“I really don't like to take the easy way out, if I can help it, on anything I do, I like to really make it a challenge. I don't know how to create by taking the easy routes. I've tried, you know, I've tried to let myself, but I always struggle to compensate.” IfsKnowsWayI CanHelpingEasyChallengesKnow HowStruggleRoutesEasy WayEasy Route Author:Jack White
“There are dozens of unfinished or aborted projects in my files, but I can only assume they don't get done because they're not robust enough to struggle through the birth process.” I CanDoneEnoughProcessStruggleBirthProjectsAssumingDozenFilesUnfinishedRobust Author:Grant Morrison
“There’s an old writing rule that says ‘Don’t have two character names start with the same letter’, but I knew at the beginning that I was going to have more than 26 characters, so I was in trouble there. Ultimately it comes down to what sounds right. And I struggle with that, finding the right name for a character. If I can’t find the right name I don’t know who the character is and I can’t proceed.” IfsKnowsWritingI CanTwoCharacterNamesSoundStruggleTroubleFindingsLetters Author:George R. R. Martin
“But I can say that life is good to me. Has been and is good. So I think my task is to be good to it. So how do you be good to life? You live it.” ThinkingLifeHas BeensI CanLife IsStruggleInspireTasksBe GoodMiscellaneousLife Is Good Author:Morgan Freeman
“When I think of my best days as husband, I find I was doing what Regi said in this book. What Radical Husbands Do is a practical book I can safely give any man who is struggling in his marriage.” ThinkingMenGivingSaidI CanBookStruggleHusbandPracticalsRadical Author:Joel Manby
“I've always been a freak and different, oddball even in my childhood and my own family, so I can relate to people who are struggling and trying to find their true identity. I do not sit in the seat of judgment. .. I love people for who they are. We're all God's children.” PeopleTryingChildrenI CanDifferentMy OwnStruggleChildhoodIdentityJudgmentRelateSeatsFreakBeing DifferentFreakyIndividual DifferencesTrue IdentityOddballs Author:Dolly Parton
“And I can just see that sometimes the technique is blasting powder rather than steady struggle.” I CanSometimesStruggleTechniqueSteadyPowder Author:Richard Diebenkorn
“Lots of people limit their possibilities by giving up easily. Never tell yourself this is too much for me. It's no use. I can't go on. If you do you're licked, and by your own thinking too. Keep believing and keep on keeping on.” PeopleIfsThinkingGivingBelieveI CanUseWisdomStruggleToo MuchPossibilityGoes OnLimitsGiving UpAchievementPerseverancePersistEnlighteningKeep BelievingGreat Perseverance Author:Norman Vincent Peale
“Unfortunately, most people do not stop to feel their tiredness. Faced with the pressures of life, they believe that it is a matter of survival to go on as they have been. Feeling tired raises a deep fear that they may not be able to continue the struggle. Many find it difficult to say, ‘I can’t.’ As children, they were taught that where there’s a will, there’s a way. To say, ‘I can’t,’ is to admit failure, which is seen as evidence that they are unworthy of love.” PeopleWayFeelsBelieveMayChildrenHas BeensI CanMatterFeelingsAbleDifficultStruggleTaughtGoes OnSurvivalEvidencePressureRaisesTiredUnworthyTiredness Author:Alexander Lowen
“I still have a struggle reading (dyslexia, fh) and so I don't read much.. ..Probably the only reason I'm painter is because I couldn't read yet I love to write, but when I write I know what I'm writing, but when I'm reading I can't see it, because it goes from all sides of the page at once. But that's very good for printmaking.” KnowsWritingStillsI CanReasonReadingSidesStrugglePagesVery GoodPainterDyslexiaPrintmaking Author:Robert Rauschenberg
“Don't ask me to give in to this body of mine. I can't afford it. Between me and my body there must be a struggle until death.” GivingI CanBodyAsksStruggleMinesAsk Me Author:Margaret of Cortona