Famous Quotes & Sayings

Summer Sanders

When I started running, the pain barrier was very familiar to me, and I had no problem pushing beyond the pain. When for your whole life, every single workout, you are programmed to push beyond belief, it's really hard to just turn that off and kind of just be a social competitor.

James Howard Kunstler

Parallel parking is desirable for two reasons: parked cars create a physical barrier and psychological buffer that protects pedestrians on the sidewalk from moving vehicles; and a rich supply of parallel parking can eliminate the need for parking lots, which are extremely destructive of the civic fabric.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Yoga is a method for restraining the natural turbulence of thoughts, which otherwise impartially prevent all men, of all lands, from glimpsing their true nature of Spirit. Yoga cannot know a barrier of East and West any more than does the healing and equitable light of the sun.

Tom Hall

We're ecstatic. We're a barrier island. We're dynamic. If we hadn't had the project in place when the storms hit this year, we'd have had trouble.

W. Averell Harriman

We were talking about really getting Europe on its feet. It was our hope that there would be a breakdown of trade barriers in Europe first, and then eventually a breakdown internationally, which would help increase trade with Europe.

There are barriers of entry to other sports - boxing and Rugby Union for example.

We don't have barriers like buildings or hills or trees, so we can really paint our race track in whatever design we want.

We want to knock down the barriers to mobilizing the entire corporate e-mail market.

We beg you now as a mother, to be the first lady that truly crosses all ethnic barriers and speaks out for the children. Please, please help.

Aaron Levie

The only barrier to entry you can create is to consistently build a great product.

The paradox of being in an industry where other people are usually the gatekeepers: publishers, editors - there are a lot of barriers to having control over your career. But coming out of hip-hop, the mindset was always to create your own.

People would use each other in their works. The barriers were breaking down; everyone brought in special qualities.

One of the challenges for private equity, which we've been working hard on, is how to get the leverage into the deals in China. That historically has been a barrier and inhibited deal size.

One of the great strong points of this university is the lack of institutional barriers to this kind of thing. In some very top-down universities, it's very hard to collaborate with people outside your departments, if not impossible. But here, it's quite open and has been for quite some time.

Much will depend on how we remove the attitudinal barriers from both sides while building an environment that nurtures trust and confidence,

Motorola designs and delivers innovations that transform the way people think about - and experience - the world around them. We're leading the way with new and compelling devices that work together to erase the barriers between places and services and empower people to connect with personalized entertainment and information.

Don Evans

measures ... sanctions, or other kind of barriers to our markets.

Men's 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.

My feeling is they will get by it. It's hard for me to think that we're going to put up regulatory barriers to keep foreign companies from investing or buying our companies.

James Wolfensohn

One need only look at the cement barriers surrounding these buildings to understand the big difference of the past year.

One of our biggest concerns is that we haven't been able to pay staff very much. The starting salary for lawyers is about $31,500. It's a real barrier to getting and keeping people. We need people working here who really understand what our services are all about. It's an issue we're really struggling with.

There are some people that just feel there's a barrier and perhaps just didn't think it was possible and were dissuaded from making the attempt.

The only walls and barriers that were present were the ones that they both climbed together.

Manmohan Singh

I believe there is a perception in Indian trade and industry circles that the European market is becoming increasingly difficult to penetrate. As tariff barriers disintegrate, non-tariff barriers suddenly come up,

I am trying in every possible way to drop all those things, which in the past have been barriers for the revolution to continue and grow.

Business is a string of seemingly impossible problems looking for solutions. Each problem you solve creates a new barrier to entry for your next competitor.

Barriers aren't going to work. They are going to get around them, they are going to innovate. The next point is to try to safely enable them.

From my experience, there are so many regulations for investing in the United States that they become an impediment, a barrier to investing.

Tom DeMarco

If a large company were to obtain thousands of software patents every year, the barrier to entry of new software companies could become insurmountable.

Jackie Stewart

I have a very high respect for Jenson's driving skills but whether he will break through the pain barrier of not winning is another issue.

Walking breaks down all the barriers you become part of one common mass of humanity, ... global message of peace and compassion.

By tradition, Beijing is a city of walls, sheltering its intrigues and ambitions behind a series of concentric barriers from the Great Wall down to courtyard homes that draw sunlight only from the gardens at their core.

Eartha Kitt

I've always been multi-cultural myself. I'm not black and I'm not white and I'm not pink and I'm not green. Eartha Kitt has no color, and that is how barriers are broken.