“The vast majority of things parents and kids get in conflict over are highly predictable. We're disagreeing about the same expectations the kid is having difficulty meeting every hour, every day, every week. Because it's predictable, we can have these conversations proactively. That is very hard for people.” PeopleHardKidsParentHoursWeekConversationConflictExpectationsDifficultyMajorityMeetingsPredictable Author:Ross W. Greene
“Parents are much more likely to be attuned to what they don't like than they are to the expectations that the kid is having difficulty meeting.” KidsParentExpectationsDifficultyMeetings Author:Ross W. Greene
“Challenging behavior is just a signal, the fever, the means by which the kid is communicating that he or she is having difficulty meeting an expectation.” MeanKidsChallengesBehaviorExpectationsDifficultyMeetingsCommunicateSignalsFever Author:Ross W. Greene
“Ignorance, according to the Buddha, is our basic difficulty. Psychedelics and the process of aging make that clear to me all the time.” ProcessClearIgnoranceDifficultyAging Author:Laura Huxley
“I find beauty almost everywhere. Now more and more I find almost everything beautiful. That is why I have great difficulty in throwing away things because I think they are quite beautiful. Even the garbage, but I have to throw that away!” ThinkingBeautifulDifficultyThrowingGarbageThrowing Away Author:Laura Huxley
“What we are saying is that we need to consolidate the capacity to lend support. Because, one of the problems that's mentioned with regard to the Black Empowerment process in the case of small and medium business, is shortage of credit or difficulties of accessing credit.” NeedsProblemProcessBlackCasesSupportCapacityEmpowermentDifficultyRegardCreditMediumsShortage Author:Thabo Mbeki
“Think the very fact that somebody like Mike Pence is seen as useful to the [Donald] Trump campaign would be analytically a sign of difficulty for him because, you know, the Republican Party over the last two decades has needed to include his support among women, among Latinos, among blacks, among young people, and among highly educated people.” PeopleThinkingKnowsTwoFactsWould BeLastsYoungPartySupportTrumpNeededRepublicanDifficultyDecadesCampaignsEducatedRepublican PartyMikeLatinoLike Mike Author:Mark Colvin
“If you've got a great crew it's intense, but its quite short. 'The Elephant Man' was longer than most, for an independent film. That was a 14 week film. But it was because of the intrinsic difficulties. We had to invent a different way of filming, because the makeup was so long. A working day for me with a full makeup on was nineteen hours. So obviously you couldn't do that twice running.” IfsMenWayLongDifferentRunningFilmHoursWeekDifficultyIndependentIntenseDifferent WaysMakeupCrewElephantsIndependent FilmNineteenElephant Man Author:John Hurt
“Difficulties can be overcome by not giving up.” GivingGiving UpOvercomingDifficultyNot Giving Up Author:Yunho
“I think the biggest survival instinct that Midwesterners possess is self deprecation, it's almost a Buddha-like sense of humor in anything that is difficult to get through. They would prefer to laugh at difficulties, show their mettle through that, and toughen up and have a beer afterward. That's definitely the characteristic I've carried through me, and hope to never lose.” ThinkingSelfShowsDifficultLosesLaughingSurvivalDifficultyInstinctBeerCharacteristicsSense Of HumorSurvival InstinctSelf DeprecationMettleMidwesterners Author:Amy Pietz
“I was raised pretty much a fundamentalist, but the one thing that fundamentalism gave to me was the love for that book and a commitment to read and study it. The difficulty is that I've read it all, I didn't skip around, I read it all, and when you read it all, you can't take it literally because you don't want to blame God for a lot of stuff that occurs in that book. There are some pretty violent scenes.” WantBookStuffStudyOne ThingSceneCommitmentDifficultyBlameRaisedViolentFundamentalismSkipFundamentalist Author:John Shelby Spong
“I have difficulties with contemporary language. Big difficulties. I counted, you know, something like 160 words have disappeared from the English language because of the use of the word "like." "I'm like, he's like" - not "thought," not "as if ."” IfsKnowsUseBigsLanguageDifficultyContemporaryEnglish Language Author:Toni Morrison
“The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capital from static to more dynamic situations, the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining capital, and thereby the strength and potential for growth of the economy.” GrowthDecisionEconomyRiskTaxesGainsFlowDifficultyInvestmentEaseVentureObtainingMobilityCapital GainsNew VenturesCapital Gains Tax Author:John F. Kennedy
“I had realized in the meantime that action too has its difficulties, and that one can also be led to it by neurosis. We are not saved by politics any more than by literature.” ActionLiteratureDifficultySavedNeurosis Author:Jean-Paul Sartre
