Sentence examples for impediment to action from inspiring English sources

"In a culture that rewards seniority and is consensus-driven, the bureaucracy tends to become an impediment to action," said Joseph Phillippi, president of AutoTrends Consulting in Short Hills, N.J. "As an outsider, Ghosn was able to break through all that and demand quick decisions, which is so important when you are trying to avert a total collapse".

The impediment to action advances action.

Marcus Aurelius wrote, "The impediment to action advances action.

I trace it to Marcus Aurelius, the Stoic emperor, who wrote: "The impediment to action advances action.

He rejects the view that there is any freedom from necessity and claims that insofar as there is human freedom it is "liberty or freedom from outward impediment to action".

In Marcus Aurelius' Meditations, the Roman emperor stated that "The impediment to action advances action.

My book The Obstacle is The Way (Portfolio/Penguin) is about a single exercise that both Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius lived by: "The impediment to actions advances action What stands in the way becomes the way".

When I asked him what he'd do differently if he were starting again he said he'd not appreciated the extent to which judicial review, assorted consultations and other impediments to action had "gummed up process" since he was a special adviser 20 years ago.

While the political impediments to action remain formidable, the government could quickly do a great deal to add paychecks and restore vigor to the economy.

Second, additional research efforts should be devoted to better understanding and improving the actual implementation of priority setting frameworks, particularly with respect to issues of change management and the resolution of impediments to action on recommendations for resource allocation.

The particularism that in the one vision is an impediment to right action is, in the other, the key to right action.