Difficult Things Quotes - Page 13

• I had a great drama teacher, and he sort of made out drama school as this incredibly difficult thing to get into: 6,000 people apply every year, and some of the schools only have 12 places. It's a phenomenally difficult thing to get into. And that excited me - I wanted that challenge.

  Jeremy Irvine

  Teacher, Drama, School

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• . . . the most difficult thing asked by our young is not our earnings but our ears.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Ears, Earning, Young

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• Painting is a very difficult thing. It absorbs the whole man, body and soul, thus have I passed blindly many things which belong to real and political life.

  Max Beckmann

  Real, Men, Political

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• To change, that is the most difficult thing to accomplish.

  Isabelle Adjani

  Difficult, Accomplish

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• I would say plotting is the most difficult thing for me. Characterization is only hard because sometimes I feel I get so interested in it that I want to talk too much about the characters and that slows the story down. So I say, "Hey, people want to find out what's going to happen next, they don't want to listen to you spout off about this or that person." But I think even the bad guy deserves to tell his side of the story.

  Stephen King

  Character, Writing, Thinking

  Stephen King, Tim Underwood, Chuck Miller (1988). “Bare bones: conversations on terror with Stephen King”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• What a difficult thing it is to ask someone's advice on a matter without coloring his judgment by the way in which we present our problem.

  Blaise Pascal

  Advice, Matter, Way

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• If you have a vision, no matter how difficult things are, everything just becomes a process.

  Cher Wang

  Vision, Matter, Process

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• The most difficult thing in the world is to say thinkingly what everybody says without thinking.

  Emile Chartier

  Thinking, World, Difficult

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• We live in a time where the media is a very difficult thing to navigate because it's everywhere, and I tend to want to be a lot more private with my life.

  Emily VanCamp

  Media, Want, Difficult

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• Take a deep breath and do the difficult thing first.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Deep Life, Firsts, Take A Deep Breath

  Mary Anne Radmacher (2010). “Live with Intention: Rediscovering What We Deeply Know”, p.19, Conari Press

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• For me, the most difficult thing is that I am learning melodies on guitar from some songs whose melodies were not meant to be played on guitar. Ever. They were intended mostly for keyboards or melodic percussion.

  Dweezil Zappa

  Song, Guitar, Were Not Meant To Be

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• It's a difficult thing today to be informed about our government even without all the secrecy.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Government, Today, Secrecy

  "During Vietnam, Rumsfeld Criticized Administration For 'Credibility Gap'". The Chicago Tribune Interview, thinkprogress.org. April 13, 1966.

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• There are very few things in the mind which eat up as much energy as worry. It is one of the most difficult things not to worry about anything. Worry is experienced when things go wrong, but in relation to past happenings it is idle merely to wish that they might have been otherwise. The frozen past is what it is, and no amount of worrying is going to make it other than what it has been. But the limited ego-mind identifies itself with its past, gets entangled with it and keeps alive the pangs of frustrated desires.

  Meher Baba

  Past, Worry, Ego

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• All of us have problems. We face them every day. How grateful I am that we have difficult things to wrestle with. They keep us young, they keep us alive, they keep us going, they keep us humble. Be grateful for your problems, and know that somehow there will come a solution. Just do the best you can, but be sure it is the very best.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Grateful, Humble, Alive

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• In Buddhism balance is the most difficult thing, because it is overlooked.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Balance, Intention

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• I know it is possible not only to restore trust but to actually enhance it. The difficult things that we got through with the important people in our lives can become fertile ground for the growth of enduring trust - trust that is actually stronger because it's been tested and proved through challenge.

  Stephen Covey

  Motivational, People, Challenges

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• It's a shock for me to go through and see all those years of painting my life, which is very personal for me. It's a very difficult thing for an artist to look back at his work.

  Andrew Wyeth

  Artist, Years, Looks

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• If you do something really cognitively demanding, like buying furniture, it turns out buying furniture is one of the most difficult things we do. Go into a furniture store and look at a sofa.

  David Brooks

  Looks, Buying, Furniture

  "David Brooks: From Spouses to Sofas, ‘Emotions Tell Us What to Value’". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. March 8, 2011.

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• Remakes are a difficult thing 'cause some people feel very protective of the original.

  Carey Mulligan

  People, Causes, Remakes

  Source: collider.com

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

  Greg Bryk

  Enough Time, Television, Shooting

  Source: collider.com

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• I think that's one of the most difficult things in any marriage - in order to build anything, you must be together. You can't build anything over the telephone.

  Julie London

  Thinking, Order, Together

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• The most difficult thing for me is to take pictures from far away.

  Jacob Aue Sobol

  Far Away, Difficult

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• 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.

  Richard D. Zanuck

  Stars, Quality, May

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• I would like to travel light on this journey of life, to get rid of the encumbrances I acquire each day. . . . The most difficult thing to let go is my self, that self which, coddled and cozened, becomes smaller as it becomes heavier. I don't understand how and why I come to be only as I lose myself, but I know from long experience that this is so.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Letting Go, Journey, Light

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• Do nondoing, strive for nonstriving, savor the flavorless, regard the small as important, make much of little, repay enmity with virtue; plan for difficulty when it is still easy, do the great while it is still small. The most difficult things in the world must be done while they are easy; the greatest things in the world must be done while they are small.

  Laozi

  Important, Done, Enmity

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