Lydia Millet

I advise, if you're stymied by a passage or paragraph or plot point - whether it's for an assignment from the outside world or one that comes only from within - get up from wherever you're sitting, walk outdoors, and do nothing but look at the sky for five minutes. Just stare at that thing. Then execute a small bow and go back in.

American Novelist

Dennis Haysbert

When you're playing a good character, you have an idea that you're playing the hero and the good guy. Actually, I think you're more stymied playing the good guy than you are the bad guy. As the bad guy, you have no inhibitions. Nothing stops you from doing what it is you feel you have to do. You do it because it's what's required.

American Actor

Russell Smith

Kindle Worlds is a clever way to monetize a formerly underground trend, and to enable its participants to be remunerated. But it will be of no interest to writers with any literary ambition, as its constraints are designed to stymie even the most rudimentary impulses - even the first flickering of a dangerous originality.

Canadian Novelist

Katherine Dunn

At its heart, 'Fat City' is not about boxing. It is a universal story of grim realities and toxic delusions. It is awash with awareness of chances blown, dreams stymied, precious time wasted, and all future prospects scorched to ashes by the process.

Zephyr Teachout

Women are routinely demeaned, dismissed, discouraged and assaulted. Too many women's careers are stymied or ended because of harassment and abuse. In politics, where I have worked much of my adult life, this behavior is rampant.

American Lawyer

Crispin Blunt

Our lack of understanding of the institutional capacity of the country stymied Libya's progress in establishing security on the ground and absorbing financial and other resources from the international community.

Arthur Erickson

We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward.

Canadian Architect

Gijs de Vries

We're still stymied by the old stand-off between those who wish to fight terrorism and resistance fighters.

Dutch Politician

Jordan Rodgers

You know what never gets schemed or what never gets stymied? Going through your reads and completing balls.

American Athlete

Martin Short

Someone once asked me what was the weirdest question I was ever asked. And I was stymied.

Stymie usually implies frustration or an undesirable blockage in plans or progress.

Negative Connotation

Stymie is used for abstract obstacles, not physical ones like locking a door.

Not Physical

Stymie indicates a significant challenge or difficulty, not a minor inconvenience.

Serious Obstacle

The golf meaning of stymie is very specific and used within the context of the game.

Golf Specific

The golf term is outdated since rule changes have made stymies rare in modern play.

Rarely Used

Learning about stymies can give insight into the history and evolution of golf rules.

Historical Interest

 and life is dandy if you're a crow -- you can come back anytime and get yourself a peanut. So when they get really used to that, we move on to the crows coming back. Now they're used to the sound of the machine; they keep coming back and digging out peanuts from the pile of coins that's there. When they get really happy about this, we stymie them.

Joshua Klein: The...

 have stymied every idea for perpetual motion and the dreams of perfectly efficient energy generation they imply. Yet it's hard to conclusively say we'll never discover a perpetual motion machine because there's still so much we don't understand about the universe.

Why don't perpetual...

 and timber industries which pay the government hefty royalties advocates want metal minds to pay up also to help offset the cost of the massive cleanup for decades lighting companies and Western lawmakers have stymied attempts to change the 1872 law