Quotes About Blocking

#1. The discourse of work as pure emancipation depends on blocking out class and age constantly.

Nina Power

#2. The NFL offensive blocking is played differently; they use their hands instead of their head and shoulders.

Jim Otto

#3. Young people especially sometimes feel that the standards of the Lord are like fences and chains, blocking them from those activities that seem most enjoyable in life.

Ezra Taft Benson

#4. I don't like putting glasses on and watching 3D. I don't mind wearing glasses, but it's the dimness of the light and the fact that you're filtering the light. Whatever 3D process is being used is a filtration of light, which means it's blocking some of the light.

Peter Jackson

#5. I share a warning. Satan is extremely good at blocking spiritual communication by inducing individuals, through temptation, to violate the laws upon which spiritual communication is founded. With some, he is able to convince them that they are not able to receive such guidance from the Lord.

Richard G. Scott

#6. This is depression, it comes when your blocking. This is expression it comes when you're rocking

Grace Jones

#7. In the past, censorship worked by blocking the flow of information. In the 21st century, censorship works by flooding people with irrelevant information. People just don't know what to pay attention to, and they often spend their time investigating and debating side issues.

Yuval Noah Harari

#8. The essence of football was blocking, tackling, and execution based on timing, rhythm and deception.

Knute Rockne

#9. Especially those of us who use magic on a regular basis, have to work the wards." "So hes basically blocking members of the Authority?" "Hounds use magic every day. Doctors, teachers." "Point taken. Good to know she's safe from evil magic-using teachers.

Devon Monk

#10. Arden, Matt discovered, was a force to be reckoned with. She had a flair for fighting with two curved knives, about the length of daggers. She whirled around like a flailing tornado, blocking and striking with fury.
The Fire Stone

Riley Carney

#11. Evidence and economic theory suggests that control of the Internet by the phone and cable companies would lead to blocking of competing technologies.

Marvin Ammori

#12. But no relationship should rely on you blocking out the world. The world will always get in.

David Levithan

#13. Failure is merely feedback that there is something blocking the path of the emergence and expansion of the greatest version of yourself.

Mother Teresa

#14. The ego's blocking the light from coming.

Sandra Cisneros

#15. Eye blocking is a very powerful display of consternation, disbelief, or disagreement.

Joe Navarro

#16. Yes, I have a very small and mostly nerdy fan club. And much to my amazement, it grows a little larger every day. Apparently, these new recruits liked what they saw of my act on YouTube (even though everybody wishes that doofus blocking the camera had a smaller head).

James Patterson

#17. Powerful Leaders passionately dream big and are intentional with the emotional tension that may try to block it; what's blocking your dream?

Michael Walker

#18. I'm not out there to be blocking shots or fighting guys. I'm out there to produce offensively.

Patrick Kane

#19. Sandy was particularly destructive because it was prevented from moving back out to sea by a "blocking pattern" associated with the jet stream. There's debate about this, but one recent study suggested that melting sea ice in the Arctic may lead to such blocking.

Nicholas D. Kristof

#20. Blocking out is everyday, every drill, all the time. We run sprints every time someone does not blockout.

Rick Majerus

#21. Which to you have?' Mel asked, blocking the entry with his body. 'Talent or issues?' I paused for a moment, thought about this. 'Both,' I said at last.

Leila Sales

#22. I saw the infernal Thing blocking my path in the twilight. The dead travel fast, and by short cuts unknown to ordinary coolies. I laughed aloud a second time, and checked my laughter suddenly, for I was afraid I was going mad.

Rudyard Kipling

#23. 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.

Kirk Douglas

#24. Biological possibility and desire are not the same as biological need. Women have childbearing equipment. For them to choose not to use the equipment is no more blocking what is instinctive than it is for a man who, muscles or no, chooses not to be a weightlifter.

Betty Rollin

#25. I do a good job of blocking painful, unnecessary things from my memory.

Stephenie Meyer

#26. A stone can be used for building a house, blocking a road, or killing someone. The same is true for any idea.

Darrell Calkins

#27. I wonder what would happen if I started to believe it could be a possibility rather than blocking my focus by living in fear?

