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“The writer learns to write, in the last resort, only by writing. He must get words onto paper even if he is dissatisfied with them. A young writer must cross many psychological barriers to acquire confidence in his capacity to produce good work-especially his first full-length book-and he cannot do this by staring at a piece of blank paper, searching for the perfect sentence.”

“Hard work is about risk. It begins when you deal with the things that you'd rather not deal with: fear of failure, fear of standing out, fear of rejection. Hard work is about training yourself to leap over this barrier, tunnel under that barrier, drive through the other barrier. And after you've done that, to do it again the next day”

Hard Done Next Deals Risk Hard Work Training Standing Rejection Barriers Leap Next Day Standing Out Fear Of Failure Tunnels Risk It Fear Of Rejection

Author:Seth

“A people without a language of its own is only half a nation. A nation should guard its language more than its territories, 'tis a surer barrier and a more important frontier than mountain or river.”

People Should Important Language Nations Half Republican Mountain Rivers Barriers Territory Frontiers

Author:Thomas Davis

“I broke every barrier I could to see things as they are.”

Author:Lillian Smith

“There are no language barriers when you are smiling.”

Language Barriers Language Barriers

Book:The Healing Power of Humor: Techniques for Getting Through Loss, Setbacks, Upsets, Disappointments, Difficulties, Trials, Tribulations, and All that Not-so-funny Stuff

Source: The Healing Power of Humor: Techniques for Getting Through Loss, Setbacks, Upsets, Disappointments, Difficulties, Trials, Tribulations, and All that Not-so-funny Stuff

“The great barrier to worship among God's people is not that we are always seeking our own satisfaction, but that our seeking is so weak and half-hearted that we settle for little sips at broken cisterns when the fountain of life is just over the next hill.”

People Littles Life Is Next Half Broken Worship Weak Satisfaction Seeking Hills Settling Barriers Fountain Hearted Half Hearted

Author:John Piper

“To conquer nature is, in effect, to remove all natural barriers and human norms and to substitute artificial, fabricated equivalents for natural processes.”

Humans Process Natural Effects Conquer Remove Barriers Substitutes Artificial Norm

Author:Alex Campbell

“The Patriot Act removed major legal barriers that prevented the law enforcement, intelligence, and national defense communities from talking and coordinating their work to protect the American people and our national security.”

People Law Community Talking Security Protect Majors Defense Barriers Patriot National Security Law Enforcement Enforcement National Defense Patriot Act Coordinating

Author:Jon Porter

“I believe in a wall between church and state so high that no one can climb over it. When religion controls government, political liberty dies; and when government controls religion, religious liberty perishes. Every American has the constitutional right not to be taxed or have his tax money expended for the establishment of religion. For too long the issue of government aid to church related organizations has been a divisive force in our society and in the Congress. It has erected communication barriers among our religions and fostered intolerance.”

“I really just like breaking down the barriers, whether it means doing an album with Linkin Park, an album with R. Kelly, or playing at the Brandenburg Gate with Bono.”

Mean Albums Parks Barriers Gates Breaking Down Linkin Park R Kelly

Author:Jay-Z

“Most countries want to bring their people together and tear down physical, commercial and cultural barriers. Anyone who proposes separating them is out of line.”

People Want Country Together Lines Tears Barriers Propose Separating Cultural Barriers

Author:Ruben Aguilar

“All things must be examined, debated, investigated without exception and without regard for anyone's feelings... We must run roughshod over all these ancient puerilities, overturn the barriers that reason never erected, give back to the arts and sciences the liberty that is so precious to them.”

Giving Art Reason Feelings Running Liberty All Things Regard Ancient Exception Barriers Giving Back Art And Science

Author:Denis Diderot

“The theme that runs through my movies is the fact that we create barriers for ourselves....because we say, Well, I can't do that. But in the end, you can't do it unless you can imagine yourself succeeding at it.”

