Barriers Quotes - Page 10

• The Arts, especially film, transcend all cultural barriers, hopefully offering an avenue where all people can find a common place to meet, understand each other, and nurture a safe world for all our children to grow strong within.

  Carson Grant

  Art, Strong, Children

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• What is a barrier to one person to creativity is a springboard for another. And the thing that makes the difference from one person or another is how they deal with and are affected by their inner voice of blame and criticism, so-called the VOJ or Voice of Judgment.

  Michael Ray

  Creativity, Criticism, Blame

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Race is a huge factor when it comes to income and social inequality, and it plays a role in the structural barriers you are talking about. But when you're in the upper echelon of the 1 percent - even though it's certainly a more white demographic overall - there are fewer barriers.

  Lauren Greenfield

  Inequality

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Hip-hop has been so important in my work, because it speaks to the idea of money being tied to cultural capital in an honest and transparent way. When I was growing up in LA, money was equivalent to class, and it was a passport. Hip-hop emphasizes that, but Hollywood and show business bear it out. If you have money, there really is no barrier to social mobility. There are still social clubs in Newport where you can't get in even if you have money, but that is really rare.

  Lauren Greenfield

  Growing Up, Important, Honest

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man's thoughts and another's.

  William James

  Men, One Man

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• Student debt is structured to be a burden for life. The indebted cannot declare bankruptcy, unlike Donald Trump. Current student debt is estimated to be over $1.45 trillion. There are ample resources for that simply from waste, including the bloated military and the enormous concentrated private wealth that has accumulated in the financial and general corporate sector under neoliberal policies. There is no economic reason why free education cannot flourish from schools through colleges and university. The barriers are not economic but rather political decisions.

  Noam Chomsky

  Military, School, College

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• If once a woman breaks through the barriers of decency, her ease is desperate; and if she goes greater lengths than the men, and leaves the pale of propriety farther behind her, it is because she is aware that all return is prohibited, and by none so strongly as by her own sex.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Sex, Men, Break Through

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• I've been in situations like in Tokyo where people sang my song word for word and then when the music stopped, they couldn't speak to me. I've seen the music break the language barrier.

  Curtis Jackson

  Song, People, Language Barriers

  Source: www.billboard.com

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• Fat is a barrier, a bellicose statement to others that, to some, justifies hostility in kind. The world says to the fat person, "Your fatness is an affront to me, so we have the right to treat you as offensively as you appear." Fat is not merely viewed as another type of tissue, but as a diagnostic sign, a personal statement, and a measure of personality. Too little fat and we see you as being antisocial, fearful and sexless. Too much fat and we see you as slothful, stupid, and sexually hung up.

  Albert Ellis

  Stupid, Food, Personality

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• The Federal role in overcoming barriers to needed health care should emphasize health care financing programs-such as Medicare and Medicaid.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Medicare And Medicaid, Overcoming, Roles

  United States. President (1974-1977 : Ford), Gerald R. Ford (1977). “Gerald R. Ford: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President”

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• I call it financial impotence, this notion of not having enough money, because it has the same characteristics as sexual impotence. And men will never talk about sexual impotence, no matter how close you are to someone, but financial impotence is an even greater barrier. And, I broke that omerta. I had people walk up to me in the grocery store - Several people, coming up to me and saying, "Gosh. Let me tell you my story." People are so pent up with their sense of financial impotence, that they're dying to get it out!

  Neal Gabler

  Men, People, Dying

  Source: www.slate.com

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• There are, however, exceptions to this reliance on feelings as evidence of truth: if, for instance, your feelings lead to disbelief instead of belief, they're apt to be dismissed as some form of denial. This is not a common problem. Usually intellectualism, not feeling reality, is blamed for disbelief. But, some angel experts suggest, there may be emotional as well as intellectual barriers to belief: unwillingness to believe in angels can reflect low self-esteem.

  Wendy Kaminer

  Self Esteem, Believe, Angel

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• We come from a proud tradition of people who have insisted that none of us can be truly successful until at least the barriers to such success and thriving are completely removed. I think the black narcissism that prevails, along with the stylish materialism and self-satisfied, smug attitudes among many of our upwardly mobile brothers and sisters should be identified and criticized.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Brother, Attitude, Successful

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• All the arts, music, the visual arts, acting and dancing arts, cooking arts, and I believe sports, will save the human race because they can leap over barriers, religions, leap over barriers of race, politics.

  Pete Seeger

  Sports, Art, Believe

  Source: nysmusic.com

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• Musicians can travel all over the world and have an audience, because there's no language barrier.

  Tommy Chong

  Musician, Language Barriers, World

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• Black women, historically, have been doubly victimized by the twin immoralities of Jim Crow and Jane Crow. ... Black women, faced with these dual barriers, have often found that sex bias is more formidable than racial bias.

  Pauli Murray

  Sex, Black, Crow

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• One of the wonderful aspects of the human imagination is its power to break through the barriers of time and space. It can see things not as they are but as the can be.

  Denis Waitley

  Break Through, Space, Imagination

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• It has been said that genius is only the power of making continuous effort. The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it. We are told that there is no failure, except in no longer trying - no defeat, except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own weakness of purpose.

  Kate Smith

  Effort, Trying, Lines

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• One of my friends who writes novels says that once the book is published, it's a separate thing from you; it becomes its own. I feel that way when I read - and that applies to the experience of reading my work in public, too. The essays are a barrier between me and the audience, and it feels like a disappearing act. Poof! I'm gone, and the woman I've created on the page emerges.

  Jill Talbot

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• As my mind can conceive of more good, the barriers and blocks dissolve. My life becomes full of little miracles popping up out of the blue.

  Louise Hay

  Block, Blue, Miracle

  Louise L. Hay (2010). “Meditations to Heal Your Life”, p.14, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• If you know that everything comes from the mind, don't become attached. Once attached, you're unaware. But once you see your own nature, the entire Canon becomes so much prose. It's thousands of sutras and shastras only amount to a clear mind. Understanding comes in midsentence. What good are doctrines? The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They're not the Way. The Way is wordless. Words are illusions. . . . Don't cling to appearances, and you'll break through all barriers. . . .

  Bodhidharma

  Truth, Break Through, Understanding

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.31, Macmillan

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• At its core, meditation is about touching the spiritual essence that exists within us all.
  Our spiritual essence is not something that we create through meditation it's already there,
  deep within, behind all the barriers, patiently waiting for us to recognize it.

  Aaron Hoopes

  Spiritual, Essence, Meditation

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• There are enough high hurdles to climb, as one travels through life, without having to scale artificial barriers created by law or silly regulations.

  Gloria Allred

  Silly, Law, Regulation

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• It's amazing that something only an atom thick can be an impenetrable barrier. You can have gas on one side and vacuum or liquid on the other, and with a wall only one atom thick, nothing would go through it.

  Paul McEuen

  Wall, Vacuums, Atoms

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• God's grace is not limited by any ecclesiastical barriers.

  Lesslie Newbigin

  Grace, God's Grace

  Lesslie Newbigin (2009). “The Finality of Christ”, p.101, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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