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“We need to believe I think in justice. We need to run our lives as if justice existed... If we abandon a belief that justice will eventually be done, we make this world much more difficult for ourselves.”

Ifs Thinking World Needs Believe Done Running Belief Difficult Justice Our Lives This World Abandon

Author:Alexander McCall Smith

“I find it interesting to see people - mostly people who are younger than I am - going to considerable trouble to try to reproduce things from an era that was far more physical, from a less virtual day. That fascinates me, because it seems to be symbolic of something going on in the culture itself, and I also have a sort of innate admiration for the stubbornness it requires to actually make those things physically. It's become incredibly difficult. In North America, we've largely forgotten how to do it.”

People Trying Seems America Culture Difficult Interesting Trouble Forgotten Eras Admiration Innate Symbolic North America Stubbornness

Author:William Gibson

“Catholicism is the big house of Christianity. It's got many, many rooms in it. And I've always been attracted to the rooms which are to do with prayer. The mystical strain is the strain whereby the whole day can be given over to prayer through what we call lectio divina, prayerful reading of Scripture, through practice of meditation of when one uses the imagination and the intellect with respect to images, and then finally, and most difficult of all, contemplation, where one empties the mind of all images and all ideas, all concepts, in order to be completely attentive to God.”

“Divine love, agape, is self-sacrificing love, which sounds difficult, as it is, and not very attractive. If the best image we have of love is of a man who's been tortured and hung upon a cross to die an excruciating death, this is something that human beings find very, very hard to understand as love. But it is the highest Christian image of love.”

Ifs Men Humans Self Hard Christian Dies Difficult Sound Human Beings Love Is Sacrifice Divine Highest Crosses Attractive Hung Divine Love Agape Images Of Love

Author:Kevin Hart

“The relationship we have with God is not the same over a life; sometimes, as with human relationships, it goes through bad patches and sometimes it becomes very intense. It is a terrifying thing to have a relationship with one's creator, to spend one's life so that one is trying to converge with one's creator seems an extraordinarily difficult and sublime thing. But at the same time it's extremely simple. One of the things which perpetually amazes me is that at any moment or any day, anyone who is alive can talk with the creator of the cosmos.”

Trying Humans Sometimes Moments Seems Difficult Simple Alive Creator Intense Cosmos Sublime Patches Human Relations Human Relationships

Author:Kevin Hart

“I think poetry can be a kind of secular way in which people can be led to approach the difficult parts of their life, where there's been loss, where there's sadness of a deep kind. If poetry can help people to be more at ease in expressing even to themselves a lot of the darkness and pain of ordinary human existence, then it's serving some kind of cultural role, perhaps more than a cultural role, perhaps it is serving something of a spiritual role.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Humans Kind Helping Pain Spiritual Difficult Loss Existence Roles Darkness Sadness Approach Ordinary Ease Serving Secular Human Existence

Author:Kevin Hart

“The resistance to black-and-white is huge, in the way that you have to sell the film. It's difficult to distribute around the world.”

World Way Film Difficult Black White Huge Sells Resistance Around The World Black And White

Author:John Boorman

“The worst, the most difficult thing I think is that the more you become intrigued by science and the information is out there, the more you are aware of the paucity of your own knowledge.”

Thinking Difficult Worst Information Difficult Things Intrigued

Author:Robin Ince

“The biggest surprise was that a country like Angola, that has so much money, that produces so much oil, would be in such a mess and so difficult to travel in. Something is almost cursed in striking oil. It's like the lottery winner who ends up broke.”

Ends Country Would Be Difficult Produce Surprise Oil Mess Broke Winner Cursed Lottery Angola

Author:Paul Theroux

“I have a problem with writer/directors, personal. I can't work well with both of them on the set, if both of them are giving instructions. Writers tend to be in love with what they wrote. You can't always translate the words into the meaning, sometimes the meaning is better served without the words, difficult to make a writer to try to understand that. It gets, sometimes, tense.”

