Quotes About Obstacles

I know those challenges that come up from time to time in life are our little learning tools, our little steppingstones. If we didn't have those things in our life, how would we learn anything? We would just be walking around like nothing. We need those obstacles in our life because I know one thing - I'm a much better person for them.

So much of writing is like walking down a dark hallway with your arms out in front of you. You bump into a lot of things.

You can focus on things that are barriers or you can focus on scaling the wall or redefining the problem.

I believe people who go into politics want to do the right thing. And then they hit a big wall of re-election and the pettiness of politics. In the end, politics gets in the way of the business of people.

Sometimes you'd come up against a brick wall... or sometimes you go into a fill and you'd know halfway through it was going to be disastrous.

If you can't go one way, there's many ways to get where you're going. So you just take a step back and see beyond the wall.

If you keep bashing your head against the same wall, at some point you're going to fall over and be still for awhile.

We may be up against a stone wall, but we don't have to bloody our heads against it unless we choose to.

I can blame a lot of things for not writing songs, but cancer isn't one of them.

I didn't have romances when I was in school. Girls didn't want to go out with me because I was blind.

The 'block' in 'Attack the Block' is not just a physical thing. It's people; it's families.

If you're playing basketball, you're going to get your shot blocked.

Creative ideas aren't like Jenga blocks, where they fall apart and you've got to start from scratch, though it can feel that way.

I don't have anybody in my life who's connected to the industry. I don't have a producer dad. I don't have friends in Bollywood. I really don't know how to go about it.

There's not always bright lights. Sometimes you have to go through dark tunnels to be able to get to the success.

I never got the chance to meet Linda Brown; there were several times we were supposed to meet or be on the same stage together, but life gets in the way, and it never happened.

I always struggle to get Aussies on stuff if I'm just being honest. I've asked heaps of Aussies to do duets and it's always just a pain in the bum and I just don't bother any more.

I like writing about the issues we all bump up against as we get older, but I try to present them in a fun way.

You learn a lot more from those bumps than from when things are going great.

I've had a lot of bumps in the road, but I kept my head down and kept working.

Our own bureaucracy should not and cannot get in the way of our efforts to get people sheltered.

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

I have had all of the disadvantages required for success.

I believe success is delayed failure.