A Quote by Gustave Flaubert

Abstraction can provide stumbling blocks for people of strange intelligence. — © Gustave Flaubert
Abstraction can provide stumbling blocks for people of strange intelligence.
Turn your stumbling blocks into steppingstones to success.
In the end, it all comes to choices to turn stumbling blocks into stepping stones.
I don't go in for being sorry for people. For one thing it's insulting. One is only sorry for people when they're sorry for themselves. Self-pity is one of the biggest stumbling blocks in the world today.
One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.
Inconsistent professors are the greatest stumbling blocks to the spread of the cause of Christ!
The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation.
The definition of successful people is simply ordinary people with extraordinary determination. You cannot keep determined people from success. If you place stumbling blocks in their way, they will use them for stepping-stones and climb to new heights. People who succeed have a goal, a dream and make their plans and follow them.
What are stumbling blocks and defeat to the weak and vacillating are but stepping stones to victory to the determined soul.
Although circumstances may change in the blink of an eye, people change at a slower pace. Even motivated people who welcome change often encounter stumbling blocks that make transformation more complicated than they'd originally anticipated.
The old Devil gets mad when you're trying to do good. Pray that God will move the stumbling blocks.
This idea that clumsy, stumbling people are real bright is ridiculous, because intelligence is related to neurologic function, and really intelligent people are very well-coordinated.
Either human intelligence ultimately owes its origin to mindless matter; or there is a Creator. It is strange that some people claim that it is their intelligence that leads them to prefer the first to the second.
The Book of Mormon, the record of Joseph, verifies and clarifies the Bible. It removes stumbling blocks; it restores many plain and precious things.
New York being what it is, our museums are vertical, not horizontal. That means the stumbling blocks to architectural clarity are unavoidable - but certainly surmountable.
'Ninnu Kori' urges us to take a broader view of life, look past stumbling blocks, and rise above self sympathy.
The difference between stepping stones and stumbling blocks is not in the event itself but how you think about it and what you do after it. Every failure and setback can become part of your success or an excuse for quitting or failing. People who develop the discipline of positivity are both happier and more successful.
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