Quotes about Barrier

I am so scared of the sea, so what did I do? Learned to scuba in the Great Barrier Reef. Votes: 3

For Australians, climate change is no longer a distant threat. Our rivers are dying, bush fires are more ferocious and more frequent and our natural wonders - the Great Barrier Reef, Kakadu, our rainforests - are now at risk. Votes: 3

In Winter, [the Antarctic] is perhaps the dreariest of places. Our base, Little America, lay in a bowl of ice, near the edge of the Ross Ice Barrier. The temperature fell as low as 72 degrees below zero. One could actually hear one's breath freeze. Votes: 3

My idea of an amusement park story is getting adventurers to go tour environmental disaster areas. After all, if the entire Great Barrier Reef gets killed, which seems like an extremely lively possibility, what are you going to do with all that rotting limestone? Votes: 3

That is where homeland is. In that shifting space, kinfolk know one another by secret signs; and wherever kinfolk meet, homeland soil coalesces about their feet in the mysterious way that coral cays, like seabirds pausing in flight, anchor themselves to the Barrier Reef. Votes: 3

The idea that we are not going to look after the Great Barrier Reef, which is just a wonderful tourism resource that it can be just for one example - we are not going to look after it, we won't have tight environment regulation, is frankly just not true. Votes: 3

A barrier is of ideas, not of things. Votes: 1

The greatest obstacle to international understanding is the barrier of language. Votes: 1

Age is no barrier. It's a limitation you put on your mind. Votes: 1

Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems. Votes: 1

The greatest barrier to someone achieving their potential is their denial of it. Votes: 1

The biggest barrier to starting a company isn't ideas, funding or experience. It's excuses. Votes: 1

There's been very little writing about speech impediments, even though it's this huge psychological barrier. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

I think YouTube has destroyed the genre barrier. People can be into Justin Bieber and Eminem at the same time. It's a good thing. Votes: 1

As you become more successful, the gender barrier disappears. The credibility challenges you have during your growing up years starts disappearing when you start demonstrating success. Votes: 1

Natural erosion had reduced the critical barrier islands in the Gulf, the result of the destruction of some 300,000 acres of wetlands. This amounted to 30 miles of marshlands. Votes: 1

As a vulnerability researcher, the greatest barrier I see is our low tolerance for vulnerability. We're almost afraid to be happy. We feel like it's inviting disaster. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

Later, I realized that the mission had to end in a let-down because the real barrier wasn't in the sky but in our knowledge and experience of supersonic flight. Votes: 1

The biggest barrier to dealing with climate change is us: our own attachment to habits that are hard to shift, and our great ability to park or ignore uncomfortable choices. Votes: 1

Great companies that build an enduring brand have an emotional relationship with customers that has no barrier. And that emotional relationship is on the most important characteristic, which is trust. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

We are of the opinion that an important and irreversible process is taking place among the white population. Just as with the blacks, the whites, too, are currently overcoming a psychological barrier. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

If you have a strong opponent, a competition is stimulating. I am generally most open to ideas when I have had a bad result. In chess, too, players specialise. This specialty then becomes an entry barrier. Votes: 1

The Berlin Wall wasn't the only barrier to fall after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Traditional barriers to the flow of money, trade, people and ideas also fell. Votes: 1

My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success. Votes: 1

I think, 'How could anybody mock a good pop song?' It is timeless; it transcends barriers; it breaks down every single type of social barrier that you can possibly have. It can deal with the most difficult subjects, even if it abstracts the subject matter. Votes: 1

The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only one. The barrier between them cannot be said to have broken down as a result of recent experience in the physical sciences, for this barrier does not exist. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

Arafat was a barrier to peace. Votes: 0

Arafat was a barrier to peace. Votes: 0

The barrier has begun to yield. Votes: 0

What barrier is so insurmountable as silence? Votes: 0

Jack the sound barrier. Bring the noise. Votes: 0

Words themselves were the ultimate barrier to revelation. Votes: 0

Fear is the great barrier to human growth. Votes: 0

A barrier is of ideas, not of things. Votes: 0

What barrier is there that love cannot break? Votes: 0

Distance is no barrier to the love of God. Votes: 0

With persistent perseverance, you can break through any barrier. Votes: 0

I am pushing through every barrier to fulfill my dream. Votes: 0

The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure. Votes: 0

I consider others as just brothers and sisters. Nothing barrier. Votes: 0

A barrier to communication is something that keeps meanings from meeting....... Votes: 0

The greatest obstacle to international understanding is the barrier of language Votes: 0

