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• If something isn't working, if you have a story that you've built and it's blocked and you can't figure it out, take your favorite scene, or your very best idea or set-piece, and cut it. It's brutal, but sometimes inevitable.

  Joss Whedon

  Writing, Cutting, Ideas

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• This is my time, this is my hour,
  This is my pain, this is my name, this is my power.
  If it's my reign, then it's my shower,
  This pole position...I made a lane 'cause they blocked ours.

  Pusha T

  Pain, Rap, Names

  Song: King Push, Album: My Name Is My Name, 2013

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• I'll tell you that for me, one when someone used to say something that was true, one way I knew it was true was that I immediately felt defensive. I blocked it off, and I went to war with them in my mind and suffered all that goes with it. And they were only saying what was true.

  Byron Katie

  War, Mind, Way

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• The five big mistakes in football are the fumble, the interception, the penalty, the badly called play, the blocked punt—and most of these originate with the quarterback. Find a mistake-proof quarterback and you have this game won.

  Woody Hayes

  Football, Mistake, Games

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• In order to create, we draw from our inner well. This inner well, an artistic reservoir, is ideally like a well stocked fish pond... If we don't give some attention to upkeep, our well is apt to become depleted, stagnant, or blocked... As artists, we must learn to be self nourishing. We must become alert enough to consciously replenish our creative resources as we draw on them - to re-stock the trout pond, so to speak.

  Julia Cameron

  Creativity, Artist, Self

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• If you feel blocked, do not turn to others, but look inside, in silence, for the enemy of your progress.

  Jeff Buckley

  Silence, Enemy, Progress

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• I love Los Angeles, and it's been very good to me, but if everyone is running around telling the stories, who's living them? You don't play characters that are celebrities - you play guys who know what to do when their septic tank's blocked.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Running, Character, Play

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• And then--a Day as huge
  As Yesterdays in pairs,
  Unrolled its horror in my face--
  Until it blocked my eyes

  Emily Dickinson

  Patience, Gratitude, Eye

  Emily Dickinson, Cristanne Miller (2016). “Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them”, p.168, Harvard University Press

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• You can’t depend on special teams touchdowns and blocked punts every week to win.

  Rodney Harrison

  Team, Winning, Special

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• Find your own picture, your own self in anything that goes bad. It's awfully easy to mouth off at your staff or chew out players, but if it's bad, and your the head coach, you're responsible. If we have an intercepted pass, I threw it. I'm the head coach. If we get a punt blocked, I caused it. A bad practice, a bad game, it's up to the head coach to assume his responsibility.

  Bear Bryant

  Wrestling, Responsibility, Player

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• [To] mechanical progress there is apparently no end: for as in the past so in the future, each step in any direction will remove limits and bring in past barriers which have till then blocked the way in other directions; and so what for the time may appear to be a visible or practical limit will turn out to be but a bend in the road.

  Osborne Reynolds

  Science, Past, Progress

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• It's not bad to get blocked, it's terrible to stay blocked

  Ken Norton, Jr.

  Terrible

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• People have separated from each other with walls of concrete that blocked the roads to connection and love. and Nature has been defeated in the name of development.

  Yasunari Kawabata

  Wall, Names, People

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• The stars drew light across the night sky in that little mountain village, and the silence and the cold made the darkness vanish away. It was - I don't know how to explain it - as if everything solid melted away into the ether, eliminating all individualtiy and absorbing us, rigid, into the immense darkness. Not a single cloud to lend perspective to the space blocked any portion of the starry sky.

  Che Guevara

  Stars, Night, Space

  Ernesto Guevara, Che Guevara (2004). “Self Portrait Che Guevara”, Ocean Press

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• I've always thought it was important not to attach too much superstition to the space where you're writing, because once you get into the mindset that you can only do it a certain way in a certain place, your creativity can get blocked.

  Sadie Jones

  Writing, Creativity, Space

  "My space". Interview with Anita Sethi, www.theguardian.com. August 30, 2008.

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• The people of Earth are emerging from an amnesiac-like state of collective shock, which has blocked the influx of spiritual knowledge into the human gene pool. And while it is quite obvious to many that “You create your reality”, the vast majority of humans still need to be awakened from the unconsciously controlled trance of powerlessness that they voluntarily took on.

  Barbara Marciniak

  Spiritual, Reality, People

  Barbara Marciniak (2010). “Path of Empowerment: New Pleiadian Wisdom for a World in Chaos”, p.22, New World Library

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• ...when you are convinced that all the exits are blocked, either you take to believing in miracles or you stand still like the hummingbird. The miracle is that the honey is always there, right under your nose, only you were too busy searching elsewhere to realize it. The worst is not death but being blind, blind to the fact that everything about life is in the nature of the miraculous.

  Henry Miller

  Believe, Miracle, Noses

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• If you are always waiting to be, do, or have what you want, your energy becomes blocked. Your body may reflect this in excess weight or other physical problems. Express yourself directly. Set clear boundaries with other people and do what you need to do to take good care of yourself. Energy will then move freely through your body and this circulation will dissolve any excess weight. The more you are willing to be yourself, the less you'll need to use food as a substitute nurturer. You will be receiving the natural nurturing of the universe.

  Shakti Gawain

  Being Yourself, Moving, People

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• Every word and deed must contribute to an understanding with the enemy and release those vast reservoirs of goodwill which have been blocked by impenetrable walls of hate.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Wall, Hate, Understanding

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2015). “The Radical King”, p.39, Beacon Press

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• The light of love flows out of my soul, but it can go nowhere because it's blocked by pain. I could inhale and exhale every morning for the rest of my life, but that wouldn't solve anything.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Morning, Pain

  "Aleph". Book by Paulo Coelho, 2011.

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• A spiritual retreat is medicine for soul starvation. Through silence, solitary practice, and simple living, we begin to fill the empty reservoir. This lifts the veils, dissolves the masks, and creates space within for the feelings of forgiveness, compassion, and loving kindness that are so often blocked.

  David A. Cooper

  Spiritual, Kindness, Simple

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• It would have been worse if we hadn't blocked the kick after Toronto's second touchdown.

  Alex Delvecchio

  Hockey, Nhl, Toronto

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• Useless to worry until we find outselves blocked. ... If it happens, then we must simply find a way around it. It may slow us down. But we will never get there at all if we stand still and worry.

  Robin Hobb

  Worry, Useless, May

  Robin Hobb (2002). “Assassin's Quest: The Farseer Trilogy”, p.367, Spectra

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• I think every writer struggles in some way with writers block. The trick is to plan out what you are going to say beforehand. I found out that if you make an outline you're much less likely to get blocked when you get into the middle of the story.

  Rick Riordan

  Block, Struggle, Thinking

  Source: starraptureblog.wordpress.com

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• To narrate is to give oneself: it seems obvious that literature, as an effort to communicate fully, will continue to be blocked so long as misery and illiteracy exist, and so long as the possessors of power continue to carry on with impunity their policy of collective imbecilization through the mass media.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Media, Long, Giving

  Eduardo Galeano (1997). “Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent”, p.14, NYU Press

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