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“In creation myths, a god shapes mud or clay into living form, much like a potter throws a pot or a sculptor reveals the statue within a block of marble. But a writer has to create his own clay or stone before he can begin shaping life from it.”

Writing Form Creation Shapes Stones Myth Block Pot Mud Clay Statues Potters Marble Sculptors Creation Myths

Author:Stuart Dybek

“A fellow will hack half a year at a block of marble to make something in stone that hardly resembles a man. The value of statuary is owing to its difficulty. You would not value the finest head cut upon a carrot.”

Men Years Values Half Cutting Stones Difficulty Fellows Block Finest Sculpture Marble Hacks Carrots Owing Half A Year

Book:The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished

Source: The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished

“Successful people see adversity as a stepping stone rather than a stumbling block.”

People Successful Stones Adversity Block Successful People Stumbling Stepping Stones Stumbling Blocks

Author:Shawn Achor

“A statue lies hid in a block of marble, and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter and removes the rubbish. The figure is in the stone; the sculptor only finds it. What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul. The philosopher, the saint, or the hero,--the wise, the good, or the great man,--very often lies hid and concealed in a plebeian, which a proper education might have disinterred, and have brought to light.”

Source: The works of ... Joseph Addison, with notes by R. Hurd

“The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as a sculptor works on his block of stone. In a sense the statue stoodthere from eternity. But there were a thousand different ones beside it, and the sculptor alone is to thank for having extricated this one from the rest.”

Thinking Mind Different Thousand Stones Eternity Block Data Thoughtful Statues Sculptors

Book:The Principles of Psychology

Source: The Principles of Psychology

“Falsehood is difficult to be maintained. When the materials of a building are solid blocks of stone, very rude architecture will suffice; but a structure of rotten materials needs the most careful adjustment to make it stand at all.”

Needs Difficult Building Materials Stones Structure Careful Architecture Block Falsehood Rude Rotten Adjustment

Book:Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley

Source: Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley

“I'm fat, but I'm thin inside. Has it ever struck you that there's a thin man inside every fat man, just as they say there's a statue inside every block of stone?”

Men Stones Fats Block Statues Fat Man Thin Man

Author:George Orwell

“A stepping-stone can be a stumbling block if we can't see it until after we have tripped over it.”

Ifs Stones Block Over It Stumbling Stepping Stones Stumbling Blocks

Author:Cullen Hightower

“Never be afraid to fail. Failure is only a stepping stone to improvement. Never be overconfident because that will block your improvement.”

Failing Stones Improvement Block Stepping Stones Afraid To Fail Overconfident

Author:Tatchakorn Yeerum

“What are stumbling blocks and defeat to the weak and vacillating are but stepping stones to victory to the determined soul.”

Soul Victory Stones Weak Defeat Determined Block Stumbling Stepping Stones Stumbling Blocks

Book:Exceptional Employee

Source: Exceptional Employee

“In time they sank and decayed, and nothing is left of them except an occasional impression in stones, in stones now found in deserts and on high mountain peaks. Birdless forests block the sun in uninhabited lands. Insects swirl in the air. And then, in a majestic, bloodthirsty, and mighty heave, the spinal columns of the vertebrates rise as monstrous lizards and fabulous creatures; dragons flinging their fearful bellows up to a steaming sky... Slowly they become birds, birds as light as undreamt dreams. The searing roars become birdsong, whimpering flutes on warm nights.”

“I have discovered the secrets of the pyramids, and have found out how the Egyptians and the ancient builders in Peru, Yucatan and Asia, with only primitive tools, raised and set in place blocks of stone weighing many tons!”

Found Secret Tools Stones Raised Ancient Block Primitive Asia Pyramids Builder Weighing Peru

Author:Edward Leedskalnin

“The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.”

Mind Stones Block Data Sculptors

Book:The Principles of Psychology

Source: The Principles of Psychology

“I suggest to you that it is because God loves us that he gives us the gift of suffering. Pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world. You see, we are like blocks of stone out of which the Sculptor carves the forms of men. The blows of his chisel, which hurt us so much are what make us perfect.”

Men World Giving Pain Form Suffering Hurt Perfect Stones Blow Block God Love Deaf Sculptors God Loves Us Chisels Suffering Pain

Author:C. S. Lewis

“The right attitude can transform a barrier into a blessing, an obstacle into an opportunity or a stumbling block into a stepping stone.”

