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Last updated on December 5, 2024.
Plot and scene are still the hardest things for me, though I think they're the building blocks of what makes a story work.
Creative ideas aren't like Jenga blocks, where they fall apart and you've got to start from scratch, though it can feel that way.
The world is a kind of spiritual kindergarten where millions of bewildered infants are trying to spell "God" with the wrong blocks.
Pepys was such a meticulous person that he had little wooden blocks to make all the books on his shelves the same height.
The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.
John Boehner will be the new speaker unless, out of habit, he blocks his own confirmation.
How about that McDonald's two blocks from Ground Zero? That's killed more people than the 19 hijackers.
Your field report might be the reason someone detoured six blocks, say, on their way to the chiropractor.
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.'
Far from being accidental details, the properties of nature's basic building blocks are deeply entwined with the fabric of space and time.
Man has ruled this world as a stumbling demented child king, long enough. And as his empire crumbles, my precious black widow shall rise as his most fitting successor.
I don’t know how many of you have been to New York, but if a building is two blocks away from anything, you can’t see it.
I think there are a number of things that you can do to encourage your kids' dreams but I do believe in speaking by experience of having a lot of help along the way, stumbling in the past. We've all stumbled and we certainly all deserve to get up and walk again.
Many a professing Christian is a stumbling-block because his worship is divided. On Sunday he worships God; on weekdays God has little or no place in his thoughts.
Families represent the basic building blocks of our society, and primary care a foundational piece of any healthcare system.
I'm not going to shoot seven days a week. I think it's counterproductive. I think you're going to have people stumbling around after a couple of weeks.
As entrepreneurs, we often get pressured into hiring an industry executive. While it's good to hire people with experience, it can also be a stumbling block because they think about the business the same way everyone else does.
There is absolutely no path you can choose in life that will not include challenges or blocks. These are important because they are what make you appreciate your successes.
Look, I need to tell you something,' I continued. The words came stumbling out of me. 'I couldnt stand it if...I dont want you to---' Percy?' she said. 'You look like you're going to be sick.' And that's how I felt.
I'm the prime minister who removed 400 checkpoints, barriers, road-blocks and so on to facilitate the growth of the Palestinian economy.
When somebody follows you 20 blocks to the pharmacy, where they watch you buy toilet paper, you know your life has changed.
Some of these DJs have screens, 3D blocks, flames, gas and even a trapeze. It's like looking at a really stupid customised car.
Positive reinforcement changes behavior for the better, while criticism stabilizes negative behaviors and blocks change.
I work a lot of things out on stage nowadays rather than writing them in big blocks.
You get spoiled on 'Captain America,' where your trailer's two blocks long and it's got three bedrooms.
Perhaps the main stumbling block to a better, and more fruitful, theological relationship with Judaism and the Jewish people has been the tendency of many Christian theologians to see the Christ event as the end of history.
An overly expansive virtual 'toll' for the Internet that blocks consumers' and competitors' access to the e-commerce superhighway is not the right answer.
We end up stumbling our way through the forest, never seeing all the unexpected and wonderful possibilities and potentials because we're looking for the idea of a tree, instead of appreciating the actual trees in front of us.
The art of songwriting is just stumbling your way to something really special, and you don't know what you're going to write until you are writing it. There is no formula. And, sometimes, you really have to work at it and hunker down.
I learnt a blend of different martial arts - not in great depth, obviously - but various moves such as kicks, blocks and punches. It was all quite fun.
The past is what provides us with the building blocks. Our job today is to create new buildings out of them.
Lack of candor blocks smart ideas, fast action, and good people contributing all the stuff they've got. It's a killer.
I was walking across King's Cross station when a drunken Irishman came stumbling up and flung his arms around me. He wanted to thank me for the peace process in Northern Ireland.
If emotional issues remain unaddressed over long periods of time, sometimes they can manifest as physical blocks or disease.
Happiness is more about removing the blocks to Love and remembering who you are than changing your situation or another person.
The real stumbling-block of totalitarian regimes is not the spiritual need of men for freedom of thought; it is men's inability to stand the physical and nervous strain of a permanent state of excitement, except during a few years of their youth.
But as you say, the fundamental stumbling block is the question of the future of the economy. And it's not just the sort of economic laboratory question, of what kind of system would best generate growth, which is the way it's presented.
I often wonder if my knowledge about God has not become my greatest stumbling block to my knowledge of God.
You really ought to read more books - you know, those things that look like blocks but come apart on one side.
Walk firmly and with joy, without being afraid of stumbling. All your movements are being watched by your allies that will help you when necessary.
I know that meeting a black woman with a love for hockey is a bit like stumbling upon a unicorn in the woods... or a unicorn anywhere. I'm sure it'd be just as surreal finding a unicorn in downtown Chicago. But here I am.
...frequent streets and short blocks are valuable because of the fabric of intricate cross-use that they permit among the users of a city neighbouhood.
I don't think I'll ever get that tour ennui. Just getting to visit New York and all these different places - I'm always so excited to look at the window. I look like a crazy tourist stumbling around... 'This is beautiful.'
I am happy with my past, my present and my future. All three are miraculous building blocks of my beloved, wonderful life.
I don't know how many of you have been to New York, but if a building is two blocks away from anything, you can't see it.
Any guard would love playing with a great big man, one who rebounds, blocks shots, and scores.
Laziness is the one common deficiency in mankind that blocks the establishment of a perfect world in which everyone leads a happy life.
A lot of Friday nights, Guru and I would go kick it with Biggie, since he was just three blocks down from us.
I had mates who lived in tower blocks and I always hated seeing them, because of the lifts, y'know? My God, so scary.
I never drove a car in my life. Given my drinking habits in those days, I would have been dead a long time ago - stumbling out of a bar at 4 a.m. and getting into a car.
Health-wise, I couldn't have said what my life expectancy would've been if I'd just carried on doing solid blocks of stand-up.
I think there are a number of things that you can do to encourage your kids' dreams, but I do believe in speaking by experience of having a lot of help along the way, stumbling in the past. We've all stumbled, and we certainly all deserve to get up and walk again.
In Zen, and in other forms of self discovery, we do have a transference that occurs where psychically, information, blocks of attention, are transferred to the student.
Why carve? It's a better sculpture that way. I'll never improve the block. So I just started using uncarved blocks.
The testing levels have become ridiculous. All they show is contamination, and they have really put the trainers' heads on the chopping blocks. It hurts racing.
I was there the night John Lennon was shot, three blocks away. It left a lasting impression on me.
You get spoiled on Captain America, where your trailers two blocks long and its got three bedrooms.
Books aren’t just my defenses, the sandbags I use to fortify my position; they are also the building blocks of my soul, and I am the sum of all I read.
In our education system, we're so focused on the building blocks that sometimes we try to keep the kids from looking at the larger picture.
When there is a psyche-disrupting event in your life, it can prevent you from getting the long blocks of sleep at night that are so important to healthy aging.
