“There are a lot of bigger issues we have to be worrying about with respect to our relationship to China, and the longer they drag out the situation, the more difficult it is to get this relationship back on track.” DifficultSituationWorryIssuesBiggerTrackChinaDragOur RelationshipBack On Track Author:Colin Powell
“It is the fault of the United States that these terrible people, these insurgents and terrorists are out there. They are the ones that we ought to be focusing our energy on defeating and not just wring our hands about the fact that it's going to be difficult.” PeopleStatesFactsHandsEnergyDifficultUnitedUnited StatesOughtTerribleFaultsTerroristInsurgent Author:Colin Powell
“I find it very difficult to do normal things without getting approached.” DifficultNormalNormal Things Author:Jesse Eisenberg
“Forgiving yourself may be for many people, at least for myself, extremely difficult. And then in a larger context, I will say that I'm constantly astonished by those who pray daily, "Forgive me my sins as I forgive those who sin against me," and beat very loudly the war drum.” PeopleMayWarDifficultSinPrayingBeatsForgivingForgive MeForgive Yourself Author:Alexander Payne
“It's very difficult to liberate yourself from what you've learned. You know it's almost impossible because you learn in order to survive.” KnowsOrderDifficultImpossible Author:Anthony Hopkins
“It is very difficult to be under the microscope every moment of every day. Everything that leaves your mouth becomes this sensationalized news story, no matter what your intentions were when you first said it, so it becomes overwhelming.” FirstsSaidMatterMomentsStoriesDifficultNewsMouthsNo Matter WhatIntentionOverwhelmingMicroscopesNews Stories Author:Megan Fox
“For the most part, improvising while cameras are rolling is very difficult. 99% of people you should never ask to do that, because they're under pressure, the clock is running, 80 people are staring at you...it's always unnatural.” PeopleShouldRunningAsksDifficultPressureCamerasClockStaringRollingUnnaturalUnder PressureImprovisingStaring At You Author:Albert Brooks
“What I find really difficult is making career decisions. Normally it will take me two weeks, until the very last minute and I have to say yes or no. For a couple of weeks, I will tune everyone out who is giving me advice, so that I can make a clear decision on my own and it takes time.” GivingI CanTwoLastsDifficultMy OwnDecisionCareersClearWeekMinutesAdviceCoupleTunesTake MeTake TimeTwo WeeksIt Takes TimeLast MinuteYes Or No Author:Paul Walker
“My dad had a very difficult life, a hard struggle all the time at work. I've always felt like I'm seeking his revenge.” HardFeltDifficultStruggleDadMy DadSeekingRevengeDifficult Life Author:Bruce Springsteen
“Stage acting is a very difficult thing - and I've learned a lot and have a long way to go.” WayLongDifficultActingStageI've LearnedLong WayDifficult ThingsLong Way To GoStage Acting Author:Ralph Strangis
“I believe a novel must first of all be a good story. My hope is that the spiritual message is woven in so well, is such a part of the fabric of the story and of the characters' lives, that it is subtle but meaningful. This is difficult to do well and is something I constantly endeavor to improve.” FirstsBelieveWellsCharacterStoriesSpiritualI BelieveDifficultNovelMessagesMeaningfulSubtleEndeavorFabricGood StoryWoven Author:Julie Klassen
“Comedies are very hard to do. They are difficult. Unless there's the Judd Apatow school, where they're like okay, we know that, we're going to do those. Or unless it's something that's far to the other side.” KnowsHardSchoolDifficultSidesComedyOkay Author:Don Cheadle
“Again, I find it difficult to be taken care of and rarely acknowledge it, and every act he does registers, but I also just need to verbally acknowledge him and hug him.” NeedsDoeCareDifficultTakenAcknowledgeHugRegisterAcknowledge Him Author:Patricia Heaton
“Directing music videos, especially ones that are concept/narrative driven is challenging in itself, but Directing a music video within a digital video environment is even more difficult.” DifficultChallengesEnvironmentConceptsDrivenVideoNarrativeDigital Author:Jon Jon Augustavo
