Barriers Quotes - Page 28

• Prejudice is a product of ignorance that hides behind barriers of tradition.

  Jasper Fforde

  Ignorance, Prejudice, Tradition

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• In Winter, [the Antarctic] is perhaps the dreariest of places. Our base, Little America, lay in a bowl of ice, near the edge of the Ross Ice Barrier. The temperature fell as low as 72 degrees below zero. One could actually hear one's breath freeze.

  Richard E. Byrd

  Zero, Winter, Ice

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• Mr. Lincoln's elevation shows that in America every station in life may be honorable; that there is no barrier against the humblest; but that merit, wherever it exists, has the opportunity to be known.

  Matthew Simpson

  Opportunity, America, May

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• Later, I realized that the mission had to end in a let-down because the real barrier wasn't in the sky but in our knowledge and experience of supersonic flight.

  Chuck Yeager

  Real, Sky, Experience

  Chuck Yeager (1986). “Yeager: An Autobiography”, Bantam

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• That wild beast which lives in man and does not dare to show itself until the barriers of law and custom have been removed, was now set free.

  Ivo Andric

  Men, Law, Doe

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• Experiencing pain in your muscles and aching, that's what makes the muscle grow. and that divides one from being a champion and one from not being a champion. If you can go through this pain barrier, you may get to be a champion. If You can't go through it, forget it.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Pain, Bodybuilding, Champion

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• No previous civilization has been able to achieve it, nor can we see even in the remote distance, that day of the Messiah, when national barriers will no longer exist and all mankind will live in brotherhood and concord. Until then, the nations must narrow their aspirations to achieve a tolerable modus vivendi.

  Leon Pinsker

  Distance, Civilization, Israel

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• Fear stimulates us to take action and can be our friend, but if you act as though fear is not there-if you deny it-it will build and create barriers.

  Darren Johnson

  Ethos, Action, Deny

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• Yet the whole preamble of the second authorization act for the Marshall Plan showed the direction Congress was ready to take about breaking down barriers within Europe.

  W. Averell Harriman

  Europe, Silence, Breaking Down

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• It is not your job to seek for love. It IS your job to seek within yourself all the barriers against its coming.

  Marianne Williamson

  Love, Jobs

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• I see a strategy for fracturing humanity well in play: just keep people separated and let them reinforce invented boundaries in their imaginations. Because when people come together and really listen to each other, doing the hard work of human kindness, virtually every barrier is breached.

  Jen Hatmaker

  Kindness, Hard Work, Play

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• I perceive my limitations even as I work. There are times when I see nothing but restrictions, barriers. Learning takes time.

  Isamu Noguchi

  Restriction, Take Time, Perceive

  Isamu Noguchi (1999). “The Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum”, Harry N Abrams Incorporated

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• No matter what we're trying to accomplish, there's always a barrier of some kind to overcome, and it's often something over which we have no control. Instead of focusing on the barriers, let's work to become so good that we'll succeed no matter how many bad calls the ref may throw at us.

  John G. Miller

  Trying, Overcoming, May

  John G. Miller (2004). “QBQ! The Question Behind the Question: Practicing Personal Accountability at Work and in Life”, p.72, Penguin

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• Space is a unifying field of awareness in which you meet the other person without the separative barriers created by conceptual thinking. And now the other person is no longer 'other.' In that space, you are joined together as one awareness, one consciousness.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Thinking, Space, Together

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.95, New World Library

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• My new favorite word is 'awkward.'...Th e reason we need to be in search of awkward is that awkward is the barrier between us and excellence, between where we are and the remarkable. If it were easy, everyone would have done it already, and it wouldn't be worth the effort.

  Seth Godin

  Inspiration, Favorite Words, Effort

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• When we step out of our normal world and leave behind us all the usual barriers and prejudices, we tend to become more adventurous.

  Paulo Coelho

  Usual, Prejudice, World

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• Music speaks directly to the heart. This response, this echo within the heart, is proof that human hearts can transcend the barriers of time and space and nationality. Exchanges in the field of culture can play an important role in enabling people to overcome mistrust and prejudice and build peace.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Heart, Echoes, Play

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• In this world, the greatest courage is to drop the mind aside. The bravest man is who can see the world without the barrier of the mind, just as it is. It is tremendously different, utterly beautiful. There is nobody who is inferior and there is nobody who is superior - there are no distinctions.

  Rajneesh

  Beautiful, Men, Mind

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• Our barriers to love are rarely consciously chosen. They are our efforts to protect the places where the heart is bruised.

  Marianne Williamson

  Heart, Effort, Protect

  Marianne Williamson (1992). “A return to love: reflections on the principles of "A course in miracles"”

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• The seemingly insuperable difficulties of deep-space travel suggest an intention to keep us fixed at home in our own solar system, and the physical nature of our part of the Universe, as well as the basic rules of physics and chemistry, have a warning look about them, like barriers designed to isolate intelligent life. This means that for us, unlike the situation for humble microorganisms, deep-space travel is probably a stark impossibility.

  Fred Hoyle

  Future, Humble, Mean

  Fred Hoyle (1983). “The Intelligent Universe”

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• Second law: The complexity barrier. Software complexity (and therefore that of bugs) grows to the limits of our ability to manage that complexity.

  Boris Beizer

  Law, Limits, Bugs

  Boris Beizer (1990). “Software Testing Techniques”, Van Nostrand Reinhold Company

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• The tennis ball doesn't know how old I am. The ball doesn't know if I'm a man or a woman or if I come from a communist country or not. Sport has always broken down these barriers.

  Martina Navratilova

  Sports, Country, Men

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• Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Science, World

  Speech by King Willem-Alexander at the Diplomatic Corps dinner, Royal Palace, Amsterdam, www.royal-house.nl. June 24, 2015.

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• When the injustice is great enough, justice will lend me the strength needed to correct it. None may stand against it. It will shatter every barrier, sunder any shield, tear through any enchantment, and lend its servant the power to pass sentence. Know this: There is nothing on all the Planes that can stay the hand of justice when it is brought against them. It may unmake armies. It may sunder the thrones of gods. Know that for all who betray justice, I am their fate. And fate carries an executioner's axe.

  Chris Avellone

  Fate, Army, Hands

  "Planescape: Torment". Video Game, www.imdb.com. 1999.

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• Do you know there is always a barrier between me and any man or woman who does not like dogs?

  Ellen Glasgow

  Friendship, Dog, Men

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow, Pamela R. Matthews (2005). “Perfect Companionship: Ellen Glasgow's Selected Correspondence with Women”, p.26, University of Virginia Press

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