logo

Quotes About Barriers

I wish I could go visit them and talk in my own language, the English I knew before I grew thorns on my tongue.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
thought of the way a tree will keep on growing after a fence is wired around its trunk. The unbelievable force of that expansion. And I let her go.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
From the perspective of a model of decision making that is future oriented, being sensitive to sunk costs is a mistake.
~ Barry Schwartz
At nineteen they can card you in the bars and tell you to get the fuck out, put your sorry act (and sorrier ass) back on the street, but they can't card you when you sit down to paint a picture, write a poem, or tell a story.
~ Stephen King
If what you're saying is bouncing off their psychological armor, it makes little difference how good you are at saying it. You are not being heard. Your people have to hear you to be moved by you.
~ Steve Chandler
You need a system for capturing hunches, but not necessarily categorizing them, because categories can build barriers between disparate ideas, restrict them to their own conceptual islands. This is one way in which the human history of innovation deviates from the natural history. New ideas do not thrive on archipelagos.
~ Steven Johnson
Frontline love. It is our one hope for breaking down barriers and for restoring the sense of community, of caring for one another, that our decadent, impersonalized culture has sucked out of us.
~ Charles Colson
Letters do love one another. However, due to their anatomical differences, some letters have a hard time achieving intimacy.
~ Ellen Lupton
If everything were anything," Chance said softly, "the barriers would break down, and we'd all lose ourselves to chaos. And then there would be no cotton candy.
~ Jordan Castillo Price
Ano sa makatwid ang isang Unibersidad? Isang institusyon para hindi matuto? Nagtitipon-tipon ba ang ilang tao sa ngalan ng kaalaman at pagtuturo para hadlangang matuto ang iba?
~ Jose Rizal
Naglalaho sa loob ng klase ang mga hadlang na itinatayo ng politika upang hatiin ang mga lahi, natutunaw wari sa alab ng kaalaman at kabataan.
~ Jose Rizal
Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.
~ Joseph Fort Newton
Language falters where contempt flourishes.
~ Eugene Thacker
Politics still remains a very hostile, unwelcoming place for diverse peoples. It's the reason that we have so few of them in politics.
~ Annamie Paul
No matter what people say, the fact remains that it's not easy for an outsider to make it big in the industry.
~ Sana Khan
Let's listen to the people and find common ground to remove barriers to job creation.
~ Peter Roskam
What we've been finding is that when you remove the barriers to innovation, you can actually hold costs down while lifting entrepreneurs up and getting better health results.
~ Kathleen Sebelius
When you remove just some of the barriers, people do what people do: help their families.
~ Joe Garcia
To be blunt, we need to remove the administrative barriers preventing legitimate research into medical marijuana, which is why I've decided to roll out the MEDS Act.
~ Orrin Hatch
Our key objective is to remove obstacles to trade.
~ Arancha Gonzalez
The only way to really change perceptions, to break down barriers, break down homophobia, is through representation. That's definitely not something I had as a kid. I never saw a gay athlete kissing their boyfriend at the Olympics. I think if I had, it would've made it easier for me.
~ Gus Kenworthy
To do comedy, there are so many hurdles one has to cross.
~ Johnny Lever
For homeless and formerly homeless people, losing their ID and then having to apply for and afford new ID is insurmountably difficult.
~ Dawn Foster
These false barriers that we've erected of space and race, all these illusions that we've allowed to infect us like toxins, we've got to rid ourselves of that. We are a better nation when we are ultimately united in a common purpose and a common cause.
~ Cory Booker