“Sometimes it's more difficult to achieve a 10% cost reduction than it is to tell people they have to achieve 50%. Small incremental steps block your view of doing something fundamentally different.” PeopleDifferentSometimesDifficultViewsStepsAchieveCostBlockReduction Author:Eckhard Pfeiffer
“Making African American films are hard in Hollywood. We need to rely on a support network and bring more cohesion to different filmmakers, actors, producers etc. It's a very difficult business. There aren't a lot of Africans Americans or people of color in high positions in Hollywood that we can green-light films.” PeopleNeedsDifferentHardLightFilmActorsDifficultSupportPositionColorHollywoodGreenProducersAfrican AmericanFilmmakerRelyEtcCohesionAmerican FilmGreen Lights Author:Paula Patton
“I was finding it very difficult to find a label that understood what I wanted to do and really believed that people wanted to hear something honest and a little bit different. So, I did feel a bit like a clown. You're knocking on everyone's door trying to get them to believe what you're doing.” PeopleFeelsTryingBelieveLittlesDifferentWantedBitsDifficultDoorsHonestFindingsLittle BitUnderstoodLabelsClownKnocking Author:Emeli Sande
“When the babies were very young, I found it difficult to write. I told myself each time that it would be different, I was used to it now, but with every child, for the first four months, I would accomplish nothing.” WritingFirstsChildrenDifferentWould BeYoungUsedFoundDifficultFourBabyMonthsAccomplishAccomplish Nothing Author:Ayelet Waldman
“It is difficult even to attach a precise meaning to the term "scientific truth." So different is the meaning of the word "truth" according to whether we are dealing with a fact of experience, a mathematical proposition or a scientific theory. "Religious truth" conveys nothing clear to me at all.” DifferentFactsScienceDifficultTermReligiousClearTheoryMathematicalPrecisePropositionsScientific TheoryScientific TruthReligious Truth Book:Essays in Science Source: Essays in Science
“As a young child, being different is isolating, and as a teenager it's humiliating. I wish I had been able to stand out with more confidence when I was a child, and especially when I was a teenager. I was different, but it wasn't always a conscious choice, and it often made me miserable. But I'm all grown up now, and so are you. Today, difference is your strength, your power, and your trademark. It's your signature. It can still be difficult to be different--sometimes even harder than it used to be. Even so, it's time to embrace being yourself. It's time to be authentic.” ChildrenMadeStillsDifferentSometimesTodayAbleYoungUsedChoicesWishDifficultDifferencesConsciousHarderEmbraceUsed To BeMiserableTeenagerBeing YourselfStanding OutBeing DifferentSignaturesYoung ChildrenHumiliatingTrademarks Author:Bethenny Frankel
“Certainly, a gallery has to sell your work, so they'll be very frightened of you doing anything too different, and that can be difficult, but they can also recognize the need to change. Usually, if you just go and do it, and other people like it, it will still get recognized.” PeopleIfsNeedsStillsDifferentDifficultSellsFrightenedGalleryNeed A Change Author:Catherine Yass
“It's not difficult to make money - it's different.” DifferentDifficultMaking Money Author:Marshall Sylver
“It's a strange atmosphere always over there, it is darker and less glamorous, and you don't feel as high. It is a different kind of test - can you raise your level in a less exciting environment and perhaps still a very difficult one?” FeelsKindStillsDifferentDifficultLevelsEnvironmentFootballStrangeTestsExcitingRaisesManagersSoccerAtmosphereDifferent KindsChairmanGlamorous Author:Arsene Wenger
“The spirit of the West, of America, is different than the East. The cultural conditioning is very different. It seems to be harder for people to work in teams, more difficult for people here to live in harmony, in a monastery.” PeopleDifferentSeemsAmericaSpiritDifficultTeamBuddhismHarderHarmonyWestEastConditioningMonasteries Author:Frederick Lenz
“The way people respond to struggles or express their feelings in difficult situations are very different. I like imagining how characters would react in certain situations.” PeopleWayDifferentCharacterFeelingsCertainDifficultSituationStruggleDifficult Situations Author:Lee Yoon-ki
“It is very difficult to follow your own method all the time because you may crash against some directors who want from you something different. Trying to understand the material, who you're working with, and how can you fit in there. That is my approach.” WantTryingMayDifferentDifficultMaterialsFitDirectorsApproachMethodCrash Author:Antonio Banderas
