Blocks Quotes
Every structure starts with something small stacked on something solid.
Blocks turn up here in a genuinely hands-on sense, from childhood tinkering with basic building pieces that sparked a lifelong interest in how things work, to the unglamorous team effort of clearing a path for a teammate on the field.
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...
I'm very physical. When I'm writing, I'm playing all the parts; I'm saying the lines out loud, and if I get excited about something - which doesn't happen very often when I'm writing, but it's the greatest feeling when it...
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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...
I'm focusing on being the best I can for my teammates - catching as many balls and putting in as many good blocks as I possibly can.
Challenge Quotes
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.
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,...
I came from a two-parent household and my father is a PhD from west Africa, but at the same time I grew up five blocks from where Obama lived and five blocks from the projects.
Families represent the basic building blocks of our society, and primary care a foundational piece of any healthcare system.
I think we all have blocks between us and the best version of ourselves, whether it's shyness, insecurity, anxiety, whether it's a physical block, and the story of a person overcoming that block to their best self. It's truly inspiring...
Emotion Quotes
When I think how art education is eliminated whenever we get a budget crunch in the schools, I have to stand up and say that even when there was dire poverty ten blocks away from Tiffany Studios in the Lower...
For someone like me who's lived in the same place her whole life - I mean, I lived three blocks from where I was born, and I met my future husband in the eighth grade - there are always family...
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...
I'm a Top 40 record guy. I remember the hits and don't remember the flops. Something in my brain blocks them out.
Goldman Sachs isn't the firm it once was when I worked for it, but it's still one of the building blocks of our capitalist society.
Foundation Quotes
A lot of my building blocks - who I am kind of as an artist - all came from being in L.A.
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.
You don't want to line up on the blocks and know you have not done everything you possibly can.
As far as fitness is concerned, you have to enjoy it, do good exercises, and integrate them into your tennis practice. The preparation for the season is as crucial as doing good blocks when switching from one surface to another.
It's a risk, but I'm sort of ready to let go of thinking of movies as books that you can watch. The notion of, 'If I put the narrative blocks in the right order, this will solve all of my...
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The word stretches to cover design work too, like breaking dense writing into readable chunks so a billboard actually gets noticed at speed. For more on pushing past a Challenge or building a strong Foundation, see these related pages.
