Words matter. These are the best Difficult Quotes from famous people such as Dorothea Dix, David Chang, Will Hurd, Eduardo Galeano, Anna Louise Strong, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I have had so much at heart. Defeated, not conquered; disappointed, not discouraged. I have but to be more energetic and more faithful in the difficult and painful vocation to which my life is devoted.
Be careful what you wish for – getting to be a successful business and maintaining it is so hard. Anyone can be good one night; being good over several years is incredibly difficult.
Life is hard. Life is difficult. Life is going to punch you in the gut. But when you change your attitude, you change your behavior. When your behavior changes, so do your results.
Writing is a marvelous adventure and very labor-intensive: those words run away and try to escape. They are very difficult to capture.
To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.
Only those who have patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.
‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ is a movie that really impressed me as a teenager. And also ‘Blade Runner.’ And ‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind’ is also one of my favorites. I’m always looking for sci-fi material, and it’s difficult to find original and strong material that’s not just about weaponry.
Although sometimes it’s very difficult, if you’re willing to look hard enough, you can find positives in every situation.
It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.
Luck, I never looked to make difficult movies on purpose. You make the films you can make.
A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.
People get very excited about very high elements. That’s why Mount Everest is so important – it’s not the most difficult mountain, but it’s the most famous because it’s the tallest.
I live on an island, and it’s difficult to find.
Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.
Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.
It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
Sexuality can be difficult to articulate, and we have to be patient and compassionate.
You can’t change history. These things happened the way they did. What you can change is how you look at it and how you understand that it takes the good moments and it takes the difficult moments to move forward.
It can be difficult for people to talk about it, because there still is that stigma around mental illness. But I would encourage people to do that, because they’ll be surprised once they do ‘come out’ how many other people have had similar experiences.
Dancers are always striving for perfection. A great dancer never achieves it: you always want to do another turn, a higher jump,a more difficult acrobatic jump.
The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
I was lucky to come from a difficult area. It teaches you not just about football but also life.
People from outside don’t know how difficult it is to be goalkeeper.
Finishing is one of the most difficult things to do in cricket. A player can’t be a finisher in just 6 months or one year. You have to be used to that responsibility, keeping on doing what is required from you over a period of time.
It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.
Writing the first draft of a new story is incredibly difficult for me. I will happily do revisions, because once I can see the words on the page, I can go about ripping them up and moving scenes around. A blank page, though? Terrifying. I’m always angsty when I’m working my way through a first draft.
I used to feel I was more French than anything, but I don’t feel that way anymore. I really don’t feel like I belong to a specific country, and it is so difficult for people to understand that.
I think I’m the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ – I’m pretty annoying, but driven.
At art college, I started to do music and then painting and drawing – and that would have been my ideal life, to be an artist and be paid for it, to be able to create stuff. I realized it was difficult, but I don’t know if I had the application for it.
I’m in a difficult position in the sense that, preposterous as this might sound, I don’t like being the centre of attention. I get up on stage every night and play songs, but I almost feel the songs are the centre of attention. I don’t like opening my birthday presents in front of people, either.
The thing that makes writing so difficult is you don’t have the element of serendipity. At least with a photograph, you can set up the camera, and something might happen. You might be a lousy photographer, but you can get a good picture if you just take enough of them.
The Premier League is one of the most difficult in the world. There’s five, six, or seven clubs that can be the champions. Only one can win, and all the others are disappointed and live in the middle of disaster.
Being a typical teenager isn’t easy. When you have autism, it can be extra difficult. We need more public awareness about these hurdles as well as compassion towards these young people.
I feel like I flunked at adolescence really badly. I found it really difficult.
Tum Tak’ is a beautiful thought and is a rhythmic expression. It’s been composed beautifully. It may sound easy but is difficult to attempt or sing it live.
A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.
It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.
Only those who have patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.
Being with the mainstream isn’t very difficult – the tide is powerful, and it is easy to let it sweep us along with it. But going against the tide is very difficult. First of all, one must recognise very exactly what the tide is and where it is going.
In documentary films, the most difficult thing to achieve is to make something complex appear simple.
There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult – to begin a war and to end it.
If you have a life which is adrenaline-charged all week long because you’re a powerful CEO, or you have responsibilities and you’re committed to the people you look after, it’s very difficult on weekends to sit around the garden. So you probably look for something which gives you the same sort of adrenaline buzz.
Most of the time, we make discoveries about how difficult people are at the moment when the difficulties have actually hurt us; therefore, we are not likely to be forgiving or sympathetic.
Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.
There’s a lot of pressure to meet up with people. I haven’t changed, but my friends find it difficult to be around me. It’s quite a shame to see them grow apart from me. I’ve lost a lot of people around me.
It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.
The idea of redemption is always good news, even if it means sacrifice or some difficult times.
When I came to America Al Unser, Jr. was very difficult. And Bobby Unser.
How easily some light report is set about, but how difficult to bear.
It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.
The most difficult thing in football is to score a goal.
As a young boy in a new country, you had to make new friends, and that was really difficult.
There are very few people who are creative and imaginative. Therefore, fiction is difficult for people to embrace.
It is very difficult to find appropriate words to say ‘thank you’ for an honour like the Nobel Prize. It is the supreme honour that a scientist can receive. Some of the giants in physics and chemistry have received this prize.
Even the once simple home mortgage now has so many flavors and styles and variations that it is difficult for people to make a decision.
I think most artists find it difficult to part with their work but it’s the parting that keeps us alive and keeps us working. In the case of the chariot, although it’s been sold I actually still have it, just in another form.
I just want to be healthy and stay alive and keep my family going and everything and keep my friends going and try to do something so that this world will be peaceful. That is the most ambitious and the most difficult thing, but I’m there trying to do it.
A fool often fails because he thinks what is difficult is easy.
Without effective protection of the citizens’ right to property, it will be difficult to attract and accumulate valuable capital.
The first good player I watched as a kid was Joe DiMaggio, and that was like ballet. Since then, I played sandlot and college ball and came to understand how difficult it can be.
I was obsessive-compulsive, and I probably had a little splash of Asperger’s in there, but in those days, in 1953, you were just a difficult kid. Attention deficit didn’t even exist back then. I really had trouble completing tasks – I couldn’t sit still.
But now sustainability is such a political category that it’s getting more and more difficult to think about it in a serious way. Sustainability has become an ornament.
It is more difficult to stay on top than to get there.
Sometimes it’s more difficult to do very simple, low-key films.
Acting is like lifting a 400-pound feather. It’s a feather, how hard could it be? And yet, you go to lift it and it’s heavy. For that reason, I love it, because it’s very hard and difficult and challenging and obviously I want to learn more.
