Obstacle Quotations

Believe it or not, the biggest obstacle for a business owner with any size business is the internal response to the question - 'Now what?' Often this question is followed by a - deer in the headlights - response, which is then followed by stagnation. Following stagnation comes fear.

The original 'Hobbit' was never intended to have a sequel - Bilbo 'remained very happy to the end of his days and those were extraordinarily long': a sentence I find an almost insuperable obstacle to a satisfactory link.

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.

Eating constitutes the greatest obstacle to self-control; it gives rise to indolence.

To remove this obstacle I repeat or refer to such knowledge as has come under my notice, my own previously expressed views, and also describe and exhibit my last experiments and explain their novelty and utility.

Terrorism tramples upon any rights and freedoms and generates fear and hatred; it is an obstacle to efforts at improving our world.

My first novel, 'The Lions of Lucerne,' just poured out of me. It was an amazing feeling of accomplishment. My biggest fear and therefore my biggest obstacle to becoming an author had been, 'What if I spend all that time and the book is no good?'

We shall be forced to attempt planned and directed research employing hundreds of workers for many years, and this cannot be done without risking the loss of independence and originality. This is a serious and fundamental obstacle but it may be overcome in two ways.

The way games are designed is you create a story, and then you create an obstacle course inside that story, and the player has to endure it to see more. So it's artificial. Game designers are so intensely worried about people getting bored that they pile on busy work for players to do.

The greatest obstacle to the welfare state is not greed but private charity that makes the welfare state irrelevant; the greatest obstacle to re-education of children in the name of the collective is allegiance to a higher power. More than that, the greatest obstacle to the state as god is an actual God above the state.

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.

We believe that the avoidance-maneuver tests we conduct provide consistent results and closely simulate a read-world situation in which a driver needs to suddenly steer around an obstacle in the road. In our view the tests are repeatable and valid.

There is no obstacle to that discussion being taken up and we certainly believe that will happen shortly.

would be an obstacle to cooperation on other issues.

We have seen an incredible outpouring of energy, support and passion towards the goal of keeping (the temple) alive and vital. When an obstacle presents itself, how do you respond to it- as a tragedy or an opportunity?

The reforms should recognize that employer prejudice is a key obstacle in the way of many claimants moving back to work.

Most teams would go, 'Oh, man!' and have their heads down. We just looked at it like it's just another obstacle we have to overcome.

Nixon has enough to overcome in terms of his legacy and his political history. Now he has to overcome the in-fighting between his daughters. It's so sad. There's another obstacle for him to clear.

I wish Coach Barnes was here for the rest of my career because he's a very good coach and a very good man. I'm going to miss him. But, you know, I just look at this as another learning experience. This is another obstacle and I've just got to get over it.

I can do the tricks and I can skate. I have great skating skills and artistry and well-choreographed programs. For me, the biggest obstacle is just bringing it all together.

Bush is an obstacle in securing peace in Middle East

Basketball has always been my first love. Second, I want to be the point guard at Duke. I don't want any obstacle to get in my way of that, even if that means giving up football.

Future land use is going to take some discussion. I think that's going to be the major obstacle at this point.

If a student is struggling, not having a lot of success can impact self-esteem. They can feel like they are retarded or think they have limitations and a sense of inadequacy. If an obstacle can't be conquered, the person might go to extreme measures to try and ignore the problem altogether.

I got a bit of a small obstacle to overcome this offseason. I fully expect to be ready when camp starts.

I got a bit of a small obstacle to overcome this off-season. I fully expect to be ready when camp starts.

There is greater potential for individual funds' capacity constraints being reached in these two categories and this is becoming an obstacle to investors wishing to invest.

I think this is the hardest day of basketball in the nation. We're expected to play two teams that are well coached, two teams that are very good, in the same day with what, three to four hours rest? To get through today was a major obstacle course.

I think that it at least puts this enormous obstacle out of the way. Now that the polemics are over everybody can finally discuss things with less emotion.

I think they thought Price was their biggest obstacle and they came out flat because we were here. They thought they had an edge on us.

It is a very wet and windy part of the world. Throw in some growlers and a couple of Russian fishing fleets and it is an obstacle course that will provide for some interesting weeks and very nervous times.

Over the past week he's finally physically and psychologically recovered from his turf toe injury. That has been an obstacle for Eddie for a good six months or so, and that's completely past him. ... I think over the next couple of months Eddie should be back in full form and be a player who's challenging certainly for a spot on the World Cup roster.

Our biggest obstacle this first year is to help folks understand what the duck race is, how they can win and what the money will be used for, ... We expect it will grow in size and acceptance in the coming years, but we do know that it will be a fun event for Zionsville families from this year forward.

