Difficult Quotes
It was difficult being a conscientious objector in the 1940's, but I felt I had to stick to my guns.
Learn to be difficult when it counts. In school as in life, having a reputation for being assertive will help you receive preferential treatment without having to beg or fight for it every time.
Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone's heart; know that you're really loved.
Technically, the last number of years, partially from the injury, it's been difficult to push forward but I felt even before the injury that I still could do more and was sort of at a stalemate.
Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
Because of piracy there has been a massive downturn in people buying music, which makes it more difficult for artists to make money from the sale of records.
Being human is difficult. Some people make it more difficult than others. I was one of those people.
Life has become terribly insecure. It's on the vortex of civil war. It's difficult to know how America will bring it back from the brink and build up good will.
One of the gratuities about being a director is that you can volunteer yourself out of difficult details.
It's difficult to believe that Al Gore was oblivious to the existing laws. He has to respond at some point.
The higher you go in a company, the less oxygen there is, so supporting intelligent life becomes difficult.
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.
No matter what you have gone through in your youth, it is about who you choose to be in life. You can define your own destiny. You can be stronger than a very difficult past and overcome it.
The most functional way to regulate difficult emotions in love relationships is to share them.
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.
Just because we go through a difficult situation, it doesn’t mean that the future is predetermined. The future is very much in our hands, in our actions.
I realized, the older I get, the more difficult life becomes. It's not easier, it's more difficult.
Politicians think that if matters look difficult, compromise is a good approach. Unfortunately, nature and the laws of physics cannot compromise - they are what they are.
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.
Life is difficult for those who have the daring to first set out on an unknown road. The avant-garde always has a bad time of it.
There is really nothing more to say - except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those chosen to attain their full worth.
Like a plant that starts up in showers and sunshine and does not know which has best helped it to grow, it is difficult to say whether the hard things or the pleasant things did me the most good.
A joint European army is a very far-reaching proposal and it would be difficult to implement. Such initiatives are nevertheless needed.
To be free you must afford freedom to your neighbor, regardless of race, color, creed, or national origin, and that sometimes, for some, is very difficult.
Like all very handsome men who die tragically, he left not so much a character behind him as a legend. Youth and death shed a halo through which it is difficult to see a real face.
It's so easy to conform and to follow. It's very difficult to be rebellious and live by what you believe is right. And to make decisions and to take the consequences. Very few people do.
It's a very, very difficult space to operate in, the restaurant business-it requires a lot of human beings to intersect at just the right place to make it all work out.
The most difficult novel I have had to write in terms of just getting it done was The Vampire Lestat. It took a year to write.
Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.
Sometimes one has to say difficult things, but one ought to say them as simply as one knows how.
The more difficult it is to forgive someone the greater the opportunity for spiritual growth.
Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.
If at times our actions seem to make life difficult for others, it is only because history has made life difficult for us all.
I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying.
We tend to think of innovation as difficult, but with the creative use of The 80/20 Principle innovation can be both easy and fun!
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.
An athlete who tells you the training is always easy and always fun simply hasn't been there. Goals can be elusive which makes the difficult journey all the more rewarding.