Nikki Rowe

#28. And how is dear Patrick the Protester? What's he on about this week? Saving the dormice? Blocking the bypass?" "Battling the logging industry, actually. Chaining himself to trees. But only at the weekend," I explained. "He doesn't have so much free time, now he's married." "Ah.

Susanna Kearsley

#29. Then we drove out past the sandy lots of stillborn subdivisions that had gone silent in '08. Eventually, a gray wall appeared, blocking the view of the gated community from the street.

James Patterson

#30. The more you know about your opponents, the more you learn how to beat them. Where the holes open to run through, blocking schemes, even down to player tendencies and what hand they like to carry the ball with.

Ray Lewis

#31. And we turned off and 30 miles south they're standing in the middle of our road blocking our way, stopped the car, got out, took us through the path in the woods, where the craft was on the ground.

Betty Hill

#32. However, at 17 years old, I was ready to face any challenge and tackle any obstacles blocking the road to my dreams. I was ready to take on the world. I was unstoppable. Bygones were bygones. The future, however uncertain it might be, awaited me.

Teodor Flonta

#33. The secret only harvests the hurt next to our hearts, blocking the sunlight from the spot where happiness is supposed to grow.

Lexi Ryan

#34. He had the feeling that there was something physically behind his eyes, blocking the light.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#35. This is still a lot of blocking and tackling. I'm not seeing the kind of vision thing associated with a frothy market.

Jermichael Finley

#36. I am much more involved in the filmmaking experience on Mag Seven. I'm much more involved in story elements, casting decisions, the writing of the show, the blocking of the scenes.

Michael Biehn

#37. So much can be learned by any filmmaker by studying his work, in terms of blocking, staging, editing and sound.

Ramin Bahrani

#38. One of Satan's most effective ways of blocking God's work is to convince us God can't use us to make an impact for Christ. But it isn't true. All around you are people no one else will ever be able to reach with the Gospel.

Billy Graham

#39. Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.

Abraham Maslow

#40. The 'Shawshank Redemption' has nothing to do with China, but that hasn't kept social media censors from blocking the movie's title from searches on the country's most popular Twitter-like microblogging service, Weibo.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#41. As we're standing there I realize we're almost exactly the same height. We must look like the dark and light side of an Oreo cookie, and I think how just as easily it could have been the other way around. She could be blocking my path; I could be trying to slip around her into the dark.

Lauren Oliver

#42. I look at the stars and I see you,
I look at the moon and I see you,
I look at the trees and I see you,
Please step aside, you are blocking my view.

Anonymous

#43. Phury stepped up in front of her, blocking the view as leaned down and put his mouth right to Throe's ear. As he squeezed Throe's biceps until it screamed in pain, the Brother growled softly, "You get hard and I'll castrate you as soon as she leaves."
Well .. If that wasn't crystal clear.

J.R. Ward

#44. If you're good, you fail seventy percent of the time. You have to be mentally capable of blocking that out and keep going.

Mike Lowell

#45. And strong-looking. Like the kind of guy you feel standing next to you before you actually see him, because he's blocking so much ambient light.

Rainbow Rowell

#46. When I was 15, they changed the playground rules because I was dominating everything and blocking everything that came my way.

Moses Malone

#47. I was at this casino minding my own business, and this guy came up to me and said, 'You're gonna have to move, you're blocking a fire exit.' As though if there was a fire, I wasn't gonna run. If you're flammible and have legs, you are never blocking a fire exit.

Mitch Hedberg

#48. It was a nearly starless sky. Black clouds hung heavy overhead, blocking out the moon.

Ally Carter

#49. If clouds are blocking the sun, there will always be a silver lining that reminds me to keep on trying.

Matthew Quick

#50. Perfectionism will ruin your writing, blocking inventiveness and playfulness and life force

Anne Lamott

#51. Greatness finds us by obstacles in front of us. I don't look at hurdles as obstacles blocking my path but opportunities to overcome.

Lolo Jones

#52. For many minutes before she showed herself, he felt her moving around the place. He detected her presence as unmistakably as he would have sensed the shape of someone blocking the light through a window, even with his eyes closed.