There is no age barrier when it comes to Christlike service. Votes: 0

Language is not the barrier, the heart is.~R. Alan Woods [2012] Votes: 0

The greatest barrier to wealth creation is the denial of Cosmic Ordering. Votes: 0

There is no barrier to success which diligence and perseverance cannot hurdle. Votes: 0

I don't really see any barrier between teenage fiction and adult literature. Votes: 0

Wealth is a relational barrier. It keeps us from having open relationships. Votes: 0

Knowledge is the barrier to knowing. When knowledge is dropped, knowing flowers. Votes: 0

The ultimate barrier against love is the barrier of the constructed self. Votes: 0

The biggest obstacle to creativity is breaking through the barrier of disbelief. Votes: 0

I broke every barrier I could to see things as they are. Votes: 0

We've got to be able to break through the barrier of logic Votes: 0

A barrier is a limitation only when you perceive it as one. Votes: 0

No barrier was strong enough to keep out the movement of time. Votes: 0

Loneliness is a barrier that prevents one from uniting with the inner self. Votes: 0

The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man's thoughts and another's. Votes: 0

Just before you break through the sound barrier, the cockpit shakes the most. Votes: 0

The greatest barrier to consciousness is the belief that one is already conscious. Votes: 0

Culture is the greatest barrier to your enlightenment, your education, and your decency. Votes: 0

The only barrier to truth is the presumption that you already have it. Votes: 0

It hurts real bad to have that protection barrier between parent and child. Votes: 0

The only barrier to human development is ignorance, and this is not insurmountable. Votes: 0

There is really no insurmountable barrier save your own inherent weakness of purpose. Votes: 0

It hurts real bad to have that protection barrier between parent and child Votes: 0

The biggest barrier to awakening is the belief that it is something rare. Votes: 0

You have to push through every barrier to get to the mountain top. Votes: 0

When you think you know something: that is a most perfect barrier against learning. Votes: 0

Only a large-volume market like space travel can attack the barrier of high costs. Votes: 0

Mountains and oceans do not furnish any impassable barrier to the extension of trade. Votes: 0

The biggest barrier to starting a company isn't ideas, funding or experiences. It's excuses. Votes: 0

So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one? Votes: 0

I have yet to encounter that common myth of weak men, an insurmountable barrier. Votes: 0

The barrier to change is not too little caring; it is too much complexity. Votes: 0

You have to get beyond the barrier of self-protection before you can really fly. Votes: 0

The pain barrier was not a barrier for her; she could go beyond it. Votes: 0

I want to continue to try and break the barrier between male and female. Votes: 0

Did you know that lack of information is the number one barrier to wealth? Votes: 0

Come, blessed barrier between day and day, Dear mother of fresh thoughts and joyous health! Votes: 0

Money can be more of a barrier between people than language or race or religion. Votes: 0

Language has created a barrier that prevents us from seeing existence as it truly is. Votes: 0

As we read a text in our own language, the text itself becomes a barrier. Votes: 0

The only barrier to entry you can create is to consistently build a great product. Votes: 0

The pride of the body is a barrier against the gifts that purify the soul. Votes: 0

Intellectual growth is when you surpass the barrier of puerility, puzzling people with your dazzling creativity. Votes: 0

In developing countries, lack of infrastructure is a far more serious barrier to trade than tariffs. Votes: 0

Rumor and gossip, like sound itself, appear to travel by wave-effect, sheer preposterosity being no barrier. Votes: 0

Remove every barrier you can to fandom. A fan will be an evangelist for your work. Votes: 0

One barrier to being a great parent is the mistaken belief that we are raising kids. Votes: 0

We use so much bad language that it forms a barrier between ourselves and the truth. Votes: 0

There was no language barrier when it came to kids, and when it came to play. Votes: 0

No boundary or barrier surrounds the heart of a person that loves their self and others. Votes: 0

But what a weak barrier is truth when it stands in the way of an hypothesis! Votes: 0

Musicians can travel all over the world and have an audience, because there's no language barrier. Votes: 0

Joking is a barrier between man and the world. Joking is the enemy of love and poetry. Votes: 0

There's no psychological barrier anymore that stops a young person or an older person from taking heroin. Votes: 0

The Jewish people, ever since David slew Goliath, have never considered youth as a barrier to leadership. Votes: 0

No barrier stands between the material world of science and the sensibilities of the hunter and the poet, Votes: 0

The strong tendency to blame others is a barrier, an obstacle for the comprehension of our own mistakes. Votes: 0

Big-government economics breeds crony capitalism. It's corrupt, anything but neutral, and a barrier to broad participation in prosperity. Votes: 0

Each time a barrier falls for one person, the doors of opportunity open wider for every other American. Votes: 0

