Block Quotes

Thoughts can increase our understanding of a subject, or they can just as easily constrict or block our understanding of a subject. It very much depends upon the language we are thinking in.

It is a tremendous waste of energy to try to block anyone else. That same energy could be applied to furthering your own success.

We learn to avoid blocking others, interfering with others, because that will decrease our happiness, slow our vibratory rate and generally bring us down and make us miserable.

Thought is the ultimate tonal. Each thought is like a dike that blocks out the nagual.

There are powers and forces that will seek to block you, to make your life more difficult. But if you are up to the study, then you continue to progress without getting discouraged.

An imbalanced association is when one or both parties become abusive and takes unfair advantage, tries to block another's enlightenment or success.

Stress is actually the number one thing that blocks people from their happiness and well-being and from getting what they want.

Stressing and obsessing over your vision blocks it.

She gave him such a look... Man oh man, if looks could kill. That one might have totalled a city block.

A fool-proof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble; then you chip away everything that doesn't look like an elephant.

Top-shelf fiction, a Crown Royal ride into the heart of Night and New York. Con Lehane's work is reminiscent of the best of Lawrence Block, which is to say that this is very good stuff, indeed.

It's important for young men and women who look at the Nebraska champs to understand that quality of life is more than just blocking shots.

I park two blocks away from Nickelodeon studios and I hop on my skateboard and I skateboard the rest of the way to the studio.

I had gotten to the point where I just didn't want to perform anymore - I didn't want to be on the chopping block anymore. I started to want to withdraw and retreat from it.

Democracy and markets are both fundamental building blocks for a decent society. But they clash at a fundamental level. We need to balance them.

Marriage is the basic building block of civilization. We are redefining it at our own peril.

Many college text-books, which were a weariness and stumbling-block when I studied, I have since read a little with pleasure and profit.

I seen a pig so big it’d block out the sun.

The essential building block is...the true love that is impossible to define for those who have never experienced it and unnecessary to define for those who have.

Why are you measuring? This is how you block, delay, hinder, obstruct and deny his place in the life as a father.

Whenever a toddler sees a pile of blocks, he wants to tear it down.

Where I came from with the Twins, they were passionate about baseball. Through thick and thin, it was, 'Let's go.' It's something I have to get used to. I'm blocking it out as much as I can.

That's what makes best friends. It's not whether or not you live on the same block or go to the same school, but how you feel about each other in your hearts.

Spreadable butter is wonderful for cake-making: it's much easier to cream than the block type and slightly lighter because it's blended with oil.

I stand upon a block of stillness. It is more secure than any sidewalk. I bring with me my own sidewalk.

Love could never bloom in a concrete block room.

We don't have a unitary society anymore, you know; it's very fragmented. I look up and down my block in Silverlake and there is a different universe in every house.

Life has to flow. But if you start worrying about it, you block time.

You know, it's kind of a shame in a way but the more seasoned directors a lot of times have more difficult getting a job than first time guys. New kid on the block kind of thing.

The moment when I can see a student's block, name the challenge and watch them become fuller and more dynamic in front of their colleagues' eyes is as rich a moment in a boardroom as it is in a ring.

There's been this attempt to block Donald Trump, in primary candidates and Democrats, that - to try to make everything he says some sort of extreme overstatement.

I'm always amazed that if you pick up a script of something you played years ago, it all comes back so quickly. Even in your body, you remember your blocking and how it felt.

This is still a lot of blocking and tackling. I'm not seeing the kind of vision thing associated with a frothy market.

New York being what it is, our museums are vertical, not horizontal. That means the stumbling blocks to architectural clarity are unavoidable - but certainly surmountable.

It hurts to be around life. People don't understand how close death is, right over their shoulders, around the block, at the end of a street. It's everywhere.

We're still as confident, as optimistic as we ever were. You know we hit a little stumbling block here, but I think it's going to be good for us because we can learn from it.

Shun security, I advise aspiring novelists when they complain to me that they are stuck. Get disoriented. Maybe your agonizing writing block isnt agonizing enough. Your enemy is comfort.

Particular individuals do not recur, but their building blocks do.

This use of building blocks to generate internal models is a pervasive feature of complex adaptive systems.

When a new building block is discovered, the result is usually a range of innovations.

Maybe, I got a sense when [Star Wars] came out, and there were always these lines around the block. We didn't understand the popularity of Cheers until maybe five years into the series.

I was a good surfer because we grew up a block from the water, and my father took us to the ocean the way other fathers take their kids to the park.

Americans have an extraordinary love-hate relationship with the rich culture they've created. They buy, watch and read it even as they ban, block and condemn it.

Books aren’t just my defenses, the sandbags I use to fortify my position; they are also the building blocks of my soul, and I am the sum of all I read.

For want of a block, man will stumble at a straw.

I don't actually like blocking actors. I prefer giving actors freedom. They don't have to step on a precise mark with me. Instead of giving marks to the actors I like to give marks to the camera.

Moreover, nature's blocks had to be eternal-because nothing can come from nothing.

A demonstration of sincere concern can be a strong building block of love.

The president deserves someone who can block for his policies.

You just have to learn certain technical things, like where the camera is, not to block people's light in your own, to hit your marks, and that you do it kind of piecemeal.