“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.”– Henry Ford Related Quotes “You know, it’s sort of common wisdom among New York publishers that short story collections don’t make money.”– Chad Harbach “Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.”– Anatole France “I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of life’s wisdom.”– Wislawa Szymborska