It is also difficult to articulate the subtleties in cinema, because there aren’t words or metaphors which describe many of the emotions you are attempting to evoke.
Fatherhood isn’t always a planned thing, but when it happens you just do it. It’s very natural and in that sense it’s not really difficult.
I guess I just process death differently than some folks. Realizing you’re not going to see that person again is always the most difficult part about it. But that feeling settles, and then you are glad you had that person in your life, and then the happiness and the sadness get all swirled up inside you.
I think it’s difficult for members of Congress to be as independent as they need to be in their voting.
It’s hard to say, ‘I don’t believe in God.’ I would love to know if God exists. But it’s a very difficult thing for me to believe.
I have many reasons why I think reading is really important. It provided for me a refuge, especially during difficult times. It provided me with the notion that I could find an ending that was different from what was happening to me at the time.
A lot of people think Japanese food is difficult, a lot of work. But you don’t have to buy the knife I have. You don’t have to train as long as I have. You can do my cooking in your kitchen.
Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones.
We don’t have a public that really understands the world anymore, and in the age of complexity, that problem becomes much more difficult.
All things that are worthwhile are very difficult to obtain.
Comedy is underrepresented in every actor’s life, because it’s so bloody difficult to write.
I don’t know if I have any particular views about women in positions of power, though I do think it’s more difficult for women, particularly in a Medieval setting. They have the additional problem that they’re a woman and people don’t want them in a position of power in an essentially patriarchal society.
I think what we’re attracted to on the page is something that is very difficult to do in life, which is to examine in what seems like a moment. To examine what we can’t do in life very well, which is to be as present and accountable to what an experience is. That’s why life is short and art is very long.
Without hard work and discipline it is difficult to be a top professional.
A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but.
As for my stand, I think it has become difficult in our country to be a Hindu and a liberal at the same time.
A peace talk is always difficult, always complicated.
All my movies are difficult to classify because they are very eclectic in mixing genres.
Making a comeback is one of the most difficult things to do with dignity.
Challenges keep evolving as you move into different stages. When you are at a prototype stage, it’s about getting that sustenance money. Then, talent becomes an issue; your early hires are difficult to get when you aren’t too big. Later, it’s about handling growth; then, you have competition.
Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.
I studied German at school. I lived in Berlin for two years and had a German girlfriend for five years, so I don’t find speaking German particularly difficult. Singing was slightly more difficult.
Here is the secret of inspiration: Tell yourself that thousands and tens of thousands of people, not very intelligent and certainly no more intelligent than the rest of us, have mastered problems as difficult as those that now baffle you.
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
Of course, running a coalition government in a country like India is a difficult task. More so when Congress leads the coalition, since most of the political parties were anti-Congress. To have a coalition, to run a coalition government, you require a lot of adjustments, a lot of flexibility.
Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy.
In my family, growing up, the women were always the ones who were powerful, and they exuded this charisma of empowerment that I hold onto and always remember. I had some difficult times, but these strong women were always a constant.
Your spoken voice is a part of it – not a big part of it, but it’s something. It puts people at ease, and once again kind of reaches out and makes a bridge for what’s otherwise difficult music.
Be secret and exult, Because of all things known That is most difficult.
Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.
I had a very, very difficult relationship with my mother, who was supremely self-centred. She was hilariously self-centred. She did not really take interest in anything that didn’t immediately affect her.
You see actors who make family work, but it’s difficult for any woman.
I wanted to be a neurologist. That seemed to be the most difficult, most intriguing, and the most important aspect of medicine, which had links with psychology, aggression, behavior, and human affairs.
The great leaders called the working class first whenever difficult and gigantic tasks arose for the revolution, and ushered in fresh heydays of the revolution by relying on them.
You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.
There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.
My marriage? Up to now everything’s okay. But it’s a real marriage – imperfect and very difficult. It’s all about people evolving somewhat simultaneously through their lives. I think we’ve emotionally evolved.
Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.
It’s difficult to really assess what I’ve done right per say, but if I did have to point out, I’d say that I never really looked to have goals that will limit me. When one knows where he is going to or wants to end up, he/she actually doesn’t realise that the goal is more limiting, than liberating.
I have a theory that women are generally given space and appointed to jobs when the situation is tough. I’ve observed that in many instances. In times of crisis, women eventually are called upon to sort out the mess, face the difficult issues and be completely focused on restoring the situation.
A polite enemy is just as difficult to discredit, as a rude friend is to protect.
There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.
I didn’t think, ‘I’d really like to work in TV; maybe I could carve out a niche where I talk to people who are somehow involved in marginal or difficult lifestyles… ‘ It was something I gravitated to very naturally as a subject area, almost instinctively, and somehow turned into a TV career without meaning to.
TV is terrific. It’s really fast paced which I find difficult.
I think I am difficult to satisfy, because when I win something, I’m already thinking about the next step, and that is maybe a problem for me. I’m not enjoying the moment. I’m already on the mission to win the next trophy.
When fake news is repeated, it becomes difficult for the public to discern what’s real.
Being a superstar… can make life very difficult, difficult to grow. So I like to visit with my friends, listen to some fine music, drink some good wine, perhaps take a ride in the country in a fine car, or… just walk along the beach.
Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.
The transition from dictatorship to democracy is always very difficult, and if you read a history of any country that went through this, it wasn’t easy. And, you know, you don’t end dictatorship one day and next day you have fully fledged democracy.
People will always have an opinion, but you have to live life the way you want to. It’s very easy to tell others what to do, but difficult to implement it on yourself.
Emotional scenes can be especially difficult because I’m such a hyper, excited person, so sometimes that can be hard.
Perhaps my problem in marriage – and it is the problem of many women – was to want both intimacy and independence. It is a difficult line to walk, yet both needs are important to a marriage.
Sometimes you need to make difficult choices.
I don’t believe in making fashion difficult.
I seek out hard things. I tried to imitate other singers. It was a self-discovery for me to move from imitating others to me growing to sing in my own voice. The opera was difficult and it felt like a personal conquest.
Do I feel like I’m 65? No. I feel like I’m 15. That’s my problem. I’m trying as hard as I can to act like I’m 65, but it’s very difficult.
When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome.
It’s very difficult to continue to believe in yourself and that you’re a good person when the people who know you best don’t.
Life is difficult for everyone; everyone has bad days. Everyone has trouble in their life, because it doesn’t matter how rich you are: Sickness and trouble and worry and love, these things will mess with you at every level of life.
