Time Blocking Quotes

#1. I don't want to play with marbles, when God told me to move mountains!

Reinhard Bonnke

#2. 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

#3. Some men may be snared by beauty alone, but none can be held except by virtue and compliance.

Thomas More

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

Rick Majerus

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. Never forget that is the quality and not the quantity of sleep that is important. It is better to have six hours of uninterrupted deep sleep than even ten hours of disturbed sleep.

Robin S. Sharma

#9. Woman wants monogamy;
Man delights in novelty.
Love is woman's moon and sun;
Man has other forms of fun.
Woman lives but in her lord;
Count to ten, and man is bored.
With this the gist and sum of it,
What earthly good can come of it?

Dorothy Parker

#10. 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

#11. Bink knew the dolphin only from old pictures; it was a kind of magic fish that breathed air instead of water.

Piers Anthony

#12. The relations between rhetoric and ethics are disturbing: the ease with which language can be twisted is worrisome, and the fact that our minds accept these perverse games so docilely is no less cause for concern.

Octavio Paz

#13. All he knows is that something stepped in front of him, blocking his way, until in time he gave up on things, he gave up studying engineering and he gave up on the idea of traveling. He sat down in his life. And there he remained.

Mitch Albom

#14. Show him every dawn & read to him endlessly.

Ted Hughes

#15. For fog was merely a cloud that wasn't too smitten with itself to visit terra firma.

Jan Karon

#16. I liked Latin, I like languages, I liked all the myths, and the Roman tales that we were required to translate in Latin, and all these interesting people who were never quite what they thought they would be or seemed to be.

Suzanne Farrell

#17. We stop practice every time we see one of our players not blocking out.

Jim Calhoun

#18. she would have been disappointed if he had not demonstrated such idealism, for he was yet to reach twenty-one; youth without optimism, without a strong sense of the possible, would represent a very sad state of affairs.

Jacqueline Winspear

#19. Because with time blocking out the bad, memory is always bound to be a bit naive and stupidly optimistic.

Guy Delisle

#20. Put a smile on your face. Don't sit in the waiting room of life. Go do something, happily.

Frederick Lenz

#21. As the architecture of a country always follows the earliest structures, American architecture should be a refinement of the log-house. The Egyptian is so of the cavern and the mound; the Chinese, of the tent; the Gothic, of overarching trees; the Greek, of a cabin.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#22. Blocking material leads to censorship. That goes for pornography and bestiality, too. If you don't like it, don't look at it ... Every time I hear someone say, I want to protect the children, I want to pull my hair out.

Judith Krug