#barrier

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

#challenges #failure #failures #inspirational #perseverance

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness. ↗

— Helen Keller

#awkwardness #barrier #book #discourses #disenfranchised

There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive. ↗

— Jessamyn West

#alive #barriers #between #communication #elders

I'd be stupid not to take into consideration that there are certain things people will not consider me for because my name is Lopez. And I know I can do any kind of role. I don't want anybody to say, Oh, she can't pull this off. So those are barriers that you have to overcome. ↗

— Jennifer Lopez

#anybody #barriers #because #certain #certain things

I've always loved to prove people wrong. I want to be able to cross color lines, because in music, there really is no barrier. ↗

— Pink

#always #barrier #because #color #cross

The quality of his being one with the people, of having no artificial or natural barriers between him and them, made it possible for him to be a leader without ever being or thinking of being a dictator. ↗

— Frances Perkins

#barriers #being #between #dictator #ever

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#barriers #constraints #erect #except #human

To say that a thing has never yet been done among men is to erect a barrier stronger than reason, stronger than discussion. ↗

— Thomas Reed

#barrier #been #discussion #done #erect

We do not want to live in a theocracy. We should maintain that barrier and government has no business telling someone what they ought to believe or how they should conduct their private lives. ↗

— Robert Reich

#believe #business #conduct #government #how

And one of our points of continuing conversation with our trading partners is the urgency of their taking steps to remove barriers to their improved growth performance. ↗

— John W. Snow

#continuing #conversation #growth #improved #our