Block Quotes - Page 6

• As my mind can conceive of more good, the barriers and blocks dissolve. My life becomes full of little miracles popping up out of the blue.

  Louise Hay

  Blue, Miracle, Mind

  Louise L. Hay (2010). “Meditations to Heal Your Life”, p.14, ReadHowYouWant.com

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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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• In all of my looking at happiness, one thing I noticed right away is that the opposite of happiness isn't unhappiness or even depression, it's anxiety. It is something that can constantly block our happiness, or our chance to reach that sort of meditative state in our work or our home lives.

  Ariel Gore

  Happiness, Home, Opposites

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• Hatred is corrosive of a person's wisdom and conscience; the mentality of enmity can poison a nation's spirit, instigate brutal life and death struggles, destroy a society's tolerance and humanity, and block a nation's progress to freedom and democracy.

  Liu Xiaobo

  Wisdom, Struggle, Life And Death

  "China's endless literary inquisition" by Liu Xiaobo, www.theguardian.com. February 11, 2010.

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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'm a Top 40 record guy. I remember the hits and don't remember the flops. Something in my brain blocks them out.

  Steve Cropper

  Guy, Brain, Records

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• All the traditional models for doing things are collapsing; from music to publishing to film, and it's a wide open door for people who are creative to do what they need to do without having institutions block their art.

  Ava DuVernay

  Art, Doors, People

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

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• There is a real hunger for information about Obama and a sense that information is not being covered or, in some cases, even being withheld. There is a sense that there are elements of the media that are protective of Obama, that they would rather block a story that is embarassing about Obama than let the American public decide.

  Dinesh D'Souza

  Real, Media, Stories

  "Filmgoers flock to anti-Obama doc" by Patrick Gavin, www.politico.com. August 24, 2012.

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• When I have a creative block, I take walks. I like to see what shapes stick out - so many legs rushing by at once, it can seem abstract. I don't need to see great art to get stirred up. Music does that for me more easily.

  Caio Fonseca

  Art, Rushing, Creative

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• When I did plays in high school and college, I never remember memorizing my lines, but once I had blocking, I had all my lines memorized. Once I had movement associated with words, it was fine. Before I had blocking, it was just text on a page. Once it became embodied, it was much easier.

  Greta Gerwig

  School, College, Play

  "Greta Gerwig on Damsels In Distress and tap-dancing into a role". Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. April 4, 2012.

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• Imagine blocks and blocks of no cocaine, blocks with no gun play.

  Nelly

  Gun, Play, Alcohol

  Song: Nellyville, Album: Nellyville

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• Always get to the set or the location early, so that you can be all alone and draw your inspiration for the blocking and the setups in private and quiet. In one sense, it's about protecting yourself; in another sense, it's about always being open to surprise, even from the set, because there may be some detail that you hadn't noticed. I think this is crucial. There are many pictures that seem good in so many ways except one: They lack a sense of surprise, they've never left the page.

  Martin Scorsese

  Inspiration, Thinking, Pages

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• To people who make moving ads that block the view of websites: Not only will we not buy from you, but we want shrews to eat your liver.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Moving, Technology

  Twitter post from May 22, 2009

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• You can play some schlock like New Kids On the Block.

  Al Yankovic

  Kids, Play, Musical

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• Come on fathers, don't hesitate, send them off before it's too late. Be the first one on the block to have your boy come home in a box.

  Country Joe McDonald

  Father, Home, Boys

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• Come Senators, Congressman, please heed the call, don't stand in the doorway, don't block the hall.

  Bob Dylan

  Doorways, Politics, Congressman

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• 'The Sopranos,' for instance, is arguably the best cable show of all time. They could have made a movie, but that show ended so perfectly, it would almost be a disadvantage to make a movie like that. Then again, if you made a 'Sopranos' movie, people would be lined around the block to go see it.

  Jerry Ferrara

  People, Would Be, Sopranos

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

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• Creative power has to filter through our beliefs, attitudes, emotions, and habits. The more negative and constricted our beliefs and patterns are, the more they block the creative energy. Most people hope that by ignoring negativity, it will go away, but the reverse is actually true. Through recognizing, acknowledging, and experiencing it, the blocked energy can be released. You are then free to replace it with positive beliefs and attitudes.

  Shakti Gawain

  Art, Attitude, People

  Shakti Gawain (2010). “Reflections in the Light: Daily Thoughts and Affirmations”, New World Library

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• With every thought we think, we either summon or block a miracle. It is not our circumstances, then, but rather our thoughts about our circumstances, that determine our power to transform them.

  Marianne Williamson

  Thinking, Miracle, Circumstances

  Marianne Williamson (2012). “The Law of Divine Compensation: On Work, Money, and Miracles”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• Religion stands, the Church blocking the sun.

  Stephen Spender

  Religion, Church, Sun

  Stephen Spender (2015). “New Collected Poems of Stephen Spender”, p.47, Faber & Faber

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• While there have been terrific advances in the state of technology around heuristics, behavior blocking, and things like that, technology is only a part of the approach to solving the problem with the more important aspect involving putting the right process in place.

  John W. Thompson

  Technology, Important, Heuristics

  "Interview: Symantec's John Thompson talks about big picture security". Interview with Ed Scannell, www.infoworld.com. June 16, 2004.

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• There was a failure to recognize the deep problems in AI; for instance, those captured in Blocks World. The people building physical robots learned nothing.

  Marvin Minsky

  People, Robots, World

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• The World Trade Center was for me not only out of scale vertically, but it was also out of scale in plan. It occupied several blocks that were all massed together.

  Cesar Pelli

  Together, World, Scales

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• I think at some point during the course of the game, I will have an impact - whether it's blocking or whether it's catching the football.

  Terrell Owens

  Football, Thinking, Impact

  Terrell Owens, Jason Rosenhaus (2006). “T.O.”, p.168, Simon and Schuster

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• I never tell my age because I hope I'll always be the new kid on the block.

  Patrick Kelly

  Kids, Age

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