Quotes About Being Blocked

#1. How long were the stretches of toilsome tacking back and forth, of being blocked, of being thrown back again and again. But all that was annulled by the periods when I had my technique in hand and succeeded in doing what I wanted.

Kathe Kollwitz

#2. Most writers battle with periods of being blocked; it's almost an occupational hazard. But in the writing of his last and greatest novel, 'A Passage to India,' E. M. Forster got stuck for nine years.

Damon Galgut

#3. If are in a situation with too many people in your life and you want to go into higher attention, look in the mirror. You are being blocked. Do something about it. It might be hard.

Frederick Lenz

#4. I remember secretly going off and crying. All of a sudden I'm being blocked and have to be intimate in a scene, and I'm going, 'I can't even look people in the eye very well. How am I ever going to do this?'

Cathy Rigby

#5. You have to be willing to get back on that horse and try it again if the mood strikes. That was one of the great pieces of wisdom that I got early on in my career in terms of being blocked. If you get to a creative roadblock, you can sit there and rack your brain.

Dave Koz

#6. There's no point for me in being a writer and having all these blocked places where I feel I can't think freely and imagine freely. There just really is no point.

Binyavanga Wainaina

#7. I tried to hold on to this compassion, sensing its preciousness, but even as I reached to grasp it, it dissipated into wisps. No revelation can endure unless it is bolstered by a calm pure mind- and I'm afraid I didn't possess that.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#8. Your life is a book; make it a bestseller.

Shanon Grey

#9. Knowledge that is paid for will be longer remembered.

Nachman Of Breslov

#10. Innovative technologies such as cold fusion, and radical energy sources, including sonoluminescent-triggered fusion and anti-gravitational propulsion, are either being withheld or blocked by governments, old-fashioned science academia and multinational corporations.

Takaaki Musha

#11. I want to try for another record tomorrow. What was that last kind I had? With the chocolate chunks?"
"Stracciatella."
"I'm naming my first daughter after it."
"Lucky her.

Jenna Evans Welch

#12. Monsters can only live in hiding, covered by darkness and the shame wrapped up in the telling.

Elle Casey

#13. Fear is a cheap emotion, but I'm not going to tell you there's nothing to be frightened of. If Alfred Packer's cannibalism victims woke up the morning of their deaths humming "Don't Worry, Be Happy," they were mistaken.

Mark Darrah

#14. You could read the story of his entire life on his face in one glance.

John William Tuohy

#15. She grabbed her bag and strode to the front door, able to hear the murmur of the Hudson in the background. She wondered if the house had a water view, or if the trees blocked it. Probably didn't matter to a being who could fly up for a good vantage point.

Nalini Singh

#16. There is nothing that you cannot do.

Tao Porchon-Lynch

#17. This is what Zen means by being detached - not being without emotion or feeling, but being one in whom feeling is not sticky or blocked, and through whom the experiences of the world pass like the reflections of birds flying over water.

Alan Watts

#18. A symphony must be like the world. It must contain everything.

Gustav Mahler

#19. Don't fight a fact, deal with it.

Hugh Prather

#20. History informs us of past mistakes from which we can learn without repeating them. It also inspires us and gives confidence and hope bred of victories already won.

William H. Hastie

#21. So, according to the religious, you can only be good if you're scared of the consequences of being bad? Strange, I thought people were good because they care about each other?

David Alan Harvey

#22. Perhaps we have been dependent too long on language and thought, and need to reawaken our inherent sense of the subtle vibration of Energy-Consciousness. All you have to do is unblock the blocked parts and awaken the sleeping parts of your being to access it.

Ilchi Lee

#23. Man does not ask for nightmares, he does not ask to be bad. He does not will his own willfulness.

Anthony Burgess

#24. A man's pride will cause him to do things you never dreamed possible. He got fired up about being right and blocked out everything else.

Bette Lee Crosby

#25. My audience is God,
because who the hell else could understand me?

Margaret Atwood

#26. If everybody that voted in 2008 shows up in 2010, we will win this election. We will win this election.

Barack Obama