Quotes About Struggle

It took me years of attempts and failed drafts before I finally wrote the elegies I needed to write.

I had expected that at some point during the first draft a light would go on, and I would understand, finally, how to write a book. This never happened. The process was akin to blindly walking in the dark, feeling my way only by touch, and only recognising dead ends when I smacked into them.

Getting to two finals is difficult in the same season.

During finals week, I don't get a lot of sleep, and I tell myself, 'I can't do this anymore.'

When you get into the Finals, I don't think anybody is completely healthy.

It was really tough back then in Croatia to watch the NBA games because we were not that powerful of a country. They didn't even show the games on TV. So we were always trying to find someway to watch the games, especially the Finals.

It's been well chronicled that I've had a lot of losses in finals.

I was 21 when I made the the finals of Cincinnati and finished 20 in the world, and thought it was going to come pretty easy.

All finals are tough.

My adversary is the world of finance.

I worked on 'Boone' for five years. I tried to find money for it. I couldn't. I ended up selling my house to finance it personally.

I ended up moving to Dubai and going into finance after college because of family pressure. I was trying to love it, but I just didn't.

I'm very bad when it comes to finances.

My father and mother do not know literacy. I cannot go to school due to financial difficulties. I started to working at a butcher as an apprentice when I was 14.

I always wanted to make 'Freedom,' but I had to drop the idea due to financial crisis.

When I first came to Seoul to start model work, I felt bad asking for financial support from my parents, so I lived in the sauna for about six months.

I had no financial support from my parents, but, I suppose, I did have moral support - although they really didn't know what was going on.

I know there are going to be big challenges financially, but I'm excited artistically. I think that if the experience is better artistically, then we have more hope in the future.

My whole career this is the biggest failure financially, but at the same time, it's one of my favorite things I've ever done.

Wrestling, for me, was always something I wanted to do, and it, working in IT, was just a way to get financially looked after; I went and wrestled on the side because you don't make any money when you're starting off, and you don't have any name value.

Financially speaking, I haven't ended my career in the best shape, and there are debts, as well as what is to come by way of a divorce settlement to Mandy.

If I'm only fighting once or twice a year, that's just not going to be enough to make a dent in the sport or enough financially for me to get myself to where I want to be and position myself.

When you're both actors, it is feast or famine financially and emotionally in your marriage.

Even the biggest stars have to struggle to get the success they want to achieve. But, for me, being financially strong was the most important thing.