Blocked Quotes - Page 6

• A working brain is probably a lot like a map, where anybody can get from one place to another on the freeways. It's the nonworking brains that get blocked, that have dead ends, that are under construction like mine.

  Ned Vizzini

  Brain, Maps, Construction

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• Quietly, Macey went through her options. Even though the masked men were asking for cell phones, the gunmen were making so much noise that she was sure someone had already called 911. The obvious exits were blocked, and the elevators had no doubt been disabled. The men moved with confidence and order, but they weren’t trying to be quiet. There was nothing covert at all about this operation. Unlike the boy beside her.

  Ally Carter

  Boys, Men, Phones

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• Demandred blocked Lan's attack but he breathed hoarsely. "Who are you?" Demandred whispered again. "No one of this Age has such skill. Asmodean? No, no. He couldn't have fought me like this. Lews Therin? It is you behind that face, isn't it?" "I am just a man," Lan whispered. "That is all I have ever been.

  Robert Jordan

  Men, Skills, Age

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• Rafe asks him, could the king's freedom be obtained, sir, with more economy of means? Less bloodshed? Look, he says: once you have exhausted the process of negotiation and compromise, one you have fixed on the destruction of an enemy, that destruction must be swift and it must be perfect. Before you even glance in his direction, you should have his name on a warrant, the ports blocked, his wife and friends bought, his heir under your protection, his money in your strong room and his dog running to your whistle. Before he wakes in the morning, you should have the axe in your hand.

  Hilary Mantel

  Running, Dog, Morning

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• I can't hear what Jeremy says because my ears are blocked with my two Stanley Cup Rings.

  Patrick Roy

  Hockey, Two, Goalies

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• Persistence prevails, like a stream that is temporarily blocked by boulders and then collects force enough to overflow onward.

  Vernon Howard

  Perseverance, Persistence, Mind

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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 as unalterable facts. They then become labeled as 'conceptual necessities,' etc. The road of scientific progress is frequently blocked for long periods by such errors.

  Albert Einstein

  Errors, Long, Progress

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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 the wickedness of his creatures.

  Isaac of Nineveh

  Christian, Compassion, Overcoming

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• I remember the day my mother died, and it's still hard to talk about it. I just blocked it out.

  Peaches Geldof

  Mother, Remember, Stills

  "EXCLUSIVE: Peaches Geldof talks to ELLE". ELLE Interview, www.elle.com. March 11, 2012.

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• If are in a situation with too many people in your life and you want to go into higher attention, look in the mirror. You are being blocked. Do something about it. It might be hard.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mirrors, People, Looks

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• Every gift contains a danger. Whatever gift we have we are compelled to express. And if the expression of that gift is blocked, distorted, or merely allowed to languish, then the gift turns against us, and we suffer.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Motivational, Expression, Suffering

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• I’m a coward, I close my eyes. I don’t understand why God made sight the only sense that can be blocked off.

  Christopher Pike

  Eye, Sight, Coward

  Christopher Pike (2013). “Thirst No. 5: The Sacred Veil”, p.267, Simon and Schuster

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• Meditation is like a giant broom for sweeping away any stagnant or blocked energy that you may have buried deep in your body.

  Deborah King

  Meditation, Energy, Giants

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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 blocked up the way to knowledge, are entirely owing to our selves. That we have first raised a dust, and then complain, we cannot see.

  George Berkeley

  Philosophy, Math, Thinking

  A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge introduction, sec. 3 (1710)

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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 to a piece of writing. You cannot ruin it. You can only make it a little better a little at a time.

  Richard Bausch

  Writing, Pieces, Littles

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• This evolution towards a real responsibility for others is sometimes blocked by fear. It is easier to stay on the level of a pleasant way of life in which we keep our freedom and our distance. But that means that we stop growing and shut ourselves up in our own small concerns and pleasures.

  Jean Vanier

  Real, Distance, Mean

  Jean Vanier, Ann Shearer (1989). “Community and Growth”, p.78, Paulist Press

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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

  Art, Mistake, Creativity

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Oct 24, 2011

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• I've always sort of time-locked and mind-blocked myself in my 30s, and that's always the age I feel.

  Steven Spielberg

  Mind, Age, Feels

  "Spielberg & Lucas: The EW Q&A". Interview with Steve Daly, ew.com. April 18, 2008.

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• The kundalini runs through you. It runs through the ida and the pingala, the two nerve channels in the subtle body; but there's a central channel, the shushumna, which is blocked. When it runs through that, then you can use the mystical kundalini.

  Frederick Lenz

  Running, Buddhism, Two

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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

  Ideas, Perception, Intuition

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• When [Bill] Clinton came along, it sort of moderated a little bit, but Clinton had a different device for breaking unions called NAFTA [North America Free Trade Agreement]. Because the government was entirely lawless, employers could exploit NAFTA to threaten union organizers with transfer. It's illegal, but when you've got a lawless government, it doesn't matter if it's illegal. I think the number of union drives blocked increased by about 50 percent.

  Noam Chomsky

  Thinking, Government, Agreement

  Source: www.iww.org

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• [Sport officials] blocked their support of us. But those individuals [ Muhammad Ali, the Jim Browns, the Bill Russells, Kareem Abdul Jabbar ] were old enough, they were wise enough, and they knew their history and this is why they came out in support of us, because they knew that we had our finger on the right move.

  John Carlos

  Sports, Wise, Moving

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• There is something to the fact that when you're on stage or when you're playing someone else, you're able to transmute all the things inside you that maybe get a bit blocked by the wall of shyness, or the wall of anxiety, or [by] overthinking. They sort of fall away in that moment and channeled into something else.

  Emma Stone

  Wall, Fall, Overthinking

  "Extended transcript: Emma Stone". www.cbsnews.com. February 12, 2017.

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• Luckily my fans are so lovely and I haven't really had to - what's the phrase? - "Clap back at the trolls?" Every now and then I do get a troll that mentions my skin color and calls me ugly names, though, like "Dark Monkey." Most of the time those people have their pages blocked, or you can't even see their profile picture. I can't focus on that. What I've realized is that I have the power to control how I feel about what they say.

  Danielle Brooks

  Dark, People, Focus

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• I know many of you are hurting and angry about the economy, and I don't blame you. It's the worst economy since the Great Depression. When consumers can't buy and businesses won't expand for lack of customers, the government has to be the purchaser and employer of last resort. We learned that in the Great Depression, but Republicans obviously didn't - and they've blocked every jobs program I've offered.

  Barack Obama

  Hurt, Blame, Great Depression

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