“I think I'm a very lazy writer and by that I mean that I do not battle, I don't struggle too hard against it. If I have difficulties in the writing, I just go and do other things. I don't feel a compulsion to write.” IfsThinkingFeelsWritingMeanHardStruggleBattleDifficultyLazyCompulsion Author:Wole Soyinka
“I think that each of us is so much alike, and yet at the same time we are so different, and I have a feeling that if you encountered difficulty, and I with my age encountered the same difficulty, I would respond one way, and you would respond another. Neither would be right or wrong. It's just that each of us is courageous, and that's what I encourage, courage, and the courage to see, and the courage to say to oneself what one has seen. Don't be in denial.” IfsThinkingWayDifferentFeelingsWould BeAgeDifficultyOneselfOne WayDenialCourageous Author:Maya Angelou
“In matter-ism (materialism), there can be nothing wrong with the world since there is no right way for the world to be in the first place. Everything is just matter in motion and that's that. In Mind-ism (monism) there's a different route to the same problem. There cannot be a problem of evil, even in principle, since in Mind-ism even morality is maya; illusion. In neither story, then (if we're to be consistent with their principles), can the issue of evil be raised. But in real life the problem comes up all the time. That's the difficulty.” IfsWorldWayMindFirstsDifferentRealMatterStoriesProblemEvilPrinciplesIssuesMoralityIllusionDifficultyRaisedCome UpReal LifeConsistentMaterialismRoutesRight WayIsmsProblem Of EvilMaya Illusion Author:Greg Koukl
“Trouble, hardship, difficulty, pain, suffering, conflict, tragedy, evil - they're all part of the [Christian] Story. Indeed, the problem of evil is the reason there's any Story at all.” ReasonStoriesProblemChristianPainSufferingEvilTroubleConflictDifficultyTragedyHardshipProblem Of EvilPain Suffering Author:Greg Koukl
“While I am happy to make the occasional foray into educational philosophy - writing, for example, of the difficulty in the contemporary context for a teacher to be 'truthful' - it is more the personal conduct of a life than social institutions that I am concerned to examine.” WritingPhilosophySocialTeacherExampleConcernedDifficultyInstitutionsEducationalContemporaryTruthfulOccasionalBeing TruthfulSocial Institutions Author:David E. Cooper
“The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.” InspirationalIdeasLyingChangeCreativityCreativeDifficultyInnovationDevelopingBlack And WhiteNew IdeasBe CreativeBad AssGreat IdeaEscapingBrilliant IdeasCreativity And InnovationOriginal IdeasBig IdeasCreative ArtistsCreative IdeasImagination And CreativityIdeas And CreativityInspire CreativityInspiration And CreativityArtists And CreativityIdeas And InnovationOld IdeasImagination CreativityInnovation InspirationInspirational And InnovationInspiration And InnovationCreative SparkIdeas And Inspiration Author:John Maynard Keynes
“Climate change has been immense difficulties of pains or illness or hard life on this planet. So through that way, you have sense of concern of the well being, not sky, not just the environment itself.” WayWellsHas BeensHardPainEnvironmentSkyPlanetsConcernDifficultyClimateClimate ChangeIllnessWell BeingImmenseHard Life Author:Dalai Lama
“It's very hard to feel the difficulties that the military goes through. It's very hard to feel the difficulties of military families, unless you're in that environment. And sometimes you have to force yourself to try and put yourself in other people's sort of shoes and environment to get the sense of that.” PeopleFeelsTryingSometimesHardForceEnvironmentMilitaryDifficultyShoesMilitary Family Author:Jon Stewart
“If I am facing problems and difficulties and I find an answer, I am very eager to share it with someone else. It kind of makes going through the problems or difficulties worthwhile.” IfsKindProblemAnswersShareDifficultyWorthwhile Author:Vonette Bright
“An organization that is not facing up to people who are not getting the job done, is going to have difficulties.” PeopleDoneJobsOrganizationDifficulty Author:Colin Powell
“[Sviatoslav] Schevchuk, in the dogmatic part declares himself to be a son of the Church and in communion with the bishop of Rome and the Church. He speaks of the Pope and his closeness of the Pope and of himself, his faith, and also of the Orthodox people there. The dogmatic part, there's no difficulty. He's Orthodox in the good sense of the word, that is in Catholic doctrine, no.” PeopleSpeakChurchSonDifficultyCatholicDoctrineOrthodoxRomeCommunionPopeBishopsGood SenseClosenessDogmatic Author:Pope Francis
“Socialism is overcoming certain difficulties, it is working in order to try to achieve social advances, to really achieve a society where everybody improves, not where just the elite improve and the others get worse.” TryingCertainOrderSocialAchieveOvercomingDifficultySocialismElites Author:Alejandro Castro Espin
