Top 100 Break Through Quotes
#1. We've got to break through the wall of secrecy. It's America's fate.
Helen Thomas
#2. My music started as a way to break through weaknesses - like anxiety, which was completely taking over my whole life, where I could barely function.
Zola Jesus
#3. The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles BY STEVEN PRESSFIELD Pressfield's
Daniel H. Pink
#4. No matter what you do, if there's something you're afraid of, you need to break through it.
Zola Jesus
#5. Precedents are treated by powerful minds as fetters with which to bind down the weak, as reasons with which to mistify the moderately informed, and as reeds which they themselves fearlessly break through whenever new combinations and difficult emergencies demand their highest efforts.
Charles Babbage
#6. Language is the net that holds thought trapped within a particular culture. But if one could only strike the ball with sufficient force, with perfect timing, it would perhaps break through the netting, continue on its course, never fall to earth, but go into orbit around the world.
David Lodge
#7. You cannot be wimpy out there on the dream-seeking trail. Dare to break through barriers, to find your own path.
Les Brown
#8. It's not all that different with the orchestra. There are orchestras that seem to be encased in dough, so that first you have to break through the normal routine, and clear out the openings.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
#9. Marvel's got a crowded universe, and there are already so many characters hogging the spotlight that it's hard to break through that. First off, whatever character you're creating, odds are, there's already someone similar in one way or another.
Kurt Busiek
#10. Obstacles will always be there, but you can be triumphant over the shackles of the past and break through all obstacles.
Shane DeCreshio
#11. Attachment to the false view of self means belief in the presence of unchanging entities which exist on their own. To break through this false view is to be liberated from every sort of fear, pain, and anxiety.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#12. Now and then, when I look round on my books, they seem to waver as if a wind rippled their solid mass, and another world were about to break through.
George MacDonald
#13. A well-defined backup plan is sabotage waiting to happen. Why push through the dip, why take the risk, why blow it all when there's the comfortable alternative instead? The people who break through usually have nothing to lose, and they almost never have a backup plan.
Seth Godin
#14. Our experience taught us we were alone so we have to break through barriers of shame, fear, and habit to realize the time has come to find help.
Jeanne McElvaney
#15. By a seeming fate, commonly called necessity, they are employed, as it says in an old book, laying up treasures which moth and rust will corrupt and thieves break through and steal. It is a fool's life, as they will find when they get to the end of it, if not before. It
Henry David Thoreau
#16. To see one in all and all in one is to break through the great barrier which narrows one's perception of reality,
Thich Nhat Hanh
#17. I feel something else break through the numbness. Something raw. Something primal. Something visceral.
Sam A. Patel
#18. We're alone, but we are capable of communicating to one another both our loneliness and our desire to break through it. You say, 'I'm alone.' Someone answers, 'I'm alone too.' There's a shift in the scale of power. A bridge is thrown between the two abysses.
Elie Wiesel
#19. It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.
Marat Safin
#20. Don't give up.
I know you've made a thousand attempts to reach your goal, but look at it this way: after repeatedly banging your head against the wall, you ought to be numb enough break through this time.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#21. Darkness, whether in mood or in night, is natural. So if we flow with the black bile of melancholia and endure the terrible darkness of depression, eventually we will break through into the light of joy. This is the Tao (the Way) of darkness or depression
this is the Mystery of its evolution.
Arnold Mindell
#22. To write good SF today ... you must push further and harder, reach deeper into your own mind until you break through into the strange and terrible country wherein live your own dreams.
Gardner Dozois
#23. When I started, rock and roll itself was the basic revolution to people of my age and situation. We needed something loud and clear to break through all the unfeeling and repression that had been coming down on us kids.
John Lennon
#24. A man or a woman can inspire such deep fantasy and emotion that through the lovemaking embrace of a partners body we make break through the limits of the human condition to touch upon another level of reality.
Thomas Moore
#25. Men with common minds seldom break through general rules. Prudence is ever the resort of weakness; and they rarely go as far as as they may in any undertaking, who are determined not to go beyond it on any account.
Mary Wollstonecraft
#26. His angry expression softens, and then he shoves my shoulder playfully.
"Hey!" I push him back, to which he retaliates until I'm finally smiling.
I love how we can do that
break through the misery to always find each other.
Suzanne Young
#27. The Beatles had some juice when it came to distortion, but Clapton was finally able to break through those early studio engineers' fear of overloading. He defined the sound that guitarists spend the rest of their lives trying to get.
Joe Perry
#28. We're passionate musicians, but we felt classical concerts were more like a funeral because nobody talked and everybody was dressed so conservatively. We thought that's kind of strange, because music is full of life! We thought we could break through that barrier with theater and comedy elements.
Aleksey Igudesman
#29. You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through.
Ilya Ehrenburg
#30. This lack of translation is a mental handicap that comes with being a human; and we will only start to attain wisdom or rationality when we make an effort to overcome and break through it.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#31. It is you who must someday break through the protective polish of who you are, to become naked and powerful to who you can truly be.
