Quotes About Struggle

Broadway is so defeating for the most part that it doesn't encourage people to be as tenacious as they should be.

Whatever ambivalence I felt about my own career, Frankie more than made up for it with his ambition and tenacity.

The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide.

Growing up during the Depression, I worked for the Forest Service and CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps). I tend to work very, very hard. I wouldn't change that for anything.

Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure.

What people tend to forget is the journey that I had getting to Formula One. There were plenty of years where I had to learn about losing and having bad races.

People who have picture-perfect upbringings and lives tend not to be funny. I don't think they write from a position of pain.

I'm not trying to steal the show. I tend to shy away from - I don't want to say the spotlight - how about responsibility? It's just very daunting. These movies are very intimidating. 'Captain America.' This is the stuff I struggle with.

I have so much music inside me I'm just trying to stay afloat. I don't tend to write for a particular band - you have to just write the songs and then let God into the room and let the music tell you what to do.

Children who open their lunchboxes and find mothers' handwritten notes telling them how amazingly bright they are tend to falter when they encounter academic difficulties.

Writing is a hard gig, and it's hard to convey a lot. That's why scripts tend to be a little bit overwritten.

I don't have anything to hide but what happens is the media tend to beat up what I say.

In this kind of situation, we tend to cling to his convictions, we believe that, by magic, we are going to recover. Then we agree to drive less good cars and we are fatally more exposed. It is what finally happened to me with Ensign.

There's a tendency in this Hollywood machinery to take on too much. You end up not being able to give everything you want.

Black women have never embraced feminism. They didn't embrace it in the '50s and '60s; they're not embracing it now. That's not new. I think it's a tendency among women in general not to be supportive of each other.

I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material, so rewriting is hard for me. I mean, I already know the story and would rather read something new.

Things have a tendency in the film business to fall apart more often than they come together.

And when I get bored, it's like the worst parts of me come out. I really veer to self-destructive tendencies quickly.

When I started giving talks about women's history, one of the things that bothered me was the tendency to say, 'Well, everybody was totally oppressed and suddenly in 1964 we rose up, got our freedom, and here we are.' It dismisses the women who fought for rights for several hundred years of our history up to that point.

We have a tendency to sugar coat the Civil Rights movement by showing arm in arm and everyone singing 'Kumbaya'. We don't really always show the resistance from the government, the resistance from the status quo, from the majority to silence the movement.

I think there's a danger, for me at least, in retreating and going inward and depression. I have to stay diligent against that tendency.

Earlier in my life, I had a tendency toward depression.

I don't know why, but it seems to be a common story for actors and comedians to have a tendency to be bad students and have difficulty focusing on things.

I have a tendency to dip my foot in self-destructive behavior.