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“There are powers and forces that will seek to block you, to make your life more difficult. But if you are up to the study, then you continue to progress without getting discouraged.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“The cause which is blocking all progress today is the subtle scepticism which whispers in a million ears that things are not good enough to be worth improving. If the world is good we are revolutionaries, if the world is evil we must be conservatives. These essays, futile as they are considered as serious literature, are yet ethically sincere, since they seek to remind men that things must be loved first and improved afterwards.”

Ifs Men World Firsts Enough Today Evil Literature Causes Millions Progress Serious Ears Block Revolutionary Subtle Good Enough Sincere Improving Essays Not Good Enough Scepticism

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Advocates for a single line of progress encounter their greatest stumbling block when they try to find a smooth link between the apparently disparate designs of the invertebrates and vertebrates.”

Trying Lines Progress Design Block Encounters Links Smooth Stumbling Stumbling Blocks Single Line Vertebrates Invertebrates

Author:Stephen Jay Gould

“In recovering from our creative blocks, it is necessary to go gently and slowly... These are baby steps. Progress, not perfection, is what we should be asking of ourselves.”

Should Steps Creative Progress Baby Perfection Asking Block Not Perfect Recovering Baby Steps Creative Block Progress Not Perfection

Book:Inspirations: Meditations from The Artist's Way

Source: Inspirations: Meditations from The Artist's Way

“Prudence is sometimes stretched too far, until it blocks the road of progress.”

Sometimes Progress Block Prudence

Book:Chinese epigrams inside out, and proverbs

Source: Chinese epigrams inside out, and proverbs

“Avoid letting temper block progress-keep cool.”

Progress Block Temper

Author:William Feather

“I don't believe in "writer's block". I try and deal with getting stuck by having more than one thing to work on at a time. And by knowing that even a hundred bad words that didn't exist before is forward progress.”

Trying Believe Deals Knowing Progress One Thing Hundred Don't Believe Stuck Block Writer's Block Bad Word Forward Progress

Author:Neil Gaiman

“Each and every incomplete thing in your life or work exerts a draining force on you, sucking the energy of accomplishment and success out of you as surely as a vampire stealing your blood. Every incomplete promise, commitment and agreement saps your strength, because it blocks your momentum, inhibits your ability to move forward, to progress and improve. Incomplete things keep calling you back to the past to take care of them.”

“AI systems will enable doctors to diagnose diseases and treat people better, so blocking that progress is probably one of the worst things you can do for making the world better.”

People World Can Do Progress Worst Disease Doctors Treats Block Worst Things

Author:Mark Zuckerberg

“The very properties of the human mind that provide an enormous scope for human genius in some domains will serve as barriers to progress in other domains, just as the properties that enable each child to acquire a complex and highly articulated human language block the acquisition of other imaginable linguistic systems.”

Mind Humans Children Language Progress Genius Property Complexes Enormous Block Acquire Barriers Human Mind Domain Scope Acquisition Human Language

Author:Noam Chomsky

“Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.”

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Book:Why We Can't Wait

Source: Why We Can't Wait