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• But at some point, we've got to have disciplined play and have got to coach better. I'm not putting it on the players. We've got to coach them to tackle and block better. It's as simple as that. If we can do those things, we'll have a chance.

  Steve Spurrier

  Sports, Simple, Player

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• Thoughts can increase our understanding of a subject, or they can just as easily constrict or block our understanding of a subject. It very much depends upon the language we are thinking in.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Science, Thinking

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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• OK, they fire the puck from the blue line. Chief usually yelling 'block the shot' at the defensemen. They doesn't have the goalie gear, but they have to block the shot. So who is more crazy, me or the defensemen? Who is more weird?

  Ilya Bryzgalov

  Crazy, Hockey, Nhl

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• It is a tremendous waste of energy to try to block anyone else. That same energy could be applied to furthering your own success.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Trying, Energy

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• We learn to avoid blocking others, interfering with others, because that will decrease our happiness, slow our vibratory rate and generally bring us down and make us miserable.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Down And, Miserable

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• The bully on the block who beats up somebody doesn't become more powerful. All they do is walk around inside their own mind with an inflated ego.

  Frederick Lenz

  Powerful, Buddhism, Bully

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• To a sprinter, the hundred-yard dash is over in three seconds, not nine or ten. The first 'second' is when you come out of the blocks. The next is when you look up and take your first few strides to attain gain position. By that time the race is actually about half over. The final 'second' - the longest slice of time in the world for an athlete - is that last half of the race, when you really bear down and see what you're made of. It seems to take an eternity, yet is all over before you can think what's happening.

  Jesse Owens

  Sports, Athlete, Thinking

  Jesse Owens, Paul G. Neimark (1972). “I Have Changed”

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• It's useful to know how much society's holding you back. My mother would talk about how she was told by the head of her art school that she was the best painter, but that she wouldn't get the biggest prize because she would waste her talent by having children. I think we have to get honest with girls about how they can expect the world to block them, and we have to prepare girls, and ourselves, to break through those blocks.

  Erica Jong

  Girl, Mother, Art

  "Erica Jong on Feminism for the Future". Omega Institute Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 13, 2014.

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• I think virgins are far more interesting to write about. If we've been around the block a few times, we know what to expect. Not so with virgins.

  E. L. James

  Writing, Thinking, Interesting

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I wrote my first book when I was 22 years old. I have a way with words and I love to write. I can write without getting writers block so I knew, it was a gift.

  Tony Gaskins

  Book, Writing, Years

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• The more you know about your opponents, the more you learn how to beat them. Where the holes open to run through, blocking schemes, even down to player tendencies and what hand they like to carry the ball with.

  Ray Lewis

  Running, Player, Hands

  Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. June 3, 2004.

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• The writing ethic was influenced - when you have to write every day, there's no such thing as writer's block.

  Michael Connelly

  Writing, Ethics, Writer's Block

  "Michael Connelly on the Book He Had To Stop Writing". Interview with Nathan Rostron, www.bookish.com. February 4, 2013.

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• I think you can train yourself to block out some of that pressure and replace it with confidence. It's about preparation, and the more prepared I am, the less pressure I feel and the more confident I am. As your confidence grows, it's only natural that the pressure you feel diminishes.

  Aaron Rodgers

  Thinking, Preparation, Pressure

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• I think that nothing is impossible when you want to fulfill a dream. A lot of people will tell you that you can't do it, that you don't have what it takes, but if it is in your heart and you feel it, there is nothing that will stop you. It is like the sun - you can't block it: it will shine regardless, if that is what you want.

  Thalia

  Dream, Heart, Thinking

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• It's very professionally done, very clever songwriting. I like Backstreet Boys more than 'N Sync, Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, it's all very well done stuff. Much better than the Partridge Family and New Kids On The Block. I took my kids to see Backstreet Boys live and they flipped out

  Gene Simmons

  Clever, Kids, Boys

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• Writing on a computer feels like a recipe for writer's block. I can type so fast that I run out of thoughts, and then I sit there and look at the words on the screen, and move them around, and never get anywhere. Whereas in a notebook I just keep plodding along, slowly, accumulating sentences, sometimes even surprising myself.

  Chad Harbach

  Notebook, Running, Moving

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• It's an honor for me to close out Mysteryland. In American music history this is hallowed ground. I think electronic music has a lot in common with the spirit of rock and roll and what Woodstock had going on at the time. We are kind of the new kids on the block and this music isn't accepted by everyone so we are still kind of getting into pop culture and I think its appropriate that this festival is here and kicking down the door.

  Kaskade

  Kids, Thinking, Rocks

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• There are, occasionally, writers who are able to combine both story and style. They are, of course, the best. You get a spectacular view and you also get to look at it from the backseat of a chauffeur-driven Cadillac. In the field of fantasy, those writers able to combine story-as-narration with story-as-style are even rarer. But there are a few...the late Theodore Sturgeon, the early Ray Bradbury...and Richard Christian Matheson. A brilliant chip off the old block.

  Stephen King

  Christian, Views, Style

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• Truth telling is the first building block of character -- a quality that seems to be getting rarer and rarer in all-forgiving America.

  Mona Charen

  Character, America, Forgiving

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• You get spoiled on Captain America, where your trailers two blocks long and its got three bedrooms.

  Frank Grillo

  America, Two, Long

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• The desert is cold early in the morning. Laying down on that sand is like laying on a block of ice.

  Steven Michael Quezada

  Morning, Ice, Desert

  "'Breaking Bad's' Gomez on 'Ozymandias': At Least 'I Didn't Get Melted in Acid' (Q&A)". Interview with Aaron Couch, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 16, 2013.

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• If God has called you, the more they block your way, the more that trouble and temptation, the more God's love is provoked. Each attempt to stop you asks for more evidence from God.

  T. B. Joshua

  Love Is, Temptation, Way

  "Why I Don’t Have Church Branches Everywhere – TB Joshua". dailypost.ng. August 25, 2014.

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• Don't be discouraged by writer's block. Writer's block just means you need to listen to other music.

  Ben Harper

  Mean, Needs, Discouraged

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• An unread book is just a block of paper.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Book, Unread Books, Paper

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• A grass blade believes that men build palaces for it to grow in. Grass wedges its way between the closest blocks of marble and it brings them down. This power of feeble life which can creep in anywhere is greater than that of the mighty behind their cannons.

  Honore de Balzac

  Believe, Men, Power

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