Wells I Can Ends Facts Running Imagine Succeed Theme Barriers

Author:George Lucas

“Preconceived ideas can sometimes become barriers.”

Ideas Sometimes Barriers Preconceived Ideas

Author:Rocky Bleier

“We tried to provide more for the poor and produced more poor instead. We tried to remove the barriers to escape poverty, and inadvertently built a trap.”

Poor Poverty Built Remove Barriers Traps

Book:Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950-1980

Source: Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950-1980

“We wake up to find the whole world building competitive trade barriers, just as we found it a few years ago building competitive armaments. We are trying to reduce armaments to preserve the world's solvency. We shall have to reduce competitive trade barriers to preserve the world's sanity. As between the two, trade barriers are more destructive than armaments and more threatening to the peace of the world.”

World Trying Years Two Whole Found Building Years Ago Wake Up Trade Whole World Preserves Destructive Barriers Sanity Threatening Armament

Author:Owen D. Young

“When barriers are put in front of you, it's God or the universe asking you to remember who you are, and reminding you not to let yourself be defined by things outside of you.”

Remember Universe Fronts Asking Who You Are Defined Barriers Reminding Remember Who You Are

Author:Christine Ebersole

“It is false to suggest that Thomas Jefferson or any other Founding Father believed in a legal barrier to God in the public square.”

Father Barriers Squares Founding

Author:Newt Gingrich

“I hate to toot my own horn but I just feel that I know people and I know fans and I don't feel there is that Angelina Jolie/Brad Pitt barrier with me. I've always felt from everyone I talk to that the fans feel like I'm tangible and they can talk to me and they know me.”

People Knows Feels Hate Felt My Own Fans I Hate Barriers Know Me Horns Tangible Talk To Me Brad

Author:Hulk Hogan

“I think it modern society as a whole, but definitively in Brazil, spaces are so well divided and there are so many barriers, and so many divisions, so many lines and so many borderlines, basically telling you that you should be here but not here. This is my space and this is your space, and this is expressed very dramatically in architecture, we have a very kind of aggressive, almost medieval concept for architecture, which is basically keeping people out. So you get high walls, fences, and electric fences, and divisions like that.”

“Drons change the way politicians think about war. You already have society's barriers against war dropping, and now you have a technology that takes the barriers to the ground. We can carry it out without having to deal with some of the consequences of sending our sons and daughters into harm's way.”

Thinking Way War Deals Technology Son Politician Daughter Consequence Harm Barriers Dropping Son And Daughter Against War

Author:P. W. Singer

“I love solving the problems of having groups work together and removing barriers. But to actually turn around and be in the center of that is an awkward place to be.”

Problem Together Turns Groups Barriers Working Together Awkward Group Work

Author:Edwin Catmull

“A great city with water barriers and no bridges is like a skyscraper with no elevators. Bridges are a monument to progress.”

Water Cities Progress Bridges Barriers Monument Elevators Great Cities Skyscraper

Author:Joseph Straus

“Constitutional provisions are not barriers to government misconduct. At best, they can be speed bumps.”

Government Speed Barriers Provision Bumps Misconduct Speed Bumps

Author:Arnold Kling

“This is what we have all come to Cannes for: for something different, experimental, a tilting at windmills, a great big pole-vault over the barrier of normality by someone who feels that the possibilities of cinema have not been exhausted by conventional realist drama.”

Feels Different Bigs Possibility Drama Cinema Barriers Conventional Exhausted Realist Normality Vaults Windmills Cannes Pole Vault

Author:Peter Bradshaw

“A barrier to communication is something that keeps meanings from meeting.”

Communication Meetings Barriers

Author:Reuel Howe

“When writers are self-conscious about themselves as writers they often keep a great distance from their characters, sounding as if they were writing encyclopedia entries instead of stories. Their hesitancy about physical and psychological intimacy can be a barrier to vital fiction. Conversely, a narration that makes readers hear the characters' heavy breathing and smell their emotional anguish diminishes distance. Readers feel so close to the characters that, for those magical moments, they become those characters.”

