Quotes About Struggle

I've been trying to get away from physical violence; it's too easy; it doesn't satisfy me artistically to work with it. Dramatic violence is much more interesting, but it's much more difficult.

So struggling for work here has been very good for me, but it's also been very hard to handle rejection.

I am just a man, not fit to do the work of God... or the Devil.

There are a lot of things going on with my life right now that don't just have to do with career. So I have a hard time making decisions about work. That's really a luxury problem.

he wanted to do, to be, to feel- and could not; he wanted sense, he wanted purpose- in Freud's words, 'Work and Love'.

It is hard work to be good when you are very little and very hungry, and have many sticks to beat you, and no mother's lips to kiss you.

As far as developing a career as an actress, I think it's a fine balance between trying to just work, and also be true to yourself.

Is it true, the world works hard and we play? Is that why we're hated so much?

Certainly dog driving is the most terrible work one has to face in this sort of business.

People here are funny. They work so hard at living, they forget how to live.

Im hoping that a lifetime of compromise and disappointment will read as extra depth and layers in my work.

We all have ambivalent feelings toward work ... We try to avoid it, and yet we seem to require it for our emotional well-being.

Work is good when people are responsible, and in low-budget movies a lot of the actors don't want to be there. They're there to build a resume.

At the age of nineteen and a half, I went to the Land of Israel to till its soil and live by the labour of my hands. As I did not find work, I sought my livelihood elsewhere.

I have seen great jazz musicians die obscure and drinking themselves to death and not really being able to get any work and working in small, funky jazz clubs.

But the life of freedom requires a beginning, and here a beginning is a resolution, and the resolution has its work and its pain-thus the beginning has its difficulty.

We exhaust ourselves more from the tension and the consequences of internal disharmony than from hard, unremitting work.

Resistance will tell you anything to keep you from doing your work.

No matter how great a writer, artist, or entrepreneur, he is a mortal, he is fallible. He is not proof against Resistance. He will drop the ball; he will crash. That's why they call it rewriting.

Its [Resistance] aim is to shove us away, distract us from doing our work.

All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.

Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.

I tried being a mechanic and I tried catering, but I realized I had even less aptitude for semi-skilled labour than for academic work.

Oh yeah, our first tour in Europe they wouldn't give me the time off from work.