Blocks Quotations

My concentration level blocks out everything. Concentration is why some athletes are better than others. You develop that concentration in training and concentrate in a meet.

It's all about having a product that you're proud of and coming to work every day. Those basic building blocks are the same in any business.

Before the scene, before the paragraph, even before the sentence, comes the word. Individual words and phrases are the building blocks of fiction, the genes that generate everything else. Use the right words, and your fiction can blossom. The French have a phrase for it - le mot juste - the exact right word in the exact right position.

Most of the time in the 21st century, we dominate our surroundings: We tweak the thermostat, and the temperature falls one degree. We push a button, and Taylor Swift sings for us. It's the opposite in the wilderness, which teaches us constantly that we are not lords of the universe but rather building blocks of it.

It isn't unusual to see children climb into a car every morning to be ferried to the front door of a school that's just a few blocks away.

Families represent the basic building blocks of our society, and primary care a foundational piece of any healthcare system.

The appeal of the Golden Age heroes for me is their simplicity, even their naivety - they represent the fundamental building blocks of the whole superhero genre, whether it's a 'super' man able to lift cars, or a vigilante who terrorises criminals at night like Batman.

Hell is paved with great granite blocks hewn from the hearts of those who said, I can do no other.

You get spoiled on 'Captain America,' where your trailer's two blocks long and it's got three bedrooms.

The building blocks of mathematical thinking are requisite for more advanced conceptualization. If a student is not ready to move on, then the teacher must take time to assist that learner.

My first job in Brazil was actually to develop a way to improve the readability of billboards, and based on speed, angle of approach and actually blocks of text. It was very - actually, it was a very good study, and got me a job in an ad agency. And they also decided that I had to - to give me a very ugly Plexiglas trophy for it.

My explorations of the technical world started with Legos, with which I was quite creative in constructing moving objects with the basic building blocks that were then available.

Look at where I lived! Four blocks from Lincoln Center. I used to play in the fountain. And then I started taking dance lessons. I was in 'The Nutcracker' for the N.Y. City Ballet when I was 8 and dancing in 'The Firebird' for George Balanchine when I was 9. Believe me, that's something you don't ever forget.

For small businesses, you need less taxes, less federal spending, and you need less regulation that blocks their growth.

Kosher salt, eggs and flour. These are the building blocks of everything. Kosher salt, above and beyond everything.

The long conflict between Israel and Palestine has, for better or worse, become the world's conflict. It permanently destabilizes the Middle East, blocks the settlement of urgent crises, and intensifies looming threats to the West.

I have blocks of wood all over my house; I spend all of my day knocking!

Kids have what I call a built-in hypocrisy antenna that comes up and blocks out what you're saying when you're being a hypocrite.

A lot of my building blocks - who I am kind of as an artist - all came from being in L.A.

Once you know the emotional building blocks of anxiety, you can influence them.

Most of the time, people look at a piece of art online when it is just a few blocks from their house. Changing the way you walk home everyday fills life with surprises.

The interesting thing about the miracle berry in chemo patients is that it actually straightens out their taste buds, whereas for you and I, it blocks our bitter and sour receptors. For them, it straightens them out to taste food as it normally tastes.

I like to write about painting because I think visually. I see my writing as blocks of color before it forms itself. I think I also care about painting because I'm not musical. Painting to me is not a metaphor for writing, but something people do that can never be reduced to words.

Music is made up out of these building blocks. Studying how these blocks go together and what they consist of and the math of how it works - it's all the same stuff; it's just different aesthetics that we're talking about.

I don't read many popular histories like the ones I write. The building blocks for my research are scholarly monographs, and the inspiration for my storytelling style are folks like Chekhov.

Americans aren't good at accents, but the English are because their accents change. You go five or six blocks and the accent is different, so they are used to hearing different pitches. In America, you gotta travel maybe 10 states before you can really hear a difference.

Picasso is a character that has pursued me for a long time and I always rejected. He deserves a lot of respect because I am from Malaga, and I was born four blocks from where he was born.

When I discovered the lyric poem, that advanced not by narrative steps but by blocks and layers of imagery, I said, 'Gee, I probably could do that. So let me try that.'

I was so proud of Rodney Carney today. It would be so easy for Rodney to play for himself right now. It would easy for him to just go out and do it himself. I grabbed Rodney and said 'you are defending and we will try to give you some shots. Rodney said I am fine. At one point in the second half I asked if you want me to run something to get you going and he said I am fine. He defended and blocked shots today. Four blocks shows how far he has come and what he means to the team.

On the morning of September 11th, I was literally about 18 blocks from the World Trade Center. I witnessed in person what a lot of people witnessed in person, but what the world really saw on the television screen, I saw it with my own eyes that morning.

I grew up with guys who would run circles around me intellectually, ... But I always had opinions about things. You kind of had to when you grew up going to school 10 blocks from the White House.

Life is a series of stepping stones followed with a series of stumbling blocks ....

One of the best blocks I've seen in a high school game.

