“It's difficult to get large groups of people, to the extreme levels of focus and productivity that you need, for a startup to be successful.” PeopleNeedsDifficultLevelsSuccessfulFocusGroupsExtremesProductivityBeing SuccessfulLarge Groups Author:Sam Altman
“Barrels are very difficult to find. But when you have them, give them lots of equity. Promote them, take them to dinner every week, because they are virtually irreplaceable because they are also very culturally specific. So a barrel at one company may not be a barrel at another company. One of the ways, the definition of a barrel is, they can take an idea from conception and take it all the way to shipping and bring people with them.” PeopleWayGivingMayIdeasDifficultCompanyWeekDefinitionsDinnerConceptionEquityBarrelsCuzIrreplaceableShipping Author:Keith Rabois
“Most people will solve the problems they know how to solve. Roughly speaking they will solve B+ problems instead of A+ problems. A+ problems are high impact problems for your company but they're difficult problems.” PeopleKnowsProblemDifficultCompanyKnow HowImpactSolveDifficult Problems Author:Keith Rabois
“The best thing you can do is to keep riding your snowboard and love what you're doing. Without a passion for the sport it's difficult to take your riding to the next level.” PassionNextSportsDifficultCan DoLevelsAnd LoveBest ThingsRidingNext Level Author:Mark McMorris
“A topic is not interesting enough until it is multi layered. There is no vigor in a motive without many layers. One also learns quite a lot when one has been working on a difficult painting. That is my feeling. I believe that.” BelieveHas BeensEnoughFeelingsI BelieveDifficultInterestingPaintingMotiveLayersTopicsVigor Author:Odd Nerdrum
“I can only imagine how difficult it must be for someone facing racial or social prejudices to add autism to their list of struggles. It might be less stressful and at times, easier, to ignore the autism.” I CanMightSocialDifficultStruggleImagineEasierPrejudiceAddListsAutismStressful Author:Liane Holliday Willey
“Multiple characters make it more difficult to showcase each character.” CharacterDifficultMultipleShowcase Author:David Finch
“I still love Marvel to death and I had a great experience, and it was a really tough decision to leave Marvel. It was a very easy decision to come to DC; it was very difficult to leave Marvel. And I really wanted to draw Batman, and really, that was entirely the discussion when it came to coming to DC.” StillsWantedEasyDifficultDecisionDrawsToughDiscussionGreat ExperiencesTough Decisions Author:David Finch
“Legal doctrine requiring a showing of evidence of racist intent and a narrow chain of causation has made it very difficult to prove in court that a person or group is experiencing racism because the standards are too narrow and too focused on individual intentions.” PersonsMadeIndividualDifficultGroupsProveRacismStandardsEvidenceCourtIntentionFocusedDoctrineChainsMade ItRacistCausation Author:Dean Spade
“It's very difficult to get any movies done about Black heroes - Haitian or American - in Hollywood. The argument in Hollywood is that there is no market for those movies, and that is not true.” DoneDifficultBlackHeroArgumentHollywoodHaitian Author:Jimmy Jean-Louis
“The United States does not have a very good record in the Middle East. I think they have the best of intentions but I think the problem is that it's very difficult from Washington, or from Iowa or Nebraska to understand what is happening in this crazy part of the world. In some cases US diplomacy has been somewhat naive.” ThinkingWorldDoeHas BeensStatesProblemDifficultUnitedCasesUnited StatesRecordsCrazyMiddleHappeningsIntentionVery GoodEastMiddle EastDiplomacyNaiveIowaNebraskaGood Records Author:Moshe Arens
“I'm sure nobody wants to just work and earn money and all that stuff. I know it's difficult for people to break out of the syndrome, doing a normal job.” PeopleKnowsWantJobsStuffDifficultBreakNormalBreak OutSyndromes Author:Paul Simonon
“I've got the luxury of being able to work largely alone, so I don't need to communicate difficult creative classeas to other people and can leave the whole thing in my head or on scattered notes and sketches that only I need to understand. So I can very radically and quickly change things as I go without tripping anybody else up. And the camera allows me to experiment and try new things on the fly.” PeopleNeedsTryingI CanWholeAbleDifficultCreativeCamerasNotesCommunicateExperimentsLuxuryNew ThingsTripping Author:Don Hertzfeldt
“I am often talking about the ideas collected in Normal Life in contexts that are not academic, or that are full of people who are not primarily engaging as theorists or theory-readers. Being able to make ideas visual, especially critical ideas about movements that can be difficult to hear because of attachments we have to certain national narratives, or because of ways that we see ourselves, is especially useful.” PeopleWayIdeasAbleCertainDifficultTalkingMovementTheoryReaderNormalCriticalNarrativeVisualsAttachmentAcademicEngagingNormal LifeTheorists Author:Dean Spade
“It is much easier for me to define what makes a novel French or Russian, but defining the characteristics of an Australian novel are difficult for me as it is all too close - I can't see the woods for the trees.” I CanDifficultNovelTreeEasierWoodsCharacteristicsDefiningAustralian Author:Robert Dessaix
