Quotes of: Building-block Keyword

Do we have to stare death in the face to make us stand up and confront Resistance?

The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

We're wrong if we think we're the only ones struggling with Resistance. Everyone who has a body experiences Resistance.

The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

Its [Resistance] aim is to shove us away, distract us from doing our work.

The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

A writer writes with his genius; an artist paints with hers; everyone who creates operates from this sacramental center.

The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

All writing is difficult. The most you can hope for is a day when it goes reasonably easily. Plumbers don’t get plumber’s block, and doctors don’t get doctor’s block; why should writers be the only profession that gives a special name to the ...

Philip Pullman

I don't story board. I do something else, which is, I block it. We then train to the blocking. In other words, when everybody's training, they're actually training a lot of the moves that we are definitely going to use, and then, I do a lot of photog...

Michael Mann

I hate thinking about writer's block! I don't have writer's block much, knock on wood, but if I do, I think it's usually because I haven't done enough research and am therefore unable to create a fully realized world.

Cynthia Kadohata

Death: When next we meet, the hour will strike for you and your friends. Antonius Block: And will you reveal your secrets? Death: I have no secrets. Antonius Block: So do you know nothing? Death: I am unknowing.

The Seventh Seal

We want Facebook to be one of the best places people can go to learn how to build stuff. If you want to build a company, nothing better than jumping in and trying to build one. But Facebook is also great for entrepreneurs/hackers. If people want to c...

Mark Zuckerberg

I mean you can learn how to build a bullet or build a gun or build a bomb on the Internet.

Barbara Bush

We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don't go anywhere. They shouldn't be restless.

Minoru Yamasaki

Not one of them [formulae] can be shown to have any existence, so that the formula of one of the simplest of organic bodies is confused by the introduction of unexplained symbols for imaginary differences in the mode of combination of its elements......

Love

The sign of the amateur is overglorification of and preoccupation with the mystery. The professional shuts up. She doesn't talk about it. She does her work.

The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

The professional has learned that success, like happiness, comes as a by-product of work. The professional concentrates on the work and allows rewards to come or not come, whatever they like.

The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

The working artist will not tolerate trouble in her life because she knows trouble prevents her from doing her work.

The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

Our job in this life is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.

The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles

Resistance is directly proportional to love. If you're feeling massive Resistance, the good news is that it means there's tremendous love there too.

The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

The more resistance you experience, the more important your unmanifested art/project/enterprise is to you - and the more gratification you will fell when you finally do it.

The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

It's not the writing part that's hard. What's hard is sitting down to write. What keeps us from sitting down is Resistance.

The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

Before my father would open up a karate school in a particular neighborhood, he'd clean up the block - kick all the drug dealers and gang bangers off the block. My father was very clear: 'I've got guns too, and I'll kill you just as much as a rival g...

Lupe Fiasco

When I did plays in high school and college, I never remember memorizing my lines, but once I had blocking, I had all my lines memorized. Once I had movement associated with words, it was fine. Before I had blocking, it was just text on a page. Once ...

Greta Gerwig