Quotes About Difficulty

High cognitive friction polarizes people into two groups. It either makes them feel frustrated and stupid for failing, or giddy with power at overcoming the extreme difficulty. These powerful emotions force people into being either an "apologist" or a "survivor." They either adopt cognitive friction as a lifestyle, or they go underground and accept it as a necessary evil. The polarization is growing acute.

When I'm performing, sometimes a lyric will touch on my personal life, and it can be difficult to sing. For instance, when I sing 'How I Love You,' I'll choke up.

One of the difficulties you run into is that acting and celebrity are so closely intertwined. People make careers out of being charismatic personalities. It's one of those things that people have come to expect from actors. Personalities that don't change from role to role. I don't want it that way.

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

As Stephen's fame began to take off in a big way, and because he was so immersed in physics, it was becoming more and more difficult to communicate with him.

We know we're up against the wall. We know how difficult a challenge it is, being in the minority.

Love is like a virus, easy to get infected and difficult to clean up

real difficulty comes when we are doing something that we don't want to be doing. For example, if we must work when we want to be home, or if we are staying home when it is driving us crazy, then our parenting will tend to be influenced by guilt, resentment, and a whole range of other negative emotions. We need to make our best choices at each moment. We can't always have what we feel would be ideal, but we can actively do the best with the options as we see them.

Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, she would never have been able to find these words.

To love is good, too: love being difficult. For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Do not assume that he who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, he would never have been able to find these words.

Und das Atmen fällt mir ach so schwer.

No matter how bad things are, you can always make things worse.

No matter how bad things are, you can always make them worse.

Shit-oh-dear. It was an expression used by his pal Tomlinson to denote any unexpected quandary that should be dealt with but was beyond control.

The situation demands effort but thwarts trying.

A big burger is kind of a pain in the butt.

Life ain't a piece of cake for me.

In practice, getting rid of crony capitalism is incredibly difficult.

We all have roadblocks; we all have challenges.

Comedy has always been more challenging for me than drama.

It is very difficult to work in another language, and it is also very challenging.

All away games in the Champions League are difficult.

It's not going to be easy to change things.