Denis Johnson

#53. For me, when I am on the wire, I do not have a problem of eliminating or blocking fear. I do not really feel fear, although it is a fearful activity to walk in thin air, as I do without any safety device, but I am not fearful.

Philippe Petit

#54. So whenever I feel frustrated or angry, I remind myself that it is blocking me from my life.

Troy Amdahl

#55. You see, unlearning is a very important process towards becoming enlightened, because in this life you will have learned wrong ways and those wrong ways that you have learned are barriers blocking you from becoming who you really are, therefore it is vital that they are unlearned.

Andrew James Pritchard

#56. If you wish to be part of my life, the door is always open.The door remains open if you choose to leave..but don't just hover in the doorway with indecision because you're blocking the traffic!

Karen Gibbs

#57. I agree that not responding, and blocking his email, is the way to deal with the man you hope falls silent again.

Emily Yoffe

#58. In the early 1990s, Americans used their home phone lines to connect their desktop computers to the Internet via ISPs like AOL, Earthlink, or Netzero. Back then, the ISPs didn't have cost-effective technology to select particular sites for blocking or privileging.

Marvin Ammori

#59. What's this?" Primage Dur squinted at the glow of magic in the forest before them. Twelve shining warriors in red leather stood interspaced between a line of gnarled trees, blocking the advance of the Eld. "Who are they?"
"Dalh'reisen," Azurel hissed.
"Are they ... singing?

C.L. Wilson

#60. The same walls you think you're using to protect yourself are the same walls blocking your blessings.

Stephan Labossiere

#61. An immigration violation should not give the government license to rip up the rule book. By restricting judicial oversight and blocking public scrutiny, the government has exercised virtually unchecked power over those it has detained.

Jamie Fellner

#62. The most dangerous fundamentalists aren't just waging war in Iraq; they're attacking evolution, blocking medical research and ignoring the environment.

Jill Greenberg

#63. If you smash a city when you're trying to capture it, you actually end up providing the perfect terrain for the defenders while blocking the access for your own armoured vehicles.

Antony Beevor

#64. We stood back-to-back, blocking and striking in harmony; sometimes it felt like his arms and legs were an extension of me. I could count on him to keep them off me from behind.

Ann Aguirre

#65. Sometimes the problem is recognizing what's right in front of you, because what might look like a huge stone, blocking your way, is realy a ladder leading to all new heights, you just have to find the right hand holds.

S.L. Rogers

#66. Blocking and countering like they do in the films doesn't work, so don't bother trying.

Geoff Thompson

#67. While there have been terrific advances in the state of technology around heuristics, behavior blocking, and things like that, technology is only a part of the approach to solving the problem with the more important aspect involving putting the right process in place.

John W. Thompson

#68. I know in my life there have been breaches, but I also know that I am very good at blocking out the memories that serve me no purpose.

Carrie Ryan

#69. Some days I am the flower beneath the machine. And the machine rolls slowly on, blocking the sun, without a care for what it tramples beneath.

Craig Stone

#70. And then he realized that the thing that was blocking his passage was cleared, and he was falling; his body had begun its short earthly flight - which it completed almost instantaneously - before Yogesh Murthy's soul was released for its much longer flight over the oceans of the other world.

Aravind Adiga

#71. I'm a sixteen-year-old unlicensed,
inexperienced driver with a reanimated corpse blocking my
view. Crazy is the only way I can drive.

Alison Kemper

#72. I don't storyboard, and I don't really shot list. I let the shots be determined by how the actors and I figure out the blocking in a scene, and then from there, we cover it.

Cary Fukunaga

#73. He resents the very posture of people who are online, the way they bend their backs over their various devices, blocking out any possibility that they might engage with a real live person, who would never come with enough apps to satisfy them,

Elizabeth Berg

#74. You start blocking out things, and that's a really important part of taking a picture is the ability to isolate what you're - what you're concentrating on.

Sally Mann

#75. Where I came from with the Twins, they were passionate about baseball. Through thick and thin, it was, 'Let's go.' It's something I have to get used to. I'm blocking it out as much as I can.