“This crisis started probably due to the freedom they gave to the banks. First President [Ronald] Reagan and then President [Bill] Clinton. So, for [Barack] Obama it is extremely difficult to change now, to find a way to organize this banking system [differently].” WayFirstsDifficultPresidentCrisisBillsClintonDuesBarackOrganizeBankingBanking SystemPresident Bill ClintonPresident Ronald Reagan Author:Costa-Gavras
“I work hard to make the poems as good as they can be, and if they're not good enough I scrap them. I find it difficult after a gap of a few years to tinker - I'm more likely to destroy.” IfsYearsHardEnoughDifficultHard WorkGood EnoughGapsScrapNot Good Enough Author:Michael Longley
“People still want to escape, but today's escape is different. People now want to know that there are people out there who have more problems and are a train-wreck! This is why I think it's difficult for sitcoms these days, because people are not going to believe, joke, beat, beat, joke, because there ain't nothing to laugh about.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantBelieveStillsDifferentProblemTodayDifficultLaughingBeatsJokesTrainThese DaysDifferent PeoplesWrecksSitcomTrain Wrecks Author:Darius McCrary
“Inspired by words you have to create images to tell the story, while it's much more difficult to find your own images with a film for inspiration, because someone has already done it for you.” DoneStoriesInspirationFilmDifficultInspired Author:Peter Lindbergh
“I remember how difficult it was to perform certain operations on gelatine prints. A few weeks ago I asked my gelatine printer at Picto, "Can you make just the shadows a little bit brighter?" He gave me a very strange look because in Photoshop you just turn a button, and we're used to that now, but it is totally impossible in gelatine silver printing.” LooksLittlesRememberUsedCertainTurnsBitsDifficultImpossibleWeekStrangeLittle BitShadowOperationsSilverPrintButtonsBrighterPrintingPrinterPhotoshop Author:Peter Lindbergh
“With television, it's difficult to do some things. You have to shoot so many minutes a day, so you always have to be prepared or you won't be able to complete the number of pages that you have scheduled for that day.” AbleDifficultNumbersMinutesTelevisionPagesPreparedBe Prepared Author:Vilmos Zsigmond
“The play-maker is the most difficult position because you have to always know where everyone is on the pitch.” KnowsPlayDifficultPositionMakers Author:Rafael van der Vaart
“In meditation, it is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to become devoid of all mental thoughts, so what we want to do is fill the mind with those thoughts that induce positive feelings of peace, relaxation or happiness.” PeopleIfsWantMindFeelingsDifficultMeditationImpossibleRelaxationPositive Feelings Author:Tim McCarthy
“Forecasting is very difficult, especially when it involves the future.” DifficultForecasting Author:Yogi Berra
“Writing really is a difficult craft and there are many parts to master.” WritingDifficultMastersCrafts Author:James Johnson
“I do love the challenge of screenplays. They're so difficult, such an alien form. It makes them endlessly fascinating. Something I can't keep my fingers out of.” I CanFormDifficultChallengesFingersAliensFascinatingScreenplays Author:Stephen Graham Jones
“The internet has extended the possibility of making art to more people, and particularly of enabling it to be seen by others. I am sure the internet is having a profound impact on art, particularly those who have grown up with it, but making good art will remain as difficult (and as easy) as it ever was. Having a lasting impact may become more not less difficult.” PeopleMayArtEasyDifficultPossibilityInternetImpactProfoundLastingEnablingGood ArtLasting Impact Author:Michael Craig-Martin
“It's difficult for them to do a deal at these levels.” MotivationalDifficultLevelsDeals Author:Lakshmi Mittal
“The journey will be difficult. The road will be long. I face this challenge with profound humility, and knowledge of my own limitations. But I also face it with limitless faith in the capacity of the American people.” PeopleLongFacesDifficultChallengesMy OwnPowerfulJourneyHumilityCapacityProfoundLimitationLimitless Author:Barack Obama
“No one would starve in independent India. Its grain would not be exported. Cloth would not be imported by it. Its leaders would not use a foreign language and finding justice in it would be neither costly nor difficult.” UseMotivationalWould BeLanguageDifficultJusticeLeaderFindingsIndiaIndependentGrainForeign Language Author:Vallabhbhai Patel
“The reason is still difficult to explain, but it is not complicated. That inner voice that will not be denied, once we learn to listen to it, had whispered since the beginning, "Business is not what your life is about. Founding VISA and being its chief executive officer is something you must do, but it's only preparatory."” StillsReasonLife IsDifficultVoiceBusinessComplicatedChiefsExecutivesOfficersDeniedFoundingInner VoiceVisaChief Executives Book:Birth of the Chaordic Age Source: Birth of the Chaordic Age
“It's always difficult to write honestly of one's deepest feelings, particularly without the protective veil of fiction. But the more difficult, the more rewarding if one succeeds. Rewarding not only to the work but to one's peace of mind.” IfsWritingMindFeelingsDifficultFictionSucceedHonestlyPeace Of MindVeilsProtectiveDeepest Feelings Author:Alix Kates Shulman
