Quotes About Obstacles

Big dreams bring all sorts of challenges. To meet them, you have to have character, courage and a commitment to contribute to your community.

Even if you come up with a conventional script, directors face several issues in convincing people to get on board.

I think sometimes we're meant to do something but things aren't lined up correctly.

Winning covers a lot of bad things.

When you're losing, crap happens.

There's definitely guys out there that you don't like, and they'll try to crash you anytime they can't get around you.

As an actress, you know there are limitations on what you can do creatively.

There are a million logical reasons to not make a film, and I think if you get focused on all the critics or money or any of that other stuff, it never leads anywhere good.

As I get older, I start to look back at the field that I've crossed and realize that it was a mine field.

You have to learn how to deal with curve balls.

Independent content these days can be more successful than previously because of the power of social media. However, there are still systems in place to make sure independent artists don't get as far as signed ones.

No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.

There are certainly moments in the story room where you watch the movie die on the table. You put A next to B, and suddenly none of it lines up anymore. We feel that all the time. It's a terrible feeling.

Most of the albums that have taken long have been related to illness and fatigue or producer problems.

You have to make a decision: Am gonna be the person that takes the risk? Am I gonna be the person that says I'm gonna start this business and I'm gonna follow through with it no matter what the obstacles?

It takes obstacles to learn, grow, be better.

It takes facing obstacles to grow strong enough to overcome them.

I've always said that Miguel Pinero's story is a quintessential American tale. An immigrant who comes to this country, is immediately marginalized to the lowest economic level and persecuted because of his skin color and, in spite of all the obstacles put in his way, he becomes a huge popular success.

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

But I think funny and talent will always win out; I mean, of course there are hurdles, but I think if you're funny you will get over all of that.

It's very difficult to figure out, for me, what stops really talented young female filmmakers from having the kind of careers that their really talented young male counterparts are having.

It's hard for me to talk about a legacy or a mystique. It's my family. The fact that there have been difficulties and hardships, or obstacles, makes us closer.

Like I talked about, I'm not gonna let something like COVID get in the way of stopping me from obtaining my destiny.

There is a part of me that's oblivious. People always ask me, 'What obstacles have you faced?' and I always think, 'What are you talking about?' Whether or not there were obstacles, I never saw obstacles. It's never occurred to me that I wasn't good enough for something.