Ifs Giving Trying Wells I Can Sometimes Problem Difficult Directors Instruction Translate Tense Giving In

Author:Morgan Freeman

“Careers are built on relationships. Even if it's a bad movie, even if I know it's a bad movie, even if it's a team of filmmakers that I know are going to be difficult, that I know are going to really make me work extra hard, it's fundamentally the same process.”

Ifs Knows Hard Process Difficult Careers Team Built Filmmaker Extras Bad Movies

Author:Christophe Beck

“We're America, and we have to stop worrying about what happens overseas, and to be optimistic, even though nobody should think we're not going to have some difficult times.”

Thinking Should Happens America Difficult Worry Optimistic Difficult Times Stop Worrying Being Optimistic

Author:Michael Bloomberg

“Multilateralism is not an easy option. We're going to find that the world is very difficult. And relationships between America and the rest of the world are very difficult.”

World America Easy Difficult Multilateralism

Author:Chris Patten

“I’ve taken on some of the emotional weight of the stories I’ve worked on. I was writing about a very difficult time in the life of one of my clients and I burst into tears at a small, crowded café... I’m not a crier at all in my own life. Maybe that’s why I’m a ghostwriter.”

Writing Stories Difficult My Own Taken Tears Emotional Weight Clients Difficult Times Crowded My Own Life

Author:Hilary Liftin

“Filmmaking is challenging for men and women. In both cases, it is incredibly difficult. And gender is neither a guarantee of greater sensitivity, capacity for empathy or aperture.”

Men Difficult Challenges Cases Greater Empathy Men And Women Capacity Gender Guarantees Filmmaking Sensitivity Aperture

Author:Claudia Llosa

“The ability to find meaning in the most difficult times, I think, is one of the most important skills of life.”

Thinking Important Difficult Ability Skills Difficult Times Find Me

Author:Tony Robbins

“It is very difficult to sustain a high-quality relationship that has the kind of mutual intensity, that has a kind of mutual respect, without putting in time.”

Kind Difficult Quality Mutual Intensity High Quality Mutual Respect

Author:Cornel West

“Homophobia is very, very difficult to root out, to extricate. That's why we have to bear witness. That's why we have to be so public about it, and that's why we can't just play footsie with it.”

Play Difficult Bears Roots Witness Homophobia

Author:Cornel West

“It always pays off to focus on things that will make you feel proud. Remember this during every difficult decision you face.”

Feels Remember Faces Difficult Decision Pay Focus Proud Difficult Decisions

Author:Richard Branson

“It's far more difficult being a small-business owner starting a business than it is for me with thousands of people working for us and 400 companies. Building a business from scratch is 24 hours, 7 days a week, divorces, it's difficult to hold your family life together, it's bloody hard work and only one word really matters - and that's surviving.”

“It's so easy to write songs about misery and hard times and sadness. It's much more difficult to write songs about happy and chirpy stuff.”

Writing Hard Song Easy Stuff Difficult Sadness Misery Hard Times

Author:Elton John

“Russia is the biggest country in the world. It would be very difficult to surround it, and the world is changing so fast that it would basically be impossible, even in theory.”

World Country Would Be Difficult Impossible Theory Russia Surround

Author:Vladimir Putin

“Sometimes its difficult to accept, to recognise ones own mistakes, but one must do it. I was guilty of overconfidence and arrogance, and I was punished for that.”

Sometimes Difficult Mistake Accepting Guilty Arrogance Recognise Overconfidence

Author:Mikhail Gorbachev

“I find it awfully difficult to determine if the habit of talking about oneself at length runs contrary to the basic rules of propriety, or if instead the man exempt from this vice is rare.”

Ifs Men Running Difficult Talking He Man Habit Oneself Determine Vices Contrary Length Propriety

Author:Giacomo Leopardi

“Delimitation is always difficult. The world is one, life is one. The sweetest and most heavenly of activities partake in some measure of violence - the act of love, for instance; music, for instance.”