The India-Nepal border should not be a barrier but a bridge which helps bring prosperity to both sides. Votes: 0

God inclines to shower His graces upon us, but our perverted will is a barrier to His generosity. Votes: 0

The Master would insist that the final barrier to our attaining God was the word and concept God. Votes: 0

My parents created a world in which the only ­barrier to your success is your own imagination. Votes: 0

Getting out and staying out of debt is key. debt is the biggest barrier, a parasite to wealth. Votes: 0

When I meet a woman whose energy falters at the first barrier,she seems to fade beside my mother. Votes: 0

Race doesn't really exist for you because it has never been a barrier. Black folks don't have that choice. Votes: 0

The want of education and moral training is the only real barrier that exists between the different classes of men. Votes: 0

The world is the closed door. It is a barrier. And at the same time it is the way through. Votes: 0

Do you know there is always a barrier between me and any man or woman who does not like dogs? Votes: 0

The ocean of the body crashes against the ocean of the heart. Between them is a barrier they cannot cross. Votes: 0

When I see a barrier, I cry and I curse, and then I get a ladder and climb over it. Votes: 0

Bernie Sanders has shown that socialism is no longer the barrier that it used to be during the Cold War. Votes: 0

By reeducating the mind, you can accept fear as simply a fact of life rather than a barrier to success. Votes: 0

You're the key barrier to your organization's innovation, because you are serious and you believe you know what your customers want. Votes: 0

A letter is a barrier, a reprieve, a charm against the world, an almost infallible method of acting at a distance. Votes: 0

Water liked to be free. Given time, water could overcome any barrier, and it hated to be trapped, just like Percy. Votes: 0

The gear you can't afford is not the barrier keeping you from success. Gear has very little to do with photography. Votes: 0

I've never really had any barrier to break I guess. I don't really have anything to rebel against. I'm quite lucky. Votes: 0

Whatever kind of device or barrier or policy to secure the border, that's necessary to secure the border, then do it. Votes: 0

The total wall is between editorial and newsroom. And unbreachable barrier. For good reason. It doesn't mean the two sides don't talk. Votes: 0

Independent media can go to where the silence is and break the sound barrier, doing what the corporate networks refuse to do. Votes: 0

I believe that as long as a single man may try, any unjustifiable barrier against his efforts is a barrier against mankind. Votes: 0

Indeed, that the Second Amendment poses no barrier to strong gun laws is perhaps the most well-settled proposition in American constitutional law. Votes: 0

Tonight, we can say with pride that, in America, there is no barrier too great and no ceiling too high to break. Votes: 0

One barrier... is the impoverishment of classroom language, the failure to cultivate a common vocabulary about inquiry, explanation, argument and problem solving. Votes: 0

Satan, the Hinderer, may build a barrier about us, but he can never roof us in, so that we cannot look up. Votes: 0

To say that a thing has never yet been done among men is to erect a barrier stronger than reason, stronger than discussion. Votes: 0

From my experience, there are so many regulations for investing in the United States that they become an impediment, a barrier to investing. Votes: 0

Once you'd broken through that invisible barrier that separates one person from another, you were connected forever, whether you liked it or not. Votes: 0

The gentle art of gastronomy is a friendly one. It hurdles the language barrier, makes friends among civilized people, and warms the heart. Votes: 0

Second law: The complexity barrier. Software complexity (and therefore that of bugs) grows to the limits of our ability to manage that complexity. Votes: 0

The right attitude can transform a barrier into a blessing, an obstacle into an opportunity or a stumbling block into a stepping stone. Votes: 0

I have never smuggled anything in my life. Why, then, do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt on approaching a customs barrier? Votes: 0

My skin is beautiful but it also serves as a huge barrier for so many opportunities that I want to pursue in life. Votes: 0

The way that music is approached in the temple is very call and response; it breaks down that barrier between performer and audience. Votes: 0

The barrier to success is not something which exists in the real world; it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability. Votes: 0

Self-mutilation is a frightening barrier that keeps us from seeing a person who is lost, in pain, and in desperate need of help. Votes: 0

Style offers concrete rules you can follow. You can use it as a resource rather than a barrier to feeling good about yourself. Votes: 0

It is false to suggest that Thomas Jefferson or any other Founding Father believed in a legal barrier to God in the public square. Votes: 0

The Great Way has no gate; / there are a thousand paths to it. / If you pass through the barrier, / you walk the universe alone. Votes: 0

Nanda broke down every barrier and won his way to freedom not by brag, not by bluster, but by the purest form of self-suffering. Votes: 0

I tell you the truth, any object you have in your mind, however good, will be a barrier between you and the inmost Truth. Votes: 0

