The best fiction is geared towards conflict. We learn most about our characters through tension, when they are put up against insurmountable obstacles. This is true in real life. – Sufjan Stevens
Teachers today are breaking down obstacles, finding innovative ways to instill old lessons, proving that greatness can be found in everyday places. – Taylor Mali
The job of president is to motivate, to inspire, to be side by side with people making sure that they develop all their capacities and that I remove all the obstacles they have to grow by themselves. – Vicente Fox
The recession’s high unemployment rates may have encouraged people to start sole proprietorships, but there are many obstacles in the way of growing a company to create jobs. – Sam Graves
New leaders must also expect and manage setbacks. In post-revolutionary times, expectations are high, and the obstacles to meeting them are enormous. – Sri Mulyani Indrawati
Love conquers all difficulties, surmounts all obstacles, and effects what to any other power would be impossible. – William Godwin
The development of the New Architecture encountered serious obstacles at a very early stage of its development. Conflicting theories and the dogmas enunciated in architects’ personal manifestos all helped to confuse the main issue. – Walter Gropius
I do seem to try to make things harder and harder for myself. In some perverse way, obstacles interest me and I’m drawn to projects that end up being incredibly laborious. – Taryn Simon
As sisters in Zion, we can be obstacles to the adversary’s conspiracy against families and virtue. – Sheri L. Dew
Our opponents maintain that we are confronted with insurmountable political obstacles, but that may be said of the smallest obstacle if one has no desire to surmount it. – Theodor Herzl
Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph. – William Butler Yeats
Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles. – Washington Irving
From the very first, it has been the educated and intelligent of the Negro people that have led and elevated the mass, and the sole obstacles that nullified and retarded their efforts were slavery and race prejudice; for what is slavery but the legalized survival of the unfit and the nullification of the work of natural internal leadership? – W. E. B. Du Bois
Everyone has obstacles, and you’re not going to have the right answer or do the right thing every single time. – Shannon Miller
We all put obstacles in our own path toward personal style, myself included. If we understood why we constructed these practical and emotional obstacles, we might move beyond it to healthier, happier perceptions of ourselves and, ideally, a better sense of self-esteem. – Stacy London
I have a message for the young kids. Life is about obstacles, endeavors in life are not to be overlooked. – Wade Boggs
As soon as we step beyond the established boundaries of pure thermodynamic theory, we enter a trackless region confronting us with obstacles which even the most astute of us are almost at a loss to tackle. – Wilhelm Wien
When you love a problem, its contours, obstacles and resistances are all just part of its character. – Steven Strogatz
You can be extremely bright and still have dyslexia. You just have to understand how you learn and how you process information. When you know that, you can overcome a lot of the obstacles that come with dyslexia. – Tim Tebow