Difficult Things Quotes - Page 13

• Being American is, I think, a very difficult thing in art, because all the elements are European.

  Kingsley Amis

  Art, Thinking, Elements

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• The most difficult thing about painting is the self-discipline. When I finish a job, I give myself a few days, but then I have to discipline myself quite fiercely if I want to do some painting that's worthwhile. Otherwise, you're just doodling. It's much easier when you're just told what you have to do.

  John Hurt

  Jobs, Self, Discipline

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• Comedy is the most difficult thing to do. Easily the most difficult.

  Christopher Lee

  Comedy, Difficult, Things To Do

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• And lastly, when other things in life get tough, when you're going through family troubles, when you're heartbroken, when you're frustrated with money problems, focus on your work. It has saved me through every single difficult thing I have ever had to do, like a scaffolding that goes far beyond any traditional notions of a career.

  Teresita Fernandez

  Heartbroken, Things In Life, Careers

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• The most difficult thing to do is drama.

  Olivier Megaton

  Drama, Difficult, Things To Do

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• The older I get, the more I think lightness of touch is an incredibly difficult thing to do.

  Peter Capaldi

  Thinking, Difficult, Things To Do

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• You know, the technology was at the right place for us to build this world. The most difficult thing about doing The Croods was no doubt the building of the world. Every single thing in this film is organic. Organic things are tough. Very very labour intensive. And we have no man-made structures. You could argue that everything in this film is really an exterior. Even the interiors of the cave are exteriors. So building this world was the biggest thing of all, and the technology was there to do it.

  Chris Sanders

  Technology, Men, Doubt

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• Difficult things provoke all your irritations and bring your habitual patterns to the surface. And that becomes the moment of truth. You have the choice to launch into your lousy habitual patterns, or to stay with the rawness and discomfort of the situation and let it transform you.

  Pema Chodron

  Irritation, Choices, Rawness

  "Pema Chödrön and Jack Kornfield talk "The Wondrous Path of Difficulties". Interview with Michael Krasny, www.lionsroar.com. 2005.

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• The most difficult thing I have ever had to do is follow the guidance I prayed for.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Guidance, Difficult

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• Of course I want people to show up to the concerts and I am sure for that to decline would be a difficult thing.

  Kid Rock

  People, Would Be, Want

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• It's that mind-heart connection that I believe compels us to not just be attentive to all the bright and dazzling things but also the dark and difficult things.

  Bryan Stevenson

  Believe, Heart, Dark

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• Here's an experiment: For one whole day think, speak, and act exactly as you would if you were absolutely convinced of the truth of the statements that God has all power and infinite intelligence, and that His nature is infinite goodness and love. To think in this manner all day will be the most difficult thing, because thought is so subtle. To speak in accordance with these truths will be easier, if you are vigilant. To act in accordance with them will be the easiest part, although it may require much in the way of moral courage.

  Emmet Fox

  God, Thinking, Infinite Intelligence

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• My most difficult thing so far, to be brutally honest, has been to waltz as if I knew what I was doing.

  Richard Roxburgh

  Honest, Difficult, Waltz

  "The Van Helsing Interviews: Richard Roxburgh". Interview with Staci Layne Wilson, www.horror.com. May 2003.

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• I can't run away when I'm scared. I always have to attack. That's how I deal with seemingly difficult things.

  Will Smith

  Running, Fear, Scared

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• The most difficult thing is what is thought to be the simplest; to really see the things which are before your eyes.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Eye, Difficult, Simplest

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• People try to do all sorts of clever and difficult things to improve life instead of doing the simplest, easiest thing-refusing to participate in activities that make life bad.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Clever, People, Trying

  "Path of Life". Book by Leo Tolstoy, p. 210, 1909.

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• The most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious.

  Dick Gregory

  People, Accepting, Obvious

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• Making money is easy. It is. The difficult thing in life is not making it, it's keeping it.

  John McAfee

  Things In Life, Life Is, Making Money

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• Drama is the most difficult of all arts. In it two things are to be satisfied - first, the ears, and second, the eyes. To paint a scene, if one thing be painted, it is easy enough; but to paint different things and yet to keep up the central interest is very difficult. Another difficult thing is stage - management, that is, combining different things in such a manner as to keep the central interest intact.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Art, Drama, Eye

  Swami Vivekananda “My Idea of Education”, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

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• The frightening and most difficult thing about being what somebody calls a creative person is that you have absolutely no idea where any of your thoughts come from, really. And especially, you don't have any idea about where they're going to come from tomorrow.

  Hal Riney

  Ideas, Creative, Tomorrow

  "Art & Copy". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 2009.

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• Sexual assault and domestic violence are difficult things to talk about. Talk about them anyway.

  Mariska Hargitay

  Domestic Violence, Assault, Difficult

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• Some people have a terrible stretch between family and work. It is a difficult thing to achieve.

  Julie Walters

  People, Achieve, Difficult

  "Julie Walters: An actress in her prime". Interview with James Mottram, www.theguardian.com. May 14, 2001.

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• There's no doubt that when it comes to our treatment of Native Americans as well as other persons of color in this country, we've got some very sad and difficult things to account for. I personally would want to see our tragic history, or the tragic elements of our history, acknowledged. I consistently believe that when it comes to whether it's Native Americans or African-American issues or reparations, the most important thing for the U.S. government to do is not just offer words, but offer deeds.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Believe, Native American

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• One of the difficult things of so much travelling is to say goodbye.

  Michael Palin

  Goodbye, Saying Goodbye, Difficult

  "Sahara with Michael Palin". Documentary, 2002.

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• It's not easy to walk out on a marriage and two young kids, and it's the most difficult thing I've ever had to do.

  Bob Hoskins

  Kids, Two, Easy

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