Difficulty Quotes - Page 22

• And financial problems are exactly the same thing. You're humiliated. You're ashamed. You're embarrassed about telling anyone that you are suffering financial difficulties.

  Neal Gabler

  Suffering, Financial, Problem

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Now each race is different every time because it's a different journey to get to it - the difficulties you faced getting the car into that position. I manage myself. I chose my team myself. So there's a huge satisfaction for me.

  Lewis Hamilton

  Team, Journey, Car

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In Scandinavia probably the most worker-supportive part of the planet, they have the highest rate of chronic pain and worker-related disability. So any kind of pain and difficulty is so much unwelcome that if you say that you're in pain, we're going to even pay you full salary to quit work because you're burned out, inside that what you're going to create is gigantic amounts of chronic pain syndrome. Scandinavians spend 15 percent of their gross national product on disability. 50 percent of the public health nurses are on disability. And that's where we're headed in the U.S. too.

  Steven C. Hayes

  Pain, Nurse, Quitting

  Source: bigthink.com

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• But this cheap-thrill version, this sort of ease definition, the feel-good definition of happiness is an empty promise. Unless we get wiser as to how to carry the difficulties of life in a way that's self-compassionate and empowering, we can create this kind of world in which we'd rather sort of plug into the matrix with whatever pills or escapist tendencies we can think of instead of walking through a process of living that's going to include loss. It's going to include limitations on function. We need to learn and teach our children how to do that.

  Steven C. Hayes

  Children, Loss, Thinking

  Source: bigthink.com

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• We did our best to do a Fox show, frankly, I don't think the difficulties we had at Fox would be exclusive to Fox. It's tough to be funny, because there's so many eyeballs and there's so much money at stake that I think everything is just kind of over-thought. And it's tough to be daring and do something different, either with regards to content or even structure.

  Aaron McGruder

  Thinking, Different, Tough

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There's something immediate about the experience of reading a poem - whether it's the music or some other element of it - that just seems to access another part of the brain. You know, Charles Olson talks about this transfer of energy that happens between the writer and the reader of the poem. I guess there's something essential to me about acknowledging upfront the immensity of it - the difficulty of it - and even allowing that to be the subject.

  Kevin Powers

  Reading, Brain, Energy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You can't really gauge the difficulties of television. There's difficulties and joys that happen with an amazing, great team, when one is working. Television can be a very frustrating job for almost anybody working in television, because you're shooting episodically, and you don't know one scene from the next, and maybe they change around.

  Melissa Leo

  Team, Joy, Scene

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I write books and either people read them or they don't read them. The rise of Facebook or e-books doesn't change the difficulty level of writing sentences and thinking up new ideas.

  Colson Whitehead

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There are so many people that don't spend enough time loving themselves and there are so many people that go through so many difficulties. I wanted to make a brand Treasures Within where people can actually stand up and talk - I've given a platform to other people to voice their opinions. With my brand, I go to different places like youth centres and colleges to promote body confidence. I'm an anti-bullying activist, so I talk about that as well and I like to hold events like this where I'm able to promote such amazing things.

  Harnaam Kaur

  College, People, Different

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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• Which is strange - I've always thought of myself as someone who writes out of difficulty. And I did do that, but I came out on the side of light more often than not.

  Maggie Smith

  Writing, Strange

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I was raised by a strong mother who always taught me to speak up, I never had difficulty leaving an uncomfortable situation or cutting eye contact; people used to call me cold. Girls need to learn that they're allowed to say no and to speak up. This is what I work on in Africa with the girls, but the issue is global and I'm glad that women are speaking up and saying that we won't put up with it anymore.

  Toni Garrn

  Girl, Mother, Strong

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• We're much better at dealing with dyslexia today than in 50th, but reading difficulties are still a problem in the U.K. I believe there's currently something like eleven thousand functionally illiterate adults in the U.K.

