Blocked Quotes
169 Blocked quotes by 151 unique authors
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The morning woods were utterly new. A strong yellow light pooled beneath the trees; my shadow appeared and vanished on the path, since a third…
— Annie Dillard
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Whatever is flexible and living will tend to grow; whatever is rigid and blocked will wither and die.
— Laozi
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Once we have the infrastructure in Africa, it should not be blocked by borders.
— Jacob Zuma
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Language [can] be expressed . . . by movements of the hands and face just as well as by the small, sound-generating movements of the…
— Harlan Lane
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I had my first kiss when I was 11, but I think I've blocked it out of my mind because it was so bad. I'm…
— Niall Horan
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If you want to be a writer, write. Write and write and write. If you stop, start again. Save everything that you write. If you…
— Anne Rice
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It turns out that creativity isn’t some rare gift to be enjoyed by the lucky few—it’s a natural part of human thinking and behavior. In…
— Tom Kelley
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I tell my students there is such a thing as 'writer's block,' and they should respect it. You shouldn't write through it. It's blocked because…
— Toni Morrison
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If you want to learn to trust your vibes, you must maintain a peaceful and relatively calm attitude. When you're tense, nervous, or anxious, your…
— Sonia Choquette
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If there is no humility, love remains blocked.
— Pope Francis
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Allow for many paths to your goal. Do not fixate on one path, because then you are likely to give up when that path is…
— Po Bronson
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Creative power has to filter through our beliefs, attitudes, emotions, and habits. The more negative and constricted our beliefs and patterns are, the more they…
— Shakti Gawain
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There has been plenty to criticize about President Obama’s handling of the economy. Yet the overriding story of the past few years is not Mr.…
— Paul Krugman
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Since money is energy, our financial affairs tend to reflect how our life energy is moving. When your creative energy is flowing freely, often your…
— Shakti Gawain
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Concepts which have proved useful for ordering things easily assume so great an authority over us, that we forget their terrestrial origin and accept them…
— Albert Einstein
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Just as a strongly flowing fountain is not blocked up by a handful of earth, so the compassion of the Creator is not overcome by…
— Isaac of Nineveh
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Intuition is perception via the unconscious that brings forth ideas, images, new possibilities and ways out of blocked situations.
— Carl Jung
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Don’t sit down in the middle of the woods. If you’re lost in the plot or blocked, retrace your steps to where you went wrong.…
— Margaret Atwood
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Creativity is often blocked by trying to be perfect. Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
— Tony Robbins
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When you reach a place where you feel blocked, lower your standards and keep on going. There is no possible way to do permanent damage…
— Richard Bausch
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Over the years, I've had hundreds of shots blocked. You've got to go in and take chances.
— John Havlicek
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Lorna was quite young when her mother died, and I think she's blocked out some of the memories. I talked to her a little bit…
— Judy Davis
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If I get blocked, it is generally because I don't know enough about some aspect of the story or the characters. The answer for this…
— Sarah Zettel
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I've learned that I get blocked when my subconscious mind is telling me that I've taken the work in a wrong direction, and that once…
— Walter Jon Williams
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Upon the whole, I am inclined to think that the far greater part, if not all, of those difficulties which have hitherto amused philosophers, and…
— George Berkeley
Who Wrote These Blocked Quotes
151 authors contributed a total of 169 Blocked Quotes, led by these top contributors: