Quotes About Struggle

It takes a long time to write a novel when you have to keep interrupting your work to earn money.

I can look at my early work and see what a pained struggle it was to draw what I was drawing. I was trying so hard to get this specific look that was in my head, and always falling short.

Many years ago, I really didn't know where the next work was coming from.

Early on, my emotional work had to do with feeling unheard and invisible.

I have an I.Q. of 100 plus a little bit. I have to work real hard to get things when I read.

It's rough to feel creatively satisfied, as an actor, for the most part, because you don't initiate your own work.

I think I'm scared a lot. I'm scared of almost everything. And I'm constantly trying to work my way through each obstacle, whether it's a present, past, or future relationship.

But I've got to think of myself as the luckiest guy. Robert Johnson only had one album's worth of work as his legacy. That's all that life allowed him.

For my father, being kind was natural... I have to really work at it. I love competing and winning, conquest - not words you usually associate with kindness.

Physical rehab is often very, very hard work.

I work a lot and I like to get out and work but the work I do to make the other work work I'm not very good at.

I went to art high school and thought I'd be a painter. Unfortunately I didn't finish high school, but that's always been part of my work.

I love all sides of the work but that doesn't mean it isn't hard.

Bobby [Fosse] was very difficult to work with, he wanted to be a big star at MGM, but it was the end of making musical movies at the time.

If you see me doing a new stand-up special, it probably means I've been out of work for a while.

I know writers for whom the act of writing is a necessary chore. They suffer to write great work. I am very lucky that for me writing is a delight.

Our country offers such great opportunities for us all. Unfortunately, too many hard-working citizens go day to day without enough food to eat.

For me, going away to work is the hardest part of my life and career.

They let you dream just to watch them shatter, you're just a step on the boss man's ladder.

Work my hands in the soil, what's the pay for all the toil? Dust for blood, dust for blood, dust for blood.

Writers, and particularly female writers, have to fight for the conditions they need to work.

I know people dont think I work.

The amount of work and the amount of both physical and emotional investment it takes to get to the top.

My beats are pretty s - - y, though. I don't know how they work.