Living with a stammer is difficult. It’s a daily uphill struggle with emotional baggage weighing you down. You can’t be the person you want to be.
The Internet was supposed to allow anyone to set up a web page and share their knowledge with the world. But in practice, it’s too difficult and takes too long, and almost no one does it.
It would be difficult for me not to conclude that the most perfect type of masculine beauty is Satan, as portrayed by Milton.
Global political conditions make a direct American intervention difficult, but President Reagan’s messianic and visceral attitude toward the Nicaraguan revolution could mean it will happen as an act of desperation.
Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
Good planning is important. I’ve also regarded a sense of humor as one of the most important things on a big expedition. When you’re in a difficult or dangerous situation, or when you’re depressed about the chances of success, someone who can make you laugh eases the tension.
I don’t like the word ‘abstractions’ very much because most people don’t think in abstractions. That is too difficult for them. They think in stories. And the best stories are not abstract; they are concrete.
The reason why it is so difficult for existing firms to capitalize on disruptive innovations is that their processes and their business model that make them good at the existing business actually make them bad at competing for the disruption.
My family, although they’re very large on both my parents’ sides, they don’t know much about their family tree. Occasionally, they try to dig, but they can’t get very far, and it’s baffling. In Dublin, it seems that so many public records were wiped out; it’s proven to be very difficult, so I know very little.
It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
Going to a concert can sometimes be very difficult. It can be a long journey. There’s the ticket prices. But when the music goes to the community – not the community coming to the concert – they say, ‘Wow! I didn’t know that this music was so amazing!’
Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.
The Swedish winters and summers hold the most enduring memories for me. Now, when I am back in Stockholm in November, it is difficult to imagine being able to ski to school. I think that is a tragedy.
What we reliably find is that people’s perseverance scores are actually higher than their passion scores, and I think it really does get to the fact that working hard is hard, but maybe finding your passion is even more difficult.
The transition to WWE has been an incredible road. It’s been great, it’s been difficult, it’s been motivating, and it has allowed me as a person to just completely see myself differently and allowed me to grow in a different perspective with their input.
All things are difficult before they are easy.
In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.
It is difficult to not let the circumstances define you when everyone feels they know your personal struggles and agony.
The West only talks about how you can militarily defeat the terrorists, but terrorists are very difficult to defeat because they can appear anywhere.
I really love something that’s strong vocally and a little more difficult to sing because it’s fun.
It is great filming in London. It’s difficult, but it looks good. It has its own identity.
Indubitably, magic is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of comprehension, judgment and practice than in any other branch of physics.
Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
I love creating new things. It’s difficult to be creative once a restaurant’s open. People want the same dishes. For me, the creativity is in opening a new place and starting a new menu.
Being a good police officer is one of the most difficult, dangerous, idealistic jobs in the world.
We don’t develop courage by being happy every day. We develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
Life is a tide; float on it. Go down with it and go up with it, but be detached. Then it is not difficult.
It may be very difficult to keep the virtues of purity, passion, and sacrifice of love in real life.
The First Lady role is really difficult. It has no job description… You have to create it for yourself.
Teams are already marking me individually: they are putting two players there on my side. Unfortunately, it’s difficult, but I’m doing what I can. I’m facing them. I’m making assists. I’m trying to score my goals.
The purpose of meditation is to make our mind calm and peaceful. If our mind is peaceful, we will be free from worries and mental discomfort, and so we will experience true happiness. But if our mind is not peaceful, we will find it very difficult to be happy, even if we are living in the very best conditions.
I wouldn’t want a tattoo at all. They’re difficult to cover up.
Comedy is difficult for an actor. But I think I have a good sense of humor and manage to make people laugh and make them happy.
Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult.
Life is difficult, and if you sit around waiting for fun to show up, you’ll find yourself going without it more often than not.
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist.
When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.
Procrastination comes in two types. Some of us procrastinate in order to pursue restful activities – spending time in bed, watching TV – while others delay difficult or unpleasant tasks in favor of those that are more fun.
The word ‘belief’ is a difficult thing for me. I don’t believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it – I don’t need to believe it.
Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
Good character consists of recognizing the selfishness that inheres in each of us and trying to balance it against the altruism to which we should all aspire. It is a difficult balance to strike, but no definition of goodness can be complete without it.
It’s difficult to learn poems off by heart that don’t rhyme.
I find it difficult to watch myself… I find it boring.
Difficult things aren’t easy, but they’re worth it.
William and I feel that every child deserves to be supported through difficult times in their lives.
Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.
It’s quite difficult for me to imagine my life without chess.
I was a little concerned that a lot of people thought I wrote Merchant Ivory movies. I also thought if I was ever going to write something strange and difficult, that was the time.
When the depressive psychosis has become manifest, its cardinal feature seems to be a mental inhibition which renders a rapport between the patient and the external world more difficult.
It’s difficult working with someone who is not a team player.
At Bristol I found it quite difficult to continue trying to balance three things – teaching, research and public engagement, for which television was obviously the most prominent part.
For a young artist to really make it and make money is a lot more difficult these days.
It’s very, very, very, very difficult, you know any parent with children with any kind of special needs is very difficult.
I didn’t understand how difficult it would be to transition in the public eye and look back at pre-transition videos – it’s sort of humiliating and painful.
The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.
I’ll be too old to face a difficult championship as the one in America will surely be.
Scarce any problem will appear more hard and difficult, than that of determining the distance of the Sun from the Earth very near the truth: but even this… will without much labour be effected.
It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.
There’s no way around it – drama is very difficult to shoot. It’s very heavy and something that you carry with you for the course of the day.
It is extremely difficult for a Jew to be converted, for how can he bring himself to believe in the divinity of – another Jew?
It’s difficult for me to really temper my personality, but I am trying to be a little more sensible about it. If I really lose my temper, I go to my room and scream and shout, but I try not to lose it on people any more. I’ve never said something mean just like that. I’ve only said things in retaliation.
That’s quite a difficult thing in life, to be who you are. And when you are doing interviews, you kind of feel this need to say something interesting.
Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.
Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes… we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions – especially selfish ones.
Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.
The truth is, my life was made infinitely more difficult because I didn’t read any books. But I didn’t read any books. That’s my story. That’s my truth.
In France, it’s easy to know which team is going to win the game, whereas in England, anywhere you play, you know it’s going to be difficult.
Having no emotions is the most difficult, to tone it down.
I always feel like it’s two key ingredients when it comes to following your dreams, making something happen that the average person deems difficult. If you truly believe it, that’s step one. Step two, is, you know, the hard work that goes along with it.
I think storytelling is a thing of beauty, and also very difficult. It’s a craft you have to continue to work at.
