Obstacle Quotes

The cost of adding a feature isn't just the time it takes to code it. The cost also includes the addition of an obstacle to future expansion. The trick is to pick the features that don't fight each other.

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

The biggest obstacle was mixing abortion with overpopulation. These are two things that have nothing to do with each other.

Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.

Clearly, this Sino-Japanese War of more than four years was a considerable burden on Japan's national power and an obstacle to the maintenance of peace in the Pacific.

Nothing is given to man on earth - struggle is built into the nature of life, and conflict is possible - the hero is the man who lets no obstacle prevent him from pursuing the values he has chosen.

Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.

Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it.

There's definitely an obstacle in developing a brand for yourself that people can rely on when you're so eclectic.

The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further.

Our opponents maintain that we are confronted with insurmountable political obstacles, but that may be said of the smallest obstacle if one has no desire to surmount it.

I honestly don't know, but if America continues to refuse to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, I see a bleak future not only for American society, but for the world as a whole. This is a global problem that is not going away, and the United States is an obstacle to solving it.

The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive superstition. They believe that science has left atheism as the only respectable intellectual stance.

The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them.

The greatest obstacle to international understanding is the barrier of language.

The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture.

If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.

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.

What parent has it easy? I just never make the difficulty of it an obstacle. I just do it.

One person can take papers, photograph them without getting excited, return them, and give them away without any scruples; while someone else has to overcome an enormous obstacle.

In my mind the city of Ariel is a thorn in Israel's side and a serious obstacle to peace.

Fear is your greatest obstacle - so question your fear. If it does not serve your greatest life then do not make it your master.

I think isolation is one of the greatest problems, an ever-growing obstacle to political solidarity.

When man meets an obstacle he can't destroy, he destroys himself.

Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

Thus in Christianity the alienation had become total, and it was this total alienation that was the biggest obstacle to the progress of self-consciousness.

The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.

Every day some new fact comes to light - some new obstacle which threatens the gravest obstruction. I suppose this is the reason which makes the game so well worth playing.

The greatest obstacle to those who hope to reform American education is complacency.

The business is a very tricky obstacle course, and you should be very clear about work begetting work. If you're not working, you're not interesting.