“I think the most difficult love begins with one's self. How you treat yourself is something you bring to your relationships.” ThinkingSelfDifficultLove IsTreatsOur RelationshipTreat Yourself Author:Javier Bardem
“All over the world, relationships between men and women are very, very tricky and very difficult and you don't learn anything. It's not an exact science, so you can't learn anything. You're always going by instinct and your instinct betrays you because you want what you want when you want it.” MenWorldWantDifficultMen And WomenInstinctWhat You WantBetrayTrickyExact Sciences Author:Woody Allen
“When a person is in a miserable situation, then, yes, it is difficult to develop genuine compassion toward others. That's why I find it difficult to say to poor people, "Please have compassion toward millionaires." That's not easy.” PeoplePersonsEasyDifficultPoorCompassionSituationPleaseGenuineMiserablePoor PeopleMillionaire Author:Dalai Lama
“Everybody understands that acting is a really difficult job. It's hard work. You've got to get dressed up, you've got to hang around with beautiful women. It's difficult. It's a problem.” HardProblemJobsBeautifulDifficultActingHard WorkBeautiful WomenDressed Up Author:Bruce Willis
“It's very difficult to have a successful series that can continue to capture and captivate an audience and keep people interested. Because the story, you've got to be able to continue to tell this story.” PeopleStoriesAbleDifficultAudienceSuccessfulSeriesCapture Author:Jaime Pressly
“I think one of the things that I carry, and just my goals in life, is just encourage people and make them feel joy and celebrated and they leave feeling like maybe there was stuff talked about that was difficult, but then there was a voice of redemption and grace in the middle of that.” PeopleThinkingFeelsFeelingsLife IsJoyStuffDifficultGoalVoiceGraceMiddleRedemptionLife Goal Author:Mat Kearney
“It is not difficult to destroy Islam. Islam is the pumped up ego of a megalomaniac psychopath. Muhammad was a narcissist madman. Just as a huge balloon can be deflated by a small needle, all it takes to make Islam explode is to ridicule its loony inventor and its brainless followers.” DifficultHugeEgoIslamFollowersRidiculeInventorNeedlesMuhammadMadmenBalloonsNarcissistPsychopathBrainlessMegalomaniacs Author:Ali Sina
“The more successful the unit, the more difficult it is to make sure that the large company doesn't put the same expectations on it as it does for the rest of the company. When it's a new venture, whether it's outside or inside the business, it's a child. And you don't put a 40-pound pack on a 6-year-old's back when you take her hiking.” YearsChildrenDoeDifficultCompanySuccessfulExpectationsPoundsHikingPacksVentureUnitsBack WhenLarge CompaniesNew Ventures Author:Peter Drucker
“It's the economics, that's why opera is not dying but gets more and more difficult to put on.” DifficultDyingEconomicsOpera Author:Christoph Waltz
“I seldom know what I'm going to write when I sit down. There isn't much agony and sweat of the human spirit involved in doing it. The writing's easy, it's the living that is sometimes difficult.” KnowsWritingHumansSometimesSpiritEasyDifficultInvolvedSweatAgonyHuman Spirit Author:Charles Bukowski
“People just don't know how to write down a simple easy line. It's difficult for them; it's like trying to keep a hard-on while drowning - not many can do it.” PeopleKnowsWritingTryingHardEasyDifficultCan DoLinesSimpleKnow HowDrowning Author:Charles Bukowski
“It's very difficult to grapple with the idea of not being able to wrestle any more, but you also have to come to the realization that this is a very physical business, and your body will only last you so long.” LongIdeasBodyAbleLastsDifficultYour BodyRealization Author:Daniel Bryan
“It's easier to be hedonistic and just chase after whatever appeals to your senses. That's the life of an animal, you just do. It's more difficult to stand by your convictions and have people berate you on both sides and feel like there's no home for you.” PeopleFeelsHomeDifficultSidesAnimalEasierConvictionSensesAppealsBoth SidesJust Do ItHedonistic Author:LeCrae
“If I'm able to catch the screening, there's a point in the film where, like clockwork, a portion of the audience gets really emotional and begins to cry. And that's very difficult to make happen.” IfsHappensAbleFilmDifficultAudienceCryEmotionalPortionsGet RealScreeningClockwork Author:Michael Pitt