It was difficult for me because I was searching for the answer for so long, and the answer was right in front of me. Do what I do best.
Why is our own participation in scapegoating so difficult to perceive and the participation of others so easy? To us, our fears and prejudices never appear as such because they determine our vision of people we despise, we fear, and against whom we discriminate.
Creating a regulatory system that reflects the modern-day realities of financial markets is not as difficult as it may appear.
Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.
Being brave means to know something is scary, difficult, and dangerous, and doing it anyway, because the possibility of winning the fight is worth the chance of losing it.
The reason it takes me so long to make a film, the reason it gets so difficult, is that I’m trying to think of every film as the last one I will ever make so it can be the best it can possibly be. I don’t want to have regrets or excuses or think, ‘I can do better next time.’
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.
Spending money is much more difficult than making money.
Without having a goal, it’s difficult to score.
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
Being a full human being is difficult, frightening, and problematical.
There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.
All things are difficult before they are easy.
There is this concept of politics as a dirty game. It’s a difficult game, but it doesn’t have to be dirty. I think this is what we need to bring to politics. I think politics around the world has very often been captured by big interests – ‘lobbies’ they call them in the States.
I love watching Anthony Kim play, but I’m not a fan of the way he grips down a good two inches on his full-swing shots. Choking down lightens the club’s swing weight and effectively makes the shaft stiffer. It also makes it difficult to hit the ball high enough for all situations.
I never found accents difficult, after learning languages.
But ‘Memento’ was so successful, such a huge cult hit, almost on the scale of a large film. If that had happened, with all the acclaim, before the next job, I’d have found it very difficult to figure out what to do next.
Being the Manchester United goalkeeper is one of the most difficult jobs in football when you look at the size of the club and the goalkeepers who have been here before. There is a lot of pressure on you, but I have worked hard to cope with that.
I remember that our deportment in Primary was not always as it should be. I had a lot of energy and found it difficult to sit patiently in a class.
When you’re playing a fictional character reacting to the real world, it’s incredibly difficult and confusing and kind of messes with your values a bit.
The Champions League is so difficult, It’s like a lottery: sometimes you’re just unlucky.
I grew up in Ajegunle, which is like a ghetto and it was very difficult there. When it would get to the weekend, everybody was excited because they wanted to watch Man United play.
As the time goes by, you change, your learn new things, your attitude is different. For the moment, I’m still enjoying ski racing so much that it would be difficult for me to think about ending my career.
Unless people are in the shoes of a child actor, they don’t realise how difficult it can be at times. I definitely enjoy what I’m doing, though.
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
There are times when I get really depressed, when I’m going through difficult times and when I want someone to hold my hand. Sometimes I’ll think, ‘Forget it. I want to be this way.’ I often feel that way. But when we started the Love Yourself World Tour, I stopped having those thoughts.
It’s very difficult for I think any player in any sport to want to play for a guy that doesn’t believe in their race or looks down upon their race, for whatever reason.
Success is more difficult to handle than failure.
I went to school like any other regular student till Class VIII, and my favourite subject was math. From Class IX, things got a little difficult to manage. I was inclined towards studies, but then I also had to give time to badminton.
Having an interview in English is difficult for me, but acting in English is much harder. Because when I’m acting in English, if someone points out bad pronunciation or accent, I cannot focus on my emotions anymore, so it was very hard.
Without hard work and discipline it is difficult to be a top professional.
The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
A major league pitching coach is a really difficult job. It takes a big commitment in terms of time, travel and workload.
Seduction is often difficult to distinguish from rape. In seduction, the rapist often bothers to buy a bottle of wine.
Without ethics, man has no future. This is to say, mankind without them cannot be itself. Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.
I revere my serials. But the reality, at the same time, is that it is difficult to get a break in films. I have been unceremoniously ousted from 20-25 films because I am a serial actor.
The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best.
The biggest thing for me is that I’ve managed to work through some difficult times, and those moments always make you stronger. It makes you a stronger person and a better player.
Everyone can have their heart broken. Even if you know the relationship isn’t working, it’s still sad. Even in a bad relationship, they’re part of your life for a long time, and saying goodbye to that can be difficult.
In my long and difficult and mature life, I have come to learn that the less I know about acting and the more I know about everything else, the better I’ll be at both acting and living.
One of the more difficult tasks for me as president was to decide on the issue of confirming capital punishment awarded by courts… to my surprise… almost all cases which were pending had a social and economic bias.
No data on air propellers was available, but we had always understood that it was not a difficult matter to secure an efficiency of 50% with marine propellers.
When meeting difficult situations, one should dash forward bravely and with joy.
The role of a goalkeeper is difficult to judge, above all if you haven’t been a goalkeeper. It’s like me giving an opinion on someone’s job without having had any experience in their sector. You start to realise how many stupid things are said and written about goalkeepers.
It has been a difficult road this year, but still I look at every day as a new opportunity.
It’s hard to decide how to match words to music. It’s not like it’s twice the work. It’s always difficult for me to explain to the composer what I’m looking for. I’m not a professional; I lack even basic knowledge about writing music.
I had panels – roundtables in the district – and the stories that were told are really difficult to accept. People who have diabetes who can’t get insurance because of a preexisting condition; others who were laid off and the have no place to turn.
My first popular book, ‘A Brief History of Time,’ aroused a great deal of interest, but many found it difficult to understand.
Perhaps one of the most difficult things for us to do is to choose a notable and joyous dress for men. There would be more joy in life if we were to accustom ourselves to use all the beautiful colours we can in fashioning our own clothes.
The Congo was the most difficult shoot of my life but was also maybe the greatest adventure of my life.
It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
Star quality is one of the most difficult things to describe. It emanates from the person, and he may not even understand it himself. It’s a quality that separates the star from the rest of us.
Let’s face it: It’s difficult enough to be funny without worrying about what is going to offend whom.
Everybody has their thing they like or don’t like to see. It’s all in your head. That’s why people take their own pictures, because it’s difficult for someone else to capture what you seek.
There’s nothing wrong with struggle. Anytime I look back at a difficult phase of my life and see what grew out of it – the creative survival tactics – I think that the good is way better than the bad.
Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
My mom would always read a book to me at night from when I was three. Now, I can’t go to sleep without reading a book. At the same time, once I read, it’s difficult for me to go to sleep, as I have an overactive imagination and I start thinking.
For me, integrity is the consistency of words and actions. Part of the way that you do that is to ask people questions on some of the most difficult issues that you confront. ‘Take me through where you felt you had to compromise your values.’
