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Quotes About Impediment

Understand: the greatest impediment to creativity is your impatience, the almost inevitable desire to hurry up the process, express something, and make a splash.
~ Robert Greene
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.
~ Donald E. Westlake
Governmental aid is a drawback rather than an assistance, as, although it may facilitate in the routine of artistic production, it is an impediment to the development of true artistic genius.
~ John Philip Sousa
Some invisible force was working against them.
~ Ron Chernow
Attachment to views is the greatest impediment to the spiritual path.
~ Nhat Hanh
The plan is not wanting in grandeur; I see but one impediment." "What is it?" "Impossibility.
~ Alexandre Dumas
The learning context exerts very strong effects on whether a particular individual characteristic becomes an impediment to learning.
~ Anne Meyer
I thought Daredevil was kind of cool because he couldn't do anything. I mean, he's blind. It wasn't that he could fly. His major power was an impediment. So I was intrigued. When I took over he was kind of like Spider-Man-lite, but I was able to project a lot of my Catholic imagery onto it. And I'd always wanted to do a crime comic.
~ Frank Miller
Algernon Stitch was standing in the hall; his bowler hat was on his head; his right hand, grasping a crimson, royally emblazoned dispatch case, emerged from the left sleeve of his overcoat; his other hand burrowed petulantly in his breast pocket. An umbrella under his left arm further inconvenienced him. He spoke indistinctly, for he was holding a folded copy of the morning paper between his teeth. "Can't get it on," he seemed to say.
~ Evelyn Waugh
Despite all the hype about local or green food, the single biggest impediment to wider adoption is not research, programs, organizations, or networking. It is the demonizing and criminalizing of virtually all indigenous and heritage-based food practices.
~ Joel Salatin
Most of my life I was particularly terrified of speaking up, because I had a speech impediment, which made it difficult to pronounce certain letters, sounds, and I felt like I was fine writing on the page, but once I got on stage, I was worried my words might jumble and stumble.
~ Amanda Gorman
It is therefore in the very nature of faith to serve as an impediment to further inquiry.
~ Sam Harris
Get the hell out of my way!
~ Ayn Rand
But most people live a life of quiet mediocrity and never achieve the success they truly desire because they get impatient. They want easy success or none at all. They see the path to success as a frustration, an impediment. Each day spent short of the ultimate goal is viewed as a time of failure and as an annoyance. As such, they get distracted by hundreds of little things that each day try to get us off our course. Yet the successful among us know the truth:
~ Earl Nightingale
Rather than being an impediment, NASA can and should be the driver of commerce, the provider of the technology necessary to make some big money in space. The truth is that private enterprise already has a huge presence up there.
~ Homer Hickam
I am a hindrance to the world, and the world is a hindrance to me.
~ Cees Nooteboom
There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.
~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
Normalmente, nos estorbamos los unos a los otros
~ John Katzenbach
That's why you should always start with this question: What is making this behavior hard to do?
~ B.J. Fogg
I didn't realise I had a speech impediment until I came back to England. I spent the whole of my life working abroad, and no-one mentioned it. I came back to England and suddenly realised I had a speech impediment.
~ Roy Hodgson
I like to mumble when I act, 'cause I think it's more realistic. For some reason, the impediment has given me the accent of a Mexican gangster.
~ David Arquette
Acceleration stalled
~ John P. Kotter
Surely many a romance must have been nipped in the bud by sitting opposite somebody eating spaghetti?
~ Barbara Pym
away from Damerel's advance it was seen that he was dead lame.
~ Georgette Heyer