Quotes About Barrier

Take the great example of the four-minute mile. One guy breaks it, then all of a sudden everyone breaks it. And they break it in such a short period of time that it can't be because they were training harder. It's purely that it was a psychological barrier, and someone had to show them that they could do it.

The want of education and moral training is the only real barrier that exists between the different classes of men.

This I have observed: There are no language barriers in the Church. There is a mighty power that transcends the power of messages conveyed by words alone, and this is the power of messages communicated by the Spirit to our hearts.

If I was the Jackie Robinson of golf, I sure didn't do a very good job of it. Jackie was followed by hundreds of great black ballplayers who have transformed their sport... But there are hardly any black kids coming up through the ranks of golf today.

The problem is that it is difficult to translate.

For me, it's a big challenge to translate everything in English.

The difficulty that many foreign authors face in having their works translated into English has effects far beyond the United States.

Translation is the art of failure.

I had to struggle with the language. I can understand Hindi now, but I still can't communicate. And things get lost in translation; I feel rejected all the time.

The English book world is relatively closed to translation, so only a small amount of foreign language work can come in.

You know it was really hard to do a set, or even to do interviews in English, because in Europe, we always had a translator with us.

The only problem was that I couldn't communicate with Dario. He speaks Italian and I don't. We had a translator the whole time. I just felt that something was lost with the go between. He was a delightful man, but I wish we could have spoken the same language.

The barrier of communication is terrible if you don't speak the language. You cannot reach a player with a translator.

There is a tendency among people within a profession to use or create words whose meanings are clear only to others within their narrow group and obscure to the rest of the world. This tendency in all specializations is a barrier to communication and a support of self-serving secrecy in an "in" group. Writers have an obligation to defend their language against the assaults of jargon.

How do you expect to communicate with the ocean, when you can't even understand one another?

I tell you the truth, any object you have in your mind, however good, will be a barrier between you and the inmost Truth.

But what a weak barrier is truth when it stands in the way of an hypothesis!

The truth is, I've always been afraid of letting anyone get too close. I built a wall around me, a barricade to hide behind those few times someone wanted entry to my heart.

Anybody who gives you a belief system is your enemy, because the belief system becomes the barrier for your eyes, you cannot see the truth.

We use so much bad language that it forms a barrier between ourselves and the truth.

I tried.Can't do it.Brain's empty.

you might, through an act of bravery—demonstrable, jaw-dropping, minimalist bravery—provoke people to see that there was a behavioral barrier, not a technical or financial barrier, to being up onstage and making the culture happen right now with you and everybody else in the room.

You don't like what you see out your window, you put up a wall.

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