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“Deposits of unfinished grief reside in more American hearts that I ever imagined. Until these pockets are opened and their contents aired openly, they block unimagined amounts of human growth and potential. They can give rise to bizarre and unexplained behavior which causes untold internal stress.”

Giving Humans Heart Causes Growth Grief Amount Behavior Stress Block Internals Pockets Bizarre Unfinished Deposits Unexplained

Author:Robert Kavanaugh

“In my clinical experience, the greatest block to a person's development is his having to take on a way of life which is not rooted in his own powers.”

Way Persons Destiny Development Block Rooted Clinicals

Book:Man's Search for Himself

Source: Man's Search for Himself

“If science could get rid of consciousness, it would have disposed of the only stumbling block to its universal application.”

Ifs Science Consciousness Universal Accounts Block Application Stumbling Stumbling Blocks

Author:Brand Blanshard

“158 Lewis Avenue between Lafayette and Van Buren, that was back durin days of hangin' on my bed-stuy block”

Bed Rap Block Vans Avenues Lafayette

Author:Big Daddy Kane

“The only truly secure system is one that is powered off, cast in a block of concrete and sealed in a lead-lined room with armed guards.”

Rooms Security Computer Casts Block Secure Concrete Security Systems Computer Systems Computer Security Computer Viruses Armed Guards

Author:Gene Spafford

“The path to inspiration starts upon the trails we've known; each stumbling block is not a rock, but just a stepping stone.”

Inspiration Known Path Rocks Angel Stones Block Trails Stumbling Stepping Stones Stumbling Blocks

Author:Charles Ghigna

“Whatever I design, it has to please my eye. If I go to work on an office block, I'll draw the office that I want to walk into. If it's a piece of crystal, it must feel the way I want it to feel in my hand. If it's women's wear, it must be something I'd like to see my wife dressed in.”

Ifs Way Want Feels Hands Eye Walks Pieces Wife Fashion Design Please Office Draws My Wife Block Crystals

Author:John Rocha

“In life most of us are highly skilled at suppressing action. Bad improvisers block action often with a high degree of skill. Good improvisers develop action.”

Action Skills Degrees Block Suppressing

Book:Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre

Source: Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre

“On dispersive ground, therefore, fight not. On facile ground, halt not. On contentious ground, attack not. On open ground, do not try to block the enemy's way. On the ground of intersecting highways, join hands with your allies. On serious ground, gather in plunder. In difficult ground, keep steadily on the march. On hemmed-in ground, resort to stratagem. On desperate ground, fight.”

Source: The Art of War (The Classic Lionel Giles Translation)

“This is the greatest stumbling block in our spiritual discipline, which, in actuality, consists not in getting rid of the self but in realizing the fact that there is no such existence from the first.”

Firsts Self Facts Spiritual Realizing Powerful Existence Discipline Block Stumbling Actuality Spiritual Disciplines Stumbling Blocks

Book:Zen and the Birds of Appetite

Source: Zen and the Birds of Appetite

“Forgiveness doesn't mean that what that person did was right or that you even have to get back into a relationship with that person. Forgiveness simply releases the debt they owe you so that God can release the debt you owe Him. Ask the Lord to search your heart and show you if there is any unforgiveness blocking His blessing in your life. Ask Him to show you more about this gift of forgiveness so that you can walk in the freedom and victory He has for you today.”

Ifs Heart Mean Persons Shows Today Asks Walks Lord Victory Blessing Forgiveness Debt Block Release Get Back

Author:Joel Osteen

“All of us have at least one great voice deep inside. People are products of their environment. A lucky few are born into situations in which positive messages abound. Others grow up hearing messages of fear and failure, which they must block out so the positive can be heard. But the positive and courageous voice will always emerge, somewhere, sometime, for all of us. Listen for it, and your breakthroughs will come.”

People Inspirational Grows Voice Born Situation Growing Up Environment Heard Products Lucky Messages Hearing Block Courageous Breakthrough Deep Inside Great Voice Positive Messages

Author:Pat Riley

“Positive reinforcement changes behavior for the better, while criticism stabilizes negative behaviors and blocks change.”

