“Periods of change are full of paradoxes. They're difficult but exciting, frightening but freeing. Letting go of old patterns that no longer work for us is exhilarating.” DifficultPeriodsLetting GoExcitingPatternsParadoxFrighteningExhilarating Book:The Courage to Be Yourself: A Woman's Guide to Emotional Strength and Self-Esteem Source: The Courage to Be Yourself: A Woman's Guide to Emotional Strength and Self-Esteem
“Training is doing your homework. It's not exciting. More often than not it's tedious. There is certainly no glory in it. But you stick with it, over time, and incrementally through no specific session, your body changes. Your mind becomes calloused to effort. You stop thinking of running as difficult or interesting or magical. It just becomes what you do. It becomes a habit.” ThinkingMindBodyRunningDifficultInterestingEffortHabitGloryTrainingExcitingSticksYour BodySessionHomeworkTediousInspirational RunningChanging Your MindBody Change Author:Jack Edmonds
“It’s the strangest thing about this church - it is obsessed with sex, absolutely obsessed. Now they will say we, with our permissive society and rude jokes, are obsessed. No, we have a healthy attitude. We like it, it’s fun, it’s jolly; because it’s a primary impulse it can be dangerous and dark and difficult. It’s a bit like food in that respect, only even more exciting. The only people who are obsessed with food are anorexics and the morbidly obese, and that in erotic terms is the Catholic church in a nutshell.” PeopleFunSexBitsDifficultTermChurchDarkAttitudeDangerousHealthyJokesExcitingCatholicPrimariesImpulseObsessedRudeEroticCatholic ChurchJollyObeseAnorexics Author:Stephen Fry
“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
“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