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“In Scandinavia probably the most worker-supportive part of the planet, they have the highest rate of chronic pain and worker-related disability. So any kind of pain and difficulty is so much unwelcome that if you say that you're in pain, we're going to even pay you full salary to quit work because you're burned out, inside that what you're going to create is gigantic amounts of chronic pain syndrome. Scandinavians spend 15 percent of their gross national product on disability. 50 percent of the public health nurses are on disability. And that's where we're headed in the U.S. too.”

Kind Pain Difficulty Rate Quitting Disability Nurse Gross Public Health

Author:Steven C. Hayes

“But this cheap-thrill version, this sort of ease definition, the feel-good definition of happiness is an empty promise. Unless we get wiser as to how to carry the difficulties of life in a way that's self-compassionate and empowering, we can create this kind of world in which we'd rather sort of plug into the matrix with whatever pills or escapist tendencies we can think of instead of walking through a process of living that's going to include loss. It's going to include limitations on function. We need to learn and teach our children how to do that.”

Thinking World Kind Children Loss Teach Walking Promise Empty Difficulty Our Children Limitation Empowering Wiser

Author:Steven C. Hayes

“We did our best to do a Fox show, frankly, I don't think the difficulties we had at Fox would be exclusive to Fox. It's tough to be funny, because there's so many eyeballs and there's so much money at stake that I think everything is just kind of over-thought. And it's tough to be daring and do something different, either with regards to content or even structure.”

Thinking Kind Different Tough Difficulty Daring

Author:Aaron McGruder

“I think the films Insomnia and Memento share all sorts of thematic concerns, such as the relationship between motivation and action, and the difficulty of reconciling your view of the story with the supposed objective view of that story.”

Thinking Action Film Motivation Share Concern Difficulty Insomnia Memento

Author:Christopher Nolan

“There's something immediate about the experience of reading a poem - whether it's the music or some other element of it - that just seems to access another part of the brain. You know, Charles Olson talks about this transfer of energy that happens between the writer and the reader of the poem. I guess there's something essential to me about acknowledging upfront the immensity of it - the difficulty of it - and even allowing that to be the subject.”

Reading Energy Brain Difficulty

Author:Kevin Powers

“You can't really gauge the difficulties of television. There's difficulties and joys that happen with an amazing, great team, when one is working. Television can be a very frustrating job for almost anybody working in television, because you're shooting episodically, and you don't know one scene from the next, and maybe they change around.”

Joy Team Scene Difficulty Frustrating

Author:Melissa Leo

“You see, if you are 30 years ahead of your time, you will always have difficulty speaking with the bosses in the industry. They are too conservative.”

Difficulty Conservative Boss

Author:Luigi Colani

“I have a great female support system. We encourage each other because we all face some of the same difficulties. We all experience mommy guilt. It's always great to have an uplifting support system.”

Support Female Difficulty Guilt Uplifting

Author:Kelly Rowland

“I think China is laughing about the results of the presidential elections. China, Russia, they all laugh about it. They see how dramatic U.S. has to be put this kind of shame on its own - cannot handle the situation. Or show such a difficulty with this liberal ideas. Men or women created equal. And to defend those very essential ideas.”

Thinking Men Kind Situation Laughing Equal Difficulty Shame Election Presidential Dramatic Presidential Election

Author:Ai Weiwei

“The President Donald Trump has great difficulty with the truth on many issues.”

President Difficulty

Author:Bob Corker

“Which is strange - I've always thought of myself as someone who writes out of difficulty. And I did do that, but I came out on the side of light more often than not.”

Writing Strange Difficulty

Author:Maggie Smith

“I was raised by a strong mother who always taught me to speak up, I never had difficulty leaving an uncomfortable situation or cutting eye contact; people used to call me cold. Girls need to learn that they're allowed to say no and to speak up. This is what I work on in Africa with the girls, but the issue is global and I'm glad that women are speaking up and saying that we won't put up with it anymore.”

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Author:Toni Garrn

“As an artist you can use your own discomfort and neuroses and difficulties and at least transform them into something else. Without that you're just neurotic and uncomfortable.”

Artist Difficulty Uncomfortable Neurotic

Author:Steve Toltz

“We're much better at dealing with dyslexia today than in 50th, but reading difficulties are still a problem in the U.K. I believe there's currently something like eleven thousand functionally illiterate adults in the U.K.”

