Impediments Quotes - Page 6

• Who is journeying for freedom? The one who is already free. Thoughts are impediments to seeing your own face. Don't give rise to any thought, and discover who you are.

  H. W. L. Poonja

  Giving, Faces, Awareness

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• The IMF and the World Bank, the most opaque and secretive entities, put millions into NGOs who fight against "corruption" and for "transparency." They want the Rule of Law - as long as they make the laws. They want transparency in order to standardise a situation, so that global capital can flow without any impediment.

  Arundhati Roy

  Fighting, Order, Law

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The greatest impediments to personal change always come from within, not without.

  Andy Greenwald

  Personal Change

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• There is no longer a single common impediment to blacks emerging in this society.

  Constance Baker Motley

  Common, Single Relationship, This Society

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• Plants of great vigor will almost always struggle into blossom, despite impediments. But there should be encouragement, and a free genial atmosphere for those of more timid sort, fair play for each in its own kind.

  Margaret Fuller

  Encouragement, Struggle, Play

  Margaret Fuller (2012). “Woman in the Nineteenth Century”, p.33, Courier Corporation

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• Men and women yearners must realize their unity even while in the
  flesh; not by communion of the flesh, but by the Will to Freedom from
  the flesh and all the impediments it places in their way to perfect
  Unity and Holy Understanding

  Mikhail Naimy

  Men, Perfect, Understanding

  Mikhail Naimy (2011). “The Book of Mirdad: The strange story of a monastery which was once called The Ark”, p.108, Duncan Baird Publishers

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• Despite all the hype about local or green food, the single biggest impediment to wider adoption is not research, programs, organizations, or networking. It is the demonizing and criminalizing of virtually all indigenous and heritage-based food practices.

  Joel Salatin

  Practice, Organization, Hype

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• Sometimes the things we think are the impediments are actually the path.

  Bob Goff

  Thinking, Path, Sometimes

  FaceBook post by Bob Goff from Apr 13, 2014

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• Just as riches are an impediment to virtue in the wicked, so in the good they are an aid of virtue.

  Ambrose

  Wicked, Riches, Virtue

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• There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.

  Thomas Reid

  Advancement, Ambiguity, Speech Impediment

  Thomas Reid, Ronald E. Beanblossom, Keith Lehrer (1983). “Thomas Reid's Inquiry and Essays”, p.129, Hackett Publishing

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• There are no impediments now to corporations. None. And what they want is for us to give up. They want us to become passive. They want us to become tacitly complicit in our own destruction.

  Chris Hedges

  Giving Up, Want, Corporations

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. July 14, 2011.

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• I think the biggest impediment to fixing the food system in the United States is that we expect food to be cheap. We want to by other things with our money. We're so disconnected from agriculture - from the culture in agriculture.

  Alice Waters

  Thinking, Agriculture, United States

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge and at all events their exclusive possession of the law was a formidable impediment to the success of those popular movements which began to be universal in the western world.

  Henry James Sumner Maine

  Law, Events, Aristocracy

  Henry Sumner Maine, Sir, J. H. Morgan (2000). “Ancient Law”, p.9, Beard Books

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• These people in the establishment have been telling us they're the ones to fix everything and everything they've tried to fix, they've botched - TARP, the recession fix such as the stimulus bill. Look at the college - college education is an impediment because of how much it costs. A college education is no longer a step up.

  Rush Limbaugh

  College, People, Looks

  "Rush Limbaugh on rift that threatens the Republican Party; Mitt Romney talks Trump attack, future of the GOP". "Fox News Sunday", www.foxnews.com. March 6, 2016.

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• It is impossible for me to reconcile myself to the idea of conversion after the style that goes on in India and elsewhere today. It is an error which is perhaps the greatest impediment to the world's progress toward peace. ... Why should a Christian want to convert a Hindu to Christianity? Why should he not be satisfied if the Hindu is a good or godly man?

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Christian, Godly, Men

  Mahatma Gandhi (1957). “Christian Missions, Their Place in India”

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• One of the principal impediments to job creation is uncertainty on the part of American companies, large and small. We've all watched as companies have sat on a lot of capital. They're uncertain about what tax policy is going to be. They're clearly uncertain about how health care costs. They're uncertain about all the regulations on capital markets.

  Tom J. Donohue

  Jobs, Cost, Care

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• An absence of antecedents and of relatives is sometimes an aid rather than an impediment to social advancement . . .

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Humorous, Sarcasm, Advancement

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Illustrated)”, p.6180, Delphi Classics

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• If what was said in the Ethics is true, that the happy life is the life according to virtue lived without impediment, and that virtue is a mean, then the life which is in a mean, and in a mean attainable by every one, must be the best. And the same principles of virtue and vice are characteristic of cities and of constitutions; for the constitution is in a figure the life of the city.

  Aristotle

  Mean, Happy Life, Cities

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.311, Simon and Schuster

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• no one expects all impediments to be miraculously whisked away. In insisting that others view our lives as ample and precious, we are not demanding that they be made perfect. ... If it is both possible and pleasant for me and my kind to enter, the world will become a livelier place. You'll see.

  Nancy Mairs

  Views, Perfect, World

  Nancy Mairs (2001). “Waist-High In The World: A Life Among the Nondisabled”, p.106, Beacon Press

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• When it comes to building character, wealth, good looks, athletic ability and even a high IQ are more likely to be impediments than advantages.

  Michael Josephson

  Character, Athletic, Looks

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• We rigidify our self-image to portray a certain identity to the world, which is one of the key impediments to authenticity.

  Chip Conley

  Keys, Self, Identity

  Chip Conley (2012). “Emotional Equations: Simple Truths for Creating Happiness + Success”, p.140, Simon and Schuster

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• a white person who claims to have no impediment of vision in this country is not, I think, telling the whole truth. And when it comes to race relations, not telling the whole truth about the fog one inhabits slows down the work of groping forward.

  Naomi Wolf

  Country, Thinking, Race

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• The less sophisticated of my forbears avoided foreigners at all costs, for the very good reason that, in their circles, speaking in tongues was commonly a prelude to snake handling. The more tolerant among us regarded foreign languages as a kind of speech impediment that could be overcome by willpower.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Snakes, Circles, Overcoming

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• Most impediments to scientific understanding are conceptual locks, not factual lacks. Most difficult to dislodge are those biases that escape our scrutiny because they seem so obviously, even ineluctably, just. We know ourselves best and tend to view other creatures as mirrors of our own constitution and social arrangements. ( Aristotle , and nearly two millennia of successors, designated the large bee that leads the swarm as a king.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Kings, Views, Two

  Stephen Jay Gould (1991). “Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

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• Timidity is a disease of the mind, obstinate and fatal; for a man once persuaded that any impediment is insuperable has given it, with respect to himself, that strength and weight which it had not before.

  Samuel Johnson

  Fear, Men, Mind

  Samuel Johnson (1827). “The Rambler”, p.153

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