“You don't cast the animal, per se. You have an animal trainer who looks for several of them. That is a different experience than dealing with actors. That is just difficult. It is what you expect from an animal on the set. You just run a lot of film and prompt it to do the right thing, but sit through it doing all the wrong things first. It's just unbelievably boring, frustrating and painstaking to shoot.” FirstsLooksDifferentRunningFilmActorsDifficultAnimalCastsBoringRight ThingFrustratingWrong ThingsTrainersPromptsDifferent Experiences Author:Ethan Coen
“It's weird. I feel like people assume if a character is very different than you, that means it's difficult to get into their head or into their skin.” PeopleIfsFeelsMeanDifferentCharacterDifficultSkinsAssuming Author:Katherine Waterston
“According to man's environment, society has made as many different types of men as there are varieties in zoology. The differences between a soldier, a workman, a statesman, a tradesman, a sailor, a poet, a pauper and a priest, are more difficult to seize, but quite considerable as the differences between a wolf, a lion, an ass, a crow, a sea-calf, a sheep, and so on.” MenMadeDifferentDifficultDifferencesEnvironmentSeaSocietyPoetTypeSoldierAssVarietyPriestsLionsSheepSailorCrowStatesmenWorkmenCalvesZoology Author:Honore de Balzac
“To be fair to Pete, I had just come off a very difficult owner relationship with my then head coach and I was looking for a different style. So I didn't give Pete all the power he should have had. I don't think there's any exact formula for how it's done. It's really what fits each individual system.” ThinkingGivingShouldDifferentDoneIndividualDifficultStyleFitFairsShould HaveCoachesNflOwnersFormulasSuper BowlDifferent StylesHead Coaches Author:Robert Kraft
“American cities are kind of difficult contexts to work in. They are politically complex. There are a lot of different interest groups. It takes immense political skill to get anything done at all.” KindDifferentDonePoliticalDifficultInterestCitiesGroupsSkillsComplexesImmenseInterest GroupsAmerican Cities Author:William J. Mitchell
“Feedback for leaders is often nuanced and difficult to deliver. That said, hearing you are passive-aggressive from 10 different people described 10 different ways becomes hard to ignore.” PeopleWaySaidDifferentHardDifficultLeaderHearingDifferent WaysAggressivePassiveFeedbackDifferent PeoplesPassive Aggressive Author:Scott Weiss
“More broadly, strategic alliances are more difficult to manage and coordinate than single ventures; the potential for misunderstanding and disagreement, particularly between partners from different cultures, is great. Certainly many such alliances are short lived.” DifferentCultureDifficultPartnersManageVentureMisunderstandingStrategicAlliancesDisagreementDifferent CulturesShort LivedCoordinates Author:Peter Dicken
“I write because, exacting as it may be to do so, it is still more difficult to refrain, and because - however conscious of one's limitations one may be - there is always at the back of one's mind an irrational hope that this next book will be different: it will be the rounded achievement, the complete fulfilment. It never has been: yet I am still writing.” WritingMindMayHas BeensStillsBookDifferentNextDifficultAchievementConsciousLimitationIrrationalRefrainFulfilment Author:Iris Origo
“We live in a world in which we are able to communicate very quickly in many different ways, and yet we find communicating more difficult than ever. When in fact we need communication more urgently than ever, because the enemies that threaten us are universal: drugs, illiteracy and crime. We have to fight against them together.” WorldWayNeedsDifferentFactsAbleTogetherFightingDifficultEnemyCrimeCommunicationDrugUniversalCommunicateDifferent WaysIlliteracy Author:Tom Cruise
“It's difficult to explain love. You want to explain water? You need a book for it. There are many different ways to explain what water is. Love is big, it's very big. I know that I have tons of it. But maybe we don't want to open up so much, and we think, maybe we don't have so much, but yes, you know that you have tons of love. We all do. Through that love we can connect, we can heal each other, we can make people, all of us, happy, joyful, and make a better world.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWorldWayWantNeedsBookDifferentBigsDifficultWaterLove IsLove YouHealDifferent WaysJoyful Author:Yoko Ono