Behavior Negative Criticism Block Reinforcement Positive Reinforcement Negative Behavior

Author:Virginia H. Pearce

“The key to happiness: You may speak of love and tenderness and passion, but real ecstasy is discovering you haven't lost your keys after all. Women begin by resisting a man's advances and end by blocking his retreat. If you want to change a woman's mind, agree with her. If you want to know what a woman really means, look at her - don't listen to her.”

Ifs Knows Men Want Love Mind Looks May Mean Real Ends Passion Lost Speak Havens Keys Agree Block Life Changing Ecstasy Discovering Tenderness Retreat Really Mean Resisting Key To Happiness

Author:Rajneesh

“Israel uses sophisticated attack jets and naval vessels to bomb densely-crowded refugee camps, schools, apartment blocks, mosques, and slums to attack a population that has no air force, no air defense, no navy, no heavy weapons, no artillery units, no mechanized armor, no command in control, no army and calls it a war.”

“I learned from different guys I played with, too. The key was probably three people: The good Lord, the offensive linemen I played with and great fullbacks that could block very well.”

People Wells Different Guy Three Lord Football Keys Block Nfl Offensive Best Football Lineman Linemen Different Guys Offensive Lineman

Author:Earl Campbell

“I assured myself that I'd seen the most wicked block perpetuated by man or beast.”

Men Football Block Nfl Beast Wicked Assured Best Football

Author:Sid Luckman

“To block the construction of centralized power projects, as not being 'appropriate' or 'sustainable' is to condemn billions of people to continued poverty and disease-and millions to premature death.”

People Energy Poverty Millions Environment Disease Projects Climate Change Billions Block Appropriate Construction Premature Premature Death

Book:Eco-imperialism: Green Power, Black Death

Source: Eco-imperialism: Green Power, Black Death

“Was it always my nature to take a bad time and block out the good times, until any success became an accident and failure seemed the only truth?”

Success Accidents Block Good Times Bad Times

Author:Lillian Hellman

“The more horses you yoke the quicker everything will go - not the rending of the block from its foundation, which is impossible, but the snapping of the traces and with that the gay and empty journey.”

Impossible Journey Gay Empty Horse Foundation Block Crafts Yoke Snapping

Book:The great wall of China: stories and reflections

Source: The great wall of China: stories and reflections

“You really ought to read more books - you know, those things that look like blocks but come apart on one side.”

Knows Looks Book Reading Sides Ought Block

Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Nothing is more useless in developing a nation's economy than a gun, and nothing blocks the road to social development more than the financial burden of war. War is the arch enemy of national progress and the modern scourge of civilized man.”

Men War Nations Social Enemy Economy Progress Modern Development Gun Financial Burden Block Developing Useless Civilized Anti War Social Development No War Arches Scourge Financial Burden

Author:King Hussein I

“We remember the surge and we remember the Awakening -- when the abyss of chaos turned toward the promise of reconciliation. By battling and building block by block in Baghdad, by bringing tribes into the fold and partnering with the Iraqi army and police, you helped turn the tide toward peace.”

War Remember Turns Building Promise Army Police Chaos Awakening Block Tides Tribes Abyss Reconciliation Folds Iraq War Baghdad Building Blocks Partnering

Author:Barack Obama

“Spirituality can release blocks, lead you to ideas, and make your life artful. Sometimes when we pray for guidance, we're guided in unexpected directions. We may want a lofty answer and we get the intuition to clean our bedroom. It can seem so humble and picky and that you don't necessarily think of it spiritual guidance.”

Thinking Want May Ideas Sometimes Seems Spiritual Spirituality Answers Journey Praying Clean Humble Intuition Block Release Guidance Unexpected Bedroom Lofty Picky Spiritual Guidance

Author:Julia Cameron

“I've only suffered writer's block badly once, and that was during the writing of Chamber of Secrets. I had my first burst of publicity about the first book and it paralysed me. I was scared the second book wouldn't measure up, but I got through it!”

