Closing a public library is child abuse, really, because it hinders child development.
To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still.
The fact that tradition hinders the individual savage from thinking logically by no means proves that he cannot think logically.
What most of all hinders heavenly consolation is that you are too slow in turning yourself to prayer.
When you have God-given talent, I think that that kind of hinders your practice habits and that's what I think it did to me.
It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in.
If the spectrum linking everyday depression to Major Depression sometimes hinders understanding of it, it also offers an opportunity for empathy. Because almost everyone, at some point, experiences feelings of sadness, of hopelessness, of emptiness, not to mention lethargy and irritability.
I think it is possible to be friends even if you're competing. You know, there's so many guys in rooms that try to psych each other out, and it doesn't work. It only hinders their work.
Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.