Overseas directors who want to work in Hollywood, the language barrier is not a problem. With the right talent, any director can be successful. Votes: 0

It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The greatest barrier to women's advance in the public world of action has been their acquiescence in the idea that they don't belong out there. Votes: 0

Anybody who gives you a belief system is your enemy, because the belief system becomes the barrier for your eyes, you cannot see the truth. Votes: 0

Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit. Votes: 0

A people armed and free, forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition and is a bulwark for the nation against foreign invasion and domestic oppression. Votes: 0

To jump and break the sound barrier will not be a mere record breaking experience or another extreme event that ends once the mission is accomplished. Votes: 0

Michael Fassbender is a very masculine person. But he has a fragility that allows him to have a relationship with an audience that has no barrier. Votes: 0

When we judge, we are pushing people away; we are creating a wall, a barrier. When we forgive we are destroying barriers, we come closer to others. Votes: 0

I don't wear glasses, so I like the idea of not having to put them on to watch a movie. It's a hard barrier to get beyond. Votes: 0

Solitude and quiet are highly desirable, but the lack of them is no barrier to writing... The will to work builds all the seclusion that one needs. Votes: 0

But once the ants and termites jumped the high barrier that prevents the vast variety of evolving animal groups from becoming fully social, they dominated the world. Votes: 0

The fantasist in whom the reality barrier has broken down is unreliable, believing things when he should not, and telling things as true when they are not. Votes: 0

The whole barrier exists because most people never come together and sit down at a table ... join together, break bread together, and celebrate their differences and their likenesses. Votes: 0

All Egyptians, not only the protestors, have broken through the fear barrier, therefore I expect only one outcome - protests will continue until Mubarak steps down from power. Votes: 0

The price of freedom"”of individuality"”is attention to politics, careful planning, careful organization; philosophy is no more a barrier against political disaster than it is against plague. Votes: 0

The greatest barrier to evangelization today is bad example....Our strategy of evangelization must be based upon sanctity, upon our enthusiastic response to Christ's universal call to holiness. Votes: 0

I believe that the racial injustice which existed such a short time ago probably would have persisted longer if the color barrier had not been broken in baseball. Votes: 0

I am a romantic, but I do put up a barrier around myself, so it is hard for people to get in and to know the real me Votes: 0

When the frontier between God and man, the last inexorable barrier and obstacle, is not closed, the barrier between what is normal and what is perverse is opened. Votes: 0

Let's clear one thing up: Introverts do not hate small talk because we dislike people. We hate small talk because we hate the barrier it creates between people. Votes: 0

America is a place where the freedom to be who you are shouldn't be a barrier to your ability to get a job and provide for your family. Votes: 0

The barrier between TV and movies has come down and film actors are willing to do TV and vice versa, because they just want to follow what's interesting. Votes: 0

Friendship embraces innumerable ends; turn where you will it is ever at your side; no barrier shuts it out; it is never untimely and never in the way. Votes: 0

A barrier for me - which has been both a strength and a weakness - has been my taste. The kind of things I'm interested in aren't always mainstream. Votes: 0

When we encountered a band of souls coming along the barrier, and each was gazing at us in the evening people gaze at one another under the new moon Votes: 0

I didn't want to give the white reader an opportunity to think of racism as imaginary - a sentiment that is already a central barrier in addressing the problem. Votes: 0

If no divine law is recognized above the law of the State, then the law of man has become absolute in men's eyes--there is then no logical barrier to totalitarianism. Votes: 0

Formerly, a public man needed a private secretary for a barrier between himself and the public. Nowadays he has a press secretary, to keep him properly in the public eye. Votes: 0

As a kid, during the school year, my head was often buried in a textbook or Judy Blume book; the words and pictures were the perfect, barrier-free environment for me. Votes: 0

The barrier to entry, to being a model, is not hard work. You don't need a degree. You don't need to win an award. It's just about how you look. Votes: 0

One day I discovered that one could get the barrier to internal rotation in ethane approximately right using this method. This was the beginning of my work on organic molecules. Votes: 0

You know, a left-winger, the barrier to success if you're on the left in commercial radio is a mile and a half higher than it is if you're on the right. Votes: 0

We recognize and respect the right of either country to build a physical barrier or wall on any of its borders to stop the illegal movement of people, drugs, and weapons. Votes: 0

Music knows no barrier of age or culture. It isn’t about being politically correct or even making a statement. Music is what appeals to the ears and touches your soul. Votes: 0

One might say that there is an "ethics barrier " a speed above which ethics can no longer exit. After that point the only remaining goal is to survive the immediate moment. Votes: 0

