Quotes About Obstacles

It wasn't supposed to work - being a new artist, a female artist, an artist on an independent. That's what made it so much sweeter when we hit No. 1.

Most of us are imprisoned by something. We're living in darkness until something flips on the switch.

One of my favorite moments was when me and Jay-Z made a song 'For Rhyme or Reason.' It ended up on 'Reasonable Doubt,' but they switched the beat because we couldn't get clearance from my label.

There's a lot of great, talented, passionate musical theatre practitioners and directors here. But it's very hard to suddenly start building great musicals in a town like Sydney where there hasn't been any great musicals built.

Filmmaking is hard. I mean, it's not that hard, but it is hard to find your way through a system because there's a lot of people, there's money, there's a big machine to kind of make it - and how to find methods and processes that allow it to continue to be a lively process and a creative process.

Frustration is the seedbed of creativity,invention and ultimately progress.

Don't miss out on blessings because you can't see that.

Sometimes it's things that take the joy out of life, like a blowout when you're hitting sixty or a button coming off of a shirt when you're in a hurry, but usually it's people.

Success starts with SUC. When you evolve there will be challenges.

Over the last decade I have come to know one thing with the most certainty: the only thing standing between us and a life filled with joy and everything we want is our very own self!

the only thing standing between us and a life filled with joy and everything we want is our very own self!

There are those who sit and wonder why others strive amongst all the odds. They will never know, as they are the ones who try to keep others back by their envy and connivance with which they are preoccupied most of the time'- ricardo a scott, reggae inventor from trench town

Roy: It's a winding road with no guardrails and some deeply stupid cul-de-sacs, but it's still technically a path.

The Prussian General Karl von Clausewitz once said, "The greatest enemy of a good plan is the dream of a perfect plan.

The path you wish to take will be opposed and sometimes one of those opposers is yourself.

You have the freedom to be yourself, your true self, here and now, and nothing can stand in your way".

Without a sense of purpose to life, a sense of what is truly most important to us, we become like the ball in a pinball machine, bouncing away from fear after fear. When we have a clear purpose, we may feel afraid or encounter obstacles, but we will do what it takes to move through the fear and solve the problems in front of us.

When you know something cannot be done, also remember the essential reason why, so later, when the circumstances have changed, you will not say 'It can't be done.

Richard Hough

My business is anything that comes between men and the Spirit of God.

It's at times like this I hate the brain. It always builds more barriers than it can topple.

No one sees trees. We see fruit, we see nuts, we see wood, we see shade. We see ornaments or pretty fall foliage. Obstacles blocking the road or wrecking the ski slope. Dark, threatening places that must be cleared. We see branches about to crush our roof. We see a cash crop. But trees—trees are invisible.

No one sees trees. We see fruit, we see nuts, we see wood, we see shade. We see ornaments or pretty fall foliage. Obstacles blocking the road or wrecking the ski slope. Dark, threatening places that must be cleared. We see branches about to crush our roof. We see a cash crop. But trees—trees are invisible (p. 423).

Three steps forward, two steps back.