“You can do pretty much anything you want in this world, and it's not all that difficult - you just have to ignore the people who tell you that you need to go this way, and it's the only way.” PeopleWorldWayWantNeedsDifficultCan DoThis World Author:Aaron Rose
“Technology doesn't have to be difficult to use or complicated. I feel technology is something that's there to make your life easier not more difficult.” FeelsUseDifficultTechnologyEasierComplicated Author:Anousheh Ansari
“The biggest influence in my life has been by husband, who is also my partner in the business. We started our companies together, and he's always been there encouraging me to take on new challenges in my life. And when I do take them on, he's right beside me supporting and helping me through all the difficult time.” Has BeensHelpingTogetherDifficultChallengesCompanyInfluenceHusbandPartnersDifficult TimesNew Challenges Author:Anousheh Ansari
“I've been very fortunate, because sometimes it's difficult to work with your spouse. But in our case, it's a great working relationship, and we have complementary skills which makes it easy to work together. So I've been very fortunate in that regard.” SometimesTogetherEasyDifficultCasesSkillsRegardFortunateWorking TogetherSpouseGreat WorkComplementary Author:Anousheh Ansari
“My advice to everyone is find something that you love to do and you are passionate about. Because if you're not passionate about something, it's very difficult to be dedicated to it.” IfsDifficultAdvicePassionateDedicated Author:Anousheh Ansari
“You have to find ways of integrating what you like into your business life. And it's difficult at times, but I think over time with experience, you learn how to do it.” ThinkingWayDifficultIntegratingBusiness Life Author:Anousheh Ansari
“Travelling is very difficult, you have to go to places with different climates and time zones. Travelling like that every single day through the year is definitely not healthy, but that's something I have to sacrifice if I want to play music.” IfsWantYearsDifferentPlayDifficultSacrificeHealthyClimateZoneThrough The YearsTime Zones Author:Hiromi
“The biggest problem that I see that young artists have is they aren't willing to fail. And unless you fail a lot, I think it's difficult to find a voice that shouts above the crowds.” ThinkingProblemYoungArtistDifficultVoiceFailingWillingCrowdsYoung Artists Author:Jacob Hashimoto
“The opener is always very difficult every single year. It Really doesn't matter whom you play. The opener is difficult because you've got more time to prepare for one game than you do any game the rest of the year because you've got all spring, all summer to prepare for this opponent.” YearsMatterPlayGamesDifficultSummerSpringOpponentsMore Time Author:Dabo Swinney
“I love writing with Colbie [Caillat]. We have something very magical together that's difficult to describe. We're very comfortable with each other, and that's really important for co-writing. I think both of us bring different things to each song.” ThinkingWritingImportantDifferentTogetherSongDifficultComfortableDifferent Things Author:Jason Reeves
“Remedying the deficiencies of seminary curricula is a difficult question because of all kinds of vested political interests long at work in the building of any curriculum.” KindLongPoliticalDifficultInterestBuildingAll KindsDeficiencyCurriculumSeminaryDifficult Questions Author:Thomas Oden
“Music is my girlfriend, pretty much. It's makes it a little difficult, but I'm always looking, looking for the right girl.” LittlesGirlDifficultMusic IsGirlfriendMy GirlfriendMy GirlRight Girl Author:Shwayze
“It is difficult for me to imagine what "personal liberty" is enjoyed by an unemployed person, who goes about hungry, and cannot find employment.” PersonsDifficultLibertyImagineHungryEmploymentEnjoyedUnemployedPersonal Liberty Author:J. Stalin
“It's difficult for me to describe my own music; every song is an experience that I set to music. There's no lyrics, no singer, just instruments, but I'm sure you can feel what the song is talking about just by listen to it. I can't describe a feeling, my songs are feelings.” FeelsI CanFeelingsSongDifficultMy OwnTalkingInstrumentsSingers Author:Marilou
“Being totally open with your feelings can make everything difficult. However, in front of the person I love, I feel it is absolutely necessary to be honest and open. I belong to the type who will open up about everything.” FeelsPersonsFeelingsDifficultHonestFrontsTypeBeing Honest Author:Joo Won
“The problem of the universal is difficult in every case. The universal and the particular can never be separated; they always go hand in hand.” ProblemHandsDifficultCasesParticularUniversalHand In Hand Author:Robert Neelly Bellah
“I understand that in the industry, a lot of it isn't real. Which is a difficult thing. Where I come from a lot of people are straightforward and I've had to learn how to not say exactly what I feel. Sometimes it gets frustrating being a person who says what he feels and what his heart is telling him. Every once in a while I fall into letting the industry get the best of me and not just saying exactly what I feel.” PeopleFeelsHeartPersonsRealSometimesFallDifficultIndustryFrustratingDifficult ThingsStraightforwardJust SayingBest Of Me Author:Wale
“When you're just reading a note card but when you're just reading a note card and it doesn't even feel real, it's difficult at times. But I have no problem doing interviews. So I have absolutely no problem doing interviews.” FeelsRealProblemReadingDifficultNotesCardsInterviewsNo Problem Author:Wale