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Quotes About Barriers

The world is changing and the physical barriers are down now. It's time for the emotional barriers to go down. And what better place to start than school?
~ Laura San Giacomo
From my time in 'King Crimson,' I'd describe a Progressive band as one that keeps trying to break musical barriers, and keeps trying to do new music.
~ Tony Levin
The way is shut. It was made by those who are Dead, and the Dead keep it, until the time comes. The way is shut.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
It is not your job to seek for love, it is your job to seek within yourself all the barriers who hold against its coming.
~ Marianne Williamson
But that was how it went sometimes, the English language, when you really needed it, crumbled to clay in your mouth.
~ Marisha Pessl
Truly, the most we can ask of others is for their guidance and comfort on the way—without imposition, design, or thought of reward. This is the hospitality of relationship: for family to help us manifest who we are in the world, for friends to bring us to thresholds of realness, for loved ones to encourage us to cross barriers of our own making into moments of full aliveness.
~ Mark Nepo
We're drawn to live in the world until the fire within meets the fire without. We're drawn to move through all the invisible barriers to find what we love, to love what we love, and to save what we love. The inevitable journey of being spirit on Earth is to love things dearly enough that in time we become a nameless part of what we love. Until we're left with the noble effort to voice and affirm what we touch and know when closest to life, for as long as we can.
~ Mark Nepo
That's the way it seems to me too," agreed Lou. "In the box, whether I'm a skilled communicator or not, I end up communicating my box—and that's the problem.
~ Arbinger Institute
When the barriers were down at last, loneliness would vanish as personality faded.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
It is difficult to reconstruct an emotion. At times it is difficult even to admit to one. I have practiced long and hard at denying entry to such twin imposters as triumph and disaster, or love and hate, but sometimes the barriers are breached.
~ Simon Mawer
A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
~ Simone Weil
I hadn't learned yet that everybody's locked up some way or other. That's how life is we're all imprisoned by something.
~ James Frey
The walls that we build for self-protection become the walls of self-imprisonment later!!!!
~ Harrish Sairaman
Knocking down barriers to making everyone, even the children, feel empowered was unprecedented in the colony. But the chicks loved it.
~ John P. Kotter
Empower Others to Act. Remove as many barriers as possible so that those who want to make the vision a reality can do so. Encourage others to remove barriers and make true innovation happen.
~ John P. Kotter
Me duele que hoy ya no existan límites, como antes de las columnas de Hércules, porque me gustaría ser la primera en saltarme esas barreras.
~ Elsa Morante
Between the humble and contrite heart and the majesty of Heaven there are no barriers; the only password is prayer.
~ ballou hosea iii
Sometimes people put up walls, not to keep others out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
~ Banana Yoshimoto
We weigh ourselves down with so many obstacles we can't even buy a goldfish bowl.
~ Barbara Sher
But if we focus on the barriers, we're more likely to encounter them. We achieve what we focus on.
~ Barbara Stanny
There are ways that we, as a society, the laws that we write and the contracts we build, can try to actually increase people's ability to reap the reward from their own potential. But we put barriers in front of them.
~ Joe Kennedy III
Any bilateral trade and investment agreement must be comprehensive and address the full range of barriers to U.S. goods and services if it is to receive broad, bipartisan congressional support.
~ Max Baucus
Dwayne Betts is the kind of man who should be receiving awards from the Connecticut bar. Instead, he hasn't been admitted.
~ Bari Weiss
But recently I began to feel that maybe I wouldn't be able to do what I want to do and need to do with American musicians, who are imprisoned behind these bars; music's got these bars and measures you know.
~ Sun Ra