Stumbling Quotations

There's so much happenstance, so many accidents - stumbling into something and finding it interesting and living with it over time and building on it. It's okay to work from doubt. You need to be willing to not know.

A stepping-stone can be a stumbling block if we can't see it until after we have tripped over it.

You know what my greatest personal stumbling block is? My shyness.

Sometimes I think that creativity is a matter of seeing, or stumbling over, unobvious similarities between things - like composing a fresh metaphor, but on a more complex scale.

Failing is what we do, or stumbling is what we do on a daily basis.

As entrepreneurs, we often get pressured into hiring an industry executive. While it's good to hire people with experience, it can also be a stumbling block because they think about the business the same way everyone else does.

We throw at female artists this expectation that their work has to speak to the female experience. And if it doesn't, you're letting the side down. Throwing this stumbling block in the way of female artists is counterintuitive.

When I realized that people actually wrote comics, that it was a job people could do, I thought, 'Gee, these things are only 17 pages long! I could probably finish one of those and find out whether I suck before I've spent five years of my life on it.' In stumbling into comics that way, I discovered that I loved the form.

I don't believe in the philosophy of stumbling across hit records.

I was always a writer - working on campaigns was never a profession for me. It was something I did on the side, really, so the trajectory hasn't been a political operative who likes to dabble in writing and finds himself into stumbling on film and TV - that was always my goal.

But as you say, the fundamental stumbling block is the question of the future of the economy. And it's not just the sort of economic laboratory question, of what kind of system would best generate growth, which is the way it's presented.

The Book of Mormon, the record of Joseph, verifies and clarifies the Bible. It removes stumbling blocks; it restores many plain and precious things.

I'm a talk-show junkie. I'd rather listen to real folks stumbling to express their own thoughts than to polished puppets reading what others have written.

Until we see a little more, I don't want to say there's concerns or a stumbling block.

Universities are fighting for the best and brightest, and if you put stumbling blocks in the way of recruiting, people are not going to come here.

If you are like most people, then like most people, you don't know you're like most people.

The only pleasure in redecorating or moving house comes from stumbling across books that I'd almost forgotten I owned.

We reached an agreement in September with the minister on how it should be done and we want to make sure there are no stumbling blocks.

If science could get rid of consciousness, it would have disposed of the only stumbling block to its universal application.

Life is a series of stepping stones followed with a series of stumbling blocks ....

One of the stumbling blocks for a lot of people is tracking expenses for three months.

One may be continually abusive without saying any thing just; but one cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty

I don't think it will be a stumbling block. The city is supportive of the project. But, we aren't taking anything for granted.

Historically, the biggest stumbling block has been the different philosophies on how to run series.

I think it's just stumbling out of the box from a pitching standpoint. We just have to get some confidence back. It's just executing, that's about it.

I was born into an Irish Catholic family in the New York area in this great, wonderful, and safe country, but the Holocaust has always haunted me, and it has long stood as a stumbling block to faith. How could such a thing be? How is that consistent with the concept of a loving God?

I think this market is going to go a lot higher. From time to time you'll have some little stumbling blocks, like Kodak today. But in general, the market's going higher. Whether you want to talk 8,500, 9,000 later on this year, who knows?

I think that's going to be probably one of the major stumbling blocks. Some of the details we're going to have to work out.

Last year I was told all throughout the (regular season) how good I was and how I could achieve and likely place at state. I got to the sectional and won that, but got to district and I hit a stumbling block and that's when I got hurt. That was a big letdown. I sort of hit a brick wall.

Our movement around the floor was not as sharp as it has been. We did a lot of stumbling around out there tonight.

Oracle is betting on PeopleSoft stumbling sometime next year but that's unlikely,

We haven?t hit any stumbling blocks at all. We are hopeful the town will support us. We think we?re doing a good thing for the town.

The QRU at the moment is stumbling from bad to worse to even worse,

The outlook on the economy is still subject to great uncertainty, but it's quite clear that there was no stumbling underway when the hurricanes hit.

My best ideas almost always come from winding up in unexpected places and stumbling across things I never could have imagined in advance.

