#blocked

Our cautious ancestors, when yawning, blocked the way to the entrance of evil spirits by putting their hands before their mouths. We find a reason for the gesture in the delicacy of manner which forbids an indecent exposure. ↗

— George H. Mead

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I remember secretly going off and crying. All of a sudden I'm being blocked and have to be intimate in a scene, and I'm going, 'I can't even look people in the eye very well. How am I ever going to do this?' ↗

— Cathy Rigby

#being #blocked #crying #even #ever

It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn't get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man. ↗

— Richard P. Feynman

#before #beings #blocked #confined #continuous

Over the years, I've had hundreds of shots blocked. You've got to go in and take chances. ↗

— John Havlicek

#chances #go #got #had #hundreds

Fear has been a big battle, it runs rampant in my sport so I love to overcome that, to challenge it head on, because there is nothing that feels as accomplished as overcoming a fear, and something that has blocked you in such a big way. ↗

— Laura Wilkinson

#battle #because #been #big #blocked

The inability to open up to hope is what blocks trust, and blocked trust is the reason for blighted dreams. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#dreams #trust #dreams

The information I requested under the Freedom of Information Act has been blocked for two years. ↗

— Sibel Edmonds

#been #blocked #freedom #i #information

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

#blocked #come #concentrating #out #planning

There were probably about five games in my career where everything was moving in slow motion and you could be out there all day, totally in the zone, and you don't even know where you are on the field, everything is just totally blocked out. ↗

— Lawrence Taylor

#all day #blocked #career #could #day