Quotes About Obstacles

We tried to just convince big publishers like EA or other people to make games like 'Cloud'... It's just almost impossible.

I cannot claim to have had a hard time publishing.

I wrote my first novel-length story when I was 14 but had no idea what to do with it. Brisbane was a long way from the publishing industry then. Nowhere's a long way from the publishing industry now.

I was 17 when I wrote a collection of short stories and wanted it published but it didn't happen. A lot of publishing houses don't allow young authors to enter into writing segments.

We didn't know anything about publishing. The first go-around we didn't make a nickel.

I consider myself to be a very good skateboarder, but the difficulty when you're being pulled behind any car, when there's only a 20-ft. line, is that you can't see the potholes.

Maybe I'm just purely lucky. If I've come up against obstacles I've always found another way around it.

As long as Wanxiang exists, we will pursue our dream to make electric cars, whatever the obstacles.

I kind of always wanted to act, but to get a grant I would have needed two A-levels, and I was too far away from even O levels. I didn't know you could get a scholarship, so I determined early not to pursue that.

I was fortunate enough to make it to where I want to be. There could be other kids as talented or more talented than me in whatever they want to be but don't have the resources to pursue their dream. Maybe they have to get a job instead to help their mom with the bills.

We were very young in Duran, and to get pushed in a corner can be very difficult to get out of.

We had so many obstacles. We had a lot of sexism and misogyny, there's a lot of things that were against us. But we've just pushed forward and we showed everybody.

There's going to be bumps along the way, in any walk of life, not just as a professional footballer with injuries. You've got to be resilient with it and keep pushing through. It'll make you stronger as well.

You have to keep pushing toward those dreams no matter what setbacks happen.

When things don't come so naturally to you, you want to persevere, you want to keep pushing yourself to overcome obstacles that prevent you from having the kind of life that you want to have.

I have lived my life putting work first, pushing myself to overcome obstacles to get the job done.

Continuity is what makes success, but it is all about getting over the humps on the road to that; that's what football is all about.

I don't know what I would have done had I not become a footballer. I've always wanted to do that, even when my family would try to stop me playing football so that I went to school.

I don't think anyone ever sets out to make a crappy movie, but there are a lot of forces working against those people who are trying to make something decent. There are a lot of fine lines to walk and small battles to fight.

My path has been, I think, a path a lot of women can foresee themselves taking.

I haven't fought with crystal-clear vision my whole life.

I always want to do my very best, and it's frustrating to have something hold me back.

I can understand in some sense, having played the character, how unimaginably frustrating it is for people to tell you that you can't love who you love, because you ain't going to change it, and so they have to get out of your way.

It's frustrating when you're not getting the job done.