“Whenever I'm faced with a difficult decision, I ask myself, 'What would I do if I weren't afraid of making a mistake? Feeling rejected? looking foolish? Or being alone?' I know for sure that when you remove the fear, the answer that you've been searching for comes into focus and as you walk into your fear, you should know for sure that your deepest struggle can, if you're willing and open, produce your greatest strength.” IfsKnowsShouldFeelingsAsksDifficultDecisionAnswersWalksMistakeStruggleFocusProduceWillingFoolishMaking MistakesRemoveRejectedDifficult Decisions Book:What I Know For Sure Source: What I Know For Sure
“Flat fields produce mediocre grapes, but rolling hills produce the greatest grapes. Why? Because the vines must struggle for survival.” StruggleFieldsProduceSurvivalHillsFlatsRollingMediocreGrapesVinesStruggle For SurvivalRolling Hills Author:Billy Cannon
“Without struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machine.” ResultsStruggleProgressProduceHabitMachinesBreaking PromisesSith Author:G. I. Gurdjieff
“The only reason anyone would sell salt more cheaply than usual would be because he was desperate for money. And anyone who took advantage of that situation would be showing a lack of respect for the sweat and struggle of the man who laboured to produce it.” MenReasonWould BeSituationStruggleProduceHe ManAdvantageSellsAbundanceDesperateSweatUsualSaltLack Of Respect Author:Paulo Coelho
“Gluttony and satiety in food produce defiled lust, while free association with women enflames the fire of lusts ... At the time of struggle with defilement, punish your thoughts with lack of nourishment, so that you will think not of defilements, but of hunger, and reject the invitation to go visiting.” ThinkingInspirationalChristianReligiousStruggleFireProduceHungerLustRejectsOrthodoxAssociationInvitationsNourishmentVisitingGluttonySatietyDefilement Author:Nilus of Sinai
“I'm a man who struggles with melancholy and depression, but I am a very productive filmmaker and I work constantly, with no pause. Even in the worst of crises, I manage to produce work. And that's keeping me alive.” MenStruggleAliveWorstProduceCrisisManageFilmmakerProductiveMelancholyPauses Author:Jørgen Leth
“... if variations useful to any organic being do occur, assuredly individuals thus characterized will have the best chance of being perserved in the struggle for life; and from the strong principle of inheritance they will tend to produce offsping similarly characterized. This principle of preservation, I have called, for the sake of brevity, Natural Selection.” IfsIndividualStrongNaturalChancePrinciplesStruggleProduceSakePreservationSelectionInheritanceVariationNatural SelectionBrevity Book:The Works of Charles Darwin: On the origin of species 1959 Source: The Works of Charles Darwin: On the origin of species 1959
“You see, one strand...of anarchism believed that you needed to use essentially homeopathic doses of terror by assassinating people, et cetera, the so-called 'propaganda of the deed', and that this propaganda of the deed would rouse people up, give them confidence to rise up. Another section believed 'No, it was not by seeing something happen that people get confidence, but it's by acting', in other words, the movements must go among the people and produce small struggles, bigger struggles, to give people greater and greater confidence.” PeopleGivingUseHappensActingStruggleGreaterSeeingMovementProduceNeededBiggerTerrorDeedsThings HappenPropagandaSectionsAnarchismDoseStrands Author:Vijay Prashad
“That love is a conflict seems to me obvious and natural. There isn't a single worthwhile work in world literature based on love that is only about the conquest of happiness, the effort to arrive at what we call love. It's the struggle that has always interested those who produce works of art - literature, cinema or poetry.” WorldArtSeemsLiteratureNaturalLove IsEffortStruggleProduceConflictObviousCinemaWorks Of ArtWorthwhileConquestWorld Literature Author:Michelangelo Antonioni
“People just want to see something happen that is positive for them in their lives. If you're struggling to pay your student-loan debts, or if you've got a kid trying to go to college and don't think you're going to be able to afford it, it really matters whether you get help or not. If you don't have health care or you have insurance but the insurance company won't pay for what your doctor says you need, then what's the point of people arguing in Washington? Why don't you give me some help to fix this problem? I will work with anybody if I think we can actually produce results for people.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantNeedsGivingTryingMatterHelpingProblemHappensCareKidsAbleResultsPayCompanyStruggleStudentsProduceCollegeDoctorsGive MeDebtArguingThings HappenHealth CareLoanInsurance CompaniesStudent Loan Author:Hillary Clinton
“In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.” FormGriefStruggleProduceQuietSerenityAnguish Author:Simone Weil