Quotes About Obstacles

You always want to fantasize about the future, and all the work you're going to put in, all the accolades, but you always forget the roadblocks that are right in front of you until they hit you and you have to go over them.

People laughed at him and said, 'you'll never be famous, your name is too hard.' But everybody knows who Arnold Schwarzengger is. I'm far, far away from where he is.

Travel is hard, and it's mostly not your fault.

My debut feature, 'The Baby-Sitters Club,' got good reviews and made good money for what it cost. But it took me six years to get to direct my second feature. I think a guy would have had another movie out the same year.

I took an incredibly roundabout route getting into feature films.

SXSW can feel very male, very straight, and very white, and though it's a great festival, when you have a film that's different, it's hard to find your place.

A rule about portages: the longer and harder they are, the fewer people will make them.

There's always something getting in the way - other fights being made or money and politics ruining things - but after I finish Chisora, nobody can deny me my shot.

On my way to winning the title, it was great for me, but once I won the title, it was tough for me to get fights.

When I was young, I wanted, most of all, to be a writer of films and film music. But Middlesbrough in 1968 wasn't the place to be if you wanted to do movie scores.

A lot of filmmaking is just sort of slowed down by lawyers who feel they're more important than the filmmakers.

In any other sport an easier route to the final is your best route - but in this sport it isn't.

To chase an athlete that really doesn't want to speak with you and when you finally get him, gives you three words and you have to write a story based on three words of information he gave you, that's pretty tough.

Coppola has problems getting financing, so why should I not have problems getting financing.

I lost a year or two in there, trying to get films financed that I didn't know would never get financing.

I was writing fiction, but not finishing fiction.

We need to understand where our issues and challenges are and confront them head on. Because you can fix anything if you know there's a problem.

Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.

I'm afraid my own approach to everything is exactly the same: Who am I? What do I want? What are the circumstances - difficult or non-difficult? What are the obstacles, physical and non-physical? Finally, given who I am, the circumstances, the obstacles, what do I do? That's the only thing you do. You've got to do the action.

If the whole of mankind is to be united into one brotherhood, all obstacles must be removed so that men, all over the surface of the globe, should be as children playing in a garden.

When I look back over my life it's almost as if there was a plan laid out for me - from the little girl who was so passionate about animals who longed to go to Africa and whose family couldn't afford to put her through college. Everyone laughed at my dreams. I was supposed to be a secretary in Bournemouth.

There are a lot of bands and performers whose careers are permanently derailed by spectacularly bad management.