#impediment

There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#greater #impediment #place #progress #quickly

It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge; and at all events their exclusive possession of the law was a formidable impediment to the success of those popular movements which began to be universal in the western world. ↗

— Henry James Sumner Maine

#events #exclusive #formidable #impediment #knowledge

I thought Daredevil was kind of cool because he couldn't do anything. I mean, he's blind. It wasn't that he could fly. His major power was an impediment. So I was intrigued. When I took over he was kind of like Spider-Man-lite, but I was able to project a lot of my Catholic imagery onto it. And I'd always wanted to do a crime comic. ↗

— Frank Miller

#always #anything #because #blind #catholic

My role is to try to remove the impediments to entrepreneurs' chance to succeed. It's about improving the business climate to give people a better chance of succeeding. ↗

— Jerry Moran

#better #better chance #business #chance #climate

There is no longer a single common impediment to blacks emerging in this society. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

#common #emerging #impediment #longer #single

The greatest impediments to changes in our traditional roles seem to lie not in the visible world of conscious intent, but in the murky realm of the unconscious mind. ↗

— Augustus Y. Napier

#conscious #conscious mind #greatest #impediments #intent

No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat. ↗

— Sophocles

#ever #impediment #treaty

Through pro-growth policies, by abolishing Obamacare and eliminating other Obama-imposed impediments to economic growth, we will get our economy back on track. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#economic #economic growth #economy #eliminating #get

But as far as my work is concerned, I see no impediment, and various advantages, to being deaf. ↗

— Stephanie Beacham

#as far as #being #concerned #deaf #far

Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#expecting #greatest #impediment #living #loses