“I know publishing now more as an author than with occasional peaks inside those elite offices than as an industry insider. It was difficult publishing a novel the first time around, while working behind the scenes, knowing all that has to happen to make a book a success and to still make the leap as an author.” KnowsFirstsStillsBookHappensDifficultBehindsNovelKnowingIndustrySceneOfficeFirst TimeLeapElitesPublishingOccasionalBehind The ScenesInsidersWorking Behind The Scenes Author:Jennifer Gilmore
“It was difficult knowing one of your cousins had lost his life.” LostDifficultKnowingCousinYour Cousin Author:Steven Gerrard
“The Tories had the legal right to demand extra meetings of the council but I could decide when they would be held and always called them for Friday afternoons, knowing that three or four of the richer Tories went to the country early and were not prepared to stay in the city beyond lunchtime. I realised that nothing in politics is new when I read in Suetonius's The Twelve Caesars that Julius Caesar pulled the same trick when reactionaries in the senate were making his life difficult.” CountryWould BeThreeDifficultCitiesKnowingFourDemandMeetingsPreparedTricksExtrasAfternoonSenateTwelveFridayCouncilRealisedReactionariesJuliusLunchtimeFriday Afternoon Author:Ken Livingstone
“I have the deepest regret about 9/11. Sept. 11, 2001, was one of the most difficult days I've ever had. I was in Lima, Peru, and had to fly back eight hours not knowing what happened in my own country, knowing thousands of my fellow citizens had died.” CountryDifficultHoursMy OwnKnowingHappenedRegretCitizensDiedFellowsEightNot KnowingPeruSept 11Difficult Days Author:Colin Powell
“If your project or organization depends on knowing things that other people don't know (but could find out if they wanted to), your days are probably numbered. Ask a travel agent The alternative, while difficult, is obvious. Provide enough non-commodity service and customization that it doesn't matter if the ideas spread. In fact, it will help you when they do.” PeopleIfsKnowsIdeasMatterEnoughFactsHelpingWantedAsksDifficultKnowingDependsProjectsOrganizationObviousSpreadAgentsAlternativesCommodityKnowing ThingsTravel Agent Author:Seth Godin
“Knowing what [Christ] knew , knowing all about mankind--ah! who would have thought that the crime is not so much to make others die, but to die oneself--confronted day and night with his innocent crime, it became too difficult to go on. It was better to get it over with, to not defend himself, to die, in order not to be the only one to have survived, and to go elsewhere, where, perhaps, he would be supported.” GodWould BeNightOrderDiesDifficultChristKnowingMankindCrimeGoes OnGuiltOneselfInnocentInnocenceElsewhereSurvivedDay And Night Author:Albert Camus
“Even with limited intelligence, knowing oneself is not as difficult as some say, but to act according to what one has realized about oneself in real life is as difficult as practicing anything else, compared to theory.” RealSelfLife IsDifficultPracticeKnowingTheoryOneselfReal LifeKnowing Oneself Author:Franz Grillparzer
“Playing those one-dimensional characters is actually really difficult because you're not dealing with somebody you would ever really know. I don't think anybody here could imagine actually knowing Cindy Campbell from 'Scary Movies.' So, in a way, your job is so much easier when you're playing a person that you really understand and that seems very relatable. I think I was coming to a place in my career where I was like, "I'd like to do something a little more rewarding."” ThinkingKnowsWayLittlesPersonsCharacterSeemsJobsDifficultCareersKnowingImagineEasierScaryRelatableCindy Author:Anna Faris
“People always want to know how you know. And knowing in your heart is very hard to describe. I think so often, we're trying to understand something with our mind. But, actually, the Bible teaches us that much of what God does in our life will be difficult to understand with the mind.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantTryingMindHeartDoeHardDifficultTeachKnow HowKnowingOur Lives Author:Joyce Meyer
