Hurdle Quotes - Page 6

• And I wondered if hurdlers ever thought, you know, 'This would go faster if we just got rid of the hurdles.

  John Green

  Faster, Knows, Ifs

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.26, Penguin

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• The future was uncertain, absolutely, and there were many hurdles, twists, and turns to come, but as long as I kept moving forward, one foot in front of the other, the voices of fear and shame, the messages from those who wanted me to believe that I wasn't good enough, would be stilled.

  Chris Gardner

  Believe, Moving, Voice

  Chris Gardner (2009). “The Pursuit of Happyness”, p.6, Harper Collins

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• Delayed energy projects and regulatory hurdles to domestic oil production not only cost the United States economy billions of dollars and millions of jobs, but they also stand in the way of an elusive goal: true American energy security.

  John Hoeven

  Jobs, Oil, Goal

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• There are two ways to pass a hurdle: leaping over or plowing through... There needs to be a monster truck option.

  Jeph Jacques

  Inspirational, Funny, Two

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• We could say that love is a tenacious adventure. The adventurous side is necessary, but equally so is the need for tenacity. To give up at the first hurdle, the first quarrel, is only to distort love. Real love is one that triumphs lastingly, sometimes painfully, over the hurdles erected by time, space and the world.

  Alain Badiou

  Giving Up, Real, Adventure

  Alain Badiou, Nicolas Truong (2012). “In Praise Of Love”, p.32, Profile Books

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• The gentle art of gastronomy is a friendly one. It hurdles the language
  barrier, makes friends among civilized people, and warms the heart.

  Samuel Chamberlain

  Art, Food, People

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• Instead of encouraging the student to devote himself to his studies for the sake of studying, instead of encouraging in him a real love for his subject and for inquiry, he is encouraged to study for the sake of his personal career; he is led to acquire only such knowledge as is serviceable in getting him over the hurdles which he must clear for the sake of his advancement.

  Karl Popper

  Education, Real, Careers

  Karl R. Popper (2013). “The Open Society and Its Enemies”, p.128, Princeton University Press

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• Where the loser saw barriers, the winner saw hurdles.

  Robert Breault

  Attitude, Opportunity, Work Out

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• The rigid electron is in my view a monster in relation to Maxwell's equations, whose innermost harmony is the principle of relativity... the rigid electron is no working hypothesis, but a working hindrance. Approaching Maxwell's equations with the concept of the rigid electron seems to me the same thing as going to a concert with your ears stopped up with cotton wool. We must admire the courage and the power of the school of the rigid electron which leaps across the widest mathematical hurdles with fabulous hypotheses, with the hope to land safely over there on experimental-physical ground.

  Hermann Minkowski

  School, Science, Views

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• Everybody has barriers and obstacles. If you look at them as containing fences that don't allow you to advance, then you're going to be a failure. If you look at them as hurdles that strengthen you each time you go over one, then you're going to be a success.

  Benjamin Carson

  Softball, Looks, Obstacles

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• When you're home or you're working, your mind just isn't allowed to just roll on like it does when you're watching the scenery go by. You're hurdling through space but you're not really moving. ...It's that dreaminess, that ability to just get dreamy while you're looking out the window and you see something...and it makes you think of something else, and all of a sudden the words are just flowing out of you.

  Pegi Young

  Moving, Home, Writing

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• There are hurdles, there are handicaps, hardships you have to face in life, but you hope for a great future.

  Anil Kapoor

  Hardship, Faces, Hurdling Obstacles

  Interview With Hannah Pool, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2009.

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• Being a typical teenager isn't easy. When you have autism, it can be extra difficult. We need more public awareness about these hurdles as well as compassion towards these young people.

  Holly Robinson Peete

  Teenager, Compassion, People

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• What makes us want to know the worst? Is it that we tire of preferring to know the best? Does curiosity always hurdle self-interest? Or is it, more simply, that wanting to know the worst is love's favorite perversion.

  Julian Barnes

  Self, Curiosity, Doe

  Julian Barnes (1985). “Flaubert's parrot”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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• Students are too busy jumping through the next hurdle in the résumé race to figure out what they really want. They are too frantic tasting everything on the smorgasbord to have life-altering encounters. They have a terror of closing off options. They have been inculcated with a lust for prestige and a fear of doing things that may put their status at risk.

  David Brooks

  Jumping, Race, Lust

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• Wimsey stooped for an empty sardine-tin which lay, horribly battered, at his feet, and slung it idly into the quag. It struck the surface with a noice like a wet kiss, and vanished instantly. With that instinct which prompts one, when depressed, to wallow in every circumstance of gloom, Peter leaned sadly against the hurdles and abandoned himself to a variety of shallow considerations upon (1) The vanity of human wishes; (2) Mutability; (3) First love; (4) The decay of idealism; (5) The aftermath of the Great war; (6) Birth-control; and (7) The fallacy of free-will.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  War, Kissing, First Love

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• Life is a hurdle and you'll never clear it. Death is the end of the ride and you fear it.

  Henry Rollins

  Death, Life Is, Ends

  Song: I Want So Much More

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• Your fears are not walls, but hurdles.

  Dan Millman

  Wall

  Dan Millman (2008). “Everyday Enlightenment: The Twelve Gateways to Personal Growth”, p.128, Hachette UK

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• We are currently facing countless hurdles and obstacles, BUT will never lose the sight of infinite hope.

  Widad Akrawi

  Sight, Infinite Hope, Obstacles

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• Complacency is the last hurdle standing between any team and its potential greatness.

  Pat Riley

  Team, Greatness, Complacency

  Pat Riley (1993). “The winner within: a life plan for team players”, Putnam Adult

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• Passionate conviction ... sparks romances, wins battles, and drives people to pursue dreams others wouldn't dare. Belief in ourselves and in what is right catapults us over hurdles, and our lives unfold.

  Howard Schultz

  Dream, Winning, People

  Howard Schultz, Joanne Gordon (2012). “Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul”, p.7, Rodale

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• Greatness finds us by obstacles in front of us. I don’t look at hurdles as obstacles blocking my path but opportunities to overcome.

  Lolo Jones

  Inspirational, Success, Sports

  FaceBook post by Lolo Jones from Aug 04, 2012

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• I feel that talent means little unless coupled with an insatiable desire to give an excellent personal demonstration of ability...talent must be in company with a capacity for unlimited effort which provides the power that eventually hurdles the difficulties that would frustrate lukewarm enthusiasm.

  Andrew Loomis

  Mean, Giving, Effort

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• Like running the hurdles. Work so hard, jump over every one, fast, high enough but no higher, because you can't afford to hang in the air. And then, when the race is over, you're dripping with sweat, either they beat you or you beat them ... and then a couple of guys come out and move the hurdles out of the way. Turns out they were nothing. All that work to jump over them, but now they're gone.

  Orson Scott Card

  Running, Couple, Moving

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• One of the biggest hurdles in the path of entrepreneurship is home loans!

  Vishwas Mudagal

  Powerful, Home, Entrepreneur

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