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  • Trample the weak. Hurdle the dead. -- Attila the Hun
  • The biggest hurdle is figuring out who your friends are. Your real friends. -- Eleanor Mondale
  • It was being young and sensitive and an actor. There was a lot of pressure, everything was a hurdle. -- Matt Dillon
  • I truly believe that we can overcome any hurdle that lies before us and create the life we want to live. I have seen it happen time and time again. -- Gillian Anderson
  • It always hurts a bit to pick the 'wrong one' in a race as big as the Champion Hurdle, and then, to make matters worse, you go and get beat by the horse you rejected. -- Tony McCoy
  • When I was in high school, I ran hurdles, but I was really short, so I'd barely clear them. I was pretty quick, but I had little legs, so I had to take 50 steps in between each hurdle. -- Chris Kirkpatrick
  • The biggest hurdle to writing Fargo Rock City was that I couldn't afford a home computer - I had to get a new job so I could buy a computer. It could all change though. In five years, I could be back at some daily newspaper, which wouldn't be so bad. -- Chuck Klosterman
  • The biggest hurdle is rejection. Any business you start, be ready for it. The difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is the successful people do all the things the unsuccessful people don't want to do. When 10 doors are slammed in your face, go to door number 11 enthusiastically, with a smile on your face. -- John Paul DeJoria
  • I truly beleive that we can overcome any hurdle that lies before us. -- Gillian Anderson
  • It's a challenge between me and the hurdle, and the hurdle has always won. -- Gail Devers
  • I feel like winning a world championship was a hurdle I had to get over. -- Lindsey Vonn
  • In the hurdles you have ten opportunities to improve; that's what's so cool about it. -- Ron Bramlett
  • On immigration, there are a lot of hurdles before anything arrives at the White House. -- Gwen Ifill
  • Despite these hurdles, manufacturers in the U.S. and their employees are doing remarkable work. -- John Engler
  • Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope. -- Maya Angelou
  • The big hurdle is going out and raising the revenue. There's no doubt about that; it's an uphill battle. -- Terry Porter
  • Governments must give to all those who have hit life's hurdles the chance to rebuild and have a future. -- Pauline Hanson
  • The decision to put American lives at risk is a decision that has a very high hurdle to pass. -- Mitt Romney
  • The art form is to become one with the hurdle, to make it your friend, and I embraced that process. -- Renaldo Nehemiah
  • You're a dancer; don't strain, don't force it. Be one with the hurdle, let it happen, relax while running fast. -- Renaldo Nehemiah
  • How you go over hurdle one should be how you go over hurdle ten. You need the strength to accelerate, and to maintain form. -- Selim Nurudeen
  • Going from idea to production is a huge hurdle. It took me a while to overcome it. It's basically all about self discipline, right? -- Gene Luen Yang
  • For most people, the major hurdle in grasping modern insights into the nature of the universe is that these developments are usually phrased using mathematics. -- Brian Greene
  • I've been motivated by overcoming challenge and overcoming the hurdles and obstacles that face me. There still is plenty out there to get motivated by. -- Andre Agassi
  • The hurdles have taught me that if you work really, really hard at perfecting the little things in your life, the big picture will come together. -- John Shaffer
  • I never really worried about those hurdles. They were just standing there, and I was always zooming past them just to get back on the ground again. -- Rod Milburn
  • In my race, there's 10 hurdles, but in life, there is always a hurdle. There is always something you gotta get over, and it's what you do, you know. -- Gail Devers
  • There are hurdles to overcome in sport and in life. Sport is a very valuable learning ground for how to live your life in the best possible way. -- Lynn Davies
  • But I think funny and talent will always win out; I mean, of course there are hurdles, but I think if you're funny you will get over all of that. -- Wanda Sykes
  • Even though David Pottruck has gone to this unbelievable career where he is a billionaire, there is always a new hurdle. He never sits there saying, 'I'm the best.' -- Brian Kilmeade
  • For a few years, more people have been leaving our country than entering it. Wherever it is possible, we must lower the entry hurdles for those who bring the country forward. -- Angela Merkel
  • I stuck out like a sore thumb when I came on, just by the fact that I looked so different. I think that adjustment for the audience was a hurdle for me. -- Elisabeth Rohm
  • Hurdling is like Kung-fu. Everyone comes from a different school. And everybody says 'my Kung-fu is better than your Kung-fu.' You have to find the technique that best fits your body size. -- Larry Shipp
  • I firmly believed throughout 1971 that the major hurdle to winning the presidency was winning the Democratic nomination. I believed that any reasonable Democrat would defeat President Nixon. I now think that no one could have defeated him in 1972. -- George McGovern
  • Each day is a special gift from God, and while life may not always be fair, you must never allow the pains, hurdles, and handicaps of the moment to poison your attitude and plans for yourself and your future. -- Og Mandino
  • A life being enacted onstage is a thing of utter fascination for me. And acting, it may begin out of vanity, but you hope that it's taken over by something else. I hope I've climbed over the vanity hurdle. -- Joseph Wiseman