Without some form of censorship, propaganda in the strict sense of the word is impossible. In order to conduct propaganda there must be some barrier between the public and the event. Votes: 0

Commitment is not a barrier to freedom. Commitment is the *exercise* of freedom, the act of making a choice or decision and meaning it. The one without the other is meaningless. Votes: 0

The adult author finds that by inadvertently violating the school's alcohol policy, she breaks down some part of the barrier between her and the younger students who are subject to more rules. Votes: 0

The sense of duality, which is a barrier to true love, must prevail so long as the apperception of Truth has not occurred. Once individuality is surrendered, there is only total Love. Votes: 0

What the warrior renounces is anything in his experience that is a barrier between himself and others. In other words, renunciation is making yourself more available, more gentle and open to others. Votes: 0

When we are honest, we admit how agreeable it can feel to be singled out for favored treatment. The biggest barrier to equality for all is that inequality for some feels good. Votes: 0

If you have a recital to do, you have to memorize the songs. I never use music when I do recitals. It produces an instant barrier, both for yourself and the audience. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The main barrier between East and West today is that the white man is not willing to give up his superiority and the colored man is no longer willing to endure his inferiority. Votes: 0

Only when the seeker is lost, the truth is there. Seek, and you will miss. Seek not, and you will find. The very seeking becomes a barrier to truth, to the ultimate experience. Votes: 0

There is always someone in the world who is better or worse off than yourself, and I've never seen that - in either direction - as a barrier to becoming friends with somebody. Votes: 0

A lot of my work is about equalizing things and kind of destroying any barrier between what's high and low, or what's deep or what's shallow, complex or simple. I hope I'm ever-changing. Votes: 0

Broadband eliminates so many barriers to entry for so many different people that it's actually become a barrier to entry in and of itself if you're not getting online on a regular basis. Votes: 0

You'd be surprised how difficult it is to ask alms of a stranger when you've never done it before, what a psychological barrier separates the honest man from the panhandler. (Dusk To Dawn) Votes: 0

Initially, before I came to Hollywood, I thought that the language barrier would be the biggest challenge, but I realized that actors all around the world, regardless of language, are all the same. Votes: 0

With millions of people creating songs and uploading them to the web internationally, most artists know they need to dismantle the monetary barrier between themselves and the listener or they simply wont be heard. Votes: 0

Mr. Lincoln's elevation shows that in America every station in life may be honorable; that there is no barrier against the humblest; but that merit, wherever it exists, has the opportunity to be known. Votes: 0

Language is the biggest barrier to human progress because language is an encyclopedia of ignorance. Old perceptions are frozen into language and force us to look at the world in an old fashioned way. Votes: 0

Information had become a critical tool that you can use to raise your bar across every barrier towards excellence. Deny this fact and maintain your bar wherever it was without even a millimeter lift. Votes: 0

It is a campaign to break down every barrier that holds you back. We need more than a plan for the big banks. The middle class needs a raise. And we need more jobs. Votes: 0

I hope, too, that my book will illuminate my belief that love of art - be it poetry, storytelling, painting, sculpture, or music - enables people to transcend any barrier man has yet devised. Votes: 0

How to find joy? Let your ambition disappear; ambition is the barrier. Ambition means an ego trip: "I want to be this, I want to be that - more money, more power, more prestige." Votes: 0

That morning each of us found a breaking point. Not only a physical barrier, but a point where determination, stamina and duty clashed and were overcome not so much by pain but by absurdity. Votes: 0

I've been in situations like in Tokyo where people sang my song word for word and then when the music stopped, they couldn't speak to me. I've seen the music break the language barrier. Votes: 0

Cry to god. If you do that just for a couple minutes with your whole being, just like a child who so badly wants a cookie. You will break through the barrier of the mind. Votes: 0

I'm trying to bring danger back in to rock 'n' roll and there are no limits and no laws and I break down every barrier put in front of me till the day I die. Votes: 0

The opinion I have of the generality of women--who appear to me as children to whom I would rather give a sugar plum than my time, forms a barrier against matrimony which I rejoice in. Votes: 0

It is true that even across the Himalayan barrier India has sent to the west, such gifts as grammar and logic, philosophy and fables, hypnotism and chess, and above all numerals and the decimal system. Votes: 0

I think of the Kennedy family and I think of their faith... Along came John F. Kennedy and a part of his legacy is that... he didn't just break the Catholic barrier, he crushed it. Votes: 0

Year after year, an ideological and economic barrier hardened between our two countries, meanwhile, the Cuban exile community in the United States made enormous contributions to our country, in politics, in business, culture and sports. Votes: 0