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  • Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it.

    Joseph A. Schumpeter (2013). “Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy”, p.206, Routledge
  • If you're 'stuck' right now, you're probably into fear. Get out of there. You've already looked both ways. Now cross the street, for heaven sake. The cars have long since gone. The coast is clear. Your only obstacle now is your own mind.

    Long   Car   Heaven  
  • If you truly want to measure the success of a man, you do not measure it by a position he has achieved, but by the obstacles he has overcome.

    Men   Overcoming   Want  
  • Americans like to believe we can overcome all obstacles and always triumph in the end, but that's not real life and a steady diet of stories like that will give you a pretty unhealthy view of reality.

    Real   Believe   Views  
  • If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.

  • About the only value the story of my life may have is to show that one can, even without any particular gifts, overcome obstacles that seem insurmountable if one is willing to face the fact that they must be overcome.

    Eleanor Roosevelt (1961). “Autobiography”
  • Art is always about overcoming obstacles between the inner condition and the skill for expression.

    Art   Expression   Skills  
    "Enforced Disappearance". W Magazine, November 2011.
  • No obstacle is so big that one person with determination can't make a difference.

    Twitter post from Dec 15, 2016
  • If everything is smooth sailing right from the beginning, we cannot become people of substance and character. By surmounting paining setbacks and obstacles, we can create a brilliant history of triumph that will shine forever. That is what makes life so exciting and enjoyable. In any field of endeavour, those who overcome hardships and grow as human beings are advancing towards success and victory in life.

  • Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive.

  • Yes I can list all sorts of organizational forms and cultural issues that can get in the way of our accessing our inner creativity and bringing it out in our world. And we can use all kinds of approaches that can transform the organization. But unless we have developed a sense of our Self (who we are at core, at our highest) and our Work (the purpose of our existence, the gift that we have to give to the world) and use that to deal with the inner obstacle, we can't sustain creativity in the face of the chaos of the world.

    Source: bobmorris.biz
  • I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.

  • I have transported many, thousands; and to all of them, my river has been nothing but an obstacle on their travels. They travelled to seek money and business, and for weddings, and on pilgrimages, and the river was obstructing their path, and the ferryman's job was to get them quickly across that obstacle. But for some among thousands, a few, four or five, the river has stopped being an obstacle, they have heard its voice, they have listened to it, and the river has become sacred to them, as it has become sacred to me.

    Jobs   Voice   Rivers  
  • Probably the greatest single obstacle to the progress and happiness of the American people lies in the willingness of so many men to invest their time and money in multiplying competitive industries instead of opening up new fields, and putting their money into lines of industry and development that are needed.

    Lying   Men   Opening Up  
    John D. Rockefeller (2003). “Random Reminiscences of Men and Events”, p.144, The Minerva Group, Inc.
  • Today you can start forming habits for overcoming all obstacles in life... even nicotine cravings

  • There's definitely something broken in the music industry clearly. Partly from downloading and partly the obstacles for discovery and listener choice and artist distribution are gone.

    Source: brightestyoungthings.com
  • We cannot create blueprint for future society, but it is good to think about that. It is good to have in mind a goal. It is constructive, it is helpful, it is healthy, to think about what future society might be like, because then it guides you somewhat what you are doing today, but only so long as this discussions about future society don't become obstacles to working towards this future society. Otherwise you can spend discussing this utopian possibility versus that utopian possibility, and in the mean time you are not acting in a way that would bring you closer to that.

    Mean   Thinking   Long  
  • Despite the obstacles of race and class, I was always taught that I could accomplish anything I set my mind to. African-American writers, for me, were a beacon, a guiding force.

    Source: therumpus.net
  • I had some ambition. I meant everything to be different with me. I thought I had more strength and mastery. But the most terrible obstacles are such as nobody can see except oneself.

    George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.499, Penguin
  • That's one of my biggest obstacles. I'm afraid of failure. I want to succeed so bad that I become afraid of failing.

  • By removing the obstacles that have built up over time, you can grow your brain from baseline to super brain.

    Brain   Obstacles   Grows  
  • With traps and obstacles and hazards confronting us on every hand, only blindness or indifference will fail to turn in all humility, for guidance or for warning, to the study of examples.

    Benjamin Nathan Cardozo (1982). “Cardozo on the Law: Including the Nature of the Judicial Process, The Growth of the Law, The Paradoxes of Legal Science, Law and Literature”
  • In this nonfundamentalist understanding of faith, practice is more important than theory, love more important than law, and mystery is seen as an insight into truth rather than an obstacle. It is the great lie of our time that all religious faith has to be fundamentalist to be valid.

    Religious   Lying   Law  
  • You can almost convince yourself that you've accomplished things just by thinking about them. The alternative is to be more realistic. You don't necessarily regard the dreaming process as bad or an obstacle, but it's not realistic enough.

    Chogyam Trungpa (2011). “Work, Sex, Money: Real Life on the Path of Mindfulness”, p.59, Shambhala Publications
  • Urgent optimism is the desire to act immediately to tackle an obstacle, combined with the belief that we have a reasonable hope of success.

    "Gaming can make a better world". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February 2010.
  • I think isolation is one of the greatest problems, an ever-growing obstacle to political solidarity.

    Interview with Marika Griehsel, www.nobelprize.org. November 2004.
  • Persistence is a unique mental strength; a strength that is essential to combat the fierce power of the repeated rejections and numerous other obstacles that sit in waiting and are all part of winning in a fast-moving, ever-changing world.

    FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Feb 17, 2017
  • More learning can occur when there are many obstacles then when thear are few or none. A life with difficult relationships, filled with obstacles and losses, presents the most opportunity for the soul's growth. You may have chosen the more difficult life so that you could accelerate your physical progress

    Loss   Opportunity   Soul  
  • With respect to the first of these obstacles, it has often been made a matter of grave complaint against Political Economists, that they confine their attention to Wealth, and disregard all consideration of Happiness or Virtue.

    Nassau William Senior (1836). “An Outline of the Science of Political Economy”, p.130
  • The progression of a painter’s work…will be toward clarity; toward the elimination of all obstacles between the painter and the idea, and between the idea and the observer…to achieve this clarity is, inevitably, to be understood.

    Mark Rothko, Diane Waldman (1978). “Mark Rothko, 1903-1970: a retrospective”, Harry N. Abrams
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