World Life Is Difficult Violence Activity Instance Heavenly Sweetest Acts Of Love

Book:A Clockwork Orange (Restored Text)

Source: A Clockwork Orange (Restored Text)

“One of the most difficult things for any artist to do is create a world that looks both completely alien yet real and possible.”

World Looks Real Artist Difficult Aliens Difficult Things

Author:Jim Lee

“As in any person's life, there have been difficult moments: I have a son with Down's syndrome; through my photography, I have witnessed all manner of human degradation. But there have also been very happy moments.”

Humans Persons Has Beens Moments Difficult Son Photography Very Happy Degradation Syndromes Happy Moments Difficult Moments

Author:Sebastiao Salgado

“There have been many stones on my path, which frequently made me trip and give up, however I keep telling myself this is only momentary, I will get back up. Since it's our responsibility to return back the love that we have received from so many. That is why no matter how difficult or tough it becomes I cannot let go. And that is why no matter how difficult it becomes we are able to gain strength.”

Giving Has Beens Made Matter Able Difficult Responsibility Path Return Letting Go Giving Up Tough Gains Stones Get Back Momentary Return Back

Author:Kwon Yuri

“If I was writing about an academic or a more difficult person, I would use the Latinate vocabulary more, but I do think Anglo-saxon is the language of emotion.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Persons Use Language Difficult Emotion Academic Vocabulary Anglo Saxon

Author:Lydia Davis

“I find teaching - I like it, but I find just walking into the classroom and facing the students very difficult.”

Difficult Teaching Students Walking Classroom

Author:Lydia Davis

“In the 17 years since I graduated from this great College of Law, I have seen that, for many of us, it becomes increasingly easy to rationalize our actions in the name of expediency when facing difficult decisions-to choose a path where the ends justify the means. I want to ask you to challenge Machiavelli's philosophy. I want to humbly suggest that you be the guardians of a more complicated truth: that the means are as important-and sometimes even more important-than the ends.”

“The oldest problem in economic education is how to exclude the incompetent. A certain glib mastery of verbiage-the ability to speak portentously and sententiously about the relation of money supply to the price level-is easy for the unlearned and may even be aided by a mildly enfeebled intellect. The requirement that there be ability to master difficult models, including ones for which mathematical competence is required, is a highly useful screening device.”

“I just pinch myself, because I think if theres anything I can be proud of, Ive survived success, which I think is difficult these days.”

Ifs Thinking I Can Difficult Proud These Days Survived Be Proud

Author:TobyMac

“Focusing on the negative only makes a difficult journey more difficult”

Difficult Journey Negative Cactus Difficult Journeys

Author:TobyMac

“It will take you less time and effort to do a thing the difficult way than it will to buy, try and discard all the shortcuts.”

Way Trying Difficult Effort Shortcuts

Author:Seth Godin

“We crave instant success these days. If you are a really good sprinter and long jumper, you don't want to spend two or three years on a whole new set of events. You're used to doing well and it's difficult to give that up.”

Ifs Want Giving Years Wells Long Two Whole Used Three Difficult Events These Days Instant Three Years Crave Jumpers Sprinters

Author:Daley Thompson

“I always find it difficult to dress in between seasons, but I quite like putting T-shirts on with a vest over the top and another layer so you can peel them back as the day goes on.”

Difficult Goes On Seasons Dresses Shirts Layers T Shirt Over The Top Vests

Author:Poppy Delevingne

“We were land-based agrarian people from Africa. We were uprooted from Africa, and we spent 200 years developing our culture as black Americans. And then we left the South. We uprooted ourselves and attempted to transplant this culture to the pavements of the industrialized North. And it was a transplant that did not take. I think if we had stayed in the South, we would have been a stronger people. And because the connection between the South of the 20's, 30's and 40's has been broken, it's very difficult to understand who we are.”

People Ifs Thinking Years Has Beens Culture Left Difficult Black Land Broken Connections Stronger South Developing Who We Are Pavement Transplants

Author:August Wilson

“Having small children and being an investigative reporter would seem like a difficult mix, but it worked well for me. I was often working on my own enterprise stories, which were not as deadline sensitive.”