Without him, I find myself stumbling and in the dark. Loving him so much and not having him with me is the hardest thing I've ever done.

Without him, I find myself stumbling and in the darkà. Loving him so much and not having him with me is the hardest thing I've ever done.

You better believe there will be times in your life when you'll be feeling like a stumbling fool. So take it from me: you'll learn more from your accident than anything that you could ever learn in school.

This was a critical win for us. Our guys were hungry. We were kind of stumbling and bumbling offensively, especially in the first half. But we gave the kind of over-the-top performance on defense that got us back on track tonight.

We tried to make this fight many years ago but the stumbling block was always what Roy wanted to be paid.

We don't want a bunch of drunk people stumbling around when a hurricane's on the way.

Very often we are our own worst enemy as we foolishly build stumbling blocks on the path that leads to success and happiness.

To be honest, making albums is really never easy. It's always a bit excruciating because there's always this fight to make it great, and then you hit these stumbling blocks along the way.

We didn't look as sharp as we have here at home, ... We did not cleanly execute vault and were stumbling and walking all over the place.

And unless there is a major stumbling or bombshell, I think he will be confirmed.

Enterprises can't just suddenly turn over hardware to employees under that sort of scenario, so they're going to figure out how to create a secure environment. That'll be the biggest stumbling block for a lot of enterprises.

Sometimes it is the number of rooms (available) and sometimes it is the rate, because we need to make sure the rate is falling in line from a value perspective. So far, the biggest stumbling block is the rate.

Perhaps the main stumbling block to a better, and more fruitful, theological relationship with Judaism and the Jewish people has been the tendency of many Christian theologians to see the Christ event as the end of history.

Our team was stumbling and bumbling and we didn't have a player really who was committed to doing what they needed to do.

Our sights remain on a plunge to 80 cents. If Duisenberg's most recent comments are correct, it looks as if intervention is stumbling already.

Stumbling through darkness and racing through light, we have persisted in the creation of a Canadian civilization.

Any fiction writer who assumes that a character is typical no doubt runs the risk of stumbling into cliche and stereotype.

It was a way to throw a stumbling block in front of them. But it's really a technicality. I can't in good conscience tell them they can't. It's just not fair.

The biggest stumbling block is that the owner's identity is tied to the company. A lot of our work is getting them organized.

The bass player came stumbling in the door. At the time, I just thought he had a shoulder wound. I didn't know he was injured so seriously.

It was like discovering the Sistine chapel if you didn't know there had been a Renaissance - like knowing only modern art and then stumbling on the finger of God touching the hand of Adam.

It's very hard to get anywhere near the truth. We need to ask ourselves as a nation what it is we want to achieve in Iraq. We're almost stumbling around in the dark.

The nectarine, and curious peach, / Into my hands themselves do reach; / Stumbling on melons, as I pass, / Ensnared with flowers, I fall on grass.

If there had been a proper decision to go to war last night then there would have been a drop in risk aversion but instead we are still stumbling in the dark.

In Western terms, it's like knowing only modern art and then stumbling on a Michelangelo or a Leonardo.

Highly competitive is an understatement. The companies are stumbling all over themselves. It's gotten to where students during their internships are making more than their parents.

I don't know if this is a stumbling block, but I had a real setback when I won a Nebula Award for the first story I ever had nominated for a Nebula in 1982. And you might think that was a good thing - and it was a wonderful thing, I don't regret it a bit. But I was sort of discombobulated by it.

I don't know if there's any ideal team to face. But any team that comes stumbling into the playoffs would be a good one.

He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him.

how to change stumbling blocks into stepping stones.

I came out and saw the girl stumbling out of the car. I asked her if she was OK. She said yeah. She was worried that it was her mother's car.

The true way is along a rope that is not spanned high in the air, but only just above the ground. It seems intended more to cause stumbling than to be walked along.

The formidable stumbling block is the manufacturing costs.

By your stumbling, the world is perfected.

Turn your stumbling blocks into steppingstones to success.

Stumbling is the fruit of haste.

Stumbling isn't falling.