Carew Papritz
#32. The overall campaign launch is designed to break through the clutter and reach out to consumers. At the end of the day, consumers are the ones who benefit from the convenience and value never before seen in a free checking account.
Chris Matthews
#33. When love is our guiding light, we can break through barriers to be of loving service to the world. Gaining the courage and confidence to stand up for what you believe in is not always easy, but it's fully within your reach.
Marianne Williamson
#34. 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
#35. Through all the darkness, through all the shame of which men are capable, the spirit of man will remain alive on this earth. It may sleep, but it will awaken. It may wear chains, but it will break through.
Ayn Rand
#36. Be relentless and then you'll break through.
Julie Brown
#37. A crafty enemy will set a weak ambush you are meant to break through. Confident because you have dealt with the threat, your guard relaxed, you walk into the second, stronger ambush.
Robert Jordan
#38. Poetry, like dreams, will eventually break through every person's consciousness, even the tightest iconoclast's.
Sheila Bender
#39. The most important matter for a practitioner is to be able to break through the veil of the material plane in order to enter the ultimate dimension and see the interconnection between us and all other phenomena in the world around us.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#40. To break through language in order to touch life is to create or re-create the theater.
Antonin Artaud
#41. If I dream that I'm directing, it's not a film, it's like a commercial for cotton candy, and I've got four feet of cotton candy all around me that I've got to break through, like a brick wall or a fortress.
Mike Birbiglia
#42. I'm in favor of destruction, aggression, hating things. Not bearing things anymore. We think the breakdown comes because our life is in bad shape. But maybe the ideas cause the disorder. Something tries to break through and causes the disorder.
James Hillman
#43. Madonna had to break through; I knew she was going to make it big, because I could see how ambitious she was, in a very genuine and sweet way.
Maripol
#45. I must try and break through the cliches about Latin America. Superpowers and other outsiders have fought over us for centuries in ways that have nothing to do with our problems. In reality we are all alone.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#46. It's hard to break through the clutter of fighters out there trying to get attention.
Larry Merchant
#47. (After the losses) I decided I had to break through. I had to set a goal. My goal that I set was to never be pinned.
Kyle Maynard
#48. Be stronger than that and know when to take your woman's hand so she can help you break through.
Kristen Ashley
#49. I think this is a moment of a lot of possibilities, and openings. Occupy and the 99% movement are really going to break through, and we are going to create a new economy, an economy that we need that works for everyone. Where everyone works, everyone counts and everyone contributes.
Ai-jen Poo
#50. For poetry exists to break through to below the level of reason where the angels and monsters that the amenities keep in the cellar may come out to dance, to rove and roar, growling and singing, to bring life back to the enclosed rooms where too often we are only 'living and partly living.
May Sarton
#51. Let us break through some of the inhibitions that have existed to talk together across the flimsy lines of separation of faith, to talk together, to study together, to pray together, and ultimately to sing together His Holy name.
Joe Lieberman
#52. Almost every media organization is doing something with live events now, and that's because they feel they can break through that way.
Tina Brown
#53. Some candidates need to say provocative things that make noise to break through the media muffle and get themselves noticed.
John Podhoretz
#54. Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.
R.D. Laing
#55. I have ... had a disturbing dream in which I break through a cave wall near Nag Hammadi and discover urns full of ancient Coptic scrolls. As I unfurl the first scroll, a subscription card to some Gnostic exercise magazine flutters out.
Colin McEnroe
#56. Tennis's beauty's infinite roots are self-competitive. You compete with your own limits to transcend the self in imagination and execution. Disappear inside the game: break through limits: transcend: improve: win.
David Foster
#57. There was something between me and the world right then. I saw it like a big sheet of glass, too thick to break through. I could make new friends, but they could never know me.
Ava Dellaira
#58. We must break through the provincial crust if we are to reach the core of all-India nationalism.
Mahatma Gandhi
#59. You have to break through the structure of your own stonework habit just to make yourself listen.
Don DeLillo
#60. When we learn new behaviors and break through to higher levels of consciousness and love, we can fulfill the deeper spiritual hunger within.
Judith Wright
#61. Only God can break through the variegated walls of skin to capture the one and only hue of the heart. One Blood.
Katelyne Parker
#62. It's extremely difficult to get these jobs because you can't get a job on a ship unless you have seaman's paper's, and you can't get seaman's papers unless you have a job on a ship. There had to be a way to break through the circle, and he was the one who arranged it for me.
Paul Auster
#63. I put up a huge wall of denial. It was years before I was able to break through it ... accepting that your child has a disability, especially one like LD that cannot be seen or easily diagnosed, is one of the hardest things to come to terms with.
Anne Ford
#65. I wish I could find people who just would fight me and break through to me and hold me down and scream their life into my face.
Angelina Jolie
#66. But what if ... what if you sincerely believed something was true, but you were dead wrong? What if you were so stubbornly sure that you were right, that you wouldn't even consider the truth? Would the truth be silenced, or would it try to break through?
Stephenie Meyer
#67. In my own work I am invested in art as a way to break through impasses, whether those impasses are personal, social, or political.