Writing Firsts Book Secret Scared Block Chamber Publicity Writer's Block

Author:J. K. Rowling

“I don't think that writer's block exists really. I think that when you're trying to do something prematurely, it just won't come. Certain subjects just need time, as I've learned over and over again. You've got to wait before you write about them.”

Thinking Needs Writing Trying Certain Waiting Subjects Block I've Learned Writer's Block Time Of Need

Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“Writer's block is a natural affliction. Writers who have never experienced it have something wrong with them. It means there isn't enough friction-that they aren't making enough of an effort to reconcile the contradictions of life. All you get is sweet monotonous flow. Writer's block is nothing to commit suicide over. It simply indicates some imbalance between your experience and your art, and I think that's constructive.”

Thinking Writing Mean Art Enough Natural Effort Sweet Flow Suicide Commit Block Contradiction Over It Affliction Constructive Reconcile Monotonous Writer's Block Friction Imbalance

Author:Stanley Kunitz

“Awareness is our true self; it's what we are. So we don't have to try to develop awareness; we simply need to notice how we block awareness with our thoughts, our fantasies, our opinions, and our judgments. We're either in awareness, which is our natural state, or we're doing something else.”

Needs Trying Self States Natural Opinion Fantasy Awareness Judgment Block Uplifting Our Thoughts True Self

Author:Joko Beck

“The Chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chessboard, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem”

Beauty Pieces Design Shapes Chess Block Visuals Alphabet Chess Pieces

Book:Marcel Duchamp, the box in a valise: De ou par Marcel Duchamp ou Rrose Sélavy : inventory of an edition

Source: Marcel Duchamp, the box in a valise: De ou par Marcel Duchamp ou Rrose Sélavy : inventory of an edition

“Marriage is one of the most important institutions we have. It binds families and society together. It is a building block that promotes stability. This Bill supports and cultivates marriage.”

Important Together Support Building Gay Institutions Bills Block Stability Gay Marriage Building Blocks Family Together

Author:Maria Miller

“The unwillingness to accept anything short of victory, that underlying fury, is the fundamental building block of my bottomless motivation to succeed. It is my credo in all that I do in life from battling cancer to bicycle racing.”

Motivational Success Motivation Accepting Building Victory Succeed Fundamentals Cancer Block Racing Fury Bicycle Building Blocks Credo

Author:Lance Armstrong

“So sweep away the sand an' dry the ocean, an' just pack the moon an' stars up in a cardboard box. And stop the clouds from chimin', block the sun from shinin',an' paint the sky a deeper shade of blue, 'cause my world's over without you.”

World Stars Causes Sun Sky Sweet Moon Ocean Blue Paint Clouds Boxes Deeper Block Dry Sand Shade Packs Without You Sweet Love Cardboard Boxes

Author:Kenny Rogers

“I've seen some springs that ended up being terrible winters. We human beings are gregarious. We can't live alone. For our lives to be possible, we depend on society. It's one thing to overturn a government or block the streets. But it's a different matter altogether to create and build a better society, one that needs organization, discipline and long-term work. Let's not confuse the two of them. I want to make it clear: I feel sympathetic with that youthful energy, but I think it's not going anywhere if it doesn't become more mature.”

“The block of marble is not the sculptor, and doesn't see that he's about to become a masterpiece... We're the block of marble and God is the sculptor, and the chisel is.... everything.”

Inspiration Faith Christian Inspirational Block Masterpiece Marble Sculptors Chisels

Author:Peter Kreeft

“[T]he man who, in the concrete pressure of a struggle for national independence by a single people, had the coolness, forecast, and capacity to introduce into a merely revolutionary document, an abstract truth, applicable to all men and all times, and so to embalm it there, that to-day, and in all coming days, it shall be a rebuke and a stumbling-block to the very harbingers of reappearing tyranny and oppression.”

“Its authors meant it to be... a stumbling block to those who in after times might seek to turn a free people back into the hateful paths of despotism. They knew the proneness of prosperity to breed tyrants, and they meant when such should re-appear in this fair land and commence their vocation they should find left for them at least one hard nut to crack.”