One of the stumbling blocks for a lot of people is tracking expenses for three months.

Peter was 2 years and 10 months old when we began to study him. He was afraid of a white rat, and this fear extended to a rabbit, a fur coat, a feather, cotton wool, etc., but not to wooden blocks and similar toys.

I got out of the blocks pretty good today. I changed the setting on my blocks and it worked out well.

I got out of the blocks well today, ... I went out there with a game plan and just executed it. I did what I needed to do and didn't feel that under pressure.

I didn't want to pay the 50 cents it cost to get in, ... They used to have nothing but blocks of people coming from Macon and surrounding cities. It was the biggest attraction.

If they were to break loose, there is no telling where they're going to land. They can go for several blocks -- obviously do major damage -- so those areas around those buildings we are going to continue to keep closed off until we can get up there and take care of those problems.

If they got running water to all these buildings that are obviously inhabitable, they could get the city cleaned up a lot faster because people would be cleaning up their own blocks and their own neighborhoods.

Lee is a physical team. They have four players 6-4 or taller and they push you off your blocks and keep you from setting up your shots. You have to shoot well against them, because they play well defensively and you won't get many shots.

When you can get that kind of field position through special teams it's a big advantage. Guys like that, the one thing it does is it gets the guys in front of them to keep blocking longer and sustain their blocks because they know that whenever he touches the ball he can go the distance.

Most organizations have Unix servers installed, and they're prepared to manage Unix systems. The question is whether they're prepared to manage large blocks of Unix clients.

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She blocks everything she is supposed to and some things that she's not. That's all you can ask for.

Most of those surveyed recognized the building blocks of literacy, which means we are making progress, ... But what is bad is only 15 percent of those interviewed believed this should be done by age 1. Early development needs to begin from birth, and that is one of the things we need to make more people aware of.

She led our team in all offensive and defensive categories except blocks and free throw shooting.

She has to take two blocks of reading. That takes away time that she could be using to take another subject. They're counting the reading as a ninth-grade English. She's losing out on that English.

She has been a great, great surprise. She led us in blocks and she hurt teams that focused too much on Jamie.

When he makes good decisions, he is going to give us production. I think tonight he did a good job of that. He's got to be a guy who blocks shots, rebounds and is very active.

(She) told me that her car had broken down three and a half blocks down. She really needed help. Could she please use my phone?

Khoury's block on that toss play - wow. That was one of the best blocks I've seen all year - on film or in person.

Jacki stepped up big tonight. We kept her on the low blocks and put Alicia (Morris) up top where she's always a danger.

Guys have to have athletic ability and the ability to stay on his feet. Plus he's got to have quickness, strength and explosion. He needs the ability to use his hands to get off of blocks. That's the most important thing. Guys have to stay on their feet, get off of blocks and find their way to the football.

Four guys had him pinned down on the sideline, ... He stopped on a dime and made a move that broke the ankles of one of their defenders. Then he got some nice blocks down the field, including one from Jason Myers.

From my first days in Washington D.C., where I rolled a whole four downtown blocks without seeing a single shop, cafe, bar or restaurant I could not access, to the beautifully accessible buses in New York City, I was in heaven.

I don't think it'll change a whole lot for us. He's a very good player, and he's one of the leaders in the country in shot blocks and can really rebound the basketball for them. I don't think it'll really change the way they play. They put a big at each block and just pound it inside. It doesn't matter who they have down there, other than Justin's probably their best post player.

From the time I left the Marine Corps after serving as an infantry platoon and company commander in Vietnam, I decided that I would focus on immediate goals that inspired me to devote all of my energy to them, rather than putting together the more cautious and traditional building blocks of a predictable career.

I don't think we're going to find too many running backs, whether it's 1-A, 2-A, 3-A or 4-A that are as good as that kid. He reads his blocks well. He's a strong kid. He's got good speed, and he's elusive. That makes for the total package for a running back.

I had two blocks and made a couple of jumpers, and that helped me get my confidence back.

Bryan's a tough kid to shoot the ball over. He (Kindred) missed a couple 'bunnies', but he saved us a couple times with blocks in the second half.

China is running fiber (optic cable) everywhere. It is going into apartment blocks and whole villages,

He's a good player. He came out and played good too. He had a couple of assists, blocks and 3-point shots. He got his own rebound and dunked it -- that's a sign of a good player.

He's a blue-collar worker. He's here every day, trying to get things right in practice. I think what's really helped him is his vision and reading blocks in front of him. We teach him to follow his big guard, his big tackle. Those guys will take him to the end zone.

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What we have been seeing these days is not quite as encouraging as what we used to believe that in the modern world it is nearly impossible to interact socially and culturally only with those who think alike. Longing for the comforting of sameness may appears providing some safety and security. It confines ourselves into divisions that blocks our minds. In the end, collectively we become unsafe and insecure.

What you're doing by moving the stadium is creating six city blocks for an exciting new development. It creates employment opportunity and it's not something that would have happened on the south side of the old stadium.

