“The alphabet was a great invention, which enabled men to store and to learn with little effort what others had learned the hard way-that is, to learn from books rather than from direct, possibly painful, contact with the real world.” MenWorldWayLittlesBookRealHardLanguageEffortDirectPainfulStoresInventionContactReal WorldAlphabetHard WayGreat Inventions Author:B. F. Skinner
“I love bad movies, whereas going to the theater for me is a painful experience. I think it's really hard to sit and watch actors do something live and have it not go well.” ThinkingWellsHardActorsWatchesTheaterPainfulBad MoviesPainful Experiences Author:Zoe Kazan
“Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.” IfsHardMotivationalPainStrongStruggleEffectsAdversityBlowPainfulEnthusiasmCushionsGoing Strong Book:The Positive Principle Today Source: The Positive Principle Today
“It's interesting to have the awkward moments play out, and the real human interactions. The more you cut that down, you lose the joke, which is that this is painful and hard.” HumansRealHardPlayMomentsLosesInterestingCuttingJokesPainfulInteractionAwkwardReal Human Author:Nicholas Stoller
“It is very pleasant to scratch an itching ring-worm, but the sensation one gets afterwards is very painful and intolerable. In the same way the pleasures of this world are very attractive in the beginning, but their consequences are terrible to contemplate and hard to endure.” WorldWayHardPleasureThis WorldTerribleConsequenceEndurePainfulRingsAttractivePleasantSensationsContemplatingWormsScratchesItching Author:Ramakrishna
“It's very painful to love someone who is wrestling with either an addiction or a mental illness because you want the best for them. And it seems so hard, and it's frustrating.” WantHardSeemsAddictionPainfulIllnessMental IllnessWrestlingFrustratingLove Someone Author:Maya Forbes
“I started learning my lessons in Abbot Texas, where I was born in 1933. My sister Bobbie and I were raised by our grandparents [...] We never had enough money, and Bobbie and I started working at an early age to help the family get by. That hard work included picking cotton. [...] Picking cotton is hard and painful work, and the most lasting lesson I learned in the fields was that I didn't want to spend my life picking cotton.” WantHardEnoughHelpingAgeBornFieldsHard WorkLessonsRaisedPainfulLastingTexasMy SisterGrandparentHad EnoughCotton Author:Willie Nelson
“A competitive athlete is painful to look at; trying hard to become an animal rather than a man, he will never be as fast as a cheetah or as strong as an ox.” MenTryingLooksHardStrongAnimalAthletePainfulTrying HardCheetahs Book:The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
“I think it's always hard for children to talk about abuse because it is only memory. I didn't carry around a tape recorder … I didn't chisel anything in stone … Anybody can look and say, 'Well how do you know for sure?' And that's one of the most painful things about it. You don't.” ThinkingKnowsWellsLooksChildrenHardMemoriesStonesAbusePainfulDo You KnowTapeRecordersChiselsPainful Things Author:Anne Heche
“It is a proof of boorishness to confer a favor with a bad grace; it is the act of giving that is hard and painful. How little does a smile cost?” GivingLittlesDoeHardGraceCostPainfulProofFavors Author:Jean de la Bruyere