“Some of my colleagues seem more interested in using every procedural method possible to keep the Senate from doing anything than they are in creating jobs or helping Americans struggling in a difficult economy.” HelpingSeemsJobsDifficultStruggleEconomyCreatingMethodSenateColleaguesCreating Jobs Author:Al Franken
“Happiness is a social creature. If you try to pursue it in a vacuum, it's very difficult to sustain it. But as soon as you get people focused on creating meaningful connections in the midst of their work, or increasing the meaning and depth of their relationships outside of work, we find happiness rising in step with that social connection.” PeopleIfsTryingSocialDifficultStepsCreaturesCreatingConnectionsDepthFocusedMeaningfulPursueRisingMidstVacuumsFinding HappinessMeaningful Connections Author:Shawn Achor
“When you are solving a difficult problem re-ask the problem so that your solution helps you learn faster. Find a faster way to fail, recover, and try again. If the problem you are trying to solve involves creating a magnum opus, you are solving the wrong problem.” IfsWayTryingHelpingProblemAsksDifficultFailingCreatingSolutionsSolveFasterTry AgainDifficult Problems Author:Aza Raskin
“It's very difficult for me to dislike an artist. No matter what he's creating, the fact that he's experiencing the joy of creation makes me feel like we're in a brotherhood of some kind we're in it together.” FeelsKindMatterFactsTogetherJoyArtistDifficultMusicCreationCreatingNo Matter WhatJazzBrotherhoodDislike Author:Chick Corea
“It's the ground that we walk on, it's where we sit, it's the language that we use. It's a difficult undertaking, but I think without healing that and creating more of a balance between the sexes, we will never have balance globally. I feel like I am going deeper and deeper into this space where I came from that I barely understood.” ThinkingFeelsUseLanguageSexDifficultSpaceWalksHealingBalanceCreatingUnderstoodDeeperUndertakings Author:Ani DiFranco
“The easier you make it look, the more difficult it is. Creating characters out of nothing, and making them interesting - and that's another advice I would give to writers.” GivingLooksCharacterDifficultInterestingAdviceEasierCreatingCreating Characters Author:Jackie Collins
“Creating a regulatory system that reflects the modern-day realities of financial markets is not as difficult as it may appear.” MayRealityDifficultModernCreatingFinancialModern DayFinancial Markets Author:Paul Singer
“In the end, it is impossible to have a great life unless it is a meaningful life. And it is very difficult to have a meaningful life without meaningful work. Perhaps, then you might gain that great tranquility that comes from knowing that you've had a hand in creating something of intrinsic excellence that makes a contribution. Indeed, you might even gain that deepest of all satisfactions: knowing that your short time on this earth has been well spent, and that it mattered.” WellsHas BeensEndsHandsMightEarthDifficultKnowingImpossibleCreatingGainsExcellenceSatisfactionMeaningfulContributionTranquilityMeaningful LifeShort TimeCreating SomethingMeaningful WorkGood To Great Author:James C. Collins
“I always try to create equal power between the subject and the object, so as not to end up creating a relationship where the camera is here and the object out there. This is for me a very difficult and sensitive balance. When I produce a work, cut and frame images, I realize that spectators can identify with the images and almost forget that someone else actually made them. This would be the optimal situation. I don't know whether I succeed in doing so, but that's what I would like to have happen.” KnowsTryingMadeEndsHappensWould BeDifficultRealizingForgetSituationCuttingSubjectsObjectsProduceBalanceSucceedEqualCreatingCamerasSensitiveSpectatorsOptimalEqual Power Author:Pipilotti Rist
“It sometimes becomes difficult to tell when you're even creating a buzz. You know, everything in this game, it so relies on timing that that part is really important, and it's something that everyone tries to pay a lot of attention to.” KnowsTryingImportantSometimesGamesDifficultPayAttentionCreatingRelyTimingBuzz Author:Joe Budden
“I guess part of my ambivalence about pursuing music as well as acting is that acting is already one of the most difficult careers to create for yourself, I must be insane to embark on creating two careers in two of the most difficult fields. But I have really different ambitions with music; I just want to stay in love with music. I want it to continue to be a means of expression for me that feels like it's mine, and something that feels community-based.” WantFeelsWellsMeanTwoDifferentDifficultCommunityActingCareersFieldsMinesExpressionAmbitionCreatingInsaneAmbivalence Author:Lola Kirke
“The goal with my music is to maintain a certain honesty and quality. That sounds pretty pretentious as if I'm trying to imply no one else is doing this - I don't believe that. I merely mean to say that what everyone else is doing easily, that is to say, creating without impediment - is sort of difficult for me.” IfsTryingBelieveMeanCertainDifficultSoundGoalQualityHonestyCreatingMusic IsDon't BelievePretentiousImpediments Author:Milo
“It's the UK: We have to get beyond that imperialist state. I think that kind of imperialist, hierarchical, elitist state has made it easier to basically shaft everybody in the country, which it's been doing for the last thirty years. It has also sort of made it more difficult for England to fulfill its destiny, which in my mind is creating a multi-ethnic, multicultural society that is truly at the head of that post-imperial commonwealth ideal. I think that that's what England should be and that that's the kind of nation we should be.” ThinkingShouldYearsMindKindMadeCountryStatesLastsNationsDifficultDestinyEasierCreatingIdealsEnglandMade ItPostsThirtyThirty YearsCommonwealthMulticulturalElitistMulticultural Society Author:Irvine Welsh
“When you find out there is no ultimate good and evil in which you can place your faith, the world does not fall apart at the seams. It simply means that every decision is more difficult, more critical, because you are creating the good and evil yourself and they are very real.” WorldMeanDoeRealFallEvilDifficultDecisionCreatingUltimateCriticalGood And EvilFalling Apart Author:Anne Rice
“People who cling to their illusions find it difficult, if not impossible, to learn anything worth learning: a people under the necessity of creating themselves must examine everything, and soak up learning the way the roots of a tree soak up water.” PeopleIfsWayDifficultWaterImpossibleTreeCreatingIllusionRoots Author:James A. Baldwin