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Quotes About Obstacles

We were working on 'Senna' for a long time before we were fully financed, so we didn't actually have an editor for a while.
~ Asif Kapadia
The fundamental vision hasn't changed. What does change is how you get there, because there are still problems you have to figure out.
~ Maelle Gavet
The biggest barrier to starting a company isn't ideas, funding or experience. It's excuses.
~ Sarah Lacy
I look at Sarah and Emma, and I know that's what they want someday, to have an amazing story like this to tell, one where they faced obstacles but were brave, one where they made a difference in people's lives. And that's when I feel that big feeling again - the one I felt the first time I picked up Monster's bass - that strange sense that I'm becoming larger. Just by sitting here listening. Just by understanding how large a person's life can be -Janie
~ Frances O'Roark Dowell
Most men go through life unchallenged, except at the final moment.
~ Frank Herbert
Bojim se slijepih, Stil. Bojim ih se. Oni tako lako mogu slomiti sve što im se na?e na putu.
~ Frank Herbert
She had quoted a Bene Gesserit proverb to him: "When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movement becomes headlong—faster and faster and faster. They put aside all thought of obstacles and forget that a precipice does not show itself to the man in a blind rush until it's too late." Paul
~ Frank Herbert
When you stumble," he said, "you may regain your balance by jumping beyond the thing that tripped you.
~ Frank Herbert
When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movement becomes headlong—faster and faster and faster. They put aside all thought of obstacles and forget that a precipice does not show itself to the man in a blind rush until it's too late.
~ Frank Herbert
She had quoted a Bene Gesserit proverb to him: "When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movement becomes headlong—faster and faster and faster. They put aside all thought of obstacles and forget that a precipice does not show itself to the man in a blind rush until it's too late.
~ Frank Herbert
When you stumble, you may regain your balance by jumping beyond the thing that tripped you.
~ Frank Herbert
Cu toÈ›ii ne str?duim s? evolu?m, dar, când ceva ne împiedic?, ne putem transfera potenÈ›ialul spre suferin?? - provocându-ne-o nou? înÈ™ine sau provocând-o altora.
~ Frank Herbert
The true way goes over a rope which is not stretched at any great height but just above the ground. It seems more designed to make people stumble than to be walked upon.
~ Franz Kafka
A man might find for a moment that he was unable to work, but that's exactly the right time to remember his past accomplishments and to consider that later on, when the obstacles has been removed, he's bound to work all the harder and more efficiently.
~ Franz Kafka
Your will is free means: it was free when it wanted the desert, it is free since it can choose the path that leads to crossing the desert, it is free since it can choose the pace, but it is also unfree since you must go through the desert, unfree since every path in labyrinthine manner touches every foot of the desert's surface.
~ Franz Kafka
Yet even if I manage that, one single slip, and a slip cannot be avoided, will stop the whole process, easy and painful alike, and I will have to shrink back into my own circle again.
~ Franz Kafka
Life is hard, the earth stubborn, science rich in knowledge but poor in practical results.
~ Franz Kafka
one must not prostrate oneself before the minor impossibilities, otherwise the major impossibilities would never come into view.
~ Franz Kafka
Der wahre Weg geht über ein Seil, das nicht in der Höhe gespannt ist, sondern knapp über dem Boden. Es scheint mehr bestimmt stolpern zu machen, als begangen zu werden.
~ Franz Kafka
There are obstacles, questionable matters, disappointments, but this merely shows, as we already knew, that nothing is given to you on a platter, that you yourself have to fight for every trifle, another reason for being proud, not dejected.
~ Franz Kafka
Her ÅŸeyi olduÄŸu gibi rapor edecek misiniz? İnsan baz? anlarda çal??amayacak halde olabilir, ama bu anlar eski baÅŸar?lar?n hat?rlanmas? ve daha sonra, engel ortadan kald?r?ld???nda, insan?n ÅŸüphesiz daha bir azimle ve gayretle çal??aca??n?n düÅŸünülmesi için de en iyi zamand?r.
~ Franz Kafka
If you were crossing a plain, with the good will to get across, but all the same your steps took you backwards, it would be a matter for despair; but as you are clambering up a steep slope, as steep, say, as you yourself are viewed from below, it could also be that your steps backward are only caused by the nature of the ground, and you do not have to despair.
~ Franz Kafka
On ne peut pas briser de chaînes quand il n'y en a pas de visibles.
~ Franz Kafka
But is all your earlier life really so remote from you (except, of course, for the landlady, and there's no getting rid of her) that you no longer know how one must fight to make any progress, particularly when you start from so far below? How any method offering any kind of hope must be used?
~ Franz Kafka