Brick Wall Quotes

• The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.

  Randy Pausch

  Inspirational, Strength, Perseverance

  YouTube Channel "Carnegie Mellon University"/"Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams", www.youtube.com. December 20, 2007.

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• Brick walls are there for a reason. They give us a chance to show how badly we want

  Randy Pausch

  Happiness, Success, Perseverance

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• I like talking to a brick wall- it's the only thing in the world that never contradicts me!

  Oscar Wilde

  Wall, Talking, World

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “Lady Windermere's Fan”, p.58, Oscar Wilde

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• If you don't break a hole through the brick wall, don't just start digging a new hole. Keep going until you break through that wall.

  Russell Simmons

  Wall, Break Through, Digging

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• Brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls aren't there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to show us how badly we want things.

  Randy Pausch

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  YouTube Channel "Carnegie Mellon University"/"Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams", www.youtube.com. December 20, 2007.

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• Seize the opportunities life has to offer you. Embrace the changes, and have the courage to travel on roads less travelled, even though what is in front of you could be tough, make it successful. Have determination and courage to kick down the brick walls in front of you, and to go on and achieve bigger success than you ever thought possible.

  Li Cunxin

  Determination, Wall, Successful

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• We're in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyone's arguing over where they're going to sit.

  David Suzuki

  Nature, Wall, Car

  "Green giants: the eco power list" by Lucy Siegle, www.theguardian.com. January 15, 2011.

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• Believing I had supernatural powers, I slammed into a brick wall.

  Paul Simon

  Wall, Believe, Bricks

  Song: Gumboots, Album: Graceland

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• The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose.

  John McEnroe

  Loss, Optimism, Important

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• Brick walls let us prove how badly we want our dream and they stop those who don't want it enough. Brick walls let us show our dedication.

  Randy Pausch

  Dream, Wall, Dedication

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• A lesson will keep repeating itself until it is learned. Life first will send the lesson to you in the size of a pebble; if you ignore the pebble, then life will send you a brick; if you ignore the brick, life will send you a brick wall; if you ignore the brick wall, life will send you a demolition truck.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Wall, Lessons, Firsts

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• I swear, talking to you is like talking to a really good-looking and mildly stupid brick wall.

  Derek Landy

  Wall, Stupid, Talking

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• Comedy clubs have brick walls behind the performer. Bricks make you funny. When I'm in front of a fireplace, I'm hilarious.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Wall, Humor

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• You have to find something that you love enough to be able to take risks, jump over the hurdles and break through the brick walls that are always going to be placed in front of you. If you don't have that kind of feeling for what it is you're doing, you'll stop at the first giant hurdle.

  George Lucas

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Cinematic Phenomenon". The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. June 19, 1999.

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• The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.

  Frank Zappa

  Wall, Moving, Tables And Chairs

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• Is there a brick wall getting in your way? Fine. That happens. But you have a choice. You can walk away from the wall. You can go over the wall. You can go under the wall. You can go around the wall. You can also obliterate the wall. In other words, don't let anything get in your way. Get a balance, and then let the positive outdistance the negative.

  Donald Trump

  Wall, Choices, Balance

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• For a player to be good enough to play for Liverpool, he must be prepared
  to run through a brick wall for me then come out fighting on the other side.

  Bill Shankly

  Running, Wall, Fighting

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• The jet stream is a very strong force and pushing a balloon into it is like pushing up against a brick wall, but once we got into it, we found that, remarkably, the balloon went whatever speed the wind went.

  Richard Branson

  Strong, Wall, Wind

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• I would run through brick walls for Spurs.

  Graham Roberts

  Running, Wall, Spurs

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• The brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough. They are there to stop the other people!

  Randy Pausch

  Perseverance, Wall, Inspirational Life

  Randy Pausch (2008). “The Last Lecture”, p.71, Hachette UK

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• Doing a little work around the house. I put fake brick wallpaper over a real brick wall, just so I'd be the only one who knew. People come over and I'm gonna say, "Go ahead, touch it... it feels real."

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Wall, Real

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• Sometimes you'd come up against a brick wall... or sometimes you go into a fill and you'd know halfway through it was going to be disastrous.

  John Bonham

  Wall, Bricks, Sometimes

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• The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose. Life is a learning process and you have to try to learn what's best for you. Let me tell you, life is not fun when you're banging your head against a brick wall all the time.

  John McEnroe

  Wall, Fun, Life Lesson

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• At the moment, in Britain we're facing such enormous cutbacks in education programs and music programs and art programs that you feel you are knocking your head against a brick wall.

  Peter Maxwell Davies

  Art, Wall, Bricks

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• Healthy boundaries are important, but you may be building a brick wall when a picket fence would do.

  Amy Dickinson

  Wall, Women, Healthy

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