Block Quotes

Close your mouth, block off your senses, blunt your sharpness, untie your knots, soften your glare, settle your dust. This is the primal identity.

There is a force, a quickness that is translated through you into action. If you block it, the world will not have it.

If one took a role with the intention of, "I'll show them what I can do!," then it's not going to be good because the ego is going to just block everything.

In this time of budget cuts, we cannot forget that basic science is a building block for scientific innovation and economic growth in the information age.

What seems to be a problem or block is often really a Blessing in Disguise

In life, as in Chess, ones own Pawns block ones way. A mans very wealth, ease, leisure, children, books, which should help him to win, more often checkmate him

Success doesn’t necessarily come from breakthrough innovation but from flawless execution. A great strategy alone won’t win a game or a battle; the win comes from basic blocking and tackling.

The majority of the things that I do, I'm actually afraid to do, but you just have to have a positive attitude and block out any fears that you have.

Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.

If you are sitting on the title of any block of land in New South Wales you can bet an Aboriginal person at some stage was dispossessed of it.

Creativity is our true nature; blocks are an unnatural thwarting of a process at once as normal and as miraculous as the blossoming of a flower at the end of a slender green stem.

We are each given a block of marble when we begin a lifetime, and the tools to shape it into sculpture... We can drag it behind us untouched, we can pound it into gravel, we can shape it into glory.

To do theater you need to block off a hunk of time.

The past is what provides us with the building blocks. Our job today is to create new buildings out of them.

Why carve? It's a better sculpture that way. I'll never improve the block. So I just started using uncarved blocks.

There's no shame in owning a New Kids on the Block t-shirt. They were my first concert when I was eight.

Getting to the linebackers is difficult. Blocking them is another challenge.

Where I come from, the block become your daddy.

Lack of candor blocks smart ideas, fast action, and good people contributing all the stuff they've got. It's a killer.

If I waited for perfection... I would never write a word.

Attachment is the main thing that is blocking your path towards enlightenment.

My God is a God who wants me to have things. He wants me to bling. He wants me to be the hottest thing on the block.

It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.

If you can't find your inspiration by walking around the block one time, go around two times-but never three.

There is no writer's block in a newsroom. There's only unemployment block.

I mean family is more important than anything in life. Family is important than my crew, D-Block, my rap career anything... It's the most important aspect of a person's life.

Anger or bitterness toward those who have hurt you will block your path to higher ground. You can have anger toward people or you can have freedom from people, but you can't have both.

Successful people see adversity as a stepping stone rather than a stumbling block.

What are stumbling blocks and defeat to the weak and vacillating are but stepping stones to victory to the determined soul.

It's hot on my block, somebody turn the fan on I've been paid, I'm just tryin to turn my mans on.

Some people try to find things in this game that don't exist but football is only two things - blocking and tackling.

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.

In recovering from our creative blocks, it is necessary to go gently and slowly... These are baby steps. Progress, not perfection, is what we should be asking of ourselves.

Laughter serves as a blocking agent. Like a bullet-proof vest, it may help protect you against the ravages of negative emotions that can assault you in disease.

A Mercury is not made out of any block of wood.

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

I love my blocks of marble, always piling up in the yard like a flock of sheep.

If emotional issues remain unaddressed over long periods of time, sometimes they can manifest as physical blocks or disease.

Can't you see the angel imprisoned in the block of stone trying to get out? I am trying to free him

I remember the first Mortal Kombat, when that came out, that was the hardest game of all time. There would be lines at the arcade around the block, and I still love all of the Mortal Kombat games.

Heavenly Father is constantly raining blessings upon us, but it is our fear, doubt, and sin that, like an umbrella, block these blessings from reaching us.

The virgin birth has never been a major stumbling block in my struggle with Christianity; it's far less mind boggling than the Power of all Creation stooping so low as to become one of us.

The great paradox is that our lack of faith in love and miracles is what blocks us from receiving love and miracles.

ideas are never scarce; it is only one's panic sense of limitation that blocks the way.

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.

Death: Do you never stop questioning? Antonius Block: No. I never stop.

The old Devil gets mad when you're trying to do good. Pray that God will move the stumbling blocks.

Stupidity is the basic building block of the universe.

Mentally prepare ourselves for excellence...block out the noise of everyday distractions and tap into the quietness of meaningful focus, intent and a winning mindset.

The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.