“I think harmonious relations with the U.S. would be very good for us from the economical point of view, more than in any other field, because all our industry has been established by the U.S. and primary products and repair parts that we have to make with much difficulty or to bring from other areas could come directly. And besides, sugar, which traditionally we had the American market is also near.” ThinkingHas BeensWould BeViewsFieldsProductsIndustryAreasDifficultyRelationVery GoodPoint Of ViewPrimariesSugarHarmonious Author:Che Guevara
“If you ask me the image of Latin America, there are sorne countries which oppress their peoples much more, and among the less - least oppressive, among those with which we could have perfectly normal relations without any difficulties - we could have Uruguay, Chile, maybe Costa Rica. But the U.S.. do not permit us.” IfsCountryAmericaAsksNormalDifficultyRelationAsk MeLatinPermitLatin AmericaChilePerfectly NormalCosta Rica Author:Che Guevara
“In the United States, if you ask teachers, "Are there children whom we should call 'gifted?'", many if not most will say 'No.' That's the politically correct answer. But if you then ask the teacher to rank order students in terms of how well they paint or write or dance, they'll have little difficulty in doing so.” IfsShouldWritingWellsChildrenLittlesStatesOrderAsksTermAnswersUnitedUnited StatesTeacherStudentsDifficultyPaintGiftedPolitically Correct Author:Howard Gardner
“You don't achieve anything by stopping at the first sign of difficulty. If we'd stopped after Dieppe in World War II, where would we be right now as a nation? If we'd stopped before Vimy Ridge, we wouldn't have been a nation at all. Yes, you've got to know when to say "stop" as a leader, you sure do, but you've also got to know when to push for the final thing that's going to give you the full benefit.” IfsKnowsWorldGivingFirstsHas BeensWarNationsLeaderAchieveRight NowBenefitsDifficultyFinalsWar Of The WorldsWorld War IiWorld War IStoppingRidges Author:Rick Hillier
“A trouble with poetry is the presence of presumptuousness in poetry, the sense you get in a poem that the poet takes for granted an interest on the reader's part in the poet's autobiographical life, in the poet's memories, problems, difficulties and even minor perceptions. I try to presume that no one is interested in me. And I think experience bears that out. No one's interested in the experiences of a stranger - let's put it that way. And then you have difficulty combined with presumptuousness, which is the most dire trouble with poetry.” ThinkingWayTryingProblemInterestMemoriesTroublePoetBearsReaderPerceptionDifficultyStrangerGrantedPoetry IsMinors Author:Billy Collins
“Spiritual models for me are the communities of Tibetans living in exile in India, or the banjars of Bali, which exist in times of difficulty, oppression. Alternative spaces-perhaps this kind of communication can take place over the Net? Probably only up to a point as the Net's controlled by the military. But the idea is to live outside multi-national, monocultural, commodification prison, outside the grey areas of power-mad, monied collusion.” KindIdeasSpiritualCommunitySpaceMilitaryCommunicationModelsAreasIndiaDifficultyMadPrisonOppressionAlternativesControlledGreyExileTibetanBaliCommodificationCollusionGrey Areas Author:Anne Waldman
“What I'm interested in exploring with Clark Kent is when you have the power to do something that goes beyond what you think is the right thing to do and the difficulty of that. Meaning, to be Superman also means to withhold a lot of power. He could reshape the world however he thinks it should be. But Superman doesn't, historically, do those things. He allows a certain level of self-governing and a certain level of independence, I think out of an admiration for humanity. Because he's inspired by the best in us and he challenges us to inspire each other to be the best that we can be.” ThinkingWorldShouldMeanSelfCertainHumanityChallengesLevelsInspireDifficultyIndependenceInspiredThings To DoRight ThingBeing The BestAdmirationExploringGoverningKent Author:Scott Snyder
“Part of my message is that God never said that we weren't going to have difficulties, but you know what, He said to stay full of joy and I'm going to help you overcome. So I think that is what resonates with people and helps draw so many people. Because it is not a message that you are barely going to make it, you're a victim. We are not victims, we are victors.” PeopleThinkingKnowsSaidHelpingJoyMessagesDrawsOvercomingDifficultyVictim Author:Joel Osteen
“At the Third Wave Foundation, we were asking questions like, "How can we get more voters registered who support our issues?" or "How do we want to give away of money so that it has the greatest impact?" But, the poems were involved in questions of feeling whole, negotiating sexual trauma, and speaking to what has been lost forever. I've always been a person who feels most energized when I am both creating art and working toward social change, but I often have difficulty talking about the two in the same breath.” GivingArtFeelingsSupportForeverDifficultyWaveTraumaSocial Change Author:Dawn Lundy Martin
