Your ego can become an obstacle to your work. If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity.
Like an ant, I will find my way round any obstacle. Like a child, I will persevere with pinpoint focus.
The obstacle is the USA administration. I know there is a strong Israeli lobby in America, no doubt of it.
The greatest obstacle to pleasure is not pain; it is delusion.
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.
An obstacle is not a discouragement. It may become one, but only with our own consent. So long as we refuse to be discouraged, we cannot be discouraged.
In war one must lean on an obstacle in order to overcome it.
The preeminent obstacle to peace is Israel's colonization of Palestine.
Life is an obstacle course. You succeed at one thing and then you move on to the next. When an obstacle is tough, you try harder. When an obstacle is insurmountable, you change course. But you never sit down and refuse to finish.
I think if your goal is for everything to be okay, that's a mistake. To achieve that goal, the only obstacle you'd have to face tomorrow is to eliminate all risk. . . I've made the decision that I'm never trying to make everything okay. I'm trying for there to be more loose ends, not fewer loose ends.
. . . health is the obstacle, which. . . must stand in the way of a girl's acquiring the intellectual strength, which. . . is so invaluable to a boy.
NIE presents a major obstacle to those who are pushing for military confrontation. In many ways it is a severe blow to their agenda. However, I wouldn't go as far as to say that the risk has been significantly reduced or eliminated.
My past was a private obstacle, not a public excuse.
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.
Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
When man meets an obstacle he can't destroy, he destroys himself.
When someone has too much of a thought-out idea, that can be a big obstacle to get anywhere. Because it's like [if] you have a preconceived idea of what's going to happen in the studio in an hour's time, then you're not free anymore and you lock yourself into your own expectations. I don't think that's very creative. It doesn't work well with me.
God loves to bring good out of bad. He loves to turn crucifixions into resurrections. Every obstacle is an opportunity. Every problem has potential. Every crisis is an opportunity for ministry. Every hurt God wants to use for His glory.
Desire, instead of being an obstacle to an inspired and fulfilled life, is the very thing that propels you toward it.
To overcome this obstacle, and to discover and dismantle Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction, UNMOVIC and the IAEA must interview relevant persons securely and with their families protected, even if they protest publicly against this treatment. Hans Blix may dislike running ''a defection agency,' but that could be the only way to obtain truthful information about Saddam's weapons of mass destruction