“We know that expanded access to natural gas is important to families and businesses in communities across Ontario. That's why our government is developing new natural gas programs to improve access, which will generate economic activity, attract significant investment, create jobs, and break down barriers in our communities”

Knows Important Government Jobs Community Natural Break Economic Activity Program Investment Access Significant Developing Gas Barriers Breaking Down Our Community Natural Gas Ontario

Author:Brad Duguid

“... it is a lonely programme. The very virtues you cultivate become walls that inevitably separate you from your kind.... A new danger comes to your soul, and intolerance and impatience with those who are as you have been all but destroy that which you have taken such pains to build up. Not alone are there spiritual barriers between you and the friends that you have, but your business training has made your mind incisive. In the swift rush of business you have no time for small debates and petty dilemmas.”

“The object of our sojourns on earth, as apart from the gaining of experience, is but one. The loosing of ourselves from the coil of reincarnation, which, over and over again, brings us back to earth as on a coiled spring, until, having learned the last lesson of matter, leaped the last barrier, we are freed for ever from earth.”

Matter Earth Lasts Objects Lessons Spring Barriers Reincarnation

Author:Shaw Desmond

“I think we've broken a lot of barriers and kind of shattered our "glass ceiling" that was there for women. There are so many great fighters and we've proved a lot of people wrong. A lot of the times our fights are the best fights on the card.”

People Thinking Kind Fighting Broken Glasses Cards Fighter Barriers Ceilings Shattered Glass Ceiling

Author:Miesha Tate

“I didn't intend to be writing - the writer's life. I was just writing what came to me at the time, but it is a map of how this writer had to break many barriers to find, not a room of her own, but a house of her own.”

Writing House Rooms Break Barriers Maps

Author:Sandra Cisneros

“Many of us have unconsciously erected barriers to protect ourselves from failing or succeeding. We may think we're protecting ourselves by denying our creative impulses, but all we're doing is burying our authentic selves alive.”

Thinking May Self Creative Alive Failing Succeed Protect Impulse Barriers Authentic Self Burying Protecting Ourselves

Author:Sarah Ban Breathnach

“There is a way of the Spirit unknown to the natural mind. No barrier can keep you from finding His best except an unyielded will. As long as it is your inmost desire to know the will of God and do it, He Himself will guide and direct in all sorts of surprising ways.”

Knows Way Mind Long Spirit Desire Natural Findings Direct Guides Gods Will Barriers Surprising

Book:Total Love

Source: Total Love

“Your mind and habits will create either barriers or bridges to a better future.”

Mind Habit Bridges Barriers Better Future

Book:The Adult Student's Guide to Survival & Success

Source: The Adult Student's Guide to Survival & Success

“Frontline love. It is our one hope for breaking down barriers and for restoring the sense of community, of caring for one another, that our decadent, impersonalized culture has sucked out of us.”

Culture Community Caring Barriers Breaking Down Restoring Frontline Breaking Down Barriers

Book:Loving God

Source: Loving God

“Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through... whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.”

Thinking Needs States Courage Negative Quitting Barriers Negativity Crash Halt

Author:Vernon Howard

“Every band should study Queen at Live Aid. If you really feel like that barrier is gone, you become Freddie Mercury. I consider him the greatest frontman of all time. Like, it's funny? You'd imagine that Freddie was more than human, but... You know how he controlled Wembley Stadium at Live Aid in 1985? He stood up there and did his vocal warm ups with the audience. Something that intimate, where they realize, 'Oh yeah, he's just a f***ing dude.'”

Ifs Knows Feels Should Humans Realizing Audience Know How Gone Study Imagine Band Yeah Warm Aids All Time Queens Intimate Barriers Controlled Imagine That Vocal Stadiums Stood Up Mercury

Author:Dave Grohl

“While we've made progress with our numbers, this will be a harder-to-reach group, and we have less money to do it.... Many people don't know or understand about the tax credit that they can receive. And so affordability is a barrier. We know that a disproportionate number of those who are still uninsured are young.”

