Quotes About Struggle

Wrestling is tough, and it takes hard work - mentally and physically - to do what we do in that ring.

The album 'Physicist,' I erased all the work that I had done halfway through. I think that's probably why that contributed to that album being sort of sub-par for me, just because by the time I had to go back and do it, I was just over it.

Physics is becoming too difficult for the physicists.

Other than the laws of physics, rules have never really worked out for me.

When I was in college, I didn't like physics a lot, and I really wasn't very good at physics. And there were a lot of people around me who were really good at physics: I mean, scary good at physics. And they weren't much help to me, because I would say, 'How do you do this?' They'd say, 'Well, the answer's obvious.'

I was nearly as far behind in calculus as I was in physics. But I wasn't the only woman in the class, so I felt more comfortable asking questions.

Since childhood I've been very bad with formulas in math, physics.

I don't like my physique at all.

There's always blood on the carpet when I play Beethoven at the piano. I hate playing the piano! And it's so hard to fight for Beethoven's soul! But that's what I have to do!

It's true, most of my days are spent alone in a dark room! I don't really want anyone to see me trying and failing to nail the 40th take of a simple piano cue.

I guess, you know, if I didn't make it with the piano, I guess I would've been the biggest bum.

I hate playing the piano! And it's so hard to fight for Beethoven's soul! But that's what I have to do!

When I was very small, the electricity was turned off because we didn't pay the bill. I remember sitting by the oil lamp listening to my mother playing 'Careless Love' on the piano.

When I was a kid, my parents gave me piano lessons and guitar lessons for a while, but I was never very good at it. I have big, sort of awkward hands. It's hard to keep going when you don't get any better.

I started with the piano-accordion and rebelled against it, but I could not afford piano lessons.

I used to raise the devil when my father made me practice the flute and my mother made me take piano lessons.

I think I'm a very poor piano player.

Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.

It just doesn't go with my story to be a first round pick, because I had to grind my whole life.

People say, 'Well, why don't they get another job, why don't they pick themselves up by their bootstraps?' Well, the people that say that probably have the kind of jobs where they don't work that hard, so maybe they could have another job.

At one point, I didn't get out of bed for, I think, three months, and I went down to the bottom of the hill one day and I had to call somebody to get me to come back up - come pick me up because I couldn't physically walk up the hill.

I've been trying to pick up painting but it's hard.

Although, my experience when I've been depressed, not only am I too depressed to sit down and write a song, I'm too depressed to pick up my feet. So if you can at least write about it, you're halfway away from it.

I pick and choose my battles, but I overthink everything because I have to think about everything.