Believe Problem Today Reading I Believe Difficulty Illiterate Dyslexia

Author:Maggie O'Farrell

“I think in a way the great irony or paradox about America is that it makes it so hard for the sensitive person, the artist, the impressionable person, the person whose raison d'etre is to incarnate the creative will, rather than to just make money, and yet that extreme difficulty that the culture poses for us has created some of the best artists in the last hundred years.”

Thinking Artist Culture Creative Difficulty Making Money Irony Sensitive Paradox Impressionable Best Artist

Author:Hubert Selby, Jr.

“I notice a lot of younger artists have difficulty telling stories. They might have short stories where they express themselves well, but they don't really know how to tell stories with characters. That craft just passed them by.”

Character Artist Difficulty Short Story

Author:Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero

“I am pretty antisocial and have difficulty communicating with other human beings. I know that if I were in Philly I'd still mostly be hanging out in my apartment reading books and playing with synthesizers. That said, I grew up in Philly, went to college in Philly, lived in Philly afterwards for a while - almost every formative experience in my life has happened in Philly. Whether I like it or not, Philly is all over everything I do for the rest of my life.”

Book Reading College Difficulty Communicate Hanging Out Reading Books Apartment Antisocial I Am Pretty

Author:Ben Daniels

“In many cases, we make sleep a lot more complicated than it needs to be. Sleep difficulties can turn into serious medical problems. For the vast majority of us, however, sleep difficulties are a lifestyle problem. Yet we tend to treat all our sleep-related woes the same way: with a pill.”

Problem Sleep Serious Difficulty Complicated Medical Lifestyle

Author:Arianna Huffington

“The median family income in the U.S. is lower than it was a quarter-century ago, and if people don't have income, they can't consume, and you can't have a strong economy. There's significant risk - actually it's no longer a risk - a significant likelihood of a marked slowdown not only in China, but also in a lot of other countries like Brazil, which is in recession. All of the other countries that depend on commodities, including Canada, are facing difficulties. So it's hard to see a story of a strong U.S. economy.”

People Country Strong Economy Risk Difficulty Significant Commodity

Author:Joseph Stiglitz

“I'm not sure, however, that what I have amounts to faith in the sense commonly understood. I have difficulty understanding the function of the word "believe" in the realm of faith, a basic term in the grammar of every creed.”

Believe Understanding Term Difficulty Not Sure

Author:Zia Haider Rahman

“The mathematical tilt remains basic to my epistemological perspective, my howling plea in the still of night for epistemic humility. Mathematics gave me that as, also, did the difficulty I had in talking to my parents. How proofs are conceived is unfathomable. Clearly, there are certain conditions in which the revelation takes place.”

Night Parent Humility Perspective Difficulty Mathematics Mathematical Revelations

Author:Zia Haider Rahman

“There is always going to be a risk in a new love, a difficulty to be overcome, and more so considering all the challenges facing gay love, particularly in an adolescent. The desired other person could turn out to be a wolf in sheep's clothing, could hurt us, could even ruin us. But the risk has to be taken.”

Challenges Hurt Taken Risk Gay Overcoming Difficulty

Author:André Aciman

“Often we fail to voice and act on our values because, before we even apply our best thinking to developing an action plan, we engage in process of "pre-emptive rationalization." At some deep level, we anticipate difficulty and resistance so we start to back away from our own instinctive values perspective.”

Thinking Action Values Failing Perspective Difficulty

Author:Mary C. Gentile

“One of my central philosophies is to be creatively driven so I have to be extraordinarily creative in the way I get things done and I have to be really flexible. Striving for the best creativity can be a really moving target if you're trying to budget anything because if you come up with a better idea for something and it's going to make the movie stronger then you have to do it. And that's what I do. The difficulty is that you have to use more judgement as a producer then you might in other places. I have to make unbelievably great creative decisions.”

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Author:Brad Lewis

“I don't in any way underestimate the difficulties, because it's only gotten harder. But I do think you just have to go into politics with the attitude that you're going to speak clearly and authentically about what you see the country needs...and seek out whatever possible partners you can, even in the other party. I've looked at successful presidents going back. Some of our most successful governed through periods when their party was in charge, and when the other party was in charge. There's no magic formula.”

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Author:Hillary Clinton

“I try to deal with the complexities of power and social life, but as far as the visual presentation goes I purposely avoid a high degree of difficulty.”

