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obstacle
«When man meets an obstacle he can't destroy, he destroys himself.»
Author: Ryszard Kapuscinski
| Keywords:
obstacle
«The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the oceans was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.»
Author: Daniel J. Boorstin
| About:
Ignorance,
Illusion,
Obstacles
| Keywords:
continents, discovering, obstacle, oceans
«We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you»
Author: John W. Gardner
(Secretary, Writer)
| About:
Failure
| Keywords:
assures, experimentation, exploration, fumble, fumbles, fumbling, narrowing, obstacle, prevents, progressive, The Progressive
«The things you want are always possible; it is just that the way to get them is not always apparent. The only real obstacle in your path to a fulfilling life is you, and that can be a considerable obstacle because you carry the baggage of insecurities and past experience.»
Author: Les Brown
(Author, Entrepreneur, motivational speaker)
| Keywords:
apparent, baggage, considerable, fulfilling, insecurities, obstacle
«Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.»
Author: Meister Eckhart
(Theologian, Writer)
| Keywords:
affections, obstacle, taint, Taints, temporal, temporalities, temporality
«The greatest obstacle to being heroic is to doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is, to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when to be obeyed.»
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
heroic, heroism, obeyed, obstacle, profoundest, resisted, truest
«The tendency of aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture.»
Author: Sigmund Freud
(Founder)
| Keywords:
aggression, aggressions, constitutes, culture, disposition, independent, innate, obstacle, tendency
«Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
| Keywords:
cutting, cutting off, intensely, mystic, mystics, obstacle, passively, stillness, The Hunger, thirst, uncontrolled
