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• To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.

  Alexander Pope

  Vulgarity Is, Razors, Endeavor

  'Miscellanies' (1727) vol. 2 'Thoughts on Various Subjects'

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• The body is the prop for the soul. So why not let the body be propped by a wall or a block?

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Wall, Soul, Why Not

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• Mad is the man who is forever gritting his teeth against that granite block, complete and changeless, of the past.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Past, Men, Mad

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• Usually writer's block arises when something is wrong internally with the story.

  Meg Cabot

  Stories, Arise, Writer's Block

  "Writing Tips from Meg Cabot!". www.seventeen.com. September 4, 2008.

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• Companies have too many experts who block innovation. True innovation really comes from perpendicular thinking.

  Peter Diamandis

  Thinking, Innovation, Experts

  "Why Billion-Dollar, 100-Year-Old Companies DIE" by Peter Diamandis, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 19, 2013.

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• The president deserves someone who can block for his policies.

  Judd Gregg

  President, Policy, Deserve

  "I couldn't be Judd Gregg". Interview with Martin Kady II and David Rogers, www.politico.com. February 12, 2009.

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• Secondhand experience breaks down a block from the car lot.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Car, Experience, Breaking Down

  Ursula K. Le Guin (1997). “Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places”, p.158, Grove Press

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• Deciding to write a novel about something - as opposed to finding you are writing a novel around something - sounds to me like a good evocation of writer's block.

  Martin Amis

  Writing, Sound, Novel

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• Once one concedes that a single world government is not necessary, then where does one logically stop at the permissibility of separate states? If Canada and the United States can be separate nations without being denounced as in a state of impermissible ‘anarchy’, why may not the South secede from the United States? New York State from the Union? New York City from the state? Why may not Manhattan secede? Each neighbourhood? Each block? Each house? Each person?

  Murray Rothbard

  New York, Government, Cities

  Murray N. Rothbard (2004). “Man, Economy, and State with Power and Market, Scholar's Edition”, p.1051, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought, a process stumbling through emotional entanglements, sudden irrational convictions, involuntary gleams of insight, rationalized prejudices, and blocks of panic and inertia, finally to reach a completely incommunicable intuition.

  Northrop Frye

  Emotional, Thinking, Intuition

  Northrop Frye (2015). “Anatomy of Criticism”, p.83, Princeton University Press

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• The danger always exists that our technology will serve as a buffer between us and nature, a block between us and the deeper dimensions of our own experience.

  Rollo May

  Technology, Dimensions, Danger

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.70, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Thinking about the things that happened, I don't know any other ball player would could have done what he (Jackie Robinson) did. To be able to hit with everybody yelling at him. He had to block all that out, block out everything but this ball that is coming in at a hundred miles an hour and he's got a split second to make up his mind if it's in or out or down or coming at his head, a split second to swing. To do what he did has got to be the most tremendous thing I've ever seen in sports.

  Pee Wee Reese

  Sports, Player, Thinking

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• There is a legend of an artist who long sought for a piece of sandalwood, out of which to carve a Madonna. He was about to give up in despair, leaving the vision of his life unrealized, when in a dream he was bidden to carve his Madonna from a block of oak wood which was destined for the fire. He obeyed and produced a masterpiece from a log of common firewood. Many of us lose great opportunities in life by waiting to find sandalwood for our carvings, when they really lie hidden in the common logs that we burn.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Dream, Giving Up, Lying

  Orison Swett Marden (2015). “ORISON SWETT MARDEN Premium Collection - Wisdom & Empowerment Series (18 Books in One Volume): Steps to Success and Power, How to Get What You Want, An Iron Will, Be Good to Yourself, Every Man A King, Keeping Fit, Prosperity – How to Attract It, Stepping-Stones To Fame And Fortune...”, p.277, e-artnow

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• I am happy with my past, my present and my future. All three are miraculous building blocks of my beloved, wonderful life.

  Robert Muller

  Attitude, Past, Three

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• It's often said that writers sometimes need to go around the block a few times to get where they're going.

  Christopher Bram

  Writing, Needs, Sometimes

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• I would also argue that there is a good chance that an outline will help you stave off any onslaught of writer's block. Let me advise you right up front that I am not a big believer in writer's block. I think writer's block is God's way of telling you one of two things - that you failed to think your material through sufficiently before you started writing, or that you need a day or two off with your family and friends.

  Terry Brooks

  Writing, Thinking, Two

  Terry Brooks (2003). “Sometimes the Magic Works: Lessons from a Writing Life”, p.76, Del Rey

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• We don't have a unitary society anymore, you know; it's very fragmented. I look up and down my block in Silverlake and there is a different universe in every house.

  Janet Fitch

  Different Universes, House, Looks

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• Reprogramming the unconscious beliefs that block fuller awareness of creative/intuitive capabilities depends upon a key characteristic of the mind, namely that it responds to what is vividly imagined as though it were real experience.

  Willis Harman

  Real, Keys, Creative

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• I don't believe in writer's block. Think about it - when you were blocked in college and had to write a paper, didn't it always manage to fix itself the night before the paper was due? Writer's block is having too much time on your hands.

  Jodi Picoult

  Believe, Writing, Night

  "Jodi Picoult on Writing, Publishing, and What She’s Reading". Interview with Noah Charney, www.thedailybeast.com. April 3, 2012.

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• I've been around the block a couple of times, and the guy I am now is the guy I like to be.

  David Johansen

  Couple, Guy, Guy I Like

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• How often do we stand convinced of the truth of our early memories, forgetting that they are assessments made by a child? We can replace the narratives that hold us back by inventing wiser stories, free from childish fears, and, in doing so, disperse long-held psychological stumbling blocks.

  Benjamin Zander

  Children, Memories, Assessment

  Rosamund Stone Zander, Benjamin Zander (2002). “The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life”, p.45, Penguin

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• Individually, every grain of sand brushing against my hands represents a story, an experience, and a block for me to build upon for the next generation.

  Raquel Cepeda

  Hands, Generations, Stories

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• The only thing that I know is that, growing up, I came across stumbling blocks, and I always said to myself, 'If I ever get into a position to do something about this, I would like to, so that somebody does not deal with what I went through.

  Chandra Wilson

  Growing Up, Doe, Said

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The Brigham Young University (BYU) campus was just a few blocks from my home and tuition was minimal.

  Paul D. Boyer

  Home, Byu, Tuition

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• I would say that the Pentagon Papers case of 1971 - in which the government tried to block the 'The New York Times' and 'The Washington Post' and other newspapers from publishing papers that they obtained from a secret study of how we got involved in the war in Vietnam - that is probably the most important case.

  Floyd Abrams

  New York, War, Government

  "First Amendment Attorney Floyd Abrams Talks with CFIF’s Corporate Counsel About Three Decades of Free Speech". "Your Turn - Meeting Nonsense with Common Sense" with Renee Giachino, www.cfif.org. June 15, 2005.

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