It’s very, very difficult to reinvent yourself when you’re 40 or 50, whether you are a taxi driver who now needs to become a web designer, or anything else. It just becomes more difficult and more scary.
I have a very short attention span, so sitting down with a book is very difficult for me.
It is difficult to violently suppress people in the long run, as the example of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries has shown.
To disappear your complete self into a character is quite difficult. I’ve tried it 85 times, and I’ve succeeded two or three times.
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
My parents’ divorce was very difficult. Divorce is essentially incredibly painful, but it’s also an essential part of life.
I will always be as difficult as necessary to achieve the best.
For those who love, nothing is too difficult, especially when it is done for the love of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Making money is easy. It is. The difficult thing in life is not making it, it’s keeping it.
It is very difficult for a writer of my generation, if he is honest, to pretend indifference to the work of Somerset Maugham. He was always so entirely there.
Never give up on your dreams, no matter how painful and difficult your journey is.
Nothing is so difficult but that it may be found out by seeking.
If you want to become a professional football player at any level, when you’re growing up, you have to make sacrifices, and it’s very difficult. It’s not easy, but you have to train hard, you have to live right, and you have to rest.
I had lost a clear sense of the vision and values instilled in me as a child and was no longer driven by any mission or passion. I made the difficult decision to pull back from the noise of my life and reinvent the way I was living and leading.
Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.
To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved.
Basketball, in America, is like a culture. It is like a foreigner learning a new language. It is difficult to learn foreign languages and it will also be difficult for me to learn the culture for basketball here.
The calling of art is to extract us from our daily reality, to bring us to a hidden truth that’s difficult to access – to a level that’s not material but spiritual.
Physics is becoming too difficult for the physicists.
You have to be strong and calm to overcome difficult moments.
Positive things come out of even the most difficult times.
People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don’t know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.
Everybody goes through challenges. There’s stuff that happens personally that’s challenging, stuff in work that’s difficult, disappointments that happen.
Being a mother must be the most difficult task in the world.
Beautiful sentences pop into my head. Beautiful sentences that aren’t always absolutely accurate. Then, I have to choose between the beautiful sentence and being absolutely accurate. It can be a difficult choice.
Loneliness is always there, it’s a phase that comes and goes and it is a very difficult phase.
It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.
Well, we’ve faced very difficult decisions and challenges in our country, every one of us have, as we – since September 11th, as we fought the war on terror, all of those decisions that the President had to make to put young men and women in harm’s way.
I have a difficult time sitting down for long periods.
Governors sometimes have a hard time jumping up on a table and yelling the loudest because they’ve actually been there. They realize it’s difficult to govern in a split environment.
As climate change moves from a model of the future to the reality of the present, health care systems across the country are facing a difficult set of questions. What are doctors supposed to do when wildfires, rising floodwater or other natural disasters threaten their ability to provide care for patients?
Soccer is simple, but it is difficult to play simple.
Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.
It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
What makes a classic is difficult to define. It’s entirely subjective, of course. And the term is employed far too promiscuously.
The reason it has taken so long for the robotics industry to move forward is because people keep trying to make something that is cool but difficult to achieve rather than trying to find solutions to actual human problems. Technology can be extremely expensive if you don’t focus.
Without the name, any flower is still more or less a stranger to you. The name betrays its family, its relationship to other flowers, and gives the mind something tangible to grasp. It is very difficult for persons who have had no special training to learn the names of the flowers from the botany.
I think it would be difficult to explore some aspects of Ted’s past, because ‘Line of Duty’ investigates fictitious police forces – you never know, and you should never know, who it is we might be investigating.
If you move to Canada, after a few years you call yourself Canadian. In Germany, it’s difficult to belong.
The most difficult thing for me is a portrait. You have to try and put your camera between the skin of a person and his shirt.
It is more difficult to rule yourself than to rule a city.
It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.
It’s often difficult for those who are lucky enough to have never experienced what true depression is to imagine a life of complete hopelessness, emptiness and fear.
No matter how difficult your situation may be you have to follow the Lord of the Second Advent completely.
One can quite understand vegetarianism. One can quite understand meat-eating. But it is difficult to understand why a person who is a flesh-eater should object to one kind of flesh, namely cow’s flesh. This is an anomaly which call for explanation.
Fiscal conservatism is just an easy way to express something that is a bit more difficult, which is that the size and scope of government, and really the size and scope of politics in our lives, has grown uncomfortable, unwieldy, intrusive and inefficient.
When times are good, a CEO should remain poised and composed. When times are difficult, a CEO should remain poised and composed.
For me, it doesn’t matter how difficult something is, it doesn’t matter how impressive it is, it’s what sounds best that really counts.
Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly.
Our lives improve only when we take chances – and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
Playing good girls in the 30s was difficult, when the fad was to play bad girls. Actually I think playing bad girls is a bore; I have always had more luck with good girl roles because they require more from an actress.
When you play sports like tennis, you’re alone, and that’s a good school for life, but it’s also a good school for life to bring your best and make those around you better, too – helping others in difficult moments.
There is really nothing more to say – except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.
The highest compliment one can give a writer is not to say that one wholeheartedly agrees with his observations, but that he provoked – really, forced – difficult thinking about consequential matters and internal questioning of one’s own assumptions, often without quick or clear resolution.
It is not easy to do something good, but it is extremely difficult to do something bad.
Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.
Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.
The first game is always the most difficult, for the nerves you have before you begin to play.
When I talk about that Apple ecosystem, the ability to get one application to run across those five platforms is very difficult. In the future of Microsoft, using HTML5, IE9 and 10, the scalable OS, the ability to do that gets much, much easier.
Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.
In a vague way, I always knew neurosurgery was different – more delicate, more difficult, more demanding. After all, we say things like, ‘I’m no brain surgeon,’ for a reason.
I am deeply impressed with the gravity and wisdom with which most federal judges approach the responsibility of sentencing. It is a difficult, soul-searching task at best.
The kindness and affection from the public have carried me through some of the most difficult periods, and always your love and affection have eased the journey.
Art is difficult. It’s not entertainment.
Drag is great way to get people to pay attention to me, but it’s a difficult way to get people to take me seriously as a musician. So it’s a weird Catch-22. It’s like a gimmick that gets them to pay attention, but when they see my image, they’re like, ‘There’s no way this is going to have any legitimacy to it.’
The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
Loving a child doesn’t mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.
You want to know why Barbra Streisand is so difficult? Because she’s brilliant. She’s a brilliant entertainer, she’s a brilliant lady, and she’s a wonderful human being, and the community doesn’t like it.
The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.
There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury.
