Self-Imposed Barriers Quotes

Whats holding you back is the thought that something is holding you back.

In the information age, the barriers [to entry into programming] just aren't there. The barriers are self imposed. If you want to set off and go develop some grand new thing, you don't need millions of dollars of capitalization. You need enough pizza and Diet Coke to stick in your refrigerator, a cheap PC to work on, and the dedication to go through with it. We slept on floors. We waded across rivers.

Why lock yourself in your own cage when someone is handing you a key?

The only thing that's holding you back, is the way you're thinking.

The only limitations that I can have are the ones that I set on myself.

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.

In most cases, our so-called limitations are nothing more than our own decision to limit ourselves.

I have always been full of lust - as I am now - but I have always been placing conceptual obstacles in my own path.

If you believe you can only go so far, it is an obstacle.

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.

Man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.

The worst walls are never the ones you find in your way. The worst walls are the ones you put there .

Who I am gets in the way of people looking innocently at the parts I play.

Why should a man deliberately encircle his mind with needless prison walls. No man can reach highest excellence who puts limits to his own thought.

convictions ... are always getting in the way of opportunities.

Thought is creating divisions out of itself and then saying that they are there naturally.

His progress through life was hampered by his tremendous sense of his own ignorance, a disability which affects all too few.

There is no limit on life besides the one we put on ourselves.

I wondered how many people there were in the world who suffered, and continued to suffer, because they could not break out from their own web of shyness and reserve, and in their blindness and folly built up a great distorted wall in front of them that hid the truth.

Nobody can stop you more than you can stop yourself.

I can only do what I can do.

It's not usually anybody else's false when you don't get what you want. Sometimes it is. There's exceptions to everything. It's usually the self-limitations that we attach to ourselves.

We all make our limits, and we set them further out than we have any right.

I just think pressure is all what you put on yourself.