often this will break the logjam in your work and free you up mentally to complete (the) other tasks.

I'd been told there are 10 difficult holes and eight impossible ones. I'm still trying to work out which the 10 difficult holes are.

The best work usually meets the strongest opposition.

Just imagine how much you'd get done if you stopped actively sabotaging your own work.

I want to be able to do what I want to do. A lot of times, the major labels, they can't see the vision, they can only see the dollar signs. So, it doesn't really work out like that.

The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.

I had wanted to write Ghost Country for a long time, but it wouldn't work.

But as far as my work is concerned, I see no impediment, and various advantages, to being deaf.