Source: Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)

“Once you have learned to fly your plane, it is far less fatiguing to fly than it is to drive a car. You don't have to watch every second for cats, dogs, children, lights, road signs, ladies with baby carriages and citizens who drive out in the middle of the block against the lights. . . . Nobody who has not been up in the sky on a glorious morning can possibly imagine the way a pilot feels in free heaven.”

“Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically - for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block of good manners. That may seem mildly shocking to a moralist - but then what isn't?”

People May Seems Lying Courses Building Block Manners Mutual Good Man Shocking Good Manners Building Blocks Moralist

Author:Quentin Crisp

“Now [Sue Grafton] loves writer's block, seeing it as a message from the psyche that the narrative is headed in the wrong direction.”

Writing Seeing Messages Block Narrative Songwriting Writer's Block Wrong Direction

Author:Colleen O'Connor

“Unlike some of my peers, I haven't really hit a writer's block. When I hit a block I just paint, which is an old crop rotation trick.”

Havens Paint Tricks Block Songwriting Peers Crops Writer's Block Rotation

Author:Joni Mitchell

“She gave him such a look... Man oh man, if looks could kill. That one might have totalled a city block.”

Ifs Men Looks Might Cities Block Insult

Author:Garrison Keillor

“The division of the United States into federations of equal force was decided long before the Civil War by the high financial powers of Europe. These bankers were afraid that the United States, if they remained in one block and as one nation, would attain economic and financial independence, which would upset their financial domination over the world. The voice of the Rothschilds prevailed... Therefore they sent their emissaries into the field to exploit the question of slavery and to open an abyss between the two sections of the Union.”

“One quality of entrepreneurship is just persistence, not giving up because you have road blocks and also not giving in because other people tell you that you're nuts. You are nuts and you should be proud of it. Stick with what you believe in.”

People Inspirational Giving Should Believe Quality Proud Giving Up Sticks Block Entrepreneurship Persistence Nuts Be Proud Not Giving Up Giving In

Author:Trip Hawkins

“When you come to the fight Don't block the halls and don't block the door, for y'all may go home after round four.”

May Home Fighting Four Doors Rounds Block Boxing Halls

Book:The Greatest: My Own Story

Source: The Greatest: My Own Story

“Once, when we were playing at the Apollo Theater, Holiday was working a block away at the Harlem Opera House. Some of us went over between shows to catch her, and afterwards we went backstage. I did something then, and I still don't know if it was the right thing to do—I asked her for her autograph.”

Ifs Knows Stills Shows House Theater Block Things To Do Right Thing Holiday Opera Apollo Autographs Harlem Opera House

Author:Ella Fitzgerald

“I remember queuing around the block in Sheffield when I was growing up. At that time, going to the cinema was really something special - there was something about the style of the real thing that is immeasurable nicer than multiplexes.”

Real Remember Growing Up Growing Special Style Block Cinema Real Things Something Special Sheffield

Author:Michael Palin

“The biggest lie is the lie we tell ourselves in the distorted visions we have of ourselves, blocking out some sections, enhancing others. What remains are not the cold facts of life, but how we perceive them. That's really who we are.”

Facts Lying Vision Cold Remains Block Perceive Who We Are Sections Facts Of Life Lies We Tell Ourselves

Author:Kirk Douglas

“I've learned... That simple walks with my father around the block on summer nights when I was a child did wonders for me as an adult.”

Children Night Father Simple Walks Wonder Summer Adults Block I've Learned I Have Learned Summer Nights

Author:Andy Rooney

“Everybody in Spain is sick of me. But in America, there's curiosity about the new kid on the block who doesn't speak English very well. The attention makes me feel vulnerable, which is something I hadn't felt in a while. But I like it.”

Feels Wells Kids America Speak Felt Attention Sick Curiosity Block Vulnerable Spain Speak English

Author:Javier Bardem

“Rock 'n' roll doesn't glorify God. You can't drink out of God's cup and the devil's cup at the same time. I was one of the pioneers of that music, one of the builders. I know what the blocks are made of because I built them.”

Knows Made Rocks Drink Devil Built Block Cups Rock N Roll Pioneers Glorify Builder

Author:Little Richard

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