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“I was never good at painting. The great turning point came when I had a block of wood and I carved a shape into the wood and put a small piece of timber into that space - like a negative - and so it made an endless column, only inward.”

Made Space Pieces Painting Shapes Negative Woods Endless Block Inward Columns Turning Points Timber Small Pieces

Author:Carl Andre

“Why carve? It's a better sculpture that way. I'll never improve the block. So I just started using uncarved blocks.”

Way Block Sculpture

Author:Carl Andre

“When we hunt or fish, we deliberately kill a defenseless being who wishes us no harm. This is a direct violation of the First Precept. It is absolutely forbidden to Buddhists. As to eating meat, we know that the only way we can obtain it is for an animal to be killed. Therefore, when we eat meat, it is our intent that an innocent animal should die to satisfy our addiction to flesh. And that underlying intention, no matter how well hidden behind a smokescreen of rationalizations will block the growth of compassion and create negative karma.”

“We can remove the blocks to realizing our Higher Power by experiencing (including living in the Now), remembering, forgiving and surrendering (these five realizations can be viewed as being ultimately the same). Regular spiritual practices help us with this realization. (138)”

Helping Remember Spiritual Realizing Practice Five Higher Forgiving Including Block Realization Remove Spiritual Practice Higher Power Live In The Now

Book:Healing the Child Within: Discovery and Recovery for Adult Children of Dysfunctional Families (Recovery Classics Edition)

Source: Healing the Child Within: Discovery and Recovery for Adult Children of Dysfunctional Families (Recovery Classics Edition)

“The first draft is for YOU, the writer; the second and subsequent drafts are for the reader. Trying to do both things at once — figuring out what we want to say, while also fashioning it for another human being to read — is the cause of writer’s block.”

Want Trying Firsts Humans Causes Human Beings Reader Block Writer's Block

Author:Karen Karbo

“We were in the heart of the ghetto in Chicago during the Depression, and every block - it was probably the biggest black ghetto in America - every block also is the spawning ground practically for every gangster, black and white, in America too.”

Heart America Black White Block Chicago Black And White Ghetto Gangsters Black Ghetto

Author:Quincy Jones

“For decades, we've been trying to cook up the building blocks of life, in the lab, and recreate the origins of it all, but the parts didn't seem to fit together, until now.”

Trying Seems Together Building Fit Decades Block Cooks Labs Building Blocks

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“I went from being just a kid to all of a sudden not being able to walk a block without a man waggling his tongue through his fingers, which is disgusting. I mean, I was 13 and suddenly I'm trying to see myself through the eyes of men, trying to figure out why I'm getting this reaction from them versus just being able to walk through the world whole.”

Men World Trying Mean Whole Eye Kids Able Walks Figures Fingers Tongue Reactions Block Disgusting Just Being Versus Through The Eyes

Author:Rose McGowan

“I had writers block for months afterwards because I was just so taken aback by all of the sounds I was hearing. It's almost like hearing the most beautiful music you've ever heard, so you're like, "What's the point of me making anything?" It was this living sonic organism so the idea of recording something just seemed like taking this living thing and mummifying it.”

Ideas Beautiful Sound Taken Heard Months Hearing Block Organisms Living Things Writer's Block Beautiful Music

Author:Taraka Larson

“I don't believe in writer's block. There are good days when you're writing and less good days. I've learned that if it's not happening to walk away and return later. I doodle a lot and often get my best ideas with a pencil in my hand while I'm doodling. The problem is, sometimes I lose my doodles and that's bad!”

Ifs Writing Believe Ideas Sometimes Problem Hands Loses Walks Return Happenings Don't Believe Block I've Learned Pencils Good Day Writer's Block Doodling

Author:Judy Blume

“Remember I came to Albuquerque to do a hair and makeup test and wardrobe fitting; you guys were already shooting. It's tough when the movie's already started and you kind of show up. You're the new kid on the block. I walked onto the set and Tommy [Lee Jones] was about to do the scene. I just kind of walked up to him. I was shaking, but I just gave him this big hug and he just had nothing to say. He was like, 'Gotta go to work now.' I had a great time working with him."”