We are well aware of the task ahead of us in what will be a very difficult match but which we all dream of playing.
There’s power in naming yourself, in proclaiming to the world that this is who you are. Wielding this power is often a difficult step for many transgender people because it’s also a very visible one.
It’s difficult for one filmmaker to criticize another. That’s a job best left to critics.
If you aren’t good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you’ll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren’t even giving to yourself.
No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.
I think when I was on the corporate ladder, it was very difficult to maintain the hours. It’s a little easier when you have you’re an entrepreneur.
The Goth character was a difficult thing to get my head round. I’m not really a fan of Goth music. I’m more a piano and guitar man – that’s what I love.
As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.
One of the powerful temptations is that of the cinema palace. The cinema has undoubtedly an enormous attraction for boys, and people are constantly cudgelling their brains how to stop it. But it is one of those things which would be very difficult to stop even if it were altogether desirable.
It is going to be difficult for the West Indies to get back to the top, but we got to start somewhere, and if playing young players is the way we have decided to go, these young players must be given the chance to mature and develop and not be discarded at an early age.
In difficult times fashion is always outrageous.
For any young democracy, the most difficult but important step is burying the legacy of tyranny and establishing an economy and a government and institutions that abide by the rule of law. Every country faces challenges to the rule of law, including my own.
I know, to banish anger altogether from one’s breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God’s grace.
Every time Spain play England at any level, it is difficult.
There is nothing I can do to undo what I did. I can only say again how sorry I am to those I let down and then strive to go forward with a greater sense of humility and purpose, and with gratitude to those who stood with me during a very difficult chapter in my life.
It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
Many companies restrict Internet activity so heavily that it makes it difficult for people to do online research. The most obvious example? Checking the Facebook profile of someone you just interviewed.
I think every person is different in coping with pressure; every person thinks differently. For me, sometimes it is difficult because people expect so much of me.
In a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end.
During difficult times, it’s best to cut down on sweets like cookies, cake and candy. Satisfy your sweet tooth with fruit to help prevent blood sugar dips and spikes.
It’s difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato.
If you’re not plugged into something like Athletes in Action or Campus Crusade, it’s difficult to keep your eyes focused on Jesus Christ because the world is telling you differently, and your sin-nature is telling you differently.
The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one’s opinion but rather to know it.
If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.
We have to acknowledge that adolescence is that time of transition where we begin to introduce to children that life isn’t pretty, that there are difficult things, there are hard situations, it’s not fair. Bad things happen to good people.
The Israeli military plays more than a critical role in defending the citizens of the Jewish state. It also plays an important social, scientific and psychological role in preparing its young citizens for the challenging task of being Israelis in a difficult world.
I learned that life is a long and difficult road, but you have to keep going, or you’ll fall by the wayside.
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
Japanese is a very difficult language.
The dark side of social media is that, within seconds, anything can be blown out of proportion and taken out of context. And it’s very difficult not to get swept up in it all.
I find it difficult, the method of working in the cycling union, the lack of professionalism.
Ice skating is very difficult. It takes a lot of discipline and a lot of hard work. It’s fun, but you are there on the ice every morning freezing and trying to do these moves and these tricks.
Being thrown into the fire and getting the thing turned around in a hurry made it more difficult. Things have been done the hard way. I think you learn better when things are done the hard way.
I think the fact that I’m so well known to be gay makes it very difficult to have a convincing relationship with a woman on screen. It wouldn’t be at all difficult for me to kiss a woman – I’ll kiss a frog if you like.
I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.
There’s no reason music should be difficult for an audience to understand.
I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly mother. I consider it my duty to be with my compatriots in this sublime and difficult moment.
Why the Christian life is so difficult to many is because they have a divided heart. They are double-minded, which makes them unstable in all their ways.
When everybody recognises you, going out is difficult. But you deal with it.
Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
The simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius.
Fame is easy to acquire; impact is much more difficult.
If the experiments which I urge be defective, it cannot be difficult to show the defects; but if valid, then by proving the theory, they must render all objections invalid.
I had been told that the training procedure with cats was difficult. It’s not. Mine had me trained in two days.
Politics is dirty. Politics is exciting. Politics is often very, very difficult and disappointing. And I really would rather the world would be a little more like it was when my dad was young, where you knew pretty much where people stood on the great moral issues.
Marriage is a difficult project. When seven years have passed and all your body’s cells have been replaced, you’re meant to experience that seven-year itch.
It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn’t use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words, like ‘What about lunch?’
Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon’s unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.
To paint is the most terrific thing that there is, but to do it well is very difficult.
I’m not difficult to work with, trust me.
It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.
The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.
Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.
It’s difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn’t available.
Beset by a difficult problem? Now is your chance to shine. Pick yourself up, get to work and get triumphantly through it.
The Vatican has to strike a difficult balance between running a country and running a religious institution.
Corporate America cannot afford to remain silent or passive about the downward spiral we are undergoing. It cannot turn a blind eye to how difficult the experience of life is for so many of their customers.
It is very, very difficult for a playwright to write a scene in which a young man has his first deep experience of sex with a girl whom he found immensely attractive, is fully satisfied by this event and gets up and blinds a lot of horses.
To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
I don’t have to put on a front. If I had to, it would be difficult and tiring.
Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases.
Scars remind you of difficult places in your life that you’ve championed.
A family’s love is often the best medicine, and in difficult times, I believe that our military families deserve the option of staying together.
Nuclear arms and atomic power represent a technology in which coexistence with man is extremely difficult.
Being alone is very difficult.
Being No. 1 on any call sheet is difficult. Being No. 1 on an episodic, hour-long drama is really hard.
Nationalism makes us weak because its eternal seeking of enemies, its disdain of others, its need to feel superior makes cooperation with other nations to collectively guarantee our freedom and security much more difficult.
In working class districts, you had several families living together in the one house, and it was very difficult to get a house, because the politicians who controlled housing were doing so in a very discriminatory fashion.
The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.
Brazil has people in some places with so difficult situations. They prefer to smile than cry because they love life. They love to be happy. That’s Brazilian style.
Look around at things that just aren’t getting done. Maybe there’s a project you could tackle. Maybe there’s an issue that always gets back-burnered for other priorities. Challenge yourself to take on those difficult assignments. They’re learning opportunities, and you have a chance to change something for the better.
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
Managing through ambiguity can be difficult for even the most experienced leaders. Defining a clear set of goals for your team demonstrates that there is an end in sight. However, it’s crucial during this time to move through the transition in phases.
In a unity government, it’s very difficult to move anything at all.
