Best 1372 quotes in «difficult quotes» category

In the war, you lose areas, but you recapture another area. So, it is difficult to tell whether you are losing or gaining or it was a standstill. No-one has this answer.

Intimacy is a difficult art.

I often think it can often be very difficult for comedians to revisit the same gag. I think Russell's a bit more than a comedian.

I often think that presentations are more difficult than the work itself.

I play piano, so when I'm learning a new or difficult piece, at some point I have to enjoy the music of the piece itself, and have confidence that my fingers know where to go. It's the same with acting, there is a point where I have to enjoy the play.

I realized, the older I get, the more difficult life becomes. It's not easier, it's more difficult.

I really like New York a lot, but I like it more as a place to visit. It was really difficult for me to live there. As a person from California, I'm still very neurotic and anxious, but in a more laid-back way.

I recognize that virtually every company that comes in here has a perspective. It's often not difficult to understand why they have the perspective that they have.

I remember Glenn Miller coming to me once, before he had his own band, saying, How do you do it? How do you get started? It's so difficult. I told him, I don't know but whatever you do don't stop. Just keep on going.

I see parallels between Karachi and the cities that I was familiar with: a very different place, but in terms of its human stories not really very different at all. That was what excited me about the place - that it was so complex, as difficult to me as an outsider and yet so human in a way that was ultimately very familiar.

I still do find it very difficult in the West to connect to this politeness of smiling, not saying how you're thinking or not saying how you really feel.

It all started when I got injured early in my second season. This turned out to be as difficult emotionally as physically.

I stopped doing comics because I found the pressure really high to nail it every time. It's really difficult to be creative all the time.

I suspect that even though the various questions are difficult and many, they are not as difficult and many as those we faced when we started the Apollo [space program] in 1961.

I talk about it a lot to my students. Musicality never came up in any of own writing education, and I can see why - we don't have the vocabulary for it. Phrasing is intuitive, and its difficult to articulate when it's on and when it's not.

It can be difficult to run your own firm, but the trade off is fewer conflicts and more control.

It can be a little difficult to command attention when surrounded by lunatics.

It can be very difficult to trace your birth parents.

It becomes still more difficult to find
Words at once true and kind,
Or not untrue and not unkind.

It can be difficult to present mental illness in film without resorting to devices that, if not handled well, can seem heavy-handed or cliché.

It certainly was difficult to sell NAFTA because it's always difficult to sell open markets.

It gradually dawned upon me that there was no one more difficult to please than my mother.

It has been difficult to hold onto many paintings but I have retained a few.

It has always been difficult for historians to fully grasp the intelligence of painters.

I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.

I think I could have been quite difficult to fathom as a youngster, this kid who didn't talk about himself very much.

I think Iran is the kind of place where it's difficult to predict what's going to trigger structural change. It's hard to also predict the role that civil disobedience or mass protests could play.

I think it's my nature to engage in things that are more difficult.

I think it's terribly difficult to take sex seriously if you've got a sense of humor.

I think it's part of Vladimir Putin's nature to define Russian success in foreign policy as thwarting the United States. That's in his nature. And that is very difficult to align with strategically.

I think making an album is a difficult thing.

I think singing is one of the most natural things that human beings do, but it's difficult.

I think that being thrown into instant fame must be, at times, difficult.

I think that's easier to read. Pardon me. Less difficult to read.

I think the most romantic thing you can do is just turn up. Turn up when it's difficult for you. Travel halfway around the world or just up the road. Whatever it is, just be there.

I think that the melodic piece of the puzzle in music is the most esoteric and difficult to quantify.

I think the biggest misconception about experimental film in general is that it is always difficult and inaccessible.

I think the moments that are difficult for anybody are when you see what your life could be, if only you had the courage to take the steps needed.

I think ultimately one would say that the most difficult part of the Perfume: The Story Of A Murderer is the balancing of the main character. To get him being so ambivalent in his whole conception.

I thought a vegan diet would be too difficult, being on the road so much, but it's been far easier than I thought.

I think when your parents are as rebellious as mine were, it's difficult to top them. So what's the point?

It is a difficult thing to like anybody else's ideas of being funny.

It is a commonplace that Racine is untranslatable. This is not because his verse is difficult, but because it is not.

It is always more difficult to fight one's own failings than the power of an adversary.

It is almost as difficult to make a man unlearn his errors as his knowledge.

It is always difficult for a woman to be grateful for a form of chivalry that seems to be based on the premise that she is a moron.

It is almost always wrong that the time isn't ripe to decide something. That is always said of difficult problems.

It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.

it is always difficult to impress the ignorant.

It is difficult to press forward if we do not know how to obey.