Quotes About Struggle

As a tennis player, normally you lose almost every week.

These close losses, when they stack up, two, three, four, five in a row, they change the tenor of a season.

The middle class is teetering on the brink of collapse just as surely as AIG was in the fall of 2009 - only this time, it's not just one giant insurance company (and its banking counterparties) facing disaster, it's tens of millions of hardworking Americans who played by the rules.

If human rights are an attribute of being human, then we must consider the fact that tens of millions of displaced people around the world have been rendered less than human.

Some days, you will sit down, and you write tens of thousands of words. Others, you have to force yourself to write a single sentence.

I find it hard to be joyful on screen because I'm so tense.

I'm a very anxious, nervy kind of loser in many ways, and I get very stressed and a little tense.

Good stories are driven by conflict, tension, and high stakes.

Tension is the cornerstone of any good story.

For the Arabs in Israel there is always a tension between nationality and identity.

This tension between ambition and parenthood, that's not a reckoning that many men face. There are plenty of men who say, 'Oh, I need to be there for my kids, and I can't do x or y professionally,' but for the most part, that's a struggle that belongs to women in society.

When time, money, and results are on the line, it's easy for tension to build.

Pessimism and optimism are slammed up against each other in my records, the tension between them is where it's all at, it's what lights the fire.

If the main character's not in jeopardy - physical, psychological, emotional, whatever - then you don't have any tension, and you don't have a story.

There's a lot of tension in London, but then you realize it's always been there, in its history, and that the best thing about London, that there's always been this tension.

My mother was a single working mother; she started having children very young. There was a tension inside her about who she wanted to be and what she wanted to do and how she couldn't achieve the things she wanted to.

Well, certainly I don't think that there are very many good writers who don't live without a sense of tension. If they haven't got one immediately available to them, then they usually manage to manufacture it in their private lives.

My childhood was marked by a tension between privilege on the one hand and emotional dysfunction on the other.

It's a fine line between commenting on social events and exploiting them in a commercial endeavor. This is the tension with which the fashion industry struggles - unfairly.

I feel like for me to write songs that I would be interested in as a listener, there has to be tension, and there has to be some kind of push and pull between reality and the potential of disaster.

At the heart of every great movie is conflict. It's the same with a meeting. There should be conflict and tension.

The tension between the Capulets and the Montagues is like a gang rivalry, and that has everything to do with Compton.

There's always been in my life that tension between living and writing. For me, because I'm so physically exuberant, it was extra hard to sit still at the desk and put in the hours that you need to put in to write.

I am miserable when everything is in order and quiet. Seriously, it's hard for me when I can go home quietly, go to sleep, and get up in the morning without fear and tension.