“One of the most difficult tests for the creator: he must always remain unconscious, unaware of his best virtues, if he doesn't want to rob them of their candor and innocence.” IfsWantDifficultVirtueTestsCreatorInnocenceUnconsciousCandor Book:Letters to a Young Poet Source: Letters to a Young Poet
“Getting ahead in a difficult profession - singing, acting, writing, whatever requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering blows and unfair reversals. When I think back to those first couple of years in Rome, those endless rejections, without a glimmer of encouragement from anyone, all those failed screen tests, and yet I never let my desire slide away from me, my belief in myself and what I felt I could achieve.” ThinkingWritingYearsFirstsAbleDesireBeliefFeltDifficultActingAchieveCoupleSingingTestsEncouragementBlowProfessionScreensEndlessRejectionRomeUnfairSlidesFaith In YourselfStaggeringAvidReversal Author:Sophia Loren
“I don't think that there's substantiated evidence that shows that voter fraud is such a rampant problem that we have to put in place measures that people have to pass in order to exercise that constitutional free right. Voting should be -- and is required to be -- a right that is unencumbered. That does not have tests that people must pass.... Anything put in place to restrict that right, or to make it more difficult for people to exercise it, should be outlawed, and should not be allowed.” PeopleThinkingShouldDoeShowsProblemOrderDifficultExerciseEvidenceTestsVotingVotersFraudVoter Fraud Author:Clay Aiken
“I never enjoyed life in my twenties, not one minute of it. It was a test of endurance that I'm surprised I survived. Professionally, of course, I was doing very well but personally it couldn't have been worse or more difficult for me if I'd been living in a mud hut in Leeds.” IfsWellsHas BeensCoursesDifficultMinutesTestsTwentiesEnjoyedEnduranceSurvivedMudOne MinuteHutsLeeds Author:Steven Morrissey
“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 [live performance] is just very difficult. Doing an hour, hour and a half of live standup is an endurance test. You almost have to do it every day to stay up on it.” DifficultHoursHalfTestsPerformancesEnduranceLive Performance Author:Steve Martin
“The process of life is ever unfolding, guiding you, pushing you, preparing you for the next part of the process. Difficult challenges, bad days, upset feelings, moments of confusion are part of life's process. Perhaps these things are there to keep us alert, to make us stronger, or to test our resolve to keep moving forward.” MomentsFeelingsMovingLife IsNextProcessDifficultChallengesTestsStrongerConfusionMoving ForwardUpsetPushingResolvePreparingKeep MovingBad DayKeep Moving ForwardUnfoldingParts Of LifeDifficult ChallengesProcess Of Life Author:Iyanla Vanzant
“By seizing the formerly little-known Height 102.0 - the Mamayev Hill - the Red Army fought its way to the fascists' den - Berlin. We are proud to say that our victory in Stalingrad radically changed the whole situation in the Second World War. And this victory meant that our Motherland had withstood one of the most difficult tests in its history.” WorldWayLittlesWarWholeDifficultSituationKnownChangedProudVictoryRedTestsArmyHillsHeightWar Of The WorldsBerlinFascistsSecond World WarDensSeizingMotherlandRed ArmyStalingrad Author:Aleksandr Vasilevsky
“Confidence applied properly is the path of genius. You must always be in a state of confidence. And the way you sustain a state of confidence is by testing yourself. Difficult quagmires that may occur; there's always a test. You have to seek them out. You constantly have to test yourself to prepare for these quagmires. That's why I always put myself to the test.” WayMayStatesDifficultPathGeniusTestsTestingQuagmireTesting Yourself Author:Mike Tyson
“I think losing a child is unimaginable. It's every person's worst nightmare. It's unimaginably difficult. It shakes your faith in the world. It tests your optimism.” ThinkingWorldChildrenPersonsDifficultWorstLosingTestsOptimismShakesNightmareUnimaginableWorst NightmaresLosing A Child Author:Natalie Portman
“Creative work is incredibly difficult, and that is where the tests lie. Ordinary professionalism and twenty years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access the hidden places. That still needs what it always needs - a condition of complete simplicity, costing not less than everything.” NeedsYearsStillsLyingDifficultCreativeConditionsOrdinaryTestsTwentiesSimplicityAccomplishAccessProfessionalismCreative Work Author:Jeanette Winterson