Quotes About Challenges

And Everything Matters The tasks that have been entrusted to us are often difficult. Almost everything that matters is difficult, and everything matters. Worpswede, July 16, 1903 Letters to a Young Poet

The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply won't be got rid of.

She was fifty, a difficult age for letting go, still young enough to have ambitions and desires but with fewer opportunities of satisfying either.

I know who I am until somebody questions it, and then I have to start all over again. It's exhausting.

You'd better have a firm foundation when you go out into the world. There's no telling what you'll run into.

When Clinton took office, members of that community still faced a host of legal and cultural barriers. Sodomy laws banned same-sex acts, even in the privacy of one's bedroom, in more than half of the country's states plus the nation's capital.

Maybe the truth is, there's a little bit of loser in all of us. Being happy isn't having everything in your life be perfect. Maybe it's about stringing together all the little things.

Wesley didn't really like people who made demands on him,' Janey said. 'It was always the other way around. And depressed people can be very demanding.

Having a child who is struggling doesn't make you a bad parent, just as being a child who is struggling doesn't make your child a bad kid.

There is a huge crisis of employment in America, in the Western world in general.

I never dreamed I would do Westerns.

Samurai films, like westerns, need not be familiar genre stories. They can expand to contain stories of ethical challenges and human tragedy.

You don't get to make Westerns every day.

Years ago, when I was writing westerns, other writers who were friends of mine wanted me to collaborate with them. And it just didn't work.

Westminster is no joke. I took some tough classes there. It prepared me for a tough career.

Who is affected more when it's cold? Poor people. Who is affected more when it's hot? Poor people. Who is affected more when it's wet? Poor people. Who is most affected when the economy is bad? Poor people. Poor people are the most fragile.

Nah, I'm not a prima donna, but I just don't like being cold and wet.

There's big granite walls up toward the Argentine border, but the weather's serious, and a lot of the rock is mossy and wet.

I love being an American, and it's a beautiful country, but we are a bunch of whack jobs. We have got so much to learn.

Putting Zodiacs in front of whaling vessels doesn't do it anymore. Done that, been there, seen that.

You know it's very difficult to be an actor, and to have people depending on you to say the right line, at the right time, and to not be able to hear your cues! I can't tell you how many times I would've had to have said What? if I didn't have my hearing aids. So my hearing aids are a life saver, and they allow me to practice my craft.

Couples in their 30s are having trouble having kids. And you just kind of extrapolate that and say, 'What if it happened to everybody? What kind of society would it be like if all of a sudden we knew that this was the end of the line - we couldn't have kids?'

Being a popular director or actor's son can be frightening in this industry. What if you are not able to make it?

I thought, 'Let's make it a check list. What if I got my education even though I lost my mother, even though my dad is in a shelter?' and looking at these things as hurdles to go over. I could inspire myself.