Top 1200 Difficult Choices Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life. This is not an easy struggle. Indeed, it may be the most difficult task in the world, for opening the door to your own life is, in the end, more difficult than opening the doors to the mysteries of the universe.

When people are described as difficult and have a reputation as difficult it's 99% of the time because they've been disappointed over and over again by people who don't really know what to do for them, and I know I'm going to make them happy and I can't wait to work with them.

If consumers make better choices, the marketplace will change.

Usually, the most difficult thing to do is photo-real stuff. Something that has to actually look like the real world, because it's just so difficult to do that. We're just so used to looking at the real world, our brains instantly see when something is not quite right.

Dear Procrastinator: Taking action in and of itself is not difficult, but is in fact satisfying and is usually followed by a sense of pride & accomplishment. However, it is THINKING about the action that you should be taking and NOT taking it that's difficult, as it leaves you feeling guilty and unsatisfied. THE SOLUTION: Stop thinking and take action NOW.

I know my choices will be creative so long as I follow my heart.

The first key to leadership was self-control, particularly the mastery of pride, which was something more difficult, he explained, to subdue than a wild lion and anger, which was more difficult to defeat than the greatest wrestler. He warned them that "if you can't swallow your pride, you can't lead.

The natural state of man is to want to be free. To have opportunities. To have choices.

It is the parents duty to intervene when they see wrong choices being made.

I was looking to play different characters, and films didn't offer many choices.

What happened?" Bailey asks. "That is somewhat difficult to explain," Tsukiko answers. "It is a long and complicated story." "And you're not going to tell me, are you?" She tilts her head a bit ... "No, I am not," she says. "Great," Bailey mutters under his breath... "The bonfire exploded? How?" "Remember when I said it was difficult to explain? That has not changed.

I make bad choices. I've got such dodgy tastes in men.

There are times we spent money when we shouldn't, the choices we make define the results we get

Choosing love or war: both are brave choices, in their own ways.

America is about choices, including those to live certain lifestyles.

Directing non-actors is difficult. Directing actors in a foreign language is even more difficult. Directing non-actors in a language that you yourself don't understand is the craziest thing you can possibly think of.

When I am older, I don't want to look at my films and not be happy about my choices.

I've had to make friends with an awful lot of bad fashion choices.

You have to make choices always. It's about the omission of something for the sake of another.

There's heart and soul in everyone, and we need to respect people's choices.

Our brothers and sisters in the trans community, they showed up to every one of our marriage marches when it wasn't necessarily what they needed. So we have to be there for them, use our lessons learned in the marriage fight - how to win when it's difficult, how to change minds that are difficult to change.

Many of our choices have led to the predicaments we are presently complaining about.

I don't think anybody should regret the choices they made in their twenties.

The future is always changing. If we had no choices, there'd be no point in living.

What Obamacare does is decreases choices and drives up cost.

An exceptional life isn't the result of lucky breaks but excellent choices.

We will come to understand the part a difficult circumstance has played in our lives. Hindsight makes so much clear. The broken marriage, the lost job, the loneliness have all contributed to who we are becoming. The joy of the wisdom we are acquiring is that hindsight comes more quickly. We can, on occasion, begin to accept a difficult situation's contribution to our wholeness while caught in the turmoil.

It was difficult in India to find an eight year old who could play a widow. The reason for that is that most of the children in India are really exposed to Bollywood. It's commercial Indian cinema which is really over the top. To find an actor, or even a non-actor, who felt natural was difficult.

I don't get to make many choices in my life as a single parent.

When a door closes you have two choices: give up, or keep going

There is nothing more difficult than tactical maneuvering. The difficult consists in turning the devious into the direct, and misfortune into gain. Thus, to take a long and circuitous route after enticing the enemy out of the way, and though starting after him to contrive to reach the goal before him, shows knowledge of the artifice of deviation.

It's always difficult when you want to do something really new, and you also want it to reach the masses, because the majority of people want to see what they've already seen before, or that they're already familiar with. To open the majority of peoples' minds to something new is difficult.

When you make something you are always offering some choices and denying others.

I have almost never written about my experience as a soldier on the battlefield, because I tried, and I found that it is beyond my capacity to describe the battlefield. The battlefield consists mostly of smells, and it is very difficult to describe smells in words - very difficult indeed.

There are times through the process that you just think, "Is this all worth it?" It's very, very difficult to get a movie made, and it's very difficult to get a movie made that turns out well, and that fans love, and that the marketing gets right.

I had to make some drastic choices to avoid losing myself.

I had great admiration for the election of President Obama. I believe that the U.S. at that moment showed tremendous capacity to show that it is a great nation, and it surprised the world. It may be very difficult to be able to elect a black president in the U.S. - as it was very difficult to elect a woman president in Brazil.

I've always dreamed of having an album. The problem is that it's just very difficult to make an album nowadays because through technology, music shifts so fast, especially electronic music. Once you make five songs, the first one you did is already old and you wished you would have put it out right away. So that's kind of the difficult part.

I would not like to be in President Obama's position in making choices on Afghanistan.

I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more difficult is to identify with someone you don't see, who's very far away, who's a different color, who eats a different kind of food. When you begin to do that then literature is really performing its wonders.

What I went through in personal life had a big impression on my professional choices.

No one is anything but a shade of grey. It's good people making bad choices.

What I do . . . the path I tread . . . it brings some choices that test me hard.

I guess we all make choices as to how we want to live, right?

For each of us destiny is a blend of potential, circumstances, and choices.

When you abandon making choices, you enter the vast world of excuses.

When you want to share something with another person more than anything, it is one of the most difficult things to realize that you can never have it. Accepting this realization is even more difficult. Loving someone does mean saying goodbye to them in some cases, though we will fight that until the oftentimes bitter end before doing the right thing.

I thought, I need to be more cautious about my choices - it reflects on who I am.

I have multipersonality disorder - in a very good way, of course - when it comes to my fashion choices.

I think people are into me because of my music choices and my musicality.

The grateful heart is not developed in a single moment; it is the result of a thousand choices.

Putin has made life difficult for a lot of Russia's richest men; they don't like the sanctions; they don't like the war with the West. Many of them have houses and families and businesses in the West, and so I can see them being unhappy. But at the moment, the political system is so constructed that it would be very difficult for them to leave. That's not saying it couldn't change.

It's very, very, very, very difficult, you know any parent with children with any kind of special needs is very difficult.

I have a really, really difficult time with dramaturgy sometimes in America, because I write about other cultures. I write about a culture that is very difficult, it is very foreign to a North American. A lot of people don't know about what's happening.

I'm living life as best I can - but I'm not exempt from failure and making bad choices.

I already know what it's like to make life choices that are not the same as the majority.

Making peace with one's choices is always a tricky feat to achieve.

OPTION PARALYSIS: The tendency, when given unlimited choices, to make none.

The easiest thing I do is assignment songs. They tell me what they need me to write. I can do that fairly quickly. Writing for an orchestra is difficult. Writing songs [on your own] is most difficult of all. Though [writing for] the orchestra is close.

Life is choices, and they are relentless. No sooner have you made one choice than another is upon you.