Difficult Quotes

I'm difficult on every single level. I'm aware that I can be annoying.

It's difficult for me to have a large story, a very large story - a novel is a large story. I'm used to writing and doing these little miniature paintings.

Honestly, acting is the most work when you're unemployed. For me, the actual acting part is never hard. It's the politics and basically everything around the acting that is difficult.

The one reader I'm trying to please as I write is me, and I'm pretty difficult to please.

Second thoughts have aborted more dreams than all the difficult circumstances, overwhelming obstacles, and dangerous detours fate ever could throw at you.

It is difficult to experience moments of happiness if we are not aware of what it is we genuinely love.

We would like to see, in the future, what we will probably call needs-based licensing of all weapons. ...Where it would make it much more difficult for anybody to be able to purchase handguns.

And while it is hard enough to take away something that makes a person happy it's even more difficult when it seems like it's the only thing.

First of all, war is a very, very difficult thing to deal with, even on the good days.

By definition, risk-takers often fail. So do morons. In practice it's difficult to sort them out.

It's really difficult to make things, and a lot of times you don't know you're at the end of something.

Commit yourself to taking enough risks that you will fail some of the time. If you're not failing, we're not doing something sufficiently difficult or creative.

The sad truth is as difficult as the first mile can be for entrepreneurs, it is doubly tough inside most large companies as innovators can face some significant headwinds.

The internet is a great thing but the worst thing that it brought to the music business was piracy and it's made making stuff available really difficult.

I've always been very forward-looking, and it was actually kind of difficult to turn my gaze backwards to look at comics history.

It's really difficult to have a challenging male-driven show, and certain networks take off because they have their own mandate about what they want to do.

Feedback for leaders is often nuanced and difficult to deliver. That said, hearing you are passive-aggressive from 10 different people described 10 different ways becomes hard to ignore.

It is difficult at times to repress the thought that history is about as instructive as an abattoir.

I just think the most difficult thing to displace is privilege.

I would have to say that my divorce was an incredibly difficult experience in my life, but I am truly thankful for it. It made me a stronger and better person.

There exists no more difficult art than living.

[During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember ...] Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way for greater glories.

I don't even know - for me, it's difficult to decide which is more important - the things or the thoughts. It seems to me that certain things came up more or less naturally.

We live in a vague world. And it gets vaguer all the time. In this environment, the power of the specific, measurable and useful promise made and kept is difficult to overstate.

The reason social media is so difficult for most organizations: It’s a process, not an event.

Initiating is really and truly difficult, and that's what leaders do. They see something others are ignoring and they jump on it.

Mostly, the best way to be the next Mark Zuckerberg is to make difficult choices.

Dreams are difficult to build and easy to destroy.

We're going to spend our entire future living in tomorrow-investing now, when it's difficult, is the single best moment.

Working in any country where you want to talk about the kind of issues that other people don't want to talk about is difficult.

My films are motivated by a keen interest in highlighting issues that affect marginalized populations who are caught in difficult circumstances.

All men are difficult.

The embodiment of kindness is often made difficult by our long ingrained patterns of fear & jealousy.

Since I have that edgy, rocker-tomboy kind of vibe, it can be very difficult to translate my style for the red carpet.

At the end of a marriage it is difficult to recall the beginning.

I'm always nervous taking on a period role because it's difficult to research - you can't observe it, go out and see it. But it's satisfying because eventually you think, 'I got there.

Instead of respecting things, we want to use them for ourselves and if it is difficult to use them, we want to conquer them.

Music is my girlfriend, pretty much. It's makes it a little difficult, but I'm always looking, looking for the right girl.

The car has made our lives more difficult. If not for it, we would have everything we needed within walking distance.

In America, it is difficult to be your own man.

Art school is a very difficult thing to run in a generous, humane way, because academic power is somehow very corrupting.

It's always difficult when you're on a show that goes for more than a year or a couple of years.

Working anti-social shifts in a difficult environment is undoubtedly challenging. But even militant staff may privately concede that some of the working conditions they enjoy are unusually benign.

The nuts and bolts of shooting a film and writing a film are still really difficult. But what makes it easier is the fact that you know you're going to go to work with your best mate.

it is so difficult not to become vain about one's own good luck.

and there's something about having an especially different name that makes it difficult to imagine what you would be like as a Jennifer.

People who live in difficult circumstances need to know that happy endings are possible. Page 1.

It's very easy to learn. And very difficult to master.

Real sorrow is almost as difficult to discover as real poverty. An instinctive delicacy hides the rays of the one and the wounds of the other.

Yes, it is difficult for man to cross beyond the idea of duty.