“Slapping a catchy acronym like the JOBS Act on a piece of legislation makes it more difficult for politicians to oppose it - and indeed that's what happened with the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act.” JobsDifficultPiecesHappenedPoliticianLegislationCatchySlappingAcronymsJumpstart Author:Steven Rattner
“Listen, it's not nice to have your mum kill herself, that is difficult. But at the end of the day, it happened a long time ago. My mother was, I hope, not the reason that I have been successful. It's not as simplistic as 'My mum killed herself; I've got to prove myself.' I was very lucky that my parents took an interest in me...” LongHas BeensEndsReasonMotherParentDifficultInterestSuccessfulNiceHappenedLuckyProveLong TimeThe End Of The DayMumLong Time AgoProve MyselfYour Mum Author:Stuart Rose
“What has happened by chance is often difficult to repeat when it is sought deliberately. Chance is a genius.” DifficultChanceHappenedGeniusRepeatsChances Are Author:Katsuki Sekida
“I have the deepest regret about 9/11. Sept. 11, 2001, was one of the most difficult days I've ever had. I was in Lima, Peru, and had to fly back eight hours not knowing what happened in my own country, knowing thousands of my fellow citizens had died.” CountryDifficultHoursMy OwnKnowingHappenedRegretCitizensDiedFellowsEightNot KnowingPeruSept 11Difficult Days Author:Colin Powell
“Here I come to one of the memoir writer's difficulties -- one of the reasons why, though I read so many, so many are failures. They leave out the person to whom things happened. The reason is that it is so difficult to describe any human being. So they say: 'This is what happened'; but they do not say what the person was like to whom it happened. And the events mean very little unless we know first to whom they happened.” KnowsFirstsHumansMeanLittlesPersonsReasonDifficultHuman BeingsHappenedEventsDifficultyThings HappenMemoirReason Why Book:Moments of being: unpublished autobiographical writings Source: Moments of being: unpublished autobiographical writings
“Suffering is the price of being alive, and it is music and singing and art that has helped me live through some of the most difficult things that have happened to me.” ArtSufferingDifficultAliveHappenedSingingDifficult Things Author:Judy Collins