“My tendency to internalize emotion is probably why I'm an actor. I'm comfortable performing angrily but have such difficulty expressing anger in my life.” EmotionDifficultyPerforming Author:Dylan Gelulla
“Like many, I suspect, I found the difficulty of analytic philosophy unglamorous and therefore less appealing. This is regrettably superficial but superficiality is characteristic of youth. In my late teens I became enamored of Nietzsche, Bataille, and Artaud.” PhilosophyYouthDifficultySuperficialSuperficiality Author:Ray Brassier
“In spite of all the cultural restrictions, in spite of marital or political difficulties, a strong woman continues to create and makes the world go round, such as Abigail Adams and Alexandra Bergson, Harriet Scott, and Emily Dickinson all did. History is full of women creators in the arts, many of whom created under oppressive circumstances.” WorldArtPoliticalStrongCircumstancesDifficultySpiteStrong WomenAbigail Author:Barbara Harbach
“To me, honesty and the difficulty of honest communication are at the heart of both my life and my movies. The difficulty of being yourself.” HeartHonestHonestyCommunicationDifficultyBeing Yourself Author:Ira Sachs
“The Drive-Bys want to believe that somebody like me on the radio could express difficulty, problems with the wall not going up now, the funding not being requested now, in lieu of a government shutdown. And they want you to believe that Donald Trump is in the White House, and somebody said, "You know what, Limbaugh just said you better not do this."” BelieveProblemHouseWallDifficulty Author:Rush Limbaugh
“What is the situation today? We have a united country. We have a single currency. We have managed to stabilize the economy, despite difficulties. We could talk all day about all those achievements.” CountryTodaySituationEconomyAchievementDifficultyCurrency Author:Joseph Kabila
“I think the randomness by Donald Trump's governing, by tweeting, sloganeering, attacking, will create great chaos in the entire market. I think people will have difficulties in predicting the future. I think capital will recede.” PeopleThinkingDifficultyChaosRandomness Author:Reid Hoffman
“There are still many, many uncertainties, challenges and difficulties in Afghanistan. But we have to enable the Afghans to manage those challenges themselves. We cannot solve all the problems for the Afghans.” ProblemChallengesDifficultyManageUncertaintyAfghanistan Author:Jens Stoltenberg
“The freedoms we have in Russia are just leftovers. Freedom of travel, which was completely nonexistent in the Soviet Union; artistic freedom - so far, that's doing fine too, virtually everything can be published. Although with some books that are too edgy politically, or are especially undesirable, the authors are already running into difficulties. Theaters that produce provocative plays, or clubs that host undesirable events often find themselves on the receiving end of fire safety inspections and fines.” BookRunningDifficultySafetyArtisticHostSovietSoviet UnionProvocative Author:Vladimir Voinovich
“In fact, lots of good poetry doesn't work , so I don't mind a bit of mystification or difficulty.” MindDifficulty Author:Nick Laird
“The difficulty in today's world is our technology and science has outrun our theological advances. The reason for that is in technology and science, we have had the courage to ask the single question that theology has been afraid to ask: "Is it possible that there's something I don't know about this, the knowing of which would change everything?"” WorldReasonTechnologyDifficultyTheologyTheological Author:Ricky Ray
“And financial problems are exactly the same thing. You're humiliated. You're ashamed. You're embarrassed about telling anyone that you are suffering financial difficulties.” ProblemSufferingDifficultyFinancialAshamedEmbarrassedHumiliated Author:Neal Gabler
“Now each race is different every time because it's a different journey to get to it - the difficulties you faced getting the car into that position. I manage myself. I chose my team myself. So there's a huge satisfaction for me.” DifferentJourneyTeamCarDifficultyManage Author:Lewis Hamilton
“Don't throw up your hands or abandon your values when you run into political difficulties. Stop, get a sense of the political terrain, and experiment with some ways to move cautiously forward.” RunningMovingPoliticalValuesDifficultyAbandon Author:Joseph Badaracco
“There are times when you felt especially important to another person, or cared about or loved or accepted. Well, loving relationships aren't something you can have like a precious little jewel you put in a box and then put on your shelf. It's something you walk towards. And there's always difficulties; there's always pain in relationships. But you can keep walking towards that beacon in the distance. That process, that journey, is called life. And if you're moving towards the things that you value, life is more vital, flowing; it's more empowering.” ImportantPainMovingValuesJourneyWalkingDifficultyDistanceAcceptedEmpowering Author:Steven C. Hayes