obstacles Quotes

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.

Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.

I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy.

Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.

Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.

So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.

Iran is not getting rid of any of its nuclear plants. They're not getting rid of anything.

But I believe in fair trade, and I will tell you, I have many, many friends heading up corporations, and people that do just business in China, they say it's virtually impossible. It's very, very hard to come into China. And yet, we welcome them with open arms.

You have to blast to build in Manhattan. And the buildings went up in Manhattan because of the power of that bedrock. Once you dig that foundation - and they dig with dynamite - and once you dynamite out and you secure that foundation, that building isn't going anywhere.

Getting things done in this country, if you want to build something, if you want to start a company, it's getting to be virtually impossible with all of the bureaucracy and all of the approvals.