Block Quotes

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.

When I was 15, they changed the playground rules because I was dominating everything and blocking everything that came my way.

For decades, we've been trying to cook up the building blocks of life, in the lab, and recreate the origins of it all, but the parts didn't seem to fit together, until now.

Don’t waste time waiting for inspiration. Begin, and inspiration will find you.

He is free who knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide at each step, the course of his life, and who lives in a society which does not block the exercise of that power.

Sound comes to us over time. You don’t get a snapshot of sound. Therefore, what you notice with sound, the essential building block, is change.

When we were at the Apollo, Holiday was a block away. I asked her for her autograph.

You can go one block to the next in San Francisco and get a completely different opinion of what the issue is.

If you don't educate yourself, you'll never get out of the starting block because you'll spend all your money making foolish decisions.

There's just something about Highbury that is difficult to describe. When you first arrive, you hardly see the stadium and wonder where it is but then you find it between two blocks of flats

Failure is merely feedback that there is something blocking the path of the emergence and expansion of the greatest version of yourself.

When you come to the fight Don't block the halls and don't block the door, for y'all may go home after round four.

Far from being accidental details, the properties of nature's basic building blocks are deeply entwined with the fabric of space and time.

If science could get rid of consciousness, it would have disposed of the only stumbling block to its universal application.

158 Lewis Avenue between Lafayette and Van Buren, that was back durin days of hangin' on my bed-stuy block

One should, when overwhelmed by the shadow of a giant, move aside and see if the colossal shadow isn't merely that of a pygmy blocking out the sun.

If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.

Our addiction to always being right is a great block to the truth. It keeps us from the kind of openness that comes from confidence in our natural wisdom.

Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically - for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block of good manners. That may seem mildly shocking to a moralist - but then what isn't?

In the end, it all comes to choices to turn stumbling blocks into stepping stones.

Racism may be as systemic as it always was. It is the great problem of America. It's the one stumbling block that I don't believe was ever smoothed over.

The one person who most blocks you from a full, happy, and successful life is you.

Old unhealthy thoughts can block off inspiration and motivation. Dropping them releases a strong flow of power through the mind.

Faith in God is the instrument which enables men and women to remove the hills of difficulty which block their path.

You know what my greatest personal stumbling block is? My shyness.

A book that is shut is but a block.

Kids have what I call a built-in hypocrisy antenna that comes up and blocks out what you're saying when you're being a hypocrite.

[Angels] aid us in our personal mission. We have to learn to listen, for if we block the angels out, they become only the fairy beings of dreams and pleasant stories.

Turn your stumbling blocks into steppingstones to success.

Was it always my nature to take a bad time and block out the good times, until any success became an accident and failure seemed the only truth?

San Francisco itself is art, above all literary art. Every block is a short story, every hill a novel. Every home a poem, every dweller within immortal. That is the whole truth.

Be trustworthy. Steadiness and integrity lead to energetic opening in the other as the blocks in relating dissolve away with deepening trust over time.

Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.

The Chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chessboard, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem

The path to inspiration starts upon the trails we've known; each stumbling block is not a rock, but just a stepping stone.

Load up your mind with pictures capturing your preferred tomorrow. Put the remembrances of the past in a place where they won't block your view.

In a matriarchy men should be encouraged to take it easy, for most women prefer live husbands to blocks of shares and seats on the board.

There is no such thing as writer's block. There is only not enough information. If you can't write, learn something.

I was born and raised in St. Louis, and this little town, eight blocks away, place no one ever heard of, a black man there commands the attention of the world for months? That ain't my world.

Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?

As a kid, I think I rearranged the rooms of almost every house on the block.

I never ride horseback now because my sympathy with the under-dog is too keen. After we have a gone a few blocks, I always dismount and say to the horse: 'We'll walk it together, old dear.

It's quite possible that Beckham suffers from a mental block at big tournaments

I've learned... That simple walks with my father around the block on summer nights when I was a child did wonders for me as an adult.

Fear and fatigue block the mind. Face both, then courage and confidence flows into you.

Many a professing Christian is a stumbling-block because his worship is divided. On Sunday he worships God; on weekdays God has little or no place in his thoughts.

My man slangs rocks like up the block, 143RD and Amsterdam by the smoke shop

Utopians...consider individual freedom as the stumbling block on which the grandiose idea of mankind's totalization may flounder.

The stock market resembles a huge laundry in which institutions take in large blocks of each others washing ... without rhyme or reason.

Intellectual understanding blocks empathy.