Difficult Quotes

It is difficult to press forward if we do not know how to obey.

The doubling of oil prices ... is creating a more difficult environment in which to act.

When you listen to nature, it may still be difficult to live a life, but it's inspiring.

I came up from a difficult background.

All the traditional westerns are about choice and the individual. When progress comes it's much more difficult to define the individual in that world.

As difficult as it is to eliminate the risk of nuclear warfare, it requires fewer changes to the global economy than does averting or reversing climate change.

I find it somewhat difficult to write with other people, although it has happened occasionally.

Comedy has to be so much cleaner than drama. You can't layer it in the way you can a dramatic performance. Which is why it's more difficult than drama - you don't have so many tricks.

Keeping the ship on course will be the first and most difficult order of business. Everyone is going to be piloting their organization through very high waters where things can change in an instant.

I've made a few albums in such an autonomous way; it often has been exhausting. It's almost difficult to enjoy the process when you take on so much.

The difficult thing about shooting a television series is that you never have enough time. You really don't.

I've been through some very difficult stages in my life, but I wouldn't change anything.

Remember that although the distinction can be difficult to draw, loneliness and solitude are different.

It's always great to play at home. I won here last year and it's great to start with a win like this today. The first match was difficult and I thought it was step in the right direction.

When we want to reach a dream for the second time, you want it to come true, when you try so hard, you are so close to achieving it, it makes things very difficult to live with afterwards.

It is always difficult, even with the best will in the world, to look back a long way and see anything resembling the truth.

I learned how difficult it is to self-publish a book. It's complex, it's confusing, it's idiosyncratic.

I find it really difficult to even articulate things that I've done in the past. I express myself through the characters that I play, not through the articulation of them later.

You can have no idea, if you have not tried, how difficult it is to find out anything whatever from an encyclopedia, unless you know all about it already.

The work gets more difficult as you get older. You learn more and you gather more experiences, there is deeper pain and higher highs.

It's a long, hard, difficult process to make it to a national championship.

It's not really difficult to go from one voice into the next.

It's very difficult for people, because when you purify yourself with love you have to merge. Anything in the world is easier to merge than two egos.

The morality of scholarship, as currently practiced, is to encourage everyone to replace difficult pleasures by pleasures universally accessible precisely because they are easier.

In New York one lives in the moment rather more than Socrates advised, so that at a party or alone in your room it will always be difficult to guess at the long term worth of anything.

There is a way to bring peace and harmony to yourself even in the most difficult of times.

It's a great luxury for me to be able to write on the films that I direct, and kind of a nice thing to be able to write enough to get credit, which is difficult for a director.

I want to explore marriage without the usual Hallmark Card platitudes. Life is difficult, and I like movies that acknowledge that.

It is easy to fool yourself. It is possible to fool the people you work for. It is more difficult to fool the people you work with. But it is almost impossible to fool the people who work under you.

I don't think about those things, really. I work hard on everything I do. Everything is a struggle, everything is hard, everything is difficult.

One of the most difficult things in life for any individual or business is to accept and adopt change.

Humility is becoming a lost art, but it's not difficult to practice. It means that you realize that others have been involved in your success.

I don't think I made any really big mistakes; it's just that I chose something difficult to do. Looking back, I suppose I should be grateful that I got as far as I got.

I'm not much interested in prizes, whether from the Arab world or from the Western world. Writing is a very difficult process and I want to continue my work.

I love Russian, because it's delicious to speak like that. If you have to speak French, you can also do that, because it's not difficult. Accents are a cool thing to do. And I love doing them.

When I was making films [early in my career] there were very, very few female directors, and there were certainly no women on set, which made taking one's clothes off all the more difficult.

It's difficult to judge other actors, because as an actor you're looking at different things than what an audience is looking at.

Sometimes she went so far as to wish that she should find herself in a difficult position, so that she might have the pleasure of being as heroic as the occasion demanded.

With age, life becomes complex and difficult, often fraught with risk on several levels, from the practical to the fiscal.

In blues music, there's a lot of borrowing, so it's often difficult to identify the originator of a song.

It is very difficult to tell Americans that they can't do something.

Almost all human who can form a sentence will eventually let you in on the fact that their lives are very difficult and sometimes very hard to manage.

Anyone can buy CG technology. It's not that it's easy to make those films. Those films are just as difficult, they're incredibly hard to make.

It's always difficult to make predictions about the future.

Individual transportation has become synonymous for freedom and liberty, so it would be difficult to actually get rid of individualized transport, and in rural areas that would be impossible.

The Christos-image is most difficult to disentangle from its art-craft junk-shop paint-and-plaster medieval jumble of pain-worship and death-symbol.

I strongly support Roe v. Wade, which guarantees a constitutional right to a woman to make the most intimate, most difficult, in many cases, decisions about her health care that one can imagine.

It is difficult finding intelligence that is actionable in a lot of these places, but we have to keep trying.

Mental health is one of the biggest concerns, because now police are having to handle a lot of really difficult mental health problems on the street.

True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!