“One of the things that is always difficult about a collaboration is that you don't necessarily find the same thing funny. And so the challenge becomes, how do you tell the other person that you don't think something's funny? The best collaborations tend to be when you are willing to be told that. But there's also ego involved, and so there's a lot of frustration in knowing that you're writing something, and the other person, on some level, needs to think that it's funny.” ThinkingNeedsWritingPersonsDifficultChallengesLevelsKnowingWillingInvolvedEgoFrustrationCollaboration Author:Michael Showalter
“Ordinary life was laced with miracles, I knew that, had read enough poetry to understand that we are elevated with the knowing, and yet it was difficult to notice and be grateful when one was continually fatigued and irritated. I suppose that unquenchable sense of wonder is what separates us dolts from the saints and the poets.” EnoughDifficultWonderKnowingPoetOrdinaryMiracleGratefulSaintBe GratefulOrdinary LifeIrritatedSense Of Wonder Author:Jane Hamilton
“In the end, it is impossible to have a great life unless it is a meaningful life. And it is very difficult to have a meaningful life without meaningful work. Perhaps, then you might gain that great tranquility that comes from knowing that you've had a hand in creating something of intrinsic excellence that makes a contribution. Indeed, you might even gain that deepest of all satisfactions: knowing that your short time on this earth has been well spent, and that it mattered.” WellsHas BeensEndsHandsMightEarthDifficultKnowingImpossibleCreatingGainsExcellenceSatisfactionMeaningfulContributionTranquilityMeaningful LifeShort TimeCreating SomethingMeaningful WorkGood To Great Author:James C. Collins
“Attempting to define science fiction is an undertaking almost as difficult, though not so popular, as trying to define pornography... In both pornography and SF, the problem lies in knowing exactly where to draw the line.” TryingProblemLyingDifficultLinesFictionKnowingDrawsScience FictionPornographyAttemptingUndertakings Author:Arthur C. Clarke
“Knowing the future is difficult, controlling the future is impossible. Knowing today is essential; controlling today is possible.” TodayDifficultKnowingImpossibleEssentialsKnowing The Future Author:John C. Maxwell
“Particularly when I thought of myself as a Wallace Stevens acolyte, I wrote very difficult poetry and I was really guilty of not knowing what I was talking about. I was going for a kind of clever verbal effect. I was trying to sound linguistically or verbally interesting. I had a sense, I guess, from just reading a lot of poetry of how a poem would start and how it would end but really I didn't know what I was doing. It had very little connection to my life.” KnowsTryingKindLittlesEndsReadingDifficultSoundInterestingTalkingKnowingEffectsConnectionsCleverGuiltyNot Knowing Author:Billy Collins
“I've recently started practicing japa meditation. Meditating has always been a bit difficult for me, but japa asks you to focus on the space between things, and psychologically knowing I have anchor points frees me to do so.” AsksBitsDifficultSpaceKnowingFocusMeditationAnchorsMeditatingSpace Between Author:Allison McAtee
“Sometimes it's difficult because you like some regularity in your life, but never knowing who's gonna pop up at what show, what person you might see that you don't expect to see in that city, what problem you're gonna have that night, even the problems at some of these venues, if you look at them the right way, it's an adventure. You're like a cowboy. That's the best part about being in the music industry. You get your gun and you ride your horse.” IfsWayLooksPersonsSometimesShowsProblemMightNightDifficultCitiesKnowingAdventureIndustryGunHorsePopsRight WayCowboyMusic IndustryVenuesRegularity Author:Colin Munroe
“Many people theorize poverty, but so many elements of poverty, individually, for most people who theorize about poverty would be really difficult to even comprehend the individual things. Just take homelessness. If you are homeless, what does it mean not to have a post box where people can contact you; what does it mean not knowing where you're going to sleep at the end of the day; what does it mean not having a place where you can store what little you might possess. So dealing with homelessness in itself is a huge thing for most people who are commentators [on] or benefactors to poverty.” PeopleIfsMeanLittlesDoeEndsMightWould BeIndividualDifficultSleepPovertyKnowingHugeElementsBoxesStoresContactPostsThe End Of The DayNot KnowingHomelessHomelessnessGoing To SleepCommentatorsBenefactors Author:Kumi Naidoo