Wells Children Stories Seems Difficult My Own Sensitive Enterprise Reporters Deadline Small Child

Author:Jill Abramson

“If your project or organization depends on knowing things that other people don't know (but could find out if they wanted to), your days are probably numbered. Ask a travel agent The alternative, while difficult, is obvious. Provide enough non-commodity service and customization that it doesn't matter if the ideas spread. In fact, it will help you when they do.”

People Ifs Knows Ideas Matter Enough Facts Helping Wanted Asks Difficult Knowing Depends Projects Organization Obvious Spread Agents Alternatives Commodity Knowing Things Travel Agent

Author:Seth Godin

“It is also difficult to articulate the subtleties in cinema, because there aren't words or metaphors which describe many of the emotions you are attempting to evoke.”

Difficult Emotion Metaphor Cinema Attempting Evoke Subtlety

Author:Conrad Hall

“Film is difficult to explain because it is easy to understand.”

Film Easy Difficult

Book:Impersonal Enunciation, or the Place of Film

Source: Impersonal Enunciation, or the Place of Film

“I think life is difficult and that's that. I am not at all - absolutely not at all - interested in the pursuit of happiness. I am not interested in the pursuit of positivity. I am interested in pursuing a truth, and the truth often seems to be not happiness but its opposite.”

Thinking Seems Life Is Difficult Opposites Positivity Pursuit Not Interested Pursuit Of Happiness Life Is Difficult

Author:Jamaica Kincaid

“In the case of climate change, the threat is long-term and diffuse and requires broad international action for the benefit of people decades in the future. And in politics, the urgent always trumps the important, and that is what makes it a very difficult and challenging issue.”

People Long Important Action Difficult Term Challenges Cases Issues Trump Benefits Threat Climate Climate Change International Decades Long Term Broads Urgent

Author:Martin Rees

“One of the myths about the Internet of Things is that companies have all the data they need, but their real challenge is making sense of it. In reality, the cost of collecting some kinds of data remains too high, the quality of the data isn't always good enough, and it remains difficult to integrate multiple data sources.”

Needs Kind Real Enough Reality Difficult Challenges Quality Company Source Internet Cost Remains Myth Data Make Sense Good Enough Multiple Collecting Integrating

Author:Chris Murphy

“It's ridiculous how difficult a question can be when the answer means so much.”

Mean Difficult Answers Ridiculous

Book:Anna and the French Kiss

Source: Anna and the French Kiss

“It's insanely difficult to ask an audience to go somewhere other than YouTube to watch videos.”

Asks Difficult Watches Audience Video Youtube

Author:Grace Helbig

“These days, with 'American Idol' and all the other reality shows, young people become famous overnight, and that can be very difficult to handle, the way photographers follow you around and study your every move.”

People Way Shows Reality Moving Young Difficult Study Photographer Handle These Days Idols Reality Shows American Idol

Author:Barry Manilow

“To write a love song that might be able to make it on the radio, that is something that is terrifying to me. But I can definitely write a song about that chair over there. That I can do, but to sit and write a pop song out of the clear blue sky, that is very difficult and I admire the people that can do it.”

People Writing I Can Might Able Song Difficult Can Do Clear Sky Blue Radio Pops Admire Chairs Blue Sky Pop Song Clear Blue Sky

Author:Barry Manilow

“The most difficult thing has definitely been movies. From a comedian's standpoint, you think being real big is the best thing, but with movies, the screen is huge, you're big anyway! Also, coming from a TV personality - MTV was all about high energy and selling the hottest video - I had to learn to [take it down]. A lot of characters I'm playing are not necessarily that kind of guy.”

Thinking Kind Real Character Bigs Guy Energy Difficult Tvs Huge Personality Screens Video Selling Comedian Best Things Being Real Difficult Things Standpoint Mtv Hottest High Energy

Author:Bill Bellamy

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