Quotes About Challenges

Obviously, it has taken time to work with the players around me and with so many new faces coming in the summer, in a way it's been more difficult.

Software work is the most complex that humanity has ever undertaken.

There's big studio films I didn't want to do. I didn't want to go through the hoops and ladders. I wouldn't have been able to work with the directors I've worked with if I did those studio films.

People who build family businesses are not classically trained. They have to deal with an enormous amount of politics. You think corporate politics are tough? Go work for your dad or your mom.

Most of the films I've done haven't done particularly well. I'm surprised I'm continuing to work.

By the end of the 50s, everything began to collapse and, little by little, I lost all of my work. I lost Rex, the Wonder Dog and all the westerns.

Missionary work has never been easy, and yet the joyful rewards cannot be equaled by any other experience.

Wage work is disappearing. I didn't make the jobs disappear, but they have disappeared. And people are forced to be looking for other alternatives.

I just try to work with what I'm given and make it the best I can.

Working on a studio picture, I can't help but be aware of all the political stuff that's going on. I have to work to be able to survive, in a sense.

The work gets more difficult as you get older. You learn more and you gather more experiences, there is deeper pain and higher highs.

Early in my career, my 3-, 5- and 9-irons performed differently than my other irons. But I adapted and made them work.

My sons are precious to me and I have tried incredibly hard to strike the right balance between work and home life while being acutely aware that I haven't always got it right.

So yes, European decision making is not pretty. But it does work.

There are areas I have to work on. I had some questions and some struggles, but it was an enormously important time for me.

The last couple relationships I had were long distance. It's not like I can make much of an effort to travel and see anybody. The guy had to do all the work, unfortunately.

You can't be an entrepreneur and work in a public company anymore.

Raising a daughter is hard work. There's no other way to describe it for me.

Especially being a woman of color, sometimes it's hard for to put our foot down. You work with a lot of men, and they'll be like, "She has Joyner the best reputation".

It's really important to me to keep growing as a writer, to look for new challenges and be harshly critical of my own work in order to learn and tell better stories.

One of my personality defects, perhaps, is that I'm rather ADD, and I work on a bunch of things at once.

I'd like to work more, but I don't just want to do kind of generic characters. I want to do interesting characters, and I'd like to be cast against type.

Divorce is brutal and horrible and... you have to actively work to get your life back on track.

It's been hard in entertainment as a 45-year-old woman to find jobs. They get fewer and far between if you're older, unless you're one of the few lucky ones who work constantly, like Meryl Streep.