Adversity isn’t an obstacle that we need to get around in order to resume living our life. It’s part of our life.
Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it.
I don’t really think in terms of obstacles. My biggest obstacle is always myself.
I find writing a book a slow, intricate process, a kind of obstacle course punctuated with great rewards. But research is always thrilling, and I tend to incorporate newfound material up to the very last minute.
I know there are a lot of kids who aren’t lucky enough to have a father figure in their lives. That’s a really tough obstacle to overcome.
So the major obstacle to the development of new supplies is not geology but what happens above ground: international affairs, politics, investment and technology.
As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly, when they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky. So up to the house-top the coursers they flew, with the sleigh full of toys, and St. Nicholas too.
The cost of adding a feature isn’t just the time it takes to code it. The cost also includes the addition of an obstacle to future expansion. The trick is to pick the features that don’t fight each other.
It’s always appealing to play a character that has to overcome himself as well as an obstacle. It makes the drama so much deeper.
We had the idea as women that we could walk into music and be good at it and be as good as any man and have a career in it without being taken advantage of. So basically, those things came true. The obstacle course was just more difficult than we ever anticipated. We were optimistic and very naive.
Making a movie is like you’re behind the wheel, and you’re driving through the obstacle course, and the pedal is down, and you can’t brake.
Fear is your greatest obstacle – so question your fear. If it does not serve your greatest life then do not make it your master.
Terrorism tramples upon any rights and freedoms and generates fear and hatred; it is an obstacle to efforts at improving our world.
Things are not going to change until Indian women, and their parents, stop being afraid of what society will say. This is the single biggest obstacle. The fear of what people will say and how this will shame their parents means that women are paralysed.
Looking back, my life seems like one long obstacle race, with me as the chief obstacle.
The biggest obstacle when I was younger was geographical. I was living in Blackburn and the ITV and BBC studios were in London, and I thought: ‘How do I get there? I need to be there.’
But when you meet with the enemy and genuinely try to understand his or her perspective, you lose the enemy as a political tool. And that’s the eternal obstacle.
If there’s specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can’t change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.
Arafat is the greatest obstacle to peace and stability in the Middle East.
There are new challenges every day when starting a business and growing a brand, but I’m fortunate to have an amazing team that is always willing to work hard and navigate through whatever obstacle comes our way.
Romantic love can be terrifying. We experience another human being as enormously important to us. So there is surrender – not a surrender to the other person so much as to our feeling for the other person. What is the obstacle? The possibility of loss.
I have to pick myself up every day and say, ‘The show must go on,’ meaning life as I know it must go on, whatever the obstacle is, I know I can handle it, and I can get through it.
In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid.
I had to have 25 counts of radiation, and the radiation was an obstacle I had to get over, in and of itself. It took away my appetite completely, it changed my mood swings, it would make me feel nauseous all the time.
For obstacle racing, you wanna be as light, lean, and fast as possible. So, if I lift a lot of weights, I’m gonna be a little bit heavier, which will make it harder for me to hold myself up.
The Serbian people certainly will never be an obstacle for the Montenegrins to have their own country.
To all my nonbelieving, sort-of-believing, and used-to-be-believing friends: I feel like I should begin with a confession. I am sorry that so often the biggest obstacle to God has been Christians.
Every new rule, mandate, and regulatory edict is one more obstacle that small business owners, entrepreneurs, and job creators have to swallow.
The biggest obstacle to wealth is fear. People are afraid to think big, but if you think small, you’ll only achieve small things.
I’m going to learn from every obstacle.
Research is not an obstacle, something to be frightened of. It can be one of the real joys of writing.
Any time there’s a wedge or a secret put between two people in a group, it’s an obstacle – but there’s also a chance to get over it and become closer.
The greatest obstacle in ‘Tetris’ is time and one’s own ability to navigate it – kind of like life itself.
An excuse becomes an obstacle in your journey to success when it is made in place of your best effort or when it is used as the object of the blame.
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
The obstacle for us is not Islam, but the bureaucrats in Brussels.
One major challenge within happiness is loneliness. The more I’ve learned about happiness, the more I’ve come to believe that loneliness is a terrible, common, and important obstacle to consider.
An insuperable obstacle to rapid transit in Africa is the want of carriers, and as speed was the main object of the Expedition under my command, my duty was to lessen this difficulty as much as possible.
I think everyone’s got an obstacle in their career that they have to challenge. I think, in a way, that pushes you to prove who you are.
The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
I’ve had my ups. I’ve had my downs, but I’ve been able to push through every obstacle that’s been thrown my way.
The biggest obstacle was mixing abortion with overpopulation. These are two things that have nothing to do with each other.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
A compelling story requires conflict, friction, an obstacle to be overcome.
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance – it is the illusion of knowledge.
Turing was fearless. He’s extremely direct, which can be seen as socially awkward, and that becomes both his big obstacle but also, in many ways, his strength.
The fact that anyone lives in America is the single reason poverty is never a death sentence, and transforms it instead into – at worst – an obstacle on the path to a better life and road to freedom and success.
In the tropical and subtropical regions, endemic malaria takes first place almost everywhere among the causes of morbidity and mortality, and it constitutes the principal obstacle to the acclimatization of Europeans in these regions.
Among the best traitors Ireland has ever had, Mother Church ranks at the very top, a massive obstacle in the path to equality and freedom. She has been a force for conservatism… to ward off threats to her own security and influence.
It’s an obstacle being a girl when you move all over and don’t have half the things you need. It’s like everything is wrinkled in your life.
It’s never about the chemo; it’s never about the cancer. It’s all about what you’re willing to put in to overcome whatever the obstacle is.
The need for a college education is even more important now than it was before, but I think that the increased costs are a very severe obstacle to access. It is an American dream, and I think that one of our challenges is to find a way to make that available.
Overcome obstacles one at a time: Sometimes the end goal becomes too daunting, so take things one step at a time and overcome each obstacle as you get to it.
I have always wanted to be the best, and it drives me every day, no matter the obstacle.
I learned to focus and work hard and not give up. I learned that every obstacle is really an opportunity.
When the kids were young, they just wanted to be around us. We were units of comfort and support. As they get older, we work the turnstile, helping the exasperated customer pass whatever temporary obstacle is keeping them from their next exciting thing. Now we’re the ones who just like having them in the room.
The big mathematical challenge for flying robots is making them move in six dimensions: x, y, z, pitch, yaw and roll. We create 3-D obstacle courses in the lab – windows, doors, hula-hoops taped to posts – and ask the robots to fly through. It looks like a Harry Potter Quidditch match.
I really believe in fate and that everything happens for a reason. There’s always a plan. Even things that happen to you that feel like an obstacle or a disaster in the moment will pave the way for your next step.
I’m looking for someone who can be put to the test… and by test, I mean an obstacle course that represents life and its challenges!
I think that they way my parents raised me, they taught me to always follow my dreams and never give up, no matter what the obstacle.
