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Tag Name "Impediments" (94)

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The single most important impediment to global institutions is the concept of my country, right or wrong.
U Thant
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When I heard Puerto Ricans in New York City, it sounded very strange. And the first time I heard someone from Spain, I thought they had a speech impediment!
Viggo Mortensen
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PRIVATE, n. A military gentleman with a field-marshal's baton in his knapsack and an impediment in his hope.
Ambrose Bierce
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Honorable, adj.: Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary to mention all members as honorable as, the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur..
Ambrose Bierce
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Just as riches are an impediment to virtue in the wicked, so in the good they are an aid of virtue.
Ambrose
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An education, other than purely professional or technical, can even seem to be an impediment.
Allan Bloom
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We go on a journey to be free of all impediments to leave ourselves behind much more than to get rid of others
William Hazlitt
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Let me not to the marriage of true minds
William Shakespeare
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We attain freedom as we let go of whatever does not reflect our magnificence. A bird cannot fly high or far with a stone tied to its back. But release the impediment, and we are free to soar to unprecedented heights.
Alan Cohen
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Therefore it is most expedient for the wise, if Don Worm (his conscience) find no impediment to the contrary, to be the trumpet of his own virtues, as I am to myself.
William Shakespeare
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I think in terms of getting new artists who are not in that sort of stereotypical teenage boy demographic there's been a lot of progress recently. And I shouldn't make a definitive statement about this, but my impression is that the main impediment to progress in that regard is the number of people who are choosing to make a go of it.
Adrian Tomine
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There cannot be any impediment to science that will ultimately be good to the general public.
Anthony S. Fauci
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When you go home tonight, make a list of the people who are impediments, who don't believe in you, and call them up and tell them, 'Get the hell out of my life.' You don't need them. Writing is tough enough without having people around you who contribute to a writer's insecurity.
Ray Bradbury
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I believed I was a salamander, and it seems I am nothing but an impediment.
Zelda Fitzgerald
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Rejection-and the fear of rejection-is the biggest impediment we face to choosing ourselves.
James Altucher
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I grew up in the suburbs of Philadelphia and one of the things I like to say is that one of the biggest impediments I had to becoming a successful writer is I had a very happy childhood.
Anna Quindlen
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Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
Brian Tracy
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The extreme sophistication of modern technology - wonderful though its benefits are - is, ironically, an impediment to engaging young people with basics: with learning how things work.
Martin Rees
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a white person who claims to have no impediment of vision in this country is not, I think, telling the whole truth. And when it comes to race relations, not telling the whole truth about the fog one inhabits slows down the work of groping forward.
Naomi Wolf
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The inclination to aggression constitutes the greatest impediment to civilization.
Sigmund Freud
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The destruction of the inducement to invest by an excessive liquidity-preference was the outstanding evil, the prime impediment to the growth of wealth, in the ancient and medieval worlds.
John Maynard Keynes
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An absence of antecedents and of relatives is sometimes an aid rather than an impediment to social advancement . . .
Arthur Conan Doyle
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There are no impediments to meditation. The very thought of such obstacles is the greatest impediment.
Ramana Maharshi
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The security provided by a long-held belief system, even when poorly founded, is a strong impediment to progress. General acceptance of a practice becomes the proof of its validity, though it lacks all other merit.
Bernard Lown
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