Opportunity Attitude Blessing Stones Obstacles Block Positive Attitude Barriers Stumbling Stepping Stones Winning Attitude Stumbling Blocks

Author:Cory Booker

“Our wounds ultimately give us wisdom. Our stumbling blocks inevitably become our stepping stones. And our setbacks lead us to our strengths”

Giving Stones Wounds Block Setback Stumbling Stepping Stones Stumbling Blocks

Book:Family Wisdom From The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari

Source: Family Wisdom From The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari

“I understand how you could see something in the root of a tree, a crack in the wall, in an eroded stone or pebble. But marble? It comes off in blocks and doesn't evoke any image. It does not inspire.”

Doe Tree Inspire Wall Stones Roots Block Cracks Marble Evoke Pebbles

Author:Pablo Picasso

“Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.”

Art Inspiration Practice Stones Tasks Block Sculpture Statues Sculptors

Author:Michelangelo

“Be wild; that is how to clear the river. The river does not flow in polluted, we manage that. The river does not dry up, we block it. If we want to allow it its freedom, we have to allow our ideational lives to be let loose, to stream, letting anything come, initially censoring nothing. That is creative life. It is made up of divine paradox. To create one must be willing to be stone stupid, to sit upon a throne on top of a jackass and spill rubies from one’s mouth. Then the river will flow, then we can stand in the stream of it raining down.”

Ifs Want Doe Art Made Creative Clear Stupid Divine Willing Mouths Rain Flow Rivers Stones Block Manage Streams Dry Paradox Thrones Spills Rubies Creative Life Censoring Jackasses Dry Up

Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes

“A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.”

Inspirational Motivational Attitude Stones Optimism Block Optimistic Optimist Pessimist Stumbling Stepping Stones Stumbling Blocks

Author:Eleanor Roosevelt

“And yet every so often, the heart of America, shuddering with indignation, sends a nervous spasm through the gentle back of the Andes, and tumultuous shock waves assault the surface of the land. Three times the cuppola of proud Santo Domingo has collapsed from on high to the rhythm of broken bones and its worn walls have opened and fallen too. But the foundations they rest on are unmoved, the great blocks of the Temple of the Sun exhibit their gray stone indifferently; however colossal the disaster befalling its oppressor, not one of its huge rocks shifts from its place.”

“There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them.”

Use Rocks Depends Words Of Wisdom Stones Block Wise Man Once Said Stumbling Stepping Stones Teachers And Teaching Stumbling Blocks Bumps In The Road

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“And what are you doing here, Nicholas? Decided to watch me sleep?" "Yes," said Nick, and bowed is head over his sword again. He had tissues, oil, and sandpaper laid out on the windowsill in front of him, and a little stone block he was passing his sword up and down, very carefully. "I came to gaze upon your sleeping face. Only you had the blanket over your head, so I just had to gaze at a lump I thought was your sleeping face, and that turned out to be your shoulder. Which just wasn't as special." ~Nick and Mae”

Littles Said Faces Sleep Watches Special Fronts Stones Decided Oil Shoulders Passing Passings Block Up And Down Blanket Tissues Lumps Watch Me Mae Sandpaper

Author:Sarah Rees Brennan

“You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things!”

Stones Block Insult Sassy

Author:William Shakespeare

“Some knitters say that they buy yarn with no project in mind and wait patiently for the yarn to "speak" to them. This reminds me of Michelangelo, who believed that every block of stone he carved had the statue waiting inside and that all he did was reveal it. I think I've had yarn speak to me during the knitting process, and I've definitely spoken to it. Perhaps I'm doing it wrong, or maybe my yarn and I aren't on such good terms, but it really seems to me that all I say is "please" and all it ever says is "no".”

Thinking Mind Seems Speak Waiting Process Term Please Projects Stones Block Statues Knitting Yarn Knitters

Author:Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

“The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.”

Source: The Works of Goethe

“One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.”

“Why did the achievers overcome problems while thousands are overwhelmed by theirs? They refused to hold on to the common excuses for failure. They turned their stumbling blocks into stepping stones. They realized that they couldn't determine every circumstance in life but they could determine their choice of attitude towards every circumstance.”

Problem Choices Common Attitude Circumstances Negative Stones Overcoming Determine Excuse Block Overwhelmed Stumbling Stepping Stones Achiever Stumbling Blocks

Book:Maxwell 2in1 (Developing the Leader w/in You/Developing Leaders Around You)

Source: Maxwell 2in1 (Developing the Leader w/in You/Developing Leaders Around You)

“The Stone of Guilt in the River of the Mind, the block in the flow of intelligence.”

Mind Yoga Flow Rivers Stones Guilt Block

Author:Swami Nithyananda

“In the end, it all comes to choices to turn stumbling blocks into stepping stones.”

Ends Turns Choices Stones Block Stumbling Stepping Stones Stumbling Blocks

Author:Scott Peterson

“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