“It's difficult to talk about [W.S.] Merwin's poems, as it's hard to talk about a feeling or a smell. It is what it is, but so much so that it overwhelms both sense and the senses. I aspire to something about his work, that imbues his poems, though I'm not sure I could say what that is. A purity, maybe, the kind of purity that comes from being beaten, like steel.” KindHardFeelingsDifficultSmellSensesNot SurePurityAspireSteelBeatenIt Is What It Is Author:Dorianne Laux
“It's just easier to talk about product attributes that you can measure with a number. Focus on price, screen size, that's easy. But there's a more difficult path, and that's to make better products, ones where maybe you can't measure their value empirically.” InspirationalMotivationalValuesEasyDifficultNumbersPathFocusDesignProductsEasierSizeScreensAttributes Author:Jonathan Ive
“People always want to know how you know. And knowing in your heart is very hard to describe. I think so often, we're trying to understand something with our mind. But, actually, the Bible teaches us that much of what God does in our life will be difficult to understand with the mind.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantTryingMindHeartDoeHardDifficultTeachKnow HowKnowingOur Lives Author:Joyce Meyer
“When you're hurt very badly in your childhood, the area that it has the greatest effect on is relationships. Once you feel like you can't trust people, once you feel like that they don't care about you, that they're really not going to take care of you, it gets very difficult in relationships.” PeopleFeelsCareDifficultHurtChildhoodEffectsLike YouAreasDon't CareTake CareYour Children Author:Joyce Meyer
“It is so important to remember that, as we travel through life, there will be so many events which we can`t control. These are things that seemingly alter our lives forever or become barriers for living a life of fulfillment. It`s important to remember that the ultimate experience of life is not to be controlled by events. We all have difficult events in our lives - the loss of family members, economics, stress, litigation, government interference in our businesses, health challenges. Remember that it is not the events that shape our lives, but, rather, the meaning we attach to them.” ImportantGovernmentRememberLife IsDifficultChallengesLossForeverOur LivesEventsShapesMembersEconomicsUltimateStressFulfillmentBarriersControlledInterferenceFamily MembersHealth Challenges Author:Tony Robbins
“It's difficult to relax on tournaments, even in posh hotels, because you don't know how long you will be there - whether you'll lose a match on the first day and leave or whether you'll stay for longer.” KnowsFirstsLongDifficultLosesKnow HowRelaxHotelTournamentsPosh Author:Andy Murray
“I think the most common meme is that it's too difficult to change. It's too risky to change. My nature doesn't allow me to change. When you're thinking that, you're not understanding what your nature is. All of us come from this place of well-being, love, and kindness. But we've taken on these other things, and we think that they're our nature. Our nature really is to be like God.” ThinkingWellsDifficultUnderstandingCommonKindnessTakenWell BeingLove And KindnessMemes Author:Wayne Dyer
“If you look at many of the women who find themselves with cold, distant, difficult, cruel men, it's because they had cold, distant, difficult, cruel fathers who made them feel that there was no alternative or, at a minimum, who made them choose someone like their father in order to change in this other man what they couldn't change in their fathers.” IfsMenFeelsLooksMadeOrderFatherDifficultColdAlternativesMinimum Author:Gloria Steinem
“Being a dramatic character was more difficult for me. It was a new thing that I explored because it was challenging. But I love to challenge myself and different things.” DifferentCharacterDifficultChallengesDramaticDifferent ThingsNew Things Author:Omar Sy
“Writing has been challenging at times but that's where all the growth is. I know I'm in the right place if it's difficult. Something a British writer said to me once was: "If the project doesn't make him wobble, he doesn't take it." You have to be uncomfortable to grow.” IfsKnowsWritingHas BeensSaidGrowsDifficultGrowthChallengesProjectsBritishUncomfortableRight Place Author:Geoff Thompson
