#barrier

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. ↗

— W. Averell Harriman

#barriers #breakdown #europe #eventually #feet

I hate to toot my own horn but I just feel that I know people and I know fans and I don't feel there is that Angelina Jolie/Brad Pitt barrier with me. I've always felt from everyone I talk to that the fans feel like I'm tangible and they can talk to me and they know me. ↗

— Hulk Hogan

#angelina #angelina jolie #barrier #brad #brad pitt

I think what I do differently from a lot of TV chefs is that I break down barriers and make fine food more accessible to the regular person, who might be intimidated. I try hard, particularly with wine, to make it not intimidating. It's sort of a teaching job. ↗

— Ted Allen

#barriers #break #chefs #differently #down

To conquer nature is, in effect, to remove all natural barriers and human norms and to substitute artificial, fabricated equivalents for natural processes. ↗

— Alex Campbell

#barriers #conquer #effect #equivalents #fabricated

The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people. ↗

— Randy Pausch

#challenges #failure #failures #inspirational #perseverance

The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, "Thus far and no farther." ↗

— Ludwig van Beethoven

#barriers #erected #far #farther #industry

The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#barriers #coercion #given #history #human

You can focus on things that are barriers or you can focus on scaling the wall or redefining the problem. ↗

— Tim Cook

#focus #problem #redefining #scaling #things

Would it be better if I'd married a Negro woman? Would they treat my child any better? Erect fewer barriers? ↗

— Sammy Davis, Jr.

#barriers #better #child #erect #fewer

Now it is time to make historic reassessments in order to transform our region into one of stability, freedom, prosperity, cultural revival and co-existence. In this new regional order there should be less violence and fewer barriers between countries, societies and sects. ↗

— Ahmet Davutoglu

#between #countries #cultural #fewer #freedom