Jacque Jones

#76. I think it's the idea that beauty could be power, and that with power comes immortality, and with power comes control, and all of these other things are blocking her heart.

Kristen Stewart

#77. Color-blocking two bold shades feels so modern.

Brad Goreski

#78. The single most important change you can make in your working habits is to switch to creative work first, reactive work second. This means blocking off a large chunk of time every day for creative work on your own priorities, with the phone and e-mail off.

Jocelyn K. Glei

#79. Speed is more than just how fast you can thrust your foot into the other guy's stomach. Whether you're punching, kicking, blocking, or moving your entire body, other factors are of equal importance, and they too must be trained. ~Perception speed ~Reaction speed ~Movement speed ~Recovery speed

Loren W. Christensen

#80. She wasn't feeling nothing. She was feeling too much. She was blocking it all out. That was a survival skill, and her still-beating heart was proof that it worked.

Rachel Vincent

#81. When you get bullied, you automatically think that you're the reason why you're getting bullied. The reality is, it's about them, not you ... I'm all about blocking people. I'm all about saying, 'You know what, I don't need this in my life.'

Kat Graham

#82. He shoved his hands in his pockets. His hair fell into his eyes, blocking my new favorite view.

Katie McGarry

#83. I let the curtains fall back against the glass, effectively blocking the view of my nemesis standing there beneath the twinkle lights, looking way too hot in his charcoal-colored suit.
It would be so much easier to hate him if he didn't look so good. And I want to hate him; I really do.

Kristi Cook

#84. Success doesn't necessarily come from breakthrough innovation but from flawless execution. A great strategy alone won't win a game or a battle; the win comes from basic blocking and tackling.

Naveen Jain

#85. He stood at the entrance to the kitchen, blocking my path to the front door like the Berlin Wall. -- Least Wanted

Debbi Mack

#86. Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

Oscar Wilde

#87. I'm not cock-blocking for kicks and giggles. The mothership called

J.R. Ward

#88. Priests always had much attention lavished on them by their starstruck fans,those devout housewives and wealthy congregants who treated them as if they were guardians of the velvet rope blocking entrance into that ever so exclusive nightclub, Heaven.

Viet Thanh Nguyen

#89. I think blocking a shot at a crucial point of the game is the most incredible feeling.

Jermaine O'Neal

#90. I wanted to make an Indian character who wasn't either a) the savage that must be eliminated, the force of nature that's blocking the way for industrial progress, or b) the noble innocent that knows all and is another cliche. I wanted him to be a complicated human being.

Jim Jarmusch

#91. It was as if it never occurred to anyone that blocking the incoming roads was the same as blocking the escape routes.

Sara Novic

#92. Pain in the body is a clear indication,
Something in the energy fields are blocking inner growth.

Nikki Rowe

#93. The writer knows more or less what he wants to say, but an accumulation of stale phrases chokes him like tea-leaves blocking a sink.

George Orwell

#94. The people blocking buses in Murrieta, California, didn't come from radical groups, they were everyday Americans who were perfectly willing to frighten those children

Mark Potok

#95. The fact is that we would have had comprehensive health care now, had it not been for Ted Kennedy's deliberately blocking the legislation that I proposed in 1978 or '79.

Jimmy Carter

#96. One day, right after my mastectomy, I went for a walk in Central Park, and there was this mob of people blocking the road. I thought, 'Oh, great, now I'm stuck!' but then I suddenly realized that it was a breast cancer walk.

Hoda Kotb

#97. Hey." Her grin grew as she glanced from me to Nash, then back. "You're blocking the fridge."
"There's a cooler in the other room." Nash nodded toward the main part of the house.
Emma shrugged. "Yeah, but no one's making out in front of it.

Rachel Vincent

#98. Money ... is only important when you have none; and though it may not be everything, it goes a very long way towards blocking up the winter draft of age.

Caitlin Thomas

#99. I gained the distinct impression that he was blocking some flow of emotion inside himself

No One

#100. One should, when overwhelmed by the shadow of a giant, move aside and see if the colossal shadow isn't merely that of a pygmy blocking out the sun.

Novalis