“Comedy is not my world. It's difficult for me, but sometimes you just have to go with it and have a good time.” WorldSometimesDifficultComedyGood TimesHaving A Good Time Author:Jonathan Banks
“The idea of being given things that you don't necessarily deserve was always a difficult one for me to negotiate, and so I really always felt that I had to prove myself. Being the daughter of a famous man I guess is more easy than being the daughter of a famous woman, but at the same time there was a sense of really, with me, of wanting to earn my own way.” MenWayIdeasGivenFeltEasyDifficultMy OwnProveDaughterDeserveFamous WomenProve MyselfOne For Me Author:Anjelica Huston
“I find what I call the [bleep] side of the industry very difficult. You won't see me at other peoples' premiers. I mean, I go to my own premiers because I have to help my film, but I don't enjoy that whole side of it. I don't enjoy celebrityhood. I love getting a seat in a restaurant. I love it when people say hi when I don't know them. I mean, that's fine, but apart from that, I like the elements of celebrityhood which make living in the world like living in your own village.” PeopleKnowsWorldMeanWholeHelpingFilmEnjoyDifficultSidesMy OwnFineIndustryElementsRestaurantsSeatsVillage Author:Jeremy Irons
“You don't often get a chance to record with the other actors who are playing the characters, mainly due to the fact that you don't have to, the actors' schedules are all over the place, and it's difficult to get everyone in the same room.” CharacterFactsActorsDifficultChanceRoomsRecordsDuesSchedules Author:Elijah Wood
“I have full faith in people. I think that we have the ability to change. We're habitual creatures. Once we figure out that bad habit and identify it, whether it's behavioral or whatever it may be, we change our habits. Obviously, I'm simplifying it and making it sound very easy to do, and we all know it's very difficult, but it's doable.” PeopleThinkingKnowsMayEasyDifficultSoundAbilityFiguresHabitCreaturesBad HabitsHabitualAbility To Change Author:Eva Mendes
“The Hulk is the most difficult Marvel property because it's always about balance. Is he a monster? Is he a hero? Are you going to root for a protagonist who spends all his time trying to stop the reason you came to the movie from happening? It's always a dance” TryingReasonDifficultHeroBalanceHappeningsRootsPropertyMonstersProtagonists Author:Joss Whedon
“I want to create a culture of life where every innocent human life is welcome to the world. I know those are difficult cases, but I am prolife. And I understand we've got to go through the Supreme Court.” KnowsWorldWantHumansLife IsCultureDifficultCasesCourtSupremeInnocentWelcomeHuman LifeSupreme CourtProlife Author:Bobby Jindal
“I wanted to do my artistic work, and in Iran you have censorship. It was difficult for me to do the work I wanted to do.” WantedDifficultArtisticIranCensorship Author:Marjane Satrapi
“I was spending too much time thinking about how I was doing, if I was learning everything I was supposed to be learning during this difficult season, whether I was doing it right or not, taking my spiritual pulse, etc - my inner lawyer was working overtime.” IfsThinkingSpiritualDifficultToo MuchSeasonsSpendingLawyerSupposed To BeEtcPulseLearning Everything Author:Tullian Tchividjian
“I'm very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What's most difficult to imagine is that those dreams and early yearnings and desires of childhood and adolescence will also disappear. But who knows? Maybe you become part of the eternal whatever.” KnowsEndsDreamDesireDifficultImagineChildhoodComfortableEternalDisappearLife And DeathYearningAdolescence Author:Hugh Hefner
“I am happily married, and I think I was lucky that success came a little later in my life. It's difficult to handle all the attention when you are a young gun.” ThinkingLittlesYoungDifficultAttentionLuckyMarriedGunHandleHappily Married Author:Steve Carell
“Most people think the Iraq war has increased the probability of an attack. However, it's difficult to put this aspect into financial terms.” PeopleThinkingWarDifficultTermAspectFinancialIraqProbabilityIraq War Author:Joseph Stiglitz