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Author:Charlize Theron

“The government and its prosecutors are continually trying to block my efforts to win my freedom and expose their judicial wrong doings; they systematically try to block me from obtaining FBI files which I know would exonerate me. I don't know the exact conditions of everybody else, but I do know that I have been denied adequate and proper health care and I suffer greatly from that.”

Knows Trying Has Beens Government Care Suffering Winning Effort Conditions Block Health Care Denied Adequate Files Fbi Judicial Obtaining Doings Prosecutor Wrong Doings

Author:Leonard Peltier

“It was some UN agency that issued a report saying we're beyond the point of return here. And there was a picture of a polar bear on a little, tiny block of ice, which is a fraudulent - there are more polar bears than ever. The arctic ice caps are not melting. There's so much garbage out there.”

Littles Return Bears Tiny Block Ice Agency Reports Garbage Here And There Caps Melting Arctic Polar Bears

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“There's been this attempt to block Donald Trump, in primary candidates and Democrats, that - to try to make everything he says some sort of extreme overstatement.”

Trying Trump Democrat Extremes Block Primaries Candidates Overstatement

Author:Jeff Sessions

“The specific trigger for me was when the President [Barack Obama] put Medicare and Social Security on the chopping block. Why I got into the race - it just seemed unconscionable that the Democrats were leading the charge.”

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Author:Jill Stein

“Work on psychological blocks like shame and guilt - they falsely color your reality.”

Reality Color Shame Guilt Block Psychological Shame And Guilt

Book:Super Brain: Unleashing the Explosive Power of Your Mind to Maximize Health, Happiness, andSpiritual Well-Being

Source: Super Brain: Unleashing the Explosive Power of Your Mind to Maximize Health, Happiness, andSpiritual Well-Being

“I embrace everybody, but you work everybody and each song at a time to who it is for. I believe that's how you build a palace. You build a palace one block at a time and then you'll have what you want. That's how it goes.”

Want Believe Song I Believe Embrace What You Want Block Palaces

Author:B.J. The Chicago Kid

“Biologically speaking the Afro-Asiatic block is in the ascendancy - always remember that both Negro and White are minority groups - the largest race is the Mongoloid group.”

Remember White Race Groups Block Minorities Afros Ascendancy Minority Groups

Author:William S. Burroughs

“Be trustworthy. Steadiness and integrity lead to energetic opening in the other as the blocks in relating dissolve away with deepening trust over time.”

Integrity Opening Block Trustworthy Energetic Steadiness

Author:John Friend

“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.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Believe Heart Self Light Together Winning Arms Higher Program And Love Block Guidance Grades Awards Graduates Tattoo Virgins Higher Self Guadalupe

Author:Sandra Cisneros

“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.”

Thinking Needs Two Light Asks Can Do Humility Ego Bigger Block Guidance Two Things

Author:Sandra Cisneros

“The ego's blocking the light from coming.”

Light Ego Block

Author:Sandra Cisneros

“If you can't fall asleep, learn how to meditate. I would recommend you listen to a beautiful tape called Spiritual Power, Spiritual Practice [Energy Evaluation Meditations For Morning and Evening, 1998]. It was the one that got me out of my writer's block when I was writing Caramelo. It's by Carolyn Myss.”

Ifs Writing Beautiful Spiritual Fall Energy Practice Morning Meditation Block Evening Tape Spiritual Practice Evaluation Writer's Block Spiritual Power

Author:Sandra Cisneros

“Some guys are football smart and they're not smart in other ways. Other guys get 1500 on their SATs and can't get a double-team block right. No, that definitely, in my experience, sometimes it correlates, sometimes it doesn't. I don't think you just take it for granted.”