Trying Artist Social Deals Degrees Difficulty Complexity Visuals Presentation Social Life

Author:Barbara Kruger

“I only used a cell phone for the first time after I was released. I had difficulty coping with it because it seemed so small and insubstantial.”

Firsts Used First Time Difficulty Phones Cells Cell Phone Coping

Author:Aung San Suu Kyi

“Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties.”

Kind May Easy Difficulty Intention Conversion Confusion Chaos And Confusion

Author:Dalai Lama

“After my mother's death, I had such difficulty relating to people.”

People Mother Difficulty

Author:Jaron Lanier

“A Louisiana politician can't afford to let his animosities carry him away, and still less his principles, although there is seldom difficulty in that department.”

Stills Principles Politician Difficulty Department Louisiana Animosity

Book:The Earl of Louisiana

Source: The Earl of Louisiana

“'The difficulty with this conversation,' said Arthur after a sort of pondering look had crawled slowly across his face like a mountaineer negotiating a tricky outcrop, 'is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees.'”

Different Tree Conversation Late Difficulty

Author:Douglas Adams

“The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.”

Thinking Wisdom Past Time Change History Cases Quiet Difficulty Obstacles Occasions Civil War Dogma Inadequate Stormy Unschooling Stormy Days

Author:Abraham Lincoln

“Coming out involves varying degrees of difficulty that are affected by class, race, religion, and geography.”

Race Class Degrees Difficulty Affected Coming Out Geography

Author:Lance Loud

“Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.”

Source: Fireside Travels

“I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear.”

Ifs Sometimes Half Quiet Difficulty Disappear Suspects Imaginary

Author:Robert Staughton Lynd

“Where there is no choice, we do well to make no difficulty.”

Wells Choices Literature Difficulty

Book:SIR GIBBIE & DONAL GRANT: The Baronet’s Song and The Shepherd’s Castle (Adventure Classic)

Source: SIR GIBBIE & DONAL GRANT: The Baronet’s Song and The Shepherd’s Castle (Adventure Classic)

“There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.”

Source: The Prince

“Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.”

Motivational Motivation Goal Difficulty Philosophical Willingness Willpower Art Of War Desire To Achieve

Book:The Prince

Source: The Prince

“Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint.”

Littles Sometimes Funny Hope Difficult Humorous Difficulty Clouds Witty Silver Mint Funny Motivational Lining Up

Book:Archy and Mehitabel

Source: Archy and Mehitabel

“God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan by which great blessing can come out of the difficulty.”

Religious Plans Trouble Blessing Difficulty Encouragement Blessed Gods Will Permit Trust In God

Author:Peter Marshall

“When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.”

Source: Prayers Offered by the Chaplain, the Rev. Peter Marshall, D.D.: At the Opening of the Daily Sessions of the Senate of the United States During the Eightieth and Eighty-first Congress 1947-1949

“What parent has it easy? I just never make the difficulty of it an obstacle. I just do it.”

Easy Parent Difficulty Obstacles Parenthood Just Do It

Author:Marlee Matlin

“I'm a professional fighter and like most professional fighters I have had difficulties with my hands in the past.”

Hands Past Difficulty Fighter

Author:Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

“Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping.”

Past Speak Forget Doubt Achievement Difficulty Track Painful Discouragement Forget The Past

Author:Ethel Barrymore

“People face difficulties, no matter who you are. I faced difficulties with a lot of things. I face opposition every day, but I didn't kill myself and now, thank God, I'm here.”

People Matter Faces Difficulty Who You Are Opposition Thank God

Author:Nicki Minaj

“The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.”

“No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.”

Thinking Problem Form Science Simple Decision Mistake Essentials Elements Solutions Difficulty Concrete Vague No Problem

Author:J. P. Morgan

“One of my kids was born in 1968. There were going to be political difficulties, but they were never going to have that level of hatred and contempt that my brothers and my sister and myself were exposed to.”

Kids Political Born Levels Brother Hatred Difficulty My Brother Contempt Exposed My Sister

Author:Toni Morrison

“Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.”

Ifs Life Believe Death Difficulty Sentences Deep Down Death Sentence Simulacrum

Book:Cool memories

Source: Cool memories

“Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.”

Inspirational Accepting History Failure Difficulty Excuse No Excuses

Author:Edward R. Murrow