Quotes About Impediment

The love that was a granite impediment at the center of her life was also an unshakable foundation;

A handicap is like trying to race and you have a ten pound weight stuck to your waist. That is a handicap.

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.

The whole magic of a plot requires that somebody be impeded from getting something over with.

I loved it, but social reality impeded. Now I wander in here at 9 in the morning or so, and come back for a while in the afternoon. I am a very lenient boss.

Go away, you give philosophy nothing to catch hold of.

As Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, "As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.

A good thing which prevents us from enjoying a greater good is in truth an evil.

A civil servant is sometimes like a broken cannon - it won't work and you can't fire it.

The equation of evolution with progress represents our strongest cultural impediment to a proper understanding of this greatest biological revolution in the history of human thought.

The No. 1 impediment to women succeeding in the workforce is now in the home.

When you're corked...you're corked!

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.

He only is a well-made man who has a good determination. And the end of culture is not to destroy this, God forbid! but to train away all impediment and mixture and leave nothing but pure power.

You're just like crosstown traffic, so hard to get through to you.

But corpses cannot easily be overlooked; they come in the way.

But intelligence is not just a matter of acting or behaving intelligently. Behavior is a manifestation of intelligence, but not the central characteristic or primary definition of being intelligent. A moment's reflection proves this: You can be intelligent just lying in the dark, thinking and understanding. Ignoring what goes on in your head and focusing instead on behavior has been a large impediment to understanding intelligence and building intelligent machines

A small cold and cough can actually stop you from going where you are.

The counter is a barrier.

The only real impediment to this is yourself and your emotions—boredom, panic, frustration, insecurity. You cannot suppress such emotions—they are normal to the process and are experienced by everyone, including Masters. What you can do is have faith in the process.

That religion may have served some necessary function for us in the past does not preclude the possibility that it is now the greatest impediment to our building a global civilization.

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Seduction implies opening yourself up, even if only for the purposes of deception; being unable to give by spending money usually means being unable to give in general. Stamp ungenerosity out. It is an impediment to power and a gross sin in seduction.