He's a good friend. He's a good football player and he blocks for me. I think he should be rewarded.

We're O.K. Limited to two text messages. One hundred people died two blocks from our house.

I live three blocks away from the beach, so every day I walk down to the beach to run or go swimming. Hiking is a big one for me - so long as it's something where I'm not thinking about working out, like in a contrived class or the gym.

He causes so much attention that it kind of frees me up with one-on-one blocks and it helps me out.

I always say you either have speed or you're chasing it. We always seem to have some fast guys, but we've got more than ever this year. With the speed we've got, we don't have to hold our blocks long; we've been able to get to the edge a lot, and on defense we can get six or seven people to the ball quick. We've really been blessed.

He had never played running back before, and tonight was really the first game he was reading blocks well and spinning off of tackles.

He is great, he runs hard. He's studied the offense pretty well. He sets up my blocks pretty well. I think he is going to gain a lot of yards. It is going to be fun to block for him. I have blocked for a lot of good running backs, and they can really make your job easier by setting up blocks, making the correct reads.

He works every shift even though I think every morning he wakes up his body is sore and aches. But he shows up every game, works hard, blocks shots and leads the team. It's pretty to watch.

Imagine trying to see a mosquito disappearing behind a 400-Watt streetlamp, not at the next street corner or a few blocks away, but 1,000 kilometers away. That's equivalent to what we're trying to do to detect the planet's eclipse in the HD 209458 system.

Under normal circumstances, testosterone is what stimulates prostate cancer to grow, so one form of hormone therapy stops production, while another blocks it from reaching prostate cells.

He said, 'I'm trying to make too many big plays,' ... He was trying to make a big play each time he touched the ball, when really if he stuck with his blocks and what he knows how to do, good things will happen.

He grew from a sophomore into a veteran tonight, the way he played that game. He played hard, he had huge blocks and played good defense as well.

We touched the ball a lot. We won't get stuff blocks (where the ball goes directly to the floor) but we can slow it down so we can play it in the back row.

Jon is a three-sport athlete with athleticism, power and decent speed. He blocks well and we are looking for him to be the hub of the offense. Mike is athletic, is a three-sport athlete and is short, but rugged. Ryan has good speed and had some good moments last season.

My mother liked to buy houses, fix them up, and turn them over. We'd live somewhere for a few months and then move to another house, sometimes just two blocks away.

Lines are two blocks long in both directions, ... The lines were that long in the morning and (my husband) is in line now and said he expected it to take an hour.

(Martinez) tries to psyche me out because I'm not that good with the (starting) blocks yet. But I'm trying to work harder, trying to get him. I think I will soon.

Maria and Ashley Robinson clogged up the middle, coming up with some huge blocks down the stretch.

Some look at a brick and see something to break a window with, others look at a brick and see the building blocks of a great building. You tell me who was the true visionary.

Some guys like to start it out, and they get out of the blocks well. But from a mental standpoint, if I'm coming off the bench, I like to sit down and see what's going on. I can clear up some things when I get out there or try not to do the exact things that someone else has been messing up on.

Stephen is a big, big player, so he makes me work really hard. Every time he blocks my shot, then I don't want him to score on me. So he gives me that mentality to play hard every time.

Steven plays a big role for us inside. His defense is great and he takes up a lot of space when he blocks out so that it helps everyone on our team rebound. And he's got great timing for blocking shots.

Our nation was founded with a bunch of founding legislators who joined together to move our country out of the blocks and get us started, and every generation since then has found a way to advance the ball down the field.

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Jermaine blocks a lot of shots, but he might have felt he just couldn't get to it. That's his decision.

Our greatest concern is anxiety, because that's what blocks performance. It's a high-stakes test. You combine that with all the other things teenagers are dealing with and they need to know they're supported.

Maybe six blocks from where we live there is untold wealth. If your constituency is financially challenged, you're going to have to go elsewhere.

Justin Williams leads the nation in blocks for a reason. He's got a long body and he's quick to get up (to block a shot). You've got to give him a lot of credit for stopping a lot of our offense.

It depends on what they are. We had some guys trying to get off blocks and the (opposing) guy spun and we got called for something. Some holds may get called or they may not. All in all, the penalties jumped up and got us at the worst times. We'll address that.

I was kind of sold on the idea of being one of the building blocks to try and help get the program back to where it once was.

Life throws up enough road blocks to keep you from writing; you can't be adding to them yourself by saying you can only write in one specific place. I'm in New York half the time and Texas half the time, and I work wherever - in my computer bag I have some foam ear plugs that I can put in.

I think they want an offensive lineman with good feet, which David has. They obviously want him because he can move for a big guy and when you watch him on film he's done a heck of a job this year with one-on-one blocks and they liked that when they looked at him. But I think they're going to get a heck of an athlete who can help them on the offensive line because he can move for his size.

Remove the road blocks as you come across them. Otherwise, you will have to climb a high mountain.