There is no doubt that the Mindset failure is a major setback for Axovant, but it is not the end of the road.
When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.
Anything that immobilizes you, gets in your way, or keeps you from your goals is all yours. You can throw it away anytime you choose.
We need to avoid going down a path where we might find the doors slamming shut behind us.
I am a big proponent of writing a great outline. That way you can avoid hitting a roadblock. There is no worse feeling than writing yourself into a corner but if you've figured it all out in the outline then you won't have that problem.
Anything inside that immobilizes me, gets in my way, keeps me from my goals, is all mine.
You hit those valleys sometimes and it's really frustrating. It's like getting stuck in traffic on the freeway. But there's not much you can do about it.
For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.
I'm very, very used to hearing no - repeatedly! - and through my experience founding startups, I've learned to view those two little letters not as a final roadblock but as a problem to be solved.
If you're in my way, you're done.
The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further.
The agenda of the roadblock is the philosophy of the stop sign.
Failure is delay, but not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead-end street.
Get the hell out of my way!
You have to see every potential roadblock as an opportunity and a benefit.
If you take any world problem, any issue on the planet, the solution to that problem certainly includes education. In education, the roadblock is the laptop.
When you see a roadblock or challenge as an opportunity, it is amazing how you are already halfway there.
We can't impose freedom, but we can eliminate roadblocks to freedom, and to allow free societies to develop.
Security is the essential roadblock to achieving the road map to peace.
There will be roadblocks but we will overcome them.
Obstruction takes time.
Any opponent can be a stumbling block.
A stepping-stone can be a stumbling block if we can't see it until after we have tripped over it.
This rock thing got in the way of my teaching career.