I think that was very important to Bacon… personally. I think he went to great efforts to get a house for the Stratford man, to make it so difficult for us to prove that it was Francis Bacon, because it is very difficult to prove.
Some people are genetically programmed to be difficult.
Play difficult and interesting things. If you play boring things, you risk losing your appetite. Saxophone can be tedious with too much of the same.
Life is very difficult. One of the most ancient of religious ideas that emerges everywhere, I would say, is that life is essentially suffering.
It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.
There is nothing more difficult to define than an aphorism.
It’s difficult for me to feel that a solid page without the breakups of paragraphs can be interesting. I break mine up perhaps sooner than I should in terms of the usage of the English language.
Women are more difficult to caricature than men – partly because beauty is more difficult to caricature.
It’s difficult to get started-when it comes to dealing with an unknown quantity, people are reluctant to trust their own opinion. It helps if two or three people give you a boost.
It did not come naturally; in fact, it would be difficult to conceive of any more dogmatic and less tolerant people than the first settlers on New England shores.
Finding fresh song topics can sometimes be quite difficult.
ARMYs are the ones who’ve stood by our side since our difficult days, who’ve shared our joy and sadness, who know us best.
Cross-cultural marriage is difficult, especially when one person has to live in another country. But I thought there was a very good chance of it working because people grow together if they have a common passion.
To be famous these days with no grounding and no substance is not especially difficult. I urge you instead to seek to be relevant, to be agile and educated.
Art really is something very difficult. It is difficult to make, and it is sometimes difficult for the viewer to understand. It is difficult to work out what is art and what is not art.
Learning to trust is one of life’s most difficult tasks.
I played several maids in my career. I was tired of the maid after ‘Far From Heaven.’ I said, no more maids. Until I realized how difficult it was to get a role other than a maid, sometimes, in Hollywood, and sometimes you have to choose your battles, for lack of a better term.
The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.
I think it’s really difficult to justify converting a film that wasn’t shot in 3-D into 3-D. I really do believe, as does James Cameron and all the people who are actually pro-3-D, that you have to go out and shoot it that way. You have nothing but compromise if you don’t.
There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it with reluctance.
Bringing together the unique expertise of researchers from both NYU and the Technion will hopefully enable us to overcome some of the most difficult challenges in treating cancer patients.
I’m a very positive thinker, and I think that is what helps me the most in difficult moments.
The most difficult problems are naturally not involved in the search for forms for contemporary life. It is a question of working our way to forms behind which real human values lie.
There are difficult matches from time to time, and that is absolutely normal. You have to stay calm and confident after them.
I think the character does tend to suit an episodic thing, because what’s fun about him is that he doesn’t care about anyone else, and it’s very difficult for a main character – a lead character – in a movie to not care about anybody else.
I’m just very wary that once you start military operations in any country, it’s very difficult to predict what the outcome is.
God has equipped you to handle difficult things. In fact, He has already planted the seeds of discipline and self-control inside you. You just have to water those seeds with His Word to make them grow!
Throughout life, a positive attitude is important because without it one has a more difficult time achieving any measure of success, whether it be in school, athletics or the working world.
What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
Learning to trust is one of life’s most difficult tasks.
Everybody, at some point in their life, has fallen down and not felt like getting back up, but you have to, no matter how difficult it is.
Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.
If you want to lose weight, you have to be obsessed with it. You can’t depend upon your dietician, your trainer or various health aids that you have. You have to be organised. And believe me, it isn’t that difficult. The first 10 days are terrible because you have to break the lifelong habits that you have made.
I get asked a lot about being a woman within the industry and how difficult it is, and yeah, it is – but it’s difficult for everybody… I’m not a ‘burn-your-bra’ feminist.
It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.
I find the most difficult part of writing is to get it down initially because what you have written is usually so terrible that it’s disheartening; you don’t want to go on. That’s what I think is hard – the discouragement that comes from seeing what you have done.
Artemis women often have difficult childhoods. She’s the kid who seeks comfort in the woods, or animals, or books. If trapped in an authoritarian family, she blends in to get by – but keeps a fierce autonomy inside her head and heart, looking to the day she breaks free.
I believe that having conversations about difficult things is a part of a process and that it should happen. You don’t avoid it because it’s difficult. And you’re not dividing more by having a respectful conversation.
It’s during dream sleep where we start to actually take the sting out of difficult, even traumatic, emotional experiences that we’ve been having. And sleep almost divorces that emotional, bitter rind from the memory experiences that we’ve had during the day.
The reason I do this job is because I started to be a painter. Making money in art was difficult. The easiest way to make money was to use art for some other reason. One of the easiest and most interesting from an economic point of view was fashion. Fashion pays.
My biggest struggle was probably having to move from the Dominican to the United States to go to high school. Moving to Michigan, the weather, the language, I didn’t speak English at all. That adjustment for me was difficult at the beginning.
Many shoulder heavy burdens of righteous responsibility which, on occasion, seem so difficult to bear. I have heard those challenges termed impossible.
People were more interested in the phenomena than the art itself. This, combined with the growing interest in collecting art as an investment and the resultant boom in the art market, made it a difficult time for a young artist to remain sincere without becoming cynical.
Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs.
Talking about the loss of my parents… that was really, really difficult to go through.
When fake news is repeated, it becomes difficult for the public to discern what’s real.
To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficult of all, and so important, withal, that nations have perished from their failure to achieve it.
I learned a long time ago that some people would rather die than forgive. It’s a strange truth, but forgiveness is a painful and difficult process. It’s not something that happens overnight. It’s an evolution of the heart.
Confidence is always a good thing to have going into the weekend. Especially where it’s quite difficult to put the lap together.
Our world faces difficult challenges, but no more so than in the past. Working together in a constructive spirit, we can assure our children the future they deserve.
Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
When United play at home, they get some advantage that other teams don’t get. I think when you go to United, Madrid, Barcelona, or Milan, when the referees referee these kind of games, it’s always difficult to go against these kind of teams.
I just don’t like to do a lot of the normal things expected of other artists. I’m not trying to be difficult; I’m just trying to stick with what it is I want to do.
We are constantly being put to the test by trying circumstances and difficult people and problems not necessarily of our own making.
People are so difficult. Give me an elephant any day.
It was a bit difficult in England at first with the weather and the rain, but I love the football culture in this country.
Without strong health systems in place, the higher the population density, the more difficult it becomes to prevent and control outbreaks, and not just because of the increased risk of contagion.
When I was in fifth grade – so, about 11 – my folks moved us to Denmark. And so not only did I have all new friends and all new surroundings, I didn’t even understand what they were talking about, which was very difficult and kind of started me, I think, on my path to animation.