“I think we need to find a way to provide people with a reason that the average man on the street can grasp and embrace, that would cause him to move away from the centuries-old idea of the individual and individualism, and move toward a different concept of what it means to be human in a collective society. Unless he has that reason, unless he has a fundamental reason to do that, it's going to be very difficult to cause him to make that shift, in my view.” PeopleThinkingMenWayNeedsHumansMeanIdeasDifferentReasonMovingIndividualCausesDifficultViewsStreetsCenturyConceptsFundamentalsEmbraceAverageCollectivesIndividualismAverage ManOld IdeasWhat It Means To Be Human Author:Neale Donald Walsch
“I think it's important for those of us in a position of responsibility to be firm in sharing our experiences, to understand that the babies out of wedlock is a very difficult chore for mom and baby alike... I believe we ought to say there is a different alternative than the culture that is proposed by people like Miss Wolf in society... And, you know, hopefully, condoms will work, but it hasn't worked.” PeopleThinkingKnowsBelieveImportantDifferentHumorPoliticalCultureI BelieveDifficultResponsibilityMissingPositionBabyMomOughtHopefullyAlternativesFirmChoresPolitical HumorCondomWedlock Author:George W. Bush
“The most difficult book I wrote was the fourth in a series of linked children's books. It was like pulling teeth because the publisher wanted exactly the same but completely different. I'd much rather just do something completely different even if there's a risk of it going wrong.” IfsChildrenBookDifferentWantedDifficultRiskSeriesTeethFourthPullingPublishersLinkedChildren's Books Author:Mark Haddon
“I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more difficult is to identify with someone you don't see, who's very far away, who's a different color, who eats a different kind of food. When you begin to do that then literature is really performing its wonders.” LooksKindDifferentNextLiteratureDifficultWonderDoorsStudentsColorLike YouPerformingDifferent KindsFar AwayLike YourselfDifferent Colors Author:Chinua Achebe
“It's very difficult to be different from the rest of the crowd the majority of the time, which by definition is what you're doing if you're a successful trader.” IfsDifferentDifficultSuccessfulMajorityDefinitionsCrowdsTraders Author:Bill Lipschutz
“We [ with Russel Crowe] had an Arabic coach there [ in the Body of Lies] that was really helpful, because it was more so than any accent. You have to be so exact, and there's different dialects of Arabic from country to country so it was really, really difficult to tell you the truth. And one of the hardest things I've ever had to do language-wise, because it comes from the throat. It's different. And also learning about the customs and the culture and all that, so we had advisors for that sort of thing.” DifferentCountryBodyLyingCultureLanguageDifficultWiseCoachesHardestHelpfulCustomsThroatAccentsHardest ThingDialectAdvisors Author:Leonardo DiCaprio
“There will always be real friends and fake friends. It is difficult to distinguish the two because both will appear the same in the beginning but so different at the end.” TwoDifferentRealEndsDifficultRelationshipFakeBeing RealReal FriendsFake Friends Author:Rita Zahara
“As we grow older, we should learn that these are two quite different things. Character is something you forge for yourself; temperament is something you are born with and can only slightly modify. Some people have easy temperaments and weak characters; others have difficult temperaments and strong characters. We are all prone to confuse the two in assessing people we associate with. Those with easy temperaments and weak characters are more likable than admirable; those with difficult temperaments and strong characters are more admirable than likable.” PeopleShouldTwoDifferentCharacterStrongGrowsEasyDifficultBornWeakDifferent ThingsAssociatesTemperamentAdmirableStrong CharacterAssessingWeak Character Book:Clearing the ground Source: Clearing the ground
“Remember that although the distinction can be difficult to draw, loneliness and solitude are different.” DifferentRememberDifficultLonelinessSolitudeDrawsDistinctionLoneliness And SolitudeAuthentic Happiness Author:Gretchen Rubin
“Yes, NFL players deserve to be paid well. Unfortunately, economic realities are forcing everyone to make tough choices and the NFL is no different. These are not easy negotiations, but the outcome can be positive. If both sides give a little, everyone, including fans, will get a lot and the game will improve through innovation. Even in difficult economic times, a new CBA presents us with the opportunity to secure the future of our game.” IfsGivingWellsLittlesDifferentRealityChoicesOpportunityGamesEasyDifficultSidesPlayerFansEconomicDeserveToughPaidInnovationIncludingSecureOutcomesNflBoth SidesNegotiationBeing PositiveNfl PlayersTough Choices Author:Roger Goodell
