Unnecessary Obstacles Quotes

I don't want to jump through hoops for people.

Whatever was required to be done, the Circumlocution Office was beforehand with all the public departments in the art of perceiving—how not to do it. No public business of any kind could possibly be done at any time without the acquiescence of the Circumlocution Office. Its finger was in the largest public pie, and in the smallest public tart.

[Describing the White House:] ... temple of inconvenience.

Looking at U.N. staff and budgetary rules and regulations, one might think some of them were designed to prevent, rather than enable, the effective delivery of our mandates. It benefits no one if it takes nine months to deploy a staff member to the field.

There are enough high hurdles to climb, as one travels through life, without having to scale artificial barriers created by law or silly regulations.

Sometimes I think my purpose is as a saboteur when I'm working with other people, derailing what they're trying to do or taking things to a ludicrous extremity.

I intentionally abandoned the hard stuff early on because not only do I think it's useless, I think it's a distraction.

There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.

Games are unnecessary obstacles we volunteer to tackle.