Block Quotes
1192 quotes by 1012 authors
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Stevie Wonder always smells so good... I'm like a DEA dog, I can smell people a block away!
— Gloria Estefan
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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…
— Esai Morales
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In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First…
— Freda Bright
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There is an authentic biology of hope. Belief and expectation - the key elements of hope - can block pain by releasing the brain's endorphins…
— Jerome Groopman
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Tomorrow may never come to us. We do not live in tomorrow. We cannot find it in any of our title-deeds. The man who owns…
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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Don't be content to be the chip off the old block - be the old block itself.
— Winston Churchill
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Writer's block is a phony, made up, BS excuse for not doing your work.
— Jerry Seinfeld
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People have writer's block not because they can't write, but because they despair of writing eloquently.
— Anna Quindlen
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Now, some people might look at something and let it go by, because they don't recognize the pattern and the significance. It's the sensitivity to…
— Jonas Salk
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Listening is crucial for any novelist. Stories & ideas abound. We too often talk about ourselves & block out the richness others may offer.
— Mark Rubinstein
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Respect the building blocks, master the fundamentals, and the potential is unlimited
— PJ Ladd
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Mount Harris is of basaltic formation, but I could not observe any columnar regularity in it, although large blocks are exposed above the ground. The…
— Charles Sturt
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We’re built of contradictions, all of us. It’s those opposing forces that give us strength, like an arch, each block pressing the next. Give me…
— Mark Lawrence
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At the core of all successful societies are procedures for blocking the advancement of bad men
— Paul Collier
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I often wonder if my knowledge about God has not become my greatest stumbling block to my knowledge of God.
— Henri Nouwen
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The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man.
— Roland Barthes
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Are you going to let the obstacles in your life be stumbling blocks or stepping stones? Choose the positive. You are the master of your…
— Bruce Lee
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No one ever gets talker's block. No one wakes up in the morning, discovers he has nothing to say, and sits quietly, for days or…
— Seth Godin
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Bad improvisers block action, often with a high degree of skill. Good improvisers develop action.
— Malcolm Gladwell
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If you want people to perform better, you reward them, right? Bonuses, commissions, their own reality show. Incentivize them. ... But that's not happening here.…
— Daniel H. Pink
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