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My family was always active, and our thing was family walks. Not walks around the block, but more like eight-mile hikes up mountains.
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.
Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble at a straw.
I hated having to go out on the block and scramble - that's the worst job in the world, especially if you ain't making any real money.
Truth telling is the first building block of character -- a quality that seems to be getting rarer and rarer in all-forgiving America.
Anytime I see someone blocking the aisle in the supermarket while talking on a phone, I want to ram that person with my shopping cart.
I can multitask very well. But I know exactly when to block off anything coming in from the outside and just stay focused on the film.
I am a firm believer that you can make a difference in someone's life - whether they're thousands of miles away, or on your own block.
Often, writer's block will occur when I don't understand a character or his/her motivations. So I will make notes analysing characters.
Laziness is the one common deficiency in mankind that blocks the establishment of a perfect world in which everyone leads a happy life.
To people who make moving ads that block the view of websites: Not only will we not buy from you, but we want shrews to eat your liver.
Working memory capacity is really the ability to hold and manipulate information while you're actively trying to block out distraction.
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.
If you don't educate yourself, you'll never get out of the starting block because you'll spend all your money making foolish decisions.
Come on fathers, don't hesitate, send them off before it's too late. Be the first one on the block to have your boy come home in a box.
The statue lies hid in a block of marble; and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter, and removes the rubbish.
There are a million things one might do with a block of wood. But what do you think might happen if someone, just once, believed in it?
The right attitude can transform a barrier into a blessing, an obstacle into an opportunity or a stumbling block into a stepping stone.
The stock market resembles a huge laundry in which institutions take in large blocks of each others washing ... without rhyme or reason.
The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block your visions of the future.
I've never experienced writer's block. When it's going really well, my body temperature goes up, and I'm flushed. I get quite delirious.
Many college text-books, which were a weariness and stumbling-block when I studied, I have since read a little with pleasure and profit.
Talent may get someone off the starting blocks faster, but without a sense of direction or a goal to strive for, it won't count for much
Mother always said that even when I was 3, I used to get the 6- and 7-year-old kids on the block and punch them and say, 'Listen to me.'
If you're so pro-life, do me a favour: don't lock arms and block medical clinics. If you're so pro-life, lock arms and block cemeteries.
I always try to block out an hour or so a day to read. Being a writer is a job, and reading helps train my brain in the right direction.
I'm the prime minister who removed 400 checkpoints, barriers, road-blocks and so on to facilitate the growth of the Palestinian economy.
Failure is merely feedback that there is something blocking the path of the emergence and expansion of the greatest version of yourself.
A snowdrift is a beautiful thing - if it doesn't lie across the path you have to shovel or block the road that leads to your destination.
I had to educate him that there was no such thing as writer's block, that writers write when they write, and when they don't, they don't.
In a matriarchy men should be encouraged to take it easy, for most women prefer live husbands to blocks of shares and seats on the board.
I think at some point during the course of the game, I will have an impact - whether it's blocking or whether it's catching the football.
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.
Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.
Caring about someone isn't complicated. It isn't easy. But it isn't complicated, either. Kinda like lifting the engine block out of a car.
Far from being accidental details, the properties of nature's basic building blocks are deeply entwined with the fabric of space and time.
Never be afraid to fail. Failure is only a stepping stone to improvement. Never be overconfident because that will block your improvement.
Why should antitrust laws be used to block mergers that the market, by the existence of willing buyers and sellers, shows to be desirable?
I am told many children block out the memory of trauma. In fact, the healing process can only truly begin when we are willing to remember.
When I'm rhyming it's all in my head... Like the slaves, when they were picking cotton, they would block out their minds. They would sing.
Trying to write books with a subject matter or in a genre or style you're not familiar with is the best way to find the Big Block looming.
I think I was always driven because I came from absolutely nothing. I was that piece of rubbish from a block of flats on a council estate.
You will never work through writer's block if you walk away from your typewriter. That will only make it easier to walk away the next time.
It's important for young men and women who look at the Nebraska champs to understand that quality of life is more than just blocking shots.
As my mind can conceive of more good, the barriers and blocks dissolve. My life becomes full of little miracles popping up out of the blue.
Every time we've moved ahead in IBM, it was because someone was willing to take a chance, put his head on the block, and try something new.
Listening is crucial for any novelist. Stories & ideas abound. We too often talk about ourselves & block out the richness others may offer.
Our wounds ultimately give us wisdom. Our stumbling blocks inevitably become our stepping stones. And our setbacks lead us to our strengths
Convince yourself that you are working in clay, not marble, on paper not eternal bronze: Let that first sentence be as stupid as it wishes.