Thinking Way Sometimes Guy Team Football Smart Block Granted Sat Other Guys

Author:Bill Belichick

“If the most you can do right now is walk around the block, then do that, and you will be surprised how quickly you increase your endurance and enthusiasm for moving and breathing.”

Ifs Moving Can Do Walks Right Now Increase Block Enthusiasm Breathing Endurance

Author:Deepak Chopra

“Then there was a kid in the neighborhood about three blocks away, his name was Bobby Beavis.”

Kids Three Names Block Neighborhood Beavis

Author:Mike Judge

“It could be the old man I see at the store or the chick I see walking down the block. Normal people that are everywhere you go. That's who I make records for and I don't expect all of them to give me pay $11.99 to hear my record.”

People Men Giving Pay Records Walking Normal Give Me Stores Block Old Man Chicks

Author:Mic Geronimo

“I mean family is more important than anything in life. Family is important than my crew, D-Block, my rap career anything... It's the most important aspect of a person's life.”

Mean Persons Important Careers Aspect Rap Block Crew Family Life Anything In Life

Author:Styles P

“I put that in my management's hands and my company's hands. We sit down all together, the family, D-Block, my management and I go build with KOCH, the distributor. You open up your own sites, you get your MySpace, you get your websites and get your little digital team on the side... and that's how you handle that.”

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Author:Styles P

“I always go into a blocking rehearsal with an anchor, with a blocking plan. And sometimes they'll step into the room and they'll be in costume and you're like, "That sucks, that's not going to work. Let's think of something new."”

Thinking Sometimes Rooms Steps Plans Block Something New Costumes Going To Work Rehearsal Anchors

Author:Ava DuVernay

“If you behave like a good citizen, and you upgrade and improve your property, your reward will be the government will take more money from you. So using that analogy, you should let your house become the shithole on the block and they'll reduce your taxes and you'll pay less. Be a bad citizen with your neighbors, right? You'll save money then.”

Ifs Should Government House Pay Citizens Taxes Property Rewards Neighbor Block Behave More Money Saving Money Analogies Good Citizen

Author:Jesse Ventura

“The platform is either an enabler of creativity or it's a block.”

Creativity Smart Block

Author:Susan Lyne

“Life is a building. It rises slowly, day by day throughout the years. Every new lesson we learn lays a block on the edifice, which is rising silently within us. Every experience, every touch of another life on ours, every influence that impresses us, every book we read, every conversation we hear, every act of our commonest days, adds something to the invisible building.”

Life Years Book Life Is Influence Building Lessons Conversation Lays Add Invisible Block Rising Impress Another Life Edifice

Author:J.R. Miller

“Question the Chestnuts. Chestnuts: the new name for boobs? No. NO. Why would you even say that? Get your mind out of the gutter. No, by "chestnuts" I mean, "those old pieces of writing advice that you hear as common refrain." 'Write what you know.' 'Adverbs give Baby Jesus hemorrhoids.' 'If you write a prologue, an orphan loses his sight.' All the "old saws" need to be put on the chopping block.”

“Stress is actually the number one thing that blocks people from their happiness and well-being and from getting what they want.”

People Want Wells Numbers One Thing Stress Block Well Being

Author:Gabrielle Bernstein

“Stressing and obsessing over your vision blocks it.”

Vision Stress Block Over You Obsessing

Author:Gabrielle Bernstein

“Why should the Democratic and Republican parties be in charge of the debates, especially at a time when the largest block of voters has repudiated the Democratic and Republican parties? Why are they still in charge?”

Should Stills Party Republican Democratic Debate Block Voters Republican Party

Author:Jill Stein

“I think didactic art is boring. I mean, I love it in terms of, like, some of the historical precedents that I've learned from. You needed that. We needed those building blocks in terms of - you know, when I look at a great Barbara Kruger, for example, and you're thinking about, you know, the woman's position in society - you know, she found a way of making it beautiful, but at the same time it's very sort of preachy, you know what I mean?”

