Top 1200 Difficult Experiences Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

Success is a very difficult thing. It's much more difficult than one might think.

I find writing really difficult - definitely the most difficult of all the things I do.

What I strive to do is make my characters seem like real people so that the reader experiences them as people - that's something I've been working on all of my life. I couldn't have written this novel at twenty or thirty, for technical reasons - I didn't have the technique then - but above all because I didn't have the life experiences I have now at sixty-seven.

When there is a difficult moment, you need to stay strong because it's difficult when you don't play.

Of course I'd like to get beyond the concrete. But it's really difficult. Very difficult.

We can tell people abstract rules of thumb which we have derived from prior experiences, but it is very difficult for other people to learn from these. We have difficulty remembering such abstractions, but we can more easily remember a good story. Stories give life to past experience. Stories make the events in memory memorable to others and to ourselves. This is one of the reasons why people like to tell stories.

There is a silver lining to every cloud and there's some awesome songs that have come from some really like bad experiences, but they're great experiences 'cause then I've got some good songs so it's all good for me.

It is the diversity of views that stems from different experiences and different backgrounds that lead to healthy decision-making and not the unified experiences and unified views.

Opportunities are a tricky crop, with tiny flowers that are difficult to see and even more difficult to harvest.

As the possessor of complete knowledge, God is not mistaken about people's experiences as people are mistaken about each others' experiences.

Cellulose has physical and chemical properties that make it difficult to access and difficult to break down.

We don’t choose between experiences, we choose between memories of experiences. Even when we think about the future, we don’t think of our future normally as experiences. We think of our future as anticipated memories.

It's difficult to bowl a good ball but to take a wicket off it, that's even more difficult.

It is difficult to live among people because silence is so difficult.

I think Russia is a difficult country, and it's very difficult for people to adapt here, especially if they don't speak the language well.

The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.

It is difficult to discuss... history.. it is more difficult to talk about today.. simple things…

Good times are a reminder and a reward for dealing with the difficult and challenging times we all go through. The trick is to celebrate the good times in advance of the difficult times. Always remember, good times await you after the difficult times pass.

The whole notion of pain, and how every individual experiences pain, is up for debate. We don't know how another person experiences pain - physical pain or psychic pain. Some of these clinics where assisted suicide or euthanasia is practiced, they call it 'weariness of life.'

I describe the variety of different kinds of experiences I had, from seeing into the future to being inside the body of a bird and feeling the bird consciousness, to being in a plane of existence with beings that do not exist on this planet at all. And I described my experiences to shamans who started to laugh, saying, "Oh, we know those guys."

It's very difficult to follow our dreams, but it's even more difficult to forget them.

Being negative only makes a difficult journey more difficult. You may be given a cactus, but you don't have to sit on it.

I am who I am: I have my life experiences and my professional experiences.

Experience is stronger than belief. Once we have experiences our mind begins to open. This works better than me forcing my own experience or knowledge onto anyone. Show them how to have their own experiences.

I would have young dancers come to me and ask me questions and want to know what my experiences were like: 'What's it like being a black dancer?' So I just felt like it was necessary for me to share my experiences with them.

Truly, learning appears to be a reverse geometric progression with experiences at one hour, one day, one month or one year dramatically more influential and formative than later experiences. As has often been quoted, 85% of brain development takes place by age 3, and yet we spend only 4% of our educational dollars by that point.

I liked film-making, but the most difficult thing was the editing. I found it tormentingly difficult.

Winning the UCL is really difficult. Only one team can win it, so it's very difficult.

If you don't know where you come from, it's difficult to determine where you are.- It's even more difficult to plan where you are going.

Out of the multitude of our sense experiences we take, mentally and arbitrarily, certain repeatedly occurring complexes of sense impression (partly in conjunction with sense impressions which are interpreted as signs for sense experiences of others), and we attribute to them a meaning the meaning of the bodily object.

It's difficult to be a mother and maintain a career as a performer - but then it's difficult in any industry.

Focusing on the negative only makes a difficult journey more difficult

People say that practicing Zen is difficult, but there is a misunderstanding as to why. It is not difficult because it is hard to sit in the cross- legged position, or to attain enlightenment. It is difficult because it is hard to keep our mind pure and our practice pure in its fundamental sense.

Try to be transparent, clear and truthful. Even when it is difficult, and above all when it is difficult.

We knew it was going to be difficult to get to the moon. We didn't know how difficult.

Most people who have grown up introverted in this very extroverted culture of ours have had painful experiences of feeling like they are out of step with what's expected of them. Parenting can pose unique challenges for introverted parents, who fear that their own painful experiences will be repeated in their children's lives.

It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.

Every adaptation requires that the screenwriter make difficult choices - and in particular, difficult cuts.

I never give in to the temptation to be difficult just for the sake of being difficult. That would be too ridiculous.

The school of life offers some difficult courses, but it is in the difficult class that one learns the most.

Pregnancy is difficult for women but it is even more difficult for men.

Love cannot be seeded into someone. It is a fire that is difficult to kindle but once it takes on, it is equally difficult to extinguish.

We accept that sometimes in difficult circumstances, difficult things happen.

But I don't feel that as a politician I'm hugely different. Obviously I have a different set of experiences that chime with experiences that many of my constituents have. I think I essentially still have the same set of values and the issues that are important to me don't seem to have changed hugely.

I've had four near-death experiences - very, very near death experiences, and a few of them I've never spoken about publicly.

Too many poets write poems which are only difficult on the surface, difficult because the dramatic situation is easily misunderstood. It's not difficult to write poems that are misunderstood. A drunk, a three-year-old-they are easily misunderstood. What is difficult is being clear and mysterious at the same time. The dramatic situation needs to be as clear in a poem as it is in a piece of good journalism. The why is part of the mystery, but the who, what, where, and when should all be understood.

Sometimes it's difficult to win even if you are the best team. If you're not, it's more difficult.

One of the things that we're trying to do with Creative Labs and all our experiences is explore things that aren't all tied to Facebook identity. Some things will be, but not everything will have to be, because there are some sets of experiences that are just better with other identities.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Sometimes somebody has an amazing house party and you meet great people and you dance - I've had incredible experiences. But they have been so much fewer than the awful experiences where you're just standing around like, "Why did I come here? We're all just putting on a show for each other and I might as well be in a museum."

Every worthy act is difficult. Ascent is always difficult. Descent is easy and often slippery.

It is difficult to accept failure when you are a student. It is also difficult to succeed because everyone is so competitive!

The thing that I really like is psychology. I love the human mind. I love the choices you make based on your experiences and instincts and your development based on such experiences and so I guess that's why I love acting so much.

It is so difficult - at least, I find it difficult - to understand people who speak the truth.

Any time you tell the president of the United States you're not there, is it difficult? I would say extremely difficult.

Difficult times are the greatest opportunities in disguise. When we face difficult times we have to put in determined work to get ourselves into joy. Difficult times are your greatest opportunity to practice yourself into joy!

I don't stand by the understanding of that statement that I will ignore other facts or other experiences because I haven't had them. I do believe that life experiences are important to the process of judging - They help you to understand and listen - but that the law requires a result. And it would command you to the facts that are relevant to the disposition of the case.

As far as the NFL experience, it's difficult. It's a ton of fun, but it's difficult.

Mum built a life for me in a difficult place at a difficult time.

[Stéphane Mallarmé] theory of the hermetic is a mistake, but he can be only difficult to read when he has difficult things to say.