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• I had my first kiss when I was 11, but I think I've blocked it out of my mind because it was so bad. I'm not even sure it counts as a kiss.

  Niall Horan

  Kissing, Thinking, Mind

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• But yet creation's neither crammed nor blocked
  About by body: there's in things a void-
  Which to have known will serve thee many a turn,
  Nor will not leave thee wandering in doubt,
  Forever searching in the sum of all,
  And losing faith in these pronouncements mine.

  Lucretius

  Forever, Doubt, Body

  Lucretius (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Lucretius (Illustrated)”, p.189, Delphi Classics

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• It turns out that creativity isn’t some rare gift to be enjoyed by the lucky few—it’s a natural part of human thinking and behavior. In too many of us it gets blocked. But it can be unblocked. And unblocking that creative spark can have far-reaching implications for yourself, your organization, and your community.

  Tom Kelley

  Creativity, Thinking, Organization

  Tom Kelley, David Kelley (2013). “Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All”, p.21, Crown Business

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• I tell my students there is such a thing as 'writer's block,' and they should respect it. You shouldn't write through it. It's blocked because it ought to be blocked, because you haven't got it right now.

  Toni Morrison

  Block, Writing, Students

  Toni Morrison, Danille Kathleen Taylor-Guthrie (1994). “Conversations with Toni Morrison”, p.159, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Since money is energy, our financial affairs tend to reflect how our life energy is moving. When your creative energy is flowing freely, often your finances are as well. If your energy is blocked, your money does too.

  Shakti Gawain

  Moving, Creative, Energy

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• Concepts which have proved useful for ordering things easily assume so great an authority over us, that we forget their terrestrial origin and accept them as unalterable facts. They then become labeled as 'conceptual necessities,' etc. The road of scientific progress is frequently blocked for long periods by such errors.

  Albert Einstein

  Errors, Long, Progress

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• Just as a strongly flowing fountain is not blocked up by a handful of earth, so the compassion of the Creator is not overcome by the wickedness of his creatures.

  Isaac of Nineveh

  Christian, Compassion, Overcoming

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• Intuition is perception via the unconscious that brings forth ideas, images, new possibilities and ways out of blocked situations.

  Carl Jung

  Ideas, Perception, Intuition

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• The best game plan in the world never blocked or tackled anybody.

  Vince Lombardi

  Games, World, Plans

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• Creativity is often blocked by trying to be perfect. Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

  Tony Robbins

  Art, Mistake, Creativity

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Oct 24, 2011

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• When you reach a place where you feel blocked, lower your standards and keep on going. There is no possible way to do permanent damage to a piece of writing. You cannot ruin it. You can only make it a little better a little at a time.

  Richard Bausch

  Writing, Pieces, Littles

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• Upon the whole, I am inclined to think that the far greater part, if not all, of those difficulties which have hitherto amused philosophers, and blocked up the way to knowledge, are entirely owing to our selves. That we have first raised a dust, and then complain, we cannot see.

  George Berkeley

  Philosophy, Math, Thinking

  A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge introduction, sec. 3 (1710)

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• I’m a coward, I close my eyes. I don’t understand why God made sight the only sense that can be blocked off.

  Christopher Pike

  Eye, Sight, Coward

  Christopher Pike (2013). “Thirst No. 5: The Sacred Veil”, p.267, Simon and Schuster

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• Every gift contains a danger. Whatever gift we have we are compelled to express. And if the expression of that gift is blocked, distorted, or merely allowed to languish, then the gift turns against us, and we suffer.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Motivational, Expression, Suffering

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• I wonder, when a writer's blocked and doesn't have any resources to pull himself out of it, why doesn't he jump in his car and drive around the U.S.A.? I went last winter for seven thousand miles and it was lovely. Inexpensive, too.

  Jim Harrison

  Winter, Car, Lovely

  Jim Harrison, Robert J. DeMott (2002). “Conversations with Jim Harrison”, p.77, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• When you're sitting down and you're blocked and you just start writing and something in your mind just clicks, you start seeing connections and so on, you really do feel like you're channeling something else.

  John Hodgman

  Writing, Mind, Sitting Down

  Interview with Greg Hunter, therumpus.net. October 21, 2013.

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• I remember the day my mother died, and it's still hard to talk about it. I just blocked it out.

  Peaches Geldof

  Mother, Remember, Stills

  "EXCLUSIVE: Peaches Geldof talks to ELLE". ELLE Interview, www.elle.com. March 11, 2012.

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• If are in a situation with too many people in your life and you want to go into higher attention, look in the mirror. You are being blocked. Do something about it. It might be hard.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mirrors, People, Looks

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• The kundalini runs through you. It runs through the ida and the pingala, the two nerve channels in the subtle body; but there's a central channel, the shushumna, which is blocked. When it runs through that, then you can use the mystical kundalini.

  Frederick Lenz

  Running, Buddhism, Two

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• I've always sort of time-locked and mind-blocked myself in my 30s, and that's always the age I feel.

  Steven Spielberg

  Mind, Age, Feels

  "Spielberg & Lucas: The EW Q&A". Interview with Steve Daly, ew.com. April 18, 2008.

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• Meditation is like a giant broom for sweeping away any stagnant or blocked energy that you may have buried deep in your body.

  Deborah King

  Meditation, Energy, Giants

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• Part of my journey is sort of learning the ways that I'm unconsciously blocked and trying to open them up. I'm a complete "work in progress" in that area.

  Lauren Bowles

  Journey, Progress, Trying

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• Our whole energy remains blocked either in the past or in the future. When you withdraw all your energy from past and future a tremendous explosion happens.

  Rajneesh

  Past, Energy, Explosions

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• I'm a big fan of pops of color, but I thought I would take that to the next level and do a color-blocked Rolex. This watch is the perfect accessory whether you're wearing a tee and jeans or a well-tailored suit.

  Brad Goreski

  Color, Jeans, Perfect

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• All roads are blocked to a philosophy which reduces everything to the word "no." To "no" there is only one answer and that is "yes." Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing. Man lives more by affirmation than by bread.

  Victor Hugo

  Zero, Philosophy, Men

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