#loc

I raced locally for a year, went to Europe the year after and went to the Olympics the year after that. ↗

— Taylor Phinney

#europe #i #locally #olympics #raced

I don't believe in writer's block. Think about it - when you were blocked in college and had to write a paper, didn't it always manage to fix itself the night before the paper was due? Writer's block is having too much time on your hands. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#always #before #believe #block #blocked

My first job was as an assistant in the local library. Self-fulfilling prophecy? ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#first #job #library #local #prophecy

Writer's block is for people who have the luxury of time. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#luxury #people #time #who #writer

The game isn't over till the clock says zero. ↗

— Paul Pierce

#game #over #says #till #zero

The view of the local scene through the eyes of a native participant in that scene is a different window. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

#eyes #local #native #participant #scene

Woe to us if we get our satisfaction from the food in the kitchen and the TV in the den and the sex in the bedroom with an occasional tribute to the cement blocks in the basement! ↗

— John Piper

#bedroom #blocks #cement #den #food

I want to wake up every day and feel that I'm training harder than my competitors, that I'm dieting harder, that I'm recovering better. That's what gives me confidence when I'm lining up on the blocks. I've never gone out to prove people wrong. I just want to be the best that I can possibly be. ↗

— Oscar Pistorius

#better #blocks #competitors #confidence #day

I did that for 40 years or more. I never had any writer's block. I got up in the morning, sat down at the typewriter - now, computer - lit up a cigarette. ↗

— Frederik Pohl

#block #cigarette #computer #did #down

They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#courtship #dream #wake #wedlock