Block Quotes

• I don't believe in writer's block, writing well is very easy; it's writing horribly, the horrible work necessary to do to get to writing well, that is so difficult one may just not be willing to do it.

  

  Dean Young
  • Writing
  • Willing
  • Horrible

• I had to educate him that there was no such thing as writer's block, that writers write when they write, and when they don't, they don't.

  

  Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Write
  • Block
  • Educate

• There are two things you need to ask for, to open up that channel, so you get the light. One is humility, because our ego is always going to block that guidance, and so you ask for humility.And the second thing you're going to ask for is courage, because what you're going to be asked to do is bigger than what you think you can do.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Thinking
  • Ego
  • Humility

• I loved being on stage with heroes of mine, like Gregg Edelman and Jimmy Walton, and the lovely Chita Rivera and Stephanie J. Block.

  

  Will Chase
  • Stage
  • Loved
  • Heroes

• If you start thinking about who's going to read it [you're writing], or what grade will you get, or is it going to win that award, or are you going to get into this graduate program, you're blocking the light, and the light is that guidance and love we get when we open up our hearts and are guided by our higher selves, or God, or the Buddha Lupe Buddha and the Virgin of Guadalupe fused together, as they are in the tattoo on Sandra's right arm, or whatever you believe in, or love.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Believe
  • Writing
  • Heart

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

  

  Susan Lucci
  • Block
  • Shyness
  • Stumbling

• I went jogging up on Mulholland. In the middle of my run I had some form of asthma attack and couldn't even walk. I couldn't get a ride one block to my house. I thought I was going to die.

  

  Esai Morales
  • Die
  • Attack
  • Jogging

• To make every little thing special is to grant a magical quality to your life. Once your life becomes charmed in such a way, whatever blocks you may have experienced in the past melt in the light of that inner energy pouring from your heart. From a businessman's point of view, this is beautiful, for everything you touch turns to gold. Further, it helps you to believe in yourself. In seeing worth all around, you make your every act an affirmation of your strength.

  

  Stuart Wilde
  • Believe
  • Heart
  • Past

• South America must have lain alongside Africa and formed a unified block which was split in two in the Cretaceous; the two parts must then have become increasingly separated over a period of millions of years like pieces of a cracked ice floe in water.

  

  Alfred Wegener
  • Years
  • Block
  • Parts

• The official keepers of the Holocaust wage an international campaign to silence the disturbing questions. Most people never even hear the revisionist position because Jewish forces dominate the media and block mainstream access to material that questions Holocaust orthodoxy.

  

  David Duke
  • People
  • Silence
  • Force

• The building block of every community is family.

  

  Paul Singer
  • Family
  • Community
  • Block

• The president deserves someone who can block for his policies.

  

  Judd Gregg
  • President
  • Policies
  • Deserves

• There are a million things one might do with a block of wood. But what do you think might happen if someone, just once, believed in it?

  

  Suzanne Weyn
  • Things
  • Believed
  • Block

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

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Mind
  • Fear
  • Confidence

• The World Trade Center was for me not only out of scale vertically, but it was also out of scale in plan. It occupied several blocks that were all massed together.

  

  Cesar Pelli
  • World
  • Together
  • Plans

• Sometimes when you are standing still and it’s snowing, you think that you hear music. You can’t tell where it’s coming from either. I wondered if we all really did have a soundtrack, but we just get so used to it that we can’t hear it anymore, the same way that we block out the sound of our own heartbeat.

  

  Heather O'Neill
  • Sometimes
  • Sound
  • Snow

• Blocks usually stem from fear of being judged. If you imagine the world is listening, you'll never write a line.

  

  Erica Jong
  • World
  • Writing
  • Listening

• Your words are building blocks of which you construct your life and future.

  

  Charles Capps
  • Building
  • Block
  • Constructs

• It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought, a process stumbling through emotional entanglements, sudden irrational convictions, involuntary gleams of insight, rationalized prejudices, and blocks of panic and inertia, finally to reach a completely incommunicable intuition.

  

  Northrop Frye
  • Emotional
  • Intuition
  • Prejudice

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

  

  William Barclay
  • Men
  • Path
  • Block

• If you deny yourself access to the child within because you're too serious, you also block your connection to the divine Light and your feminine self. Every creator who's any good uses their feminine side to create with.. Whether a scientist working on a hunch, a painter working on the interplay of colors, or a musician dealing with the juxtaposition of notes and chords.

  

  Stuart Wilde
  • Children
  • Serious
  • Musician

• The thing that you've got to be always conscientious of when you're playing a team that likes to chop block, ... is not overemphasizing to the point that they're looking for the chop block instead of going to make the play.

  

  Bret Bielema
  • Team
  • Play
  • Conscientious

• Judging others blocks me from inner peace

  

  Suki Waterhouse
  • Peace
  • Judging
  • Block

• When faced with writer's block, lower your standards and keep going.

  

  Sandra Tsing Loh
  • Standards
  • Block

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