People Knows Made Stills Young Numbers Progress Groups Taxes Harder Credit Barriers Affordability

Author:Sylvia Mathews Burwell

“There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.”

Inspirational Trying Success Purpose Sea Failure Weakness Defeat Barriers Inherent Stay Strong Insurmountable No Failure Just Stay Strong

Author:Kin Hubbard

“....If you are guided toward a faith, use it as a stepping stone to God, not as a barrier between yourself and God's other children or as a tower to hold you aloft from others. If you are not guided toward a faith (or even if you are) seek God in the silence - seek within.”

Ifs Children Use Silence Stones Barriers Towers Stepping Stones

Book:Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

“Independent travel does that, bringing temporarily together these wandering ships that would otherwise pass in the night. Relationships were mostly brief and sometimes downright fleeting. The barriers and masks of settled existence melted away, allowing strangers to become fast friends, if only for a day. We travellers needed that, having deliberately stepped away from the social safety net of family, school, work and community.”

Ifs Doe Sometimes School Together Night Social Community Existence Needed Independent Safety Stranger Ships Wander Mask Barriers Allowing Fleeting Traveller Safety Net School Work

Author:John Haines

“Loneliness is a barrier that prevents one from uniting with the inner self.”

Self Loneliness Barriers Inner Self Uniting

Author:Carl Rogers

“When you think you know something: that is a most perfect barrier against learning.”

Thinking Knows Perfect Barriers You Think You Know

Book:God Emperor of Dune

Source: God Emperor of Dune

“The wealthy class often looks down on the poor as "those people." And deprived people view the rich as cold and heartless. The way to break down the barrier between the rich and poor is to asociate with each other and to help one another. Make a connection. If you can break down the barrier, it may pave the way to recovery for some person, a family, maybe an entire community.”

People Ifs Way Looks May Persons Helping Community Poor Views Class Break Rich Cold Connections Recovery Barriers Wealthy Breaking Down Deprived Rich And Poor Heartless

Book:God In My Corner: A Spiritual Memoir

Source: God In My Corner: A Spiritual Memoir

“The right attitude can transform a barrier into a blessing, an obstacle into an opportunity or a stumbling block into a stepping stone.”

Opportunity Attitude Blessing Stones Obstacles Block Positive Attitude Barriers Stumbling Stepping Stones Winning Attitude Stumbling Blocks

Author:Cory Booker

“Worship is a powerful witness to unbelievers-if God's presence is felt, and if the message is understandable. God's presence must be sensed in the service. More people are won to Christ by feeling God's presence than by all our apologetic arguments combined. Few people, if any, are converted to Christ on purely intellectual grounds. It is the sense of God's presence that melts the heart and explodes mental barriers.”

People Ifs Heart Feelings Felt Christ Powerful Worship Messages Intellectual Argument Witness Barriers Unbelievers Apologetic God's Presence

Author:Rick Warren

“The real barrier (to building a brand) is the human mind. It normally takes decades to build a brand because it takes decades to penetrate the gray matter in between your ears.”

Mind Humans Real Matter Building Ears Decades Brands Barriers Human Mind Gray Penetrate Gray Matter Building A Brand

Author:Al Ries

“By reeducating the mind, you can accept fear as simply a fact of life rather than a barrier to success.”

Mind Facts Accepting Barriers Facts Of Life

Author:Susan Jeffers

“The best way to make a sale is to ask for ask for a date of beginning, or some type of commitment to move forward after you are certain you have removed all the risks, and all the barriers, from your prospect's buying process.”

Way Moving Certain Asks Process Risk Type Commitment Best Way Moving Forward Buying Barriers

Author:Jeffrey Gitomer