Difficult Things Quotes - Page 8

• Suffering is the price of being alive, and it is music and singing and art that has helped me live through some of the most difficult things that have happened to me.

  Judy Collins

  Art, Singing, Suffering

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• The most difficult thing for spiritual seekers to do is to stop struggling, striving, seeking, and searching. Why? Because in the absence of struggle you don't know who you are; you lose your boundaries, you lose your separateness, you lose your specialness, you lose the dream you have lived all your life. Eventually you lose everything that your mind has created and awaken to who you truly are: the fullness of freedom, unbound by any identifications, identities, or boundaries.

  Adyashanti

  Life, Dream, Spiritual

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• Swan Lake is the most difficult thing to portray for a female ballet dancer; it really requires such specific qualities of articulation, agility, strength, and the arm work is something that takes a lot of training.

  Benjamin Millepied

  Lakes, Swans, Dancer

  "Black Swan Choreographer Benjamin Millepied on Teaching Natalie Portman to Have Swan Arms" by Rebecca Milzoff, www.vulture.com. December 3, 2010.

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• Jesus was a bachelor and never lived with a woman. Surely living with a woman is one of the most difficult things a man has to do, and he never did it.

  James Joyce

  Jesus, Men, Religion

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• I think comedy is the most difficult thing in the world, I really do.

  Martha Graham

  Thinking, World, Laziness

  "Martha Graham Reflects on Her Art and a Life in Dance". archive.nytimes.com. March 31, 1985.

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• I've often said the most difficult things I have to say to people through humour. I can very quickly put someone in their place with it. But we all walk away unscathed because there's been some funnies around it, and I'll usually make sure that it comes back at me.

  Dawn French

  People, Said, Humour

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• I went through a lot of abuse and a lot of really difficult things growing up - depression, anxiety, attempted suicide.

  Pattie Mallette

  Suicide, Growing Up, Anxiety

  "Justin Bieber's Mom Has Her Own Story To Tell". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

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• There is always times where you feel discouraged and things coming against you, but I don't know if I ever wanted to throw in the towel. I think one of the most difficult things is every Sunday I am up there ministering, and so you have to have a fresh word, you have to be practical, you need to keep people's attention and so that comes around every seven days.

  Joel Osteen

  Sunday, Thinking, People

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• There are so many difficult things and stories can make them palatable. That's the way I have always felt.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Stories, Way, Difficult

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• You don't have to donate money, it can be clothes, or books, or mediavl supplies. So there's so much that can be done [for refugees], the most difficult thing is that first step that decision to do something.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Book, Clothes, Decision

  "Web Exclusive Interview: Kite Runner author Khaled Hosseini to Speak on Refugee Crisis at Event in Lafayette". Interview with Peter Crooks, www.diablomag.com. April 25, 2009.

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• So the most difficult thing is always to keep your beginner's mind. There is no need to have a deep understanding of Zen. Even though you read much Zen literature, you must read each sentence with a fresh mind. You should not say, "I know what Zen is," or "I have attained enlightenment." This is also the real secret of the arts: always be a beginner. Be very very careful about this point. If you start to practice zazen, you will begin to appreciate your beginner's mind. It is the secret of Zen practice.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Art, Real, Practice

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• Being a champion and staying that way is the most difficult thing to deal with. Everyone sees you as a target. They want to bring you down.

  Tomoki Kameda

  Champion, Target, Want

  Source: www.boxinginsider.com

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• Landing the airplane I think is the most difficult thing that I've every learned to do in my life.

  James Lipton

  Airplane, Thinking, Difficult

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. February 9, 2010.

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• Tension, especially with regard to horror, is a very difficult thing to sustain in the big sense.

  Bear McCreary

  Horror, Bigs, Difficult

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think making an album is a difficult thing.

  Alison Goldfrapp

  Thinking, Albums, Difficult

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Launching a new TV show is probably one of the most difficult things that a writer can do.

  George Meyer

  Tv Shows, Tvs, Launching

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• The actors make the film. They're the ones that take this theoretical movie that's in your head and make it real. The success of a film is entirely on their shoulders. I admire them, because acting is such a difficult thing to do, and I personally can't understand it.

  Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

  Real, Acting, Actors

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• One of the most difficult things in writing a novel or anything at all is to choose the point of view from which it's going to be told.

  Truman Capote

  Writing, Views, Point Of View

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When [Jean-Paul] Sartre was asked whether or not he would live under a communist regime he said, "No, for others it's fine, but for me, no." He said it! So it's hard to say just how intellectual his stance is. How can you think that never in your life would you go to live in a communist regime and still say it's fine for everybody? A very difficult thing, that, but Sartre managed it.

  Catherine Camus

  Thinking, Intellectual, Communist

  Source: www.spikemagazine.com

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• This is a very difficult thing to remain independent and persistent.

  John Lydon

  Independent, Difficult, Persistent

  Source: www.axs.com

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• I am absolutely behind equal rights but I am also bridging the gap between cultural mentality and society's mindset as there are huge amount of gaps that need to be addressed and progress needs to be made. Yeah I am a feminist, it is not a difficult thing to explain.

  Hozier

  Rights, Feminist, Progress

  Source: www.kaltblut-magazine.com

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• [Stéphane Mallarmé] theory of the hermetic is a mistake, but he can be only difficult to read when he has difficult things to say.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Mistake, Theory, Difficult

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• I had, like any other young novelist, started out by believing the difficult thing was to get published and that, once you managed that, well, your financial problems were over. I discovered, like any other serious novelist, that actually they had only just begun.

  Mordecai Richler

  Believe, Novelists, Financial Problems

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• [People] are trying to - they're trying to create something that solves a series of very complex problems inside of them or in their history. And I think when I unknowingly - when I went to do that, that's what I was - I was trying to integrate all of these very difficult things that I'd been unable to integrate in my life and in my life with my parents.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Thinking, People, Parent

  Source: www.npr.org

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• It`s a difficult thing for a city to be sued by the department of justice and to be told that your police department is systematically failing to serve the people of the state or the city.

  Al Sharpton

  Cities, People, Justice

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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