  Maggie O'Farrell

  Reading, Believe, Today

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think in a way the great irony or paradox about America is that it makes it so hard for the sensitive person, the artist, the impressionable person, the person whose raison d'etre is to incarnate the creative will, rather than to just make money, and yet that extreme difficulty that the culture poses for us has created some of the best artists in the last hundred years.

  Hubert Selby, Jr.

  Artist, Thinking, Creative

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• I am pretty antisocial and have difficulty communicating with other human beings. I know that if I were in Philly I'd still mostly be hanging out in my apartment reading books and playing with synthesizers. That said, I grew up in Philly, went to college in Philly, lived in Philly afterwards for a while - almost every formative experience in my life has happened in Philly. Whether I like it or not, Philly is all over everything I do for the rest of my life.

  Ben Daniels

  Reading, Book, College

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• In many cases, we make sleep a lot more complicated than it needs to be. Sleep difficulties can turn into serious medical problems. For the vast majority of us, however, sleep difficulties are a lifestyle problem. Yet we tend to treat all our sleep-related woes the same way: with a pill.

  Arianna Huffington

  Sleep, Serious, Medical

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I'm not sure, however, that what I have amounts to faith in the sense commonly understood. I have difficulty understanding the function of the word "believe" in the realm of faith, a basic term in the grammar of every creed.

  Zia Haider Rahman

  Believe, Understanding, Term

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The mathematical tilt remains basic to my epistemological perspective, my howling plea in the still of night for epistemic humility. Mathematics gave me that as, also, did the difficulty I had in talking to my parents. How proofs are conceived is unfathomable. Clearly, there are certain conditions in which the revelation takes place.

  Zia Haider Rahman

  Humility, Night, Perspective

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Often we fail to voice and act on our values because, before we even apply our best thinking to developing an action plan, we engage in process of "pre-emptive rationalization." At some deep level, we anticipate difficulty and resistance so we start to back away from our own instinctive values perspective.

  Mary C. Gentile

  Thinking, Perspective, Action

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• One of my central philosophies is to be creatively driven so I have to be extraordinarily creative in the way I get things done and I have to be really flexible. Striving for the best creativity can be a really moving target if you're trying to budget anything because if you come up with a better idea for something and it's going to make the movie stronger then you have to do it. And that's what I do. The difficulty is that you have to use more judgement as a producer then you might in other places. I have to make unbelievably great creative decisions.

  Brad Lewis

  Philosophy, Moving, Creativity

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• If you are in difficulties with a book, try the element of surprise: attack it at an hour when it isn't expecting it.

  H. G. Wells

  Book, Writing, Trying

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• Out of love for mankind, and out of despair at my embarrassing situation, seeing that I had accomplished nothing and was unable to make anything easier than it had already been made, and moved by a genuine interest in those who make everything easy, I conceived it as my task to create difficulties everywhere.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Despair, Tasks, Easy

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• Love is based on our capacity to trust in a reality beyond fear, to trust a timeless truth bigger than all our difficulties.

  Jack Kornfield

  Wisdom, Reality, Loving Yourself

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• No matter how many mistakes you've made in the past, or what sort of difficulties you struggle with now, you are destined to live in victory.

  Joel Osteen

  Life, Motivational, Mistake

  Joel Osteen (2009). “Become a Better You: 7 Keys to Improving Your Life Every Day”, p.102, Simon and Schuster

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• The arts of peace and the arts of war are like two wheels of a cart which, lacking one, will have difficulty in standing.

  Kuroda Nagamasa

  Art, War, Two

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• To say prayers in a decent, delicate way is not heavy work. But to pray really, to pray till hell feels the ponderous stroke, to pray till the iron gates of difficulty are opened, till the mountains of obstacles are removed, till the mists are exhaled and the clouds are lifted, and the sunshine of a cloudless day brightens-this is hard work, but it is God's work, and man's best labor.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Hard Work, Sunshine

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.63, CCEL

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