Blocked Quotes

• Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.

  Tennessee Williams

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn't get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Ignorance, Men, Thinking

  "The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen Scientist (lecture II: "The Uncertainty of Values")". Book by Richard P. Feynman, 1998.

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• A blocked path also offers guidance.

  Mason Cooley

  Path, Guidance, Offers

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• Fear is like a giant fog. It sits on your brain and blocks everything - real feelings, true happiness, real joy. They can't get through that fog. But you lift it, and buddy, you're in for the ride of your life.

  Albert Brooks

  Life, Happiness, Fear

  "Fictional character: Bob Diamond". "Defending Your Life", www.imdb.com. March 22, 1991.

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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 I start listening to what my subconscious is trying to tell me, I can work out the problem and get moving again.

  Walter Jon Williams

  Moving, Taken, Writing

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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 is generally more research, or making more background notes, so the place and person can be more fully realized inside my own mind.

  Sarah Zettel

  Character, Mind, Stories

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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

  Inspirational, Years, Chance

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• This is certainly not the first case in which a merger approved in one place hasn't gone through in the other. There was a case last year where the merger between two EU companies was approved here and blocked in the U.S.

  Mario Monti

  Years, Two, Gone

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• Our cautious ancestors, when yawning, blocked the way to the entrance of evil spirits by putting their hands before their mouths. We find a reason for the gesture in the delicacy of manner which forbids an indecent exposure.

  George H. Mead

  Yawning, Hands, Evil

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• There were probably about five games in my career where everything was moving in slow motion and you could be out there all day, totally in the zone, and you don't even know where you are on the field, everything is just totally blocked out.

  Lawrence Taylor

  Motivational, Moving On, Football

  "Lawrence Taylor: Getting Blitzed". Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. May 31, 2005.

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• Another adverse factor was the way the Russians received continual reinforcements from their back areas, as they fell back. It seemed to us that as soon as one force was wiped out, the path was blocked by the arrival of a fresh force.

  Gerd von Rundstedt

  Eyebrows, Way, Path

  "The Other Side of the Hill". Book by Basil Henry Liddell Hart, p. 184, 1948.

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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 about that, but I wasn't prepared to go around and poke and hurt her.

  Judy Davis

  Mother, Hurt, Memories

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• The lightt of love flows out of our soul, but often it is blocked by our fear to show it.

  Nichkhun

  Soul, Flow, Shows

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• All roads are blocked to a philosophy which reduces everything to the word 'no.' To 'no' there is only one answer and that is 'yes.

  Victor Hugo

  Philosophy, Answers

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• The inability to open up to hope is what blocks trust, and blocked trust is the reason for blighted dreams.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Trust, Dream, Hope

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• Science today is locked into paradigms. Every avenue is blocked by beliefs that are wrong, and if you try to get anything published by a journal today, you will run against a paradigm and the editors will turn it down

  Fred Hoyle

  Running, Editors, Trying

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• Do you know what hurts so very much? It's love. Love is the strongest force in the world, and when it is blocked that means pain. There are two things we can do when this happens. We can kill that love so that it stops hurting. But then of course part of us dies, too. Or we can ask God to open up another route for that love to travel.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Love, Hurt, Pain

  Corrie ten Boom, Elizabeth Sherrill, John Sherrill (2006). “The Hiding Place”, p.60, Chosen Books

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• Many of us have a tendency to deny any negative feelings. We judge them as "bad" or "unenlightened" when, in fact, they are our stepping stone to enlightenment. Our so-called negative feelings or attitudes are really parts of ourselves that need recognition, love, and healing. Not only is it safe and healthy to acknowledge and accept all of our feelings and beliefs, it is necessary, if we are to get in touch with the fears and pockets of blocked energy that are holding us back from what we want.

  Shakti Gawain

  Attitude, Healing, Judging

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• thought without expression is dynamic and gathers volume by repression. Evolution when blocked and suppressed becomes revolution.

  Nellie L. McClung

  Expression, Revolution, Volume

  Nellie L. McClung (1915). “In Times Like These”, p.45, University of Toronto Press

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• Because we are living in a culture increasingly dominated by fear where many feel blocked.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Culture, Feels

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

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• A lot of people who are depressed, I think, are suffering from blocked creativity.

  Patrick Califia

  Creativity, Thinking, People

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• With the best intentions, the job of acting can become a display of accumulated bad habits, trapped instincts and blocked energies. Working with the Alexander Technique has given me sightings of another way... Mind and body, work and life together. Real imaginative freedom.

  Alan Rickman

  Jobs, Real, Mind

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• Being blocked, being uncertain, sitting there not knowing, waiting, abiding with it: this is the work. If you don't have the tolerance for that you're in great trouble. If you want to call it a writer's block... that doesn't seem a very useful name for that kind of abiding that I think is the essence of the work.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Block, Thinking, Essence

  Big Think Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. September 25, 2010.

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• In black and white there are more colors than color photography, because you are not blocked by any colors so you can use your experiences, your knowledge, and your fantasy, to put colors into black and white.

  Anders Petersen

  Photography, Black And White, Color

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