Pittsburgh has turned into a rivalry game for us. They certainly have become a formidable opponent, an obstacle for us to get to a championship, or for seeding, or quite frankly just to get wins.

President Bouteflika's effort to wipe the slate clean is an affront to long standing civil society efforts to bring justice and accountability, ... Leaving the legacy of Algeria's abhorrent conflict unresolved creates an obstacle to lasting peace and, by de facto offering immunity to those responsible for grave crimes, raises the specter of future human rights abuses.

President Bouteflika's effort to wipe the slate clean is an affront to long standing civil society efforts to bring justice and accountability, ... Leaving the legacy of Algeria's abhorrent conflict unresolved creates an obstacle to lasting peace and, by de facto offering immunity to those responsible for grave crimes, raises the specter of future human rights abuses.

Listen to these tens of thousands of people. The U.S. administration is the biggest obstacle to progress at this meeting. They have come here to (destroy) and slow things down.

I still pray for peace in the Middle East, ... the only obstacle to peace.

It doesn't matter if it's Marty (Turco) or the defense. No matter how you slice it, when you give up five goals, that's a hard obstacle to climb over.

That was an extremely difficult obstacle to overcome in order to prosecute a violation.

Microsoft's repeated disclosures to the press to spin its position in settlement are a significant obstacle to making progress.

'Wipeout' is a giant obstacle course for adults of all shapes, sizes, and ages. Whoever wins takes home $50,000 and gets to brag to all of their coworkers that they made it out alive!

We are trying to ease life of the Palestinians and to improve the economic situation in the Palestinian side, but the main obstacle is the terror activities,

With the Genies, you've got this television obstacle where you're essentially going into the marketplace with a lot of movies that haven't done particularly well in English Canada. That's a challenge.

We were just on point. We were slicing through every obstacle that came our way.

We are ready to negotiate on the nuclear issue right now. It's North Korea that's creating the artificial obstacle to progress.

This startling new data shows that in seven of the ten industries studied, the wage gap between male and female managers widened between 1995 and 2000, ... It's compelling evidence that the glass ceiling remains a powerful obstacle to women in the workforce, and it suggests things may be getting worse, not better.

The criminal trial today is a kind of show-jumping contest in which the rider for the prosecution must clear every obstacle to succeed.

We're trying to jump-start the mobile Internet revolution, and our trials with users show us that when people download the browser they begin using the Web on their handsets more frequently. The biggest obstacle in growing use of the mobile Web to this point is the inability of other browsers to convert sites into something people are willing to look at, and that's what we believe the browser does best.

We have found a major obstacle to breakfast has been communicating to customers we have a lot to offer.

To me the biggest obstacle the drivers face, in my opinion -- especially assuming they stay where they are through the end of 2006, is keeping the morale of their team high, and getting those guys on their teams working as hard today as they did a week before the announcement,

To clear up this obstacle and thus improve bilateral ties is the common aspiration of the two countries' people and serves their basic interests.

With core consumer prices set to rise steadily above zero and today's GDP report confirming that a steady recovery is at work, there is almost no obstacle left for the Bank of Japan in ending its super-loose monetary policy.

You are the only real obstacle in your path to a fulfilling life.

To get to that goal, you've got to take care of the first obstacle in your path. We need to use that to help motivate us to reach our ultimate goal.

We tend to think that since Mark Baker didn't get it done, it can't get done. I think the biggest obstacle is to convince Republicans this can happen.

We saw this obstacle in the track far too late and we went over twice. We passed a crossroads with some spectators and then it was too late to slow for this obstacle and we crashed.

(Even) if this record bombs, it's just another obstacle we have to get over.

Even this disability from which I suffer I have assumed by the very fact that I live; I surpass ittoward my own projects, I make of it the necessary obstacle for my being and I cannot be crippledwithout choosing myself as crippled. This means that I choose the way I constitute my disability (as'unbearable', 'humiliating, 'to be hidden', 'to be revealed to all').

Every driver, even the old ones, goes through a range course where they kinda shake the rust off from the summer, and they go through an obstacle course, and we evaluate them.

At most, would-be migrants and the people-smugglers who assist them find these groups to be a fleeting obstacle that they can easily detour around.

Drug prices are much more than a casual concern for New Yorkers. As prices continue to increase, they've become an obstacle to being able to live a healthy life. This survey shows not only that high drug costs are a problem, but that people expect their legislators to do something about it.

There's no need to play Green Bay when you can do multiple shows in Chicago, Minneapolis, Los Angeles, New York and many more. It's the toughest obstacle to overcome in us attracting the hot tours. We can't promise them enough to make them play here.

I sometimes think of us as a gang of mean little old ladies in a combination rest home and obstacle course.