“Iraq at one time was actually a functioning government. It's a real state. Afghanistan is not Iraq. It's tribal. It's got a different - a number of different sects, never really had a solid government there running the country on any kind of a continuing basis. Well, to rebuild the nation of Afghanistan is going to be more difficult than rebuilding the nation of Iraq.” WellsKindDifferentRealCountryStatesGovernmentRunningNationsDifficultNumbersBasesIraqAfghanistanOne TimeContinuingSectsRebuilding Author:Dan Quayle
“Acting is a difficult profession, it really is. It's different than singing. With singing you may have one song and four people to record it - but they'll all do it differently and they'll all have that option. Whereas with actors there might be one part, and five hundred actors all want the same role - it's so much more competitive. It's an incredibly painful profession because you get so much rejection.” PeopleWantMayDifferentMightSongActorsDifficultActingRolesRecordsFiveFourSingingHundredPainfulProfessionRejection Author:Olivia Newton-John
“I use two million Twitter followers as a tool. The reason I have Twitter is so people can get to know me as a different person other than Dwight. I just realized all of the sudden like everything thinks I'm Dwight. They think that I'm Dwight from the office and that I'm this kind of annoying, difficult, nerdy, creepy guy and they don't know Rainn Wilson - although I'm a little bit nerdy, annoying and creepy. I'm not as much as Dwight Schrute.” PeopleThinkingKnowsKindLittlesPersonsTwoDifferentReasonUseGuyBitsDifficultMillionsOfficeLittle BitToolsFollowersAnnoyingKnow MeCreepyWilsonNerdyDwightGet To Know MeJust Realized Author:Rainn Wilson
“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
“You learn so much from making mistakes, not even necessarily mistakes that I've made, a lot of the time the films just don't work out because it's a really difficult process. And sometimes there's a certain person underlining process. But I've had an opportunity to work on all different types of films and I have had a lot of opportunities to stretch myself in different ways and now is the time where I get to try and figure out out the roles that I can really play well and play them well.” WayTryingWellsPersonsMadeI CanDifferentSometimesPlayFilmCertainOpportunityProcessDifficultMistakeRolesFiguresTypeWork OutDifferent WaysMaking Mistakes Author:Josh Hartnett
“I came to terms with living mostly in a world of horror pictures or genre pictures. I have had a few chances to get outside and do something different, like Paris, Je T'Aime or Music Of The Heart, but mostly it's been my lot. And to have created, with a few shocking films, an awareness or a perception of me as somebody dangerous and scary - that can be sold, but trying to sell me for some other kind of picture, like Music Of The Heart, was very difficult.” WorldTryingHeartKindDifferentFilmDifficultTermChanceAwarenessDangerousHorrorPerceptionSellsScaryGenreParisShocking Author:Wes Craven
“Comedy is more difficult than drama. I think it's really difficult to make someone laugh because people have very different comedic sensibilities. In drama, you can get away with being a great actor and surrounded by great actors and having good writing. But in comedy you have to listen and you have to perform with a certain rhythm, because if you don't, it's like playing a wrong note in the orchestra and you can hear the off key and it will fall flat and you won't get that instant response.” PeopleIfsThinkingWritingDifferentCertainFallActorsDifficultLaughingComedyKeysDramaNotesResponseRhythmInstantGet AwayFlatsSensibilityOrchestraGood WritingGreat ActorsComedicMake Someone Laugh Author:Aimee Garcia
“I don't consciously try to make things difficult as much as I try to make them a little different. I like all kinds of laughs. I tried to make a show that elicit groans, guffaws, chuckles, boos.” TryingKindLittlesDifferentShowsDifficultLaughingAll KindsChuckles Author:Bo Burnham
“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
“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
“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
“It can be difficult to mediate a compromise between what I have in my head and what the musician has in mind, which is often 180° different when it comes to the finished product, so it requires that element of trust from somewhere. The point I make to them is "You've seen what I do, so just trust me and we will come up with something exciting."” MindDifferentDifficultProductsElementsMusicianExcitingCome UpFinishedCompromiseTrust Me Author:John Dyer Baizley