It is a common phenomenon that just the prettiest girls find it so difficult to get a man.
It is difficult to express in words the feelings of happiness and pride which fill me.
The U.N. Population Fund has a maternal health program in some Cameroon hospitals, but it doesn’t operate in this region. It’s difficult to expand, because President Bush has cut funding.
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.
It’s just racing. Sometimes you have difficult moments, and then you try to work hard, and you keep working hard, and you overcome the situation. It’s as simple as that.
AI can help solve some of the most difficult social and environmental challenges in areas like healthcare, disaster prediction, environmental conservation, agriculture, or cultural preservation.
The truth is that those who join gangs – more often than not they are young men in their later teens – often do come from the most difficult family backgrounds, from an environment where they feel neglected and unwanted. Gang membership can bring a perverse sense of belonging which they may not have ever got at home.
Turning a culture around is very difficult to do because it’s based on a series of many, many decisions, and the organization is framed by those decisions.
I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy.
It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn’t use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words, like ‘What about lunch?’
There are moments in our lives that are more difficult than others. And I can look at each song and remember where I was during those times – from the highest of highs to the lowest of lows.
The difficult is what takes a little time; the impossible is what takes a little longer.
I don’t prefer to go out and chill. I hardly roam around. It might be difficult to believe, but I haven’t visited Akshardham temple or Qutub Minar.
Female clothing seems to be extremely difficult and almost like a puzzle for a man to take off. But I think if you get there, you win. A kilt is the complete opposite. The kilt is so easy to take off.
Most people don’t grow up. It’s too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. That’s the truth of it. They honor their credit cards, they find parking spaces, they marry, they have the nerve to have children, but they don’t grow up.
I enjoy acting now more than I ever have. I’ve had lots of difficult times when I was younger, but that was all tied up with thwarted ambition. It’s hard being a young actor, because you don’t realise until later that it’s only ever about doing the work.
To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
Comebacks are not at all easy. After a major surgery, the difficult part is to conquer the inner demons. It’s all in the mind. Only an individual can overcome his fears.
I think it is going to be very difficult to be a company in silos. I think the game has changed. We won’t define our success by looking at the competitors but at how satisfied are our customers, how engaged are our internal stakeholders, and how good is our product pipeline.
During the 1970s, inflation expectations rose markedly because the Federal Reserve allowed actual inflation to ratchet up persistently in response to economic disruptions – a development that made it more difficult to stabilize both inflation and employment.
I’m not going to complain about playing a cop, there’s a cop in every country town in this place. Policing the world and the community is a difficult job, because you get it wrong some times. I couldn’t do it for real.
I cannot think of anything more difficult than to say something which would be worthy of this impressive and, for me, memorable occasion, and of the ideals and purposes which inspired the Nobel Peace Award.
People aren’t born strong. People grow stronger little by little, encountering difficult situations, learning not to run from them.
If you want plenty of experience in dealing with difficult people, then have kids.
The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task.
It was very difficult for me to be the only lyricist in the band.
Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one’s thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.
I’m not quite that difficult, even though maybe I’m a little bit bossy. But you know, in order to get things done, you do have to be a little bit bossy sometimes or tell people what you really want. Otherwise, things just don’t get done, do they?
We are living in a multicultural society. Our role as leaders is to enable grappling with this situation, even when multiculturalism is difficult.
My first big gig was an opening show for Frank Zappa, and I think that was difficult.
Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.
I knew police officers have a very difficult job. They have to make split second decisions that will impact not only the communities they serve but their families, their own personal lives.
By being courageous enough to state the difficult truth, the most important reputation that you will preserve is your own.
Abortion opponents say women seek abortions in haste and confusion. Pro-choicers reply: Abortion is the most difficult, agonizing decision a woman ever makes.
Economics profession, they’ve been – they’ve been confident in various formulas, but economics is not physics. The same formula that works in one decade doesn’t work in the next. Economics is a difficult subject.
I had an edge in ‘Andhadhun’ because, being a musician, I knew how to play a guitar, so it was not difficult for me to learn a musical instrument.
Iker Casillas is one of those keepers who always seems to be at his best in the really difficult games when he has hardly got anything to do but reacts when needed in those emergency situations.
Difficult years lie ahead, patience is required.
Every adaptation requires that the screenwriter make difficult choices – and in particular, difficult cuts.
It is difficult to imagine how any behavior in the presence of another person can avoid being a communication of one’s own view of the nature of one’s relationship with that person and how it can fail to influence that person.
Difficult times disrupt your conventional ways of thinking and push you to forge better habits of thought, performance and being.
A lot of times when you’re young and carefree, you don’t realize, when you tip over the edge, how difficult it is to climb back in.
There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.
Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint.
My father blamed me for my brother Gunther’s death, for not bringing him home. He died in an avalanche as we descended from the summit of Nanga Parbat, one of the 14 peaks over 8,000m, in 1970. Gunther and I did so much together. It was difficult for my father to understand what it was like up there.
With any coach, you have a lot of respect for him, but it is difficult to be their friend.
Westerns are very difficult to predict whether they’ll reach an audience or not.
The stock market is like a small row boat on a rough sea, bouncing around as it drifts, whereas the macro economy is like a large ocean liner, very ponderous and difficult to maneuver but without such a rough journey.
If you aren’t overly effusive or really nicey-nice with the press, you get a reputation for being outspoken or difficult.
If you don’t have the right culture, in the difficult moments, the tree is going to shake, so my job is to convince everybody that this is how we are going to live, and if you are going to be part of this organisation it has to be in these terms and in this way.
Remember that when criticism is difficult to accept, there is probably some truth to it.
Patents are like fertilizer. Applied wisely and sparingly, they can increase growth. But if you apply too many chemicals, or make patents too strong, then you can leach the land, making growth more difficult.
Holding up Shaq every damn day – it’s crazy, you do it four times a year, but doing it every day in practice is difficult.
I want to go out at the top, but the secret is knowing when you’re at the top, it’s so difficult in this business, your career fluctuates all the time, up and down, like a pair of trousers.
I used to be a teacher, and I know how difficult it is to strike a balance between focused conversation and an atmosphere which prevents creativity and thought.
I’ve heard I’ve been called a bad boy, or difficult.
Motherhood is… difficult and… rewarding.
It’s easy to get rid of things when there is an obvious reason for doing so. It’s much more difficult when there is no compelling reason.
Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do.
I would love to learn other languages, maybe French? My uncle speaks German so maybe also German? Chinese seems to be too difficult.
To rule is easy, to govern difficult.
