Quotes About Obstacles

I don't want to produce anymore small or independent movies because it's just too hard these days.

When I was very young, around 11 or 12, when I started actually meeting people, trying to get work, I had to meet producers, directors but I didn't have the platform.

Every morning I tell myself, 'Today has to be productive' - and then something happens that prevents me from writing.

Bubbles only break for a few different reasons, so if I can avoid those things, I can get a lot of things to happen.

My difficulties belong to me!

There are no insuperable constitutional difficulties.

What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself, in the face of difficulties.

The things that block a writer are not the lack of words, but the same things that block all people - the difficulties of life.

There are filmmakers who get lucky with the first film itself, and then there are some of us who have to face difficulties.

I think, in football, you have to go through difficulties.

I think everybody encounters difficulty. It's just more pitched in some people.

I think we have a cultural difficulty with looking at our problems.

Science is about nothing but getting at the truth, and anything that gets in the way of that diminishes, in my experience, the science.

The enemies of peace have not disappeared.

Many times I have gotten distracted. That has hurt or impeded success.

Sometimes you can block out a lot of things because you're thinking about so much and you can distract yourself, but sometimes that distraction of being ADD can really set you back.

There are always distractions, if you allow them.

Eugene O'Neil is always exploring our want to love but can't get it out there.

The more emotional distractions you have the harder it is to accomplish your goals - especially at the extreme levels!

I have always faced challenges in my life.

Growing up, I didn't think it would be possible to be an actress - I didn't see a lot of Latina faces on TV or in movies. But that didn't stop me from trying. I realized early that anything I really wanted was worth working for.

Only facing right-handers and not left-handers is hard for me.

The only person that is going to tell you that you can't do things in life are people who have failed.

After my first film, I was having trouble finding a second film. I had a lot of attempts that failed.