  • When you're young and starting out, the big hurdle is to relax enough in rehearsal so that you don't feel intimidated. The more work you've done, the more you can experiment in rehearsal and not have to worry about getting the sack. -- Hattie Morahan
  • Once I began to hear and pay attention to my fledgling ideas, the biggest hurdle was to learn how to respect them. That was hard, because the real way to respect an idea is to invest the attention and work needed to develop it. -- Janet Echelman
  • It seems that the hurdle you have to jump over is everyone's informed opinion. When you're a young playwright, you're probably too precarious in your own technique to understand that when these seemingly informed opinions are contradicting each other, it becomes this paralyzing monolith. -- Richard Greenberg
  • If you are part of a religion that very strongly insists that you believe then to decide not to do that is quite a big hurdle to jump over. You never forget the thought process you went through. It becomes part of your whole intellectual picture. -- Brian Eno
  • You have to find something that you love enough to be able to take risks, jump over the hurdles and break through the brick walls that are always going to be placed in front of you. If you don't have that kind of feeling for what it is you're doing, you'll stop at the first giant hurdle. -- George Lucas
  • What I would say to young entrepreneurs is there's so many moments in your life where you have these dreams, and people are trying to protect you, and they say, perhaps, friends, family, parents sometimes, they don't agree with it, they think, 'This is just too high of a hurdle.' And I don't agree with that. -- Howard Schultz
  • At a macro level, it's balancing the needs of consumers, advertisers and content owners. And if you talk to any one of those three customer sets in isolation, often times you won't delight the other two. So the hurdle we faced with Hulu Plus was, how can we thread this needle in a way that delights all three customer sets? -- Jason Kilar
  • I think I'm well on the way of overcoming a very big hurdle that's been in my way for several years. Which is trying to find a way to not let the insecurity of my profession get the better of me and make me crazy. I'm trying to find a way to maintain my own personal balance in the midst of everything. -- Rebecca De Mornay
  • Your biggest hurdle isn't your opponent, it is yourself. -- Brandon Todd
  • If you're not ready to fall, you're not ready to hurdle. -- Tonie Campbell
  • For me, the greatest hurdle to success has always been failure. -- Christopher Titus
  • There is no barrier to success which diligence and perseverance cannot hurdle. -- Oscar Micheaux
  • Complacency is the last hurdle standing between any team and its potential greatness. -- Pat Riley
  • What happen to you are tiny matters? You can overcome every hurdle with positive attitude. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
  • I was sixteen and equipped with the appropriate genitalia, so I cleared that hurdle nicely. -- David Levithan
  • Creation is not a hurdle on the road to God, it is the road itself. -- Martin Buber
  • I'm always looking for the next major hurdle and doing something that the world has never seen. -- Nik Wallenda
  • Life is a hurdle and you'll never clear it. Death is the end of the ride and you fear it. -- Henry Rollins
  • When it comes to continual improvement programs, the biggest mistake is a failure to launch, the biggest hurdle is culture. -- John Novak
  • There are two ways to pass a hurdle: leaping over or plowing through... There needs to be a monster truck option. -- Jeph Jacques
  • When faced with a hurdle then give it all you've got to jump over it because it can't be done in two stages. -- Stephen Richards
  • For many doctors the achievement of a published article is a tedious duty to be surmounted as a necessary hurdle in a medical career. -- Richard Asher
  • Always expect the best. Then if you have to hurdle a few tough problems, you will have generated the strength and courage to do so. -- George Matthew Adams
  • I'm going to do anything and everything, remove every boulder, every hurdle and every problem out of my way to make my dreams come true. -- Grant Cardone
  • Many a wretch has rid on a hurdle who has done less mischief than utterers of forged tales, coiners of scandal, and clippers of reputation. -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
  • Don't let the fear of statistics keep you from launching a continual improvement program. The statistics hurdle is easily overcome, going out of business is not. -- John Novak
  • I find that I get very excited about what my students are up to and that I get to be the hurdle they need to jump over. -- Alice Mattison
  • Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you ride up to it, if you throw your heart over, the horse will go along, too -- Lawrence Bixby
  • In my race, theres 10 hurdles, but in life, there is always a hurdle. There is always something you gotta get over, and its what you do, you know. -- Gail Devers
  • The cross is not a detour or a hurdle on the way to the kingdom, nor is it even the way to the kingdom; it is the kingdom come. -- John Howard
  • Diesel fuel is too important to our farmers at harvest time and to the truckers delivering commerce across Nebraska to allow a bureaucratic hurdle to slow the delivery of fuel. -- Dave Heineman
  • The first step is crucial - keep it tiny. Do not be ambitious yet. That leads to failure. Consistency is what you're shooting for here so make the hurdle as low as possible. -- Eric Barker
  • My library card. Every hurdle I've faced, I have researched my way over at a library. I'm grateful for that part of the American spirit that believes every citizen should have access to books. -- Sarah Bird
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