“I've made a few albums in such an autonomous way; it often has been exhausting. It's almost difficult to enjoy the process when you take on so much.” WayHas BeensMadeProcessEnjoyDifficultAlbumsExhaustingAutonomous Author:Grant-Lee Phillips
“I had my guitar and some talent so that I could make friends with intelligent people and could talk my way out of difficult situations.” PeopleWayDifficultSituationTalentIntelligentGuitarMy WayDifficult Situations Author:Madeleine Peyroux
“Any way you slice it, increasing the minimum wage in Michigan... is likely to make it more difficult for the working poor to find jobs. ...those who most need the work will have a harder time finding it.” WayNeedsJobsDifficultPoorFindingsHarderMinimumMinimum WageMichiganLiving Wage Author:Paul Kersey
“There is wisdom in not letting anyone really know who you are or what you are like. If you define yourself, people hold you in their mind a certain way making it difficult to change.” PeopleIfsKnowsWayMindWisdomCertainDifficultBuddhismWho You AreDefine Yourself Author:Frederick Lenz
“For a culture that has such a problem with death, we seem to deal with it in a quite bizarre way. We see people shot, killed and blown up, and we find it funny and sexy and all those things. But, the reality of it is that every day people die, and people are really sad and they grieve and they go through a really difficult process with it.” PeopleWayProblemRealitySeemsDiesCultureProcessDifficultDealsShotsSexyGrievingBizarreReally Sad Author:Michael Sheen
“Pain is a difficult companion. There's no getting around that. But, if pain is to be a companion, searching and discovering your own best ways to travel with that pain will lead you to the joy that you long to have. They are your paths, your ways and while my experience and the experiences of others may inspire you, ultimately it will be the choices you discover and make for yourself that lead you to certain joy in the midst of your challenges.” IfsWayLoveMayLongPainJoyCertainChoicesDifficultChallengesLeadershipPathInspireBest WayMidstCompanionDiscovering Author:Mary Anne Radmacher
“Playing a robot is possibly the most difficult role you can have as an actor, because you have to take all your innate emotional responses and completely suppress them. Even the way you walk is affected.” WayActorsDifficultWalksRolesEmotionalResponseAffectedRobotsInnateEmotional Response Author:Kristanna Loken
“Each of my novels features a protagonist undertaking a difficult personal journey. On the way, each of these characters - mostly female - discovers something about herself and at the same time makes an impact on other people's lives.” PeopleWayCharacterDifficultNovelJourneyFemaleImpactFeaturesUndertakingsProtagonistsPersonal Journey Author:Juliet Marillier
“Yes, I have had difficult times on court and at certain tournaments but you need to forget about it and go forward because that's the way it works in our world.” WorldWayNeedsCertainSportsDifficultForgetCourtOur WorldDifficult TimesTournaments Author:Amelie Mauresmo
“The imaginative leap for me of writing for women is no more difficult than the one of writing for men. I've always wanted to have women well represented in the work that I've done because I've always been around them and around the way they look at the world.” MenWorldWayWritingWellsLooksDoneWantedDifficultLeapImaginative Author:Anthony Minghella
“Our hopes of avoiding the fate which threatens must...[be to make]adjustments that will be needed if we are to recover and surpass our former standards...and only if every one of us is ready to individually obey the necessities of readjustment shall we be able to get through a difficult period as free men who can choose their own way of life. Let a uniform minimum be secured to everybody by all means; but let us admit at the same time that with this assurance of a basic minimum all claims for a privileged security for particular classes must lapse.” IfsMenWayMeanAbleDifficultClassFateSecurityParticularReadyNeededPeriodsStandardsClaimsFormerUniformsMinimumPrivilegedAvoidingAssuranceAdjustmentFree ManSecuredLapses Author:Friedrich August von Hayek
“We're always attracted to characters who are people we could identify with and yet are put through incredibly tortured or difficult circumstances - the idea being that you don't really know who you are until you've been tested or suffered in some way.” PeopleKnowsWayIdeasCharacterDifficultCircumstancesWho You AreTestedDifficult Circumstances Author:Erich Hoeber
“I was lucky to grow up at a time when it was not difficult for the child of a tenant farmer to make his way to the state university.” WayChildrenStatesGrowsDifficultGrowing UpLuckyUniversityFarmersTenants Author:James Hansen
“The most important ways in which I think the Internet will affect the big issue is that it will make it more difficult for government to collect taxes.” ThinkingWayImportantBigsGovernmentDifficultIssuesInternetTaxesTaxationThink Big Author:Milton Friedman
“Your closest relationships are often the ones that have the most effect on you, but they are frequently the ones most difficult to change. These relationships are complex and have long histories. Lifetime habits of avoiding being really present with each other may exist in many of them. Family members, for instance, might want to support you, but will not necessarily know how to genuinely listen or be present with you in a way that is enlivening. . . . Even with the best intentions, it can be very difficult to get beyond the past and into the Now.” KnowsWayWantMayLongMightPastDifficultSupportKnow HowRelationshipEffectsHabitMembersIntentionLifetimeComplexesInstanceBeing RealClosestAvoidingFamily MembersSupport YouBest Intentions Author:Richard Moss
“If the Christ we follow sent out his disciples with no extra possessions (Luke 9:1-6 and 10:1-12) and warned would-be devotees that he had nowhere to lay his head (see Luke 9:57-62), then we must recognize that it is extremely difficult to live in a Christian way in a consumer culture.” IfsWayWould BeChristianCultureDifficultChristLaysPossessionConsumersExtrasConsumerismDiscipleLukeOverconsumptionDevoteeConsumer Culture Book:A Royal Waste of Time: The Splendor of Worshiping God and Being Church for the World Source: A Royal Waste of Time: The Splendor of Worshiping God and Being Church for the World
“England and all civilised nations stand in deadly peril of not having enough to eat. As mouths multiply, food resources dwindle. Land is a limited quantity, and the land that will grow wheat is absolutely dependent on difficult and capricious natural phenomena... I hope to point a way out of the colossal dilemma. It is the chemist who must come to the rescue of the threatened communities. It is through the laboratory that starvation may ultimately be turned into plenty... The fixation of atmospheric nitrogen is one of the great discoveries, awaiting the genius of chemists.” WayMayEnoughScienceNationsGrowsDifficultCommunityNaturalLandFoodGeniusMouthsDiscoveryResourcesEnglandPlentyDependentQuantityRescueThreatenedPerilLaboratoryDilemmaStarvationWheatChemistColossalCapriciousCivilisedFixationNatural PhenomenaNitrogen Author:William Crookes
“We don't know the end from the beginning the way that God does. So when a child dies, sure that is incredibly difficult, and when you are the parent, there is almost nothing anybody can say to you that makes any sense.” KnowsWayChildrenDoeEndsDiesParentDifficult Author:Benjamin Carson