You have to focus on your job, and if you focus on your job, you block everything out.
The Hadley Street Dream is a tribute to making a vision come to life. My father built a compound on a dessert city block, he saw something in that space we couldn’t see. It was years later the album was born right there on Hadley St. He built the studio I started recording the album at.
If you are going to make a change, make it big and bold. Walk up to the biggest guy on the block, stand in his face and get it started. Then go around, brigade by brigade, making it make sense.
I remember hating New Kids on the Block from the sidelines because all of the girls loved them. They would just fawn over them. ‘Oh my gosh, Joey I love you!’ When I was younger, I really couldn’t stand them.
We don’t consider the Wizard of Oz or Father Christmas to be too old. They’re still magical characters, and the fact they’ve been around the block only adds to their magic.
I don’t believe in writer’s block.
I go by the name of Polo G and I’m from the near North Side of Chicago, the 1300 block of Hudson Avenue.
I just block everything out. It’s not even something that I do. When the ball’s in the air, everything goes quiet. That’s how it is. I don’t really think about it much. That’s how I play. Tunnel vision.
In a kind of simple, stupid way, when you walk down a normal city block and you turn around the corner and there’s 40 vintage cars and every storefront has been done over to look like 1941, it just kind of blows your mind. It’s movie magic.
When I have a creative block, I take walks. I like to see what shapes stick out – so many legs rushing by at once, it can seem abstract. I don’t need to see great art to get stirred up. Music does that for me more easily.
I always dream about that type of moment. In my head, I always kind of create that scenario, just about, like, some type of winning shot or block that’s going to, like, really get the crowd into it.
When it comes to people I love and care about, I may condense the time, but I’m giving them every ounce of my energy. When it comes to creation, I block create and block focus on business.
The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed – it is a process of elimination.
The current administration has made the decision to cut dollars going for community development block grants, for various incentives to bring cities back.
This was something that was obsessing me and creating a writer’s block. To get involved and get stuck in, get the proper information about what’s going on has really helped.
I’m learning not to try to block everything.
Your to-do list should include items that need to be accomplished for the month, the week, and each day. You must then ask yourself how much time you need to block off to achieve each task. Time blocking allows you to minimize distractions and to maximize your efficiency as you work to complete this list.
I wear a lot of block colour dresses on television as the simplicity translates well on camera and blue is often a colour I rely on as it goes with everything.
Because I’ve been around the MMA block a little bit, I’m at a point now where I just want bodies to beat up. I’m past the point in my career where I’m picking and choosing.
I’m a little harsh. When people say, ‘I have writers block. What do you suggest?’ I say, ‘If you can’t write, don’t write. No one needs your writing. Don’t torture yourself.’
I’m a 24-hour tweet machine, I’m a 24-hour blogger. When there’s no pressure on me, I can talk and write and lecture with the best of them. But put a deadline on me and I start getting writer’s block.
There is always a testing of the new kid on the block in politics.
I don’t make good connections with people and I don’t know if that’s an emotional block on my part. I don’t know.
I don’t deal with writer’s block, I don’t allow myself to believe that there is such a thing. I think that there are good days and a lot more less good days.
I’ve been pretty lucky in that I’m not a big writer’s block kind of person.
I tell young people that people aren’t just going to flock to you as your mentors. You have to seek them out. It could be your next-door neighbor; it could be somebody upstairs from you, somebody down the block from you. An aunt or an uncle. Some relative. A parent.
Procrastination: as endemic to and dreaded by writers as writers’ block.
In outward show so splendid and so vain; ’tis but a gilded block without a brain.
Any opponent can be a stumbling block.
When you fight me, you aren’t going to be able to be so careful. They better block their face and knock me out. I’m going to hit them, kick them. I’m going to come forward. They’ll have to run, literally run, backwards. That’s the only way to get away from me. And eventually you’re going to run into the cage.
We’re strongly in favor of the U.N. plan for a solution to the Cyprus conflict. Hopefully a solution can be found before the end of this summit, but we cannot and will not let it block our decisions on enlargement.
Companies have too many experts who block innovation. True innovation really comes from perpendicular thinking.
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.
Language is possible due to a number of cognitive and physical characteristics that are unique to humans but none of which that are unique to language. Coming together they make language possible. But the fundamental building block of language is community.
At Stanford, it was a little bit difficult for players to ‘D’ me up in the post, so that was a strength of ours. We just pounded it in the block. But I really feel I could play both the 4 or 5 position.
With girls, there’s an insecurity that starts early on. It hangs around them, like some annoying kid from down the block who won’t take the hint and go home when dinnertime comes. And moms are usually not great at giving their daughters confidence.
Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.
The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man.
I grew up in the middle of a block where there was an Irish grocery store on one corner, an Italian bar on another corner and the Nazi Party was on the third corner.
I feel like you’ll be most successful in life if you just try to block the noise, sometimes the hate can be louder than the love.
When you are young and rebellious, you don’t want to be in the house. You want to be on the block.
‘The Sopranos,’ for instance, is arguably the best cable show of all time. They could have made a movie, but that show ended so perfectly, it would almost be a disadvantage to make a movie like that. Then again, if you made a ‘Sopranos’ movie, people would be lined around the block to go see it.
My grandmother and I followed my mother here, to a house a block north of Hollywood Boulevard but a million miles away from Hollywood, if you know what I mean. We would hang out behind the ropes and look at the movie stars arriving at the premieres.
The aliens from ‘Attack the Block’ – I thought they were some of the most unique and creative movie monsters I had ever seen. From the jet-black hair to the neon blue teeth.
I’ve been learning when to block shots against who I’m playing. I’m not just going to leave a shooter to go block shots.
Bitcoin and the block chain enables a whole new way to incentivize and transact, so change the world with this new tool. Create and build! Surprise us with an idea we have never seen before.
At some point, extra incomes don’t go to sate desires but to attempt to buy status through ‘positional goods’ – like the hottest car on the block. The problem is that there can only be one hottest car on the block.
Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.
My 70 days of torture began in Camp India. The camps in Gitmo are named by letters. A is for Alpha, B for Beta, C for Charlie and so on. I is for India. It is a torture block.
As a director you have to live and breathe that one story for 8 months completely. I like variety, if I write extensively I get a writer’s block so I do something else to beat the boredom and then get back to something I’ve already done.
Everyone in Norman knew our block. There were five kids in our neighborhood who started at QB in high school. We had Division-I athletes from a number of sports available to play at any moment.
Champions, no matter what’s going on in their life or even in the gym, at the end of the day when it’s time to do what they do best, they go in there and they block all that out. They block out all the noise, they block out all the ups and downs,and they do the job. And that’s what I’m best at.
Usually writer’s block arises when something is wrong internally with the story.
Saturated fat is a fundamental building block for brain cells. It’s certainly interesting to consider that one of the richest sources of saturated fat in nature is human breast milk.
While foreign competitors, French or Japanese or German, merrily bid for contracts abroad, American companies find themselves tangled in a web of legislation designed to express disapproval, block trade in certain commodities, or perhaps deny resources to disfavored or hostile regimes.