“My conjecture is that most people will refuse to let go, even when their lives have become boring (at least in comparisons with possible lives lived by new generations). If this happens, there will eventually be no room for new generations. A kind of collective irrationality will lead to a bleak life for the last generation that decides to stay around. Unless we put and end to the human race (through global warming, for example), before this happens, individual egoism will block the path to a better world.”

“Mostly, people watch their shows online and they watch them in a block. They don't have to tolerate the commercials, and they also don't have to wait another week. People binge watch. It's interesting.”

People Shows Waiting Interesting Watches Week Block Online Tolerate Binge

Author:Tim Roth

“It's easy to be lazy when there's food lying around backstage or there's a fast-food joint a couple blocks away. But if you walk a little further, ask around a bit, of course there are exciting things to discover.”

Ifs Littles Lying Courses Asks Easy Bits Walks Couple Exciting Block Lazy Joints Fast Food Exciting Things

Author:Alex Kapranos

“If you've ever sang in falsetto, you know that your throat is between your voice and your mouth. In a standard voice, you sing from your belly. And when you sing in a falsetto, you're blocking that. It gives it a filter. It gives it a character. It's less revealing.”

Ifs Knows Giving Character Voice Standards Mouths Block Throat Belly Revealing Filters Falsetto

Author:Cass McCombs

“Well, there was stuff going on, heroic events. One was what used to be, and probably still is, the largest moving project in history. The headquarters of the Bell Telephone Company used to be brick. What they did was take the old brick building - with the operators in there saying, "Number please" and all that - and they put it through a quarter of a turn and moved it half a block!”

Wells Stills Moving Used Turns Stuff Numbers Half Company Events Building Please Projects Moved Block Used To Be Quarters Heroic Bells Telephones Bricks Operators Headquarters

Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“This condition [irony] has nothing to do with writer's block, a psychological syndrome, which is one of the few I have not diagnosed for myself!”

Conditions Block Psychological Irony Syndromes Writer's Block

Author:Shirley Geok-lin Lim

“Right now it is illegal for a service provider to censor or block a site because they don't like it or to privilege someone who pays them extra money. So it's basically a level playing field. I think it was a great victory. It doesn't solve all the problems of our time, but I think we've gotten a much better place.”

Thinking Problem Levels Pay Fields Victory Right Now Privilege Solve Block Our Time Extras Illegal Site Better Place Playing Fields Providers Great Victory Service Providers Level Playing Field

Author:Tim Wu

“So many states are putting very stringent regulations on women that block them from exercising that choice to the extent that they are defunding Planned Parenthood, which, of course, provides all kinds of cancer screenings and other benefits for women in our country.”

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Author:Hillary Clinton

“I think it's hard to talk about the Muslim world and Christian world as blocks.”

Thinking World Hard Christian Block Muslim World

Author:Samuel P. Huntington

“I do think that the idea of writer's block can be very self-defeating for most writers because it's taking a lot of things that are not only real problems, but that are manageable, solvable problems if you look at them in an individual fashion, and lumping them under the umbrella of something mysterious and vague, which makes it very, very difficult to address what's going on.”

Ifs Thinking Looks Ideas Real Self Problem Individual Difficult Fashion Block Mysterious Addresses Vague Umbrella Real Problems Writer's Block Manageable

Author:Emily Barton

“Maybe one of the reasons that I don't ever experience myself as having writer's block is I don't feel that I need to be producing every minute of every day.”

Needs Feels Reason Minutes Block Writer's Block

Author:Emily Barton

“New Kids on the Block are on season two [Full House ], so that was just a huge lifelong dream come true. Joey McIntyre is great. He is a real actor too; he is just not a famous boy-band musician.”

Two Real Dream Kids Actors House Boys Huge Band Musician Seasons Block Dreams Come True Lifelong Joey Boy Bands Full House

Author:Andrea Barber

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