Jill Soloway
#68. Love can give a person strength to break through glamours and magicks.
Melissa Marr
#69. Respect the boundaries of the world even as you strive to break through the boundaries of your own mind.
Yonason Goldson
#70. Problems are an important part of maturing
meet them straight on. Work them out. It's like the chick in the egg. It has to break through the eggshell on its own. That's how it gains its first strength. If you break the shell for the chick, you end up with a puny little runt.
Mark Tobey
#71. Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them.
Anacharsis
#72. Never give up! Just keep on pushing forward and you will break through!
Heather Wolf
#73. That always used to make you happy don't do the trick anymore, because they can't break through the sadness and fear that are covering over everything in your life.
Shauna Niequist
#74. Luc?" rasped Rhy.
"I'm here," answered Alucard. "I'm here. Stay with me."
He tried to speak, but his heart slammed against his ribs as if trying to break through.
V.E Schwab
#75. If you want to break through to higher levels of performance, you must allow yourself to be restructured.
William A. Adams
#76. One of the wonderful aspects of the human imagination is its power to break through the barriers of time and space. It can see things not as they are but as the can be.
Denis Waitley
#77. I mean, they are just as susceptible to pressure and in many ways more susceptible to pressure because they are desperately anxious, this is their tremendous chance to break through the rather narrow lives they may lead.
John F. Kennedy
#78. His hard stare told me to pick my battles carefully. What he didn't realize was that maybe I'd been storing up past battles in my head for too long and soon all the battles were going to break through the surface and turn me into a maniac.
R.S. Grey
#79. We must have a creature made of Darkness to break through the cage of Darkenss that imprisons your grandmother," Thanatos said.
"That creature is me." Aurox stepped forward.
"Oh, for shit's sake! We are absolutely fucked!" Aphrodite said.
Sadly I had to agree with her.
P.C. Cast
#80. What unknown seas of feeling lie in man, and will from time to time break through!
Thomas Carlyle
#81. I have been very, very consistent. But at the same time I kept kind of hitting my head on the ceiling and I couldn't break through.
Jay Haas
#82. Remakes, in general, are a result of necessity being the mother of invention. They can't open movies consistently and break through the advertising clutter that's out there.
John Carpenter
#83. I'm a big fan of unflinching drama and bold drama. If you shy away from dark subject matters, there's only certain places for TV drama to go. If there are shows that can break through that and be brave, those are the shows that I personally enjoy watching. I try and do work that I would watch.
Joe Dempsie
#84. You break through the veil whenever you strap on a sword or chant the ancient verses. You escape when you write a poem or a tale that brings beauty into the world. You are set free whenever you love - even those who believe you're crazy.
Jef Murray
#85. I knew we needed a weapon to break through to the US market, and it had to be something different, something that nobody else was making.
Akio Morita
#86. There are questions of real power and then there are questions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authority to begin to fight the real questions of power.
Karen Nussbaum
#87. My books are more about people experimenting with different identities and social models in a short-term way before they can break through to something authentic.
Chuck Palahniuk
#88. A lot of artists start out as failed poets, then move on to being failed short-story writers before they finally break through to the big time and become failed novelists.
Gary Reilly
#89. This storm we are in concerns me greatly. Even in the midst of the storm I know the Son shines from behind the clouds and will eventually break through completely. There is hope. Let's impact this change together.
Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.
#90. This lie of political correctness is bringing this country down. You just want to break through it all.
Jon Voight
#91. Every negative has a positive. Push a negative hard enough and deep enough that it will break through into its counterside.
Ryan Holiday
#92. God only knows how much I'd love you if you let me, but I can't break through at all.
John Mayer
#93. I'm like a twenty-two-year-old kid in a new band trying to get noticed and break through, because the vast majority of people have never seen me play live.
John Fogerty
#94. There is nowhere for this to go that's good and you know it, just like me."
"The only thing I know is, what's at the end of the road we're on is unknown. Along the way, I break through that fortress you've built around you and manage to extract your head from your ass, it'll be worth the trip.
Kristen Ashley
#95. He saw that the key to liberation would be to break through ignorance and to enter deeply into the heart of reality and attain a direct experience of it. Such knowledge would not be the knowledge of the intellect, but of direct experience.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#96. You are trying to pierce the veil, to break through the Frisbee so that it doesn't exist, to break through the football so it doesn't exist, and to break through your opponent so they don't exist.
Frederick Lenz
#97. That's what really seems to be the more difficult aspect - to have the men break through and challenge the best players in the world.
Michael Chang
#98. There's the space that you soar into, the space that you sometimes break through to, and hang in. A sort of gasp or gap.
Selima Hill
#99. As it happened, all three of us turned out to be real writers
a coincidence almost too large to be termed mere coincidence in a society where literally tens of thousands (maybe hundreds of thousands) of college students aspire to the writer's trade and where bare hundreds actually break through.
Stephen King
#100. My world stops at the sight of her ... it's as if I've been looking at Chloe through a two-way mirror this entire time - aware of her, always feeling her presence, but never allowing myself to break through the barrier.
K.K. Allen
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