Top 840 Stumbling Blocks Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.

Art, especially the stage, is an area where it is impossible to walk without stumbling.

I don't believe in the philosophy of stumbling across hit records.

A stepping-stone can be a stumbling block if we can't see it until after we have tripped over it.

Failure can either be a stepping stone to success or a stumbling to defeat.

Stumbling is the fruit of haste.

When I got up I stuck to my plan - stumbling forward and getting hit in the face.

If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.

Any fiction writer who assumes that a character is typical no doubt runs the risk of stumbling into cliche and stereotype.

It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.

In the evenings there's been thunder, a distant bumping and stumbling, like God on a sullen binge.

Thinking is always the stumbling stone to poetry.

As a teenager, I didn't really think about anything. I was just stumbling around trying to find something.

View a stumbling block as a learning opportunity. If you allow it to defeat you, it will. Honestly, if I give everything I have, I can't be disappointed with the outcome.

If science could get rid of consciousness, it would have disposed of the only stumbling block to its universal application.

Is it the fault of wine if a fool drinks it and goes stumbling into darkness?

I'm excited to share my experience as an immigrant assimilating to a new country and an outsider stumbling my way into Hollywood.

Nor aught so good but strained from that fair use, Revolts from true birth stumbling on abuse.

Holding on to anything blocks wisdom.

You know what my greatest personal stumbling block is? My shyness.

The world is this incredibly blurry, crazy dream that I'm just sort of stumbling through.

...what will we someday do, I always wonder, without the pleasures of turning through books and stumbling on things we never meant to find?

Copy is not written. If anyone tells you ‘you write copy’, sneer at them. Copy is not written. Copy is assembled. You do not write copy, you assemble it. You are working with a series of building blocks, you are putting the building blocks together, and then you are putting them in certain structures, you are building a little city of desire for your person to come and live in.

Invention is arrived at by intelligent stumbling.

Failing is what we do, or stumbling is what we do on a daily basis.

Stumbling isn't falling.

Punctuation is a courtesy designed to help readers to understand a story without stumbling.

What we sometimes consider a stumbling block is rather a rock we can step on.

A culture of honor is celebrating who a person is without stumbling over who they're not.

Every judgement blocks the light!

Women have ever been the stumbling block and betrayers of ambition.

I've never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.

The only pleasure in redecorating or moving house comes from stumbling across books that I'd almost forgotten I owned.

Stumbling upon the next great invention in an 'ah-ha!' moment is a myth.

I feel like, as a people, we're sort of stumbling in the dark right now.

Intellectual understanding blocks empathy.

Successful people see adversity as a stepping stone rather than a stumbling block.

The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude.

Because we have shut out the Holy Spirit in so many ways, we are stumbling along as though we are spiritually blindfolded.

The comforts of life as a fugitive," Drake sighed. "Stumbling about in the dark without mounts.

Today is the blocks with which we build.

Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life.

Fundamentals are the building blocks of fun.

I'm working with fragments a lot of the time and the connective tissue isn't there yet. I think of it the way comics work. You have a block here and a block here, and there's this white space in between. Somehow your mind makes the leap to connect those two blocks. Finding a way to trick your mind into connecting those blocks is one of the fun things for me about writing. You can have those leaps that will emerge into something, if you're lucky.

Any opponent can be a stumbling block.

By your stumbling, the world is perfected.

What if the counterculture was only a stumbling beginning, rather than the best that could be hoped for?

There is more to a fall than just flopping or stumbling. You can get hurt unless you know what you're doing.

Youth is fair, a graceful stag, Leaping, playing in a park. Age is gray, a toothless hag, Stumbling in the dark.

In Cuba the elections for the powers of the State comes from the people, first it comes from meetings of the citizens at the base. In Cuba we call them blocks, the divisions of a city that is the term we use. Several blocks of neighborhoods that live in the same area gather in assemblies that are stipulated by law. In those assemblies the people choose freely among themselves who will represent them. The criteria takes into account the candidates characteristics, including if they are hardworking, If they are good people, if they have a clean past, and money has no bearing on who is nominated.

Racism may be as systemic as it always was. It is the great problem of America. It's the one stumbling block that I don't believe was ever smoothed over.

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

We're all stumbling towards the light with varying degrees of grace at any given moment.

We humans are a minority of giants stumbling around in a world of little things.

Utopians...consider individual freedom as the stumbling block on which the grandiose idea of mankind's totalization may flounder.

Stumbling is not falling.

A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.

Everyone faces defeat. It may be a stepping-stone or a stumbling block, depending on the mental attitude with which it is faced.

Even when you are striving, stumbling and struggling, it's exhilarating if you sense you are growing.

The path to inspiration starts upon the trails we've known; each stumbling block is not a rock, but just a stepping stone.