Quotes About Struggle

This fight isn't about boxing, it's something deeper than that.

An artist's early work is inevitably made up of a mixture of tendencies and interests, some of which are compatible and some of which are in conflict

I didn't only have a perceptual problem, I was also so nervous and so upset. The process just didn't work. I lost enthusiasm for school and I flunked second grade. The teachers said I was lazy.

There is a point when tears don't work to wash things away anymore. Grabbing for breath has now broken my fingers.

In 1976 I wrote a lot about women trying to claim the right to work.

I'm desperate to work again. I've often had those periods, but two years was the longest.

It's all just venom to the soul and symptomatic of a larger issue: the idea of the shortcut. The result without the fight. The fight is the thing. The work.

I know very well what it is to be out of work and to be cheated by employers and I know what it is to be an employer.

I was more ashamed that I couldn't work the washing machine than the fact that I was taking drugs.

The main motive for nonattachment is a desire to escape from the pain of living, and above all from love, which, sexual or non-sexual, is hard work.

The centre of his world was the south where he was born in slavery some 79 years ago and where he did his work as a creative scientist.

The Misfits pretty much funds the Misfits. It used to cost me money to be in the band. I think we got paid the last gig we ever did. After that, we had to work to support our families.

The creation of a work of art, like an act of love, is our one small 'yes' at the center of a vast 'no.'

The hardest work most of us do is maintaining the appearance of normality.

We work in the dark -- we do what we can -- we give what we have.

I studied chemical engineering. I was a good student, but these were the hard times of the depression, my scholarship came to an end, and it was necessary to work to supplement the family income.

I have always been haunted by the feeling that the painter has much to gain from making use of the forces that tend to work against his action.

When you live under the power of terror and segregation, you can't ever start a work of art.

I have never been able to carry out any work coolly. On the contrary it is done, so to speak, with my own blood.

Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.

I work as my father drank.

I don't think I'm going to do any good work this morning.

We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.

America has not always been kind to its artists and scholars. Somehow the scientists always seem to get the penthouse while the arts and humanities get the basement.