Sometimes, we need an obstacle to challenge us and push us further than we would if things were always status quo. I'd say one example is the market crashing. It's like, just when we started to get into a rhythm, everything changed! But, it taught us a great deal about how we do business and how we can improve.

After overcoming every obstacle that the leadership could possibly construct, the House will vote on real campaign finance reform,

A major obstacle the carrier must overcome is recruiting and retaining qualified employees. United is understaffed at many locations, and its reputation as an employer who breaks promises, eliminates benefits, forces confrontations and destroys pensions does little to help recruitment.

A skirt is no obstacle to extemporaneous sex, but it is physically impossible to make love to a girl while she is wearing trousers.

As national coach you are given a free hand to work like you are used to, like I have as coach of Netherlands, South Korea and Australia. Nobody puts the slightest obstacle in your way.

It was rough going, to say the least. The physicians thought we were insurance. They didn't know what we were. It was new. They didn't want their name or their prices listed. It was one obstacle after the next.

It's a good decision for business. This clears out an obstacle to using joint ventures.

For many Americans, there is simply no question that this over regulation is a fundamental obstacle to job creation and further economic recovery.

It's not what I can do; it's what I will do. If you wake up and try to help one person and change that person's life, every obstacle you face in front of you is worth it.

The next big obstacle would be financing the exit. Presumably they would be looking for debt financing and some equity financing.

The obstacle course had three walls, and you were supposed to climb one of them on the basis of your ability. But I'm not a physical person, so I picked the smallest wall, ran around it and fell into the sawdust.

That's presenting a significant obstacle for the company in that space.

It's sore, and it's always in the back of my mind, but it's no big deal. It's a little obstacle I have to overcome.

The biggest obstacle John Rocker would go through is, people think of him as a relief pitcher. If John Rocker was to quit baseball today and go out to manage someone's money, I don't know if they'd want that.

The biggest obstacle is people are pretty nervous about exposing things on the mainframe as a Web service that anybody can access,

The biggest obstacle is creating a program and putting together a quality documentary and doing it in a very inexpensive way. We have to make every dollar stretch as much as we possibly can.

Stocks in general have been trading near their highs but volume has been a real obstacle to move prices higher. It may still be early but it looks to me as if we will see an attempt to take Dow above 9,450.

It's hard for me to say that it's part of the game that I've played because I've never been in the situation, ... But, you know, we have played six poor quarters of football. Now our season is kind of hanging in the balance and we've got a big obstacle on Saturday that we've got to overcome.

It's doable but is it practical? That's another question, ... The biggest obstacle I see is clearing all the buildings from the infield. When I ran the track (1978-82) there weren't as many structures as there are now. It seems to me that it would be very costly to tear everything down, then build it back just to play one football game.

It was an obstacle that Jonathan could overcome. I know Jonathan was strong enough to face the challenge head on and he did that. He was an inspiration and a very special athlete for us.

I want to accelerate the take-up of digital television in Europe. It is good news that interoperability is no longer a major obstacle for interactive TV, thanks to the growing number of technical solutions supporting it.

I try to show my daughter that you have to compete at everything. You can't back down. I want my kids to understand that so when somebody puts an obstacle in front of you and says you can't do something, you don't back down. You push through that to get something accomplished. I tried to set that tone for her even at an early age. She's competitive already at the age of 3. Seriously.

Once again, I'm going to prove those oddsmakers wrong, ... I love it when there's an obstacle this big.

Not knowing where your money is going is a huge obstacle in achieving financial independence. The first step toward saving is to set some limits on your spending.

Snow can be removed. Ice is what we worry about. It's the biggest obstacle to public safety right now.

The largest thing that these young black men and women stood for was to tell young black people that there is no obstacle that you can't overcome. That you can achieve your dreams. That hard work and perseverance and education will pay off, but you'll have to sacrifice to attain that.

The largest obstacle is the battle of perception. Whenever you say, 'Oh I am building a flying car,' there is always the guy in the corner snickering.

I'm not blaming everything on that. But it's been an obstacle for sure.

If we want a successful meeting, we should prepare for it, ... If this is done, then there is no obstacle to holding the meeting.

In October I predicted intelligent solutions would be found, and I believe intelligent solutions were found. The law is not an obstacle to a very good doping control. The IOC will have full control of the testing.

I like to look at things not as an obstacle or a problem, but as an opportunity to figure out the best way.

In a family situation, the biggest obstacle is going to be the schools.

His biggest obstacle is that he lacks focus. His attention, I think, is in 49 other states.

high levels of violence in Latin America represent a serious obstacle for economic and social development in the region, which has the dubious distinction of being one of the most violent in the world.

But he has thrown obstacle after obstacle in the course of protesters, including stopping us from holding a rally in Central Park, a very basic constitutional right.

By any means necessary. We overcame every obstacle and adversity the devil put in front of us.