Top 1200 Difficult Work Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Rebekah Mercer just wanted stuff to happen. She is a difficult and demanding woman to work for.

Some people have a terrible stretch between family and work. It is a difficult thing to achieve.

I know from personal experience that it is extremely difficult to read while you work out, especially on a Stairmaster.

Anyone who reads my work will see that there are often difficult relationships between fathers and sons.

A busy schedule can be difficult, but I have the best husband on the planet. He supports my endeavors, and we work as a team.

The truth is, the game industry is a really incredibly difficult place for women to work.

Don't engage with people who are bullying. And as difficult as it might seem, it's not personal, it has to do more with them. But it's something THEY have to work on.

It is clear that we must trust what is difficult; everything alive trusts in it, everything in Nature grows and defends itself any way it can and is spontaneously itself, tries to be itself at all costs and against all opposition. We know little, but that we must trust in what is difficult is a certainty that will never abandon us; it is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be one more reason for us to do it.

I think Wonder Woman is a very difficult character to crack. More difficult than Superman, who is also more difficult than Batman. Also, a lot of people in Hollywood believe that it's hard to do a big action movie with a female lead. I happen to disagree with that.

It's difficult to feel as though you are truly being effective at work. Many of us feel trapped in endless meetings, with barely any time to grab lunch, let alone do any work. Overarching strategies and key priorities seem completely divorced from the day-to-day tactics.

Evil has always been here since the world began. Good is what is difficult. It is a work of every day.

Happiness is a social creature. If you try to pursue it in a vacuum, it's very difficult to sustain it. But as soon as you get people focused on creating meaningful connections in the midst of their work, or increasing the meaning and depth of their relationships outside of work, we find happiness rising in step with that social connection.

If there's comfort factor, all the other differences can be bridged! But, it's difficult to work with those whom you can't stand personally!

When you don't come from a film background, getting the right debut is important and difficult, as you don't have the sensibility to know what will work and what won't.

Every morning I offer my body, my mind and any ability that I posses, to be used by Thee, O infinite creator, in whatever way Thou dost choose to express Thyself through me. I know that all work is Thy work, and that no task is too difficult or too menial when offered to Thee in loving service.

I think storytelling is a thing of beauty, and also very difficult. It's a craft you have to continue to work at.

It's incredible how London-centric the theatre world is. Certain actors won't travel away from London anymore for work; practitioners often aren't taken seriously enough unless their work is seen in London; and it's sometimes very difficult to get national critics to review shows - especially if there's a clash with a London press night.

I'm very much in work mode, and that can be very difficult for someone to deal with. I dedicate so much of myself to my work that I even take a back seat to that sometimes. My mother says that Tremaine takes a back seat to Trey Songz.

You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'

I always find it particularly difficult to work in New York because there are so many things to do.

It's very difficult to ignore humanitarian disasters. The royalties from my albums continue to support my charity work.

Just trying to get a film made which is always difficult no matter what kind of a budget you have. Not having a budget makes it even more difficult. Having nineteen days and no budget makes it extremely difficult.

Habitat gives us an opportunity which is very difficult to find: to reach out and work side by side with those who never have had a decent home-but work with them on a completely equal basis. It's not a big-shot, little-shot relationship. It's a sense of equality.

It's been difficult for me to get my head around Diana's death or talk about it. After she died, things were difficult, very difficult. We all have our own traumas and get on with it. But when it's there in your face year in, year out, it's hard.

There's an old adage of, 'This is what I do, it's not who I am.' There is a line that gets blurry at times because you sometimes become your work, or you sometimes put so much into your work that you can't separate from it. It swallows you up. It really happens during the season and it's a difficult line to manage.

I'm so critical of my own work that it's difficult for me to disassociate myself and watch it as an audience.

Writing is hard work. Generating stories that catch people's attention and holding it are very difficult.

It's very difficult to put in the work unless you believe that what you're doing is significant in some way.

I like to take up difficult challenges and work hard towards achieving my goals.

It is very difficult for a writer of my generation, if he is honest, to pretend indifference to the work of Somerset Maugham. He was always so entirely there.

I enjoy the work; I just don't like the glamour side of it. I find that very difficult to handle.

Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.

I believe that a work of art, like metaphors in language, can ask the most serious, difficult questions in a way which really makes the readers answer for themselves; that the work of art far more than an essay or a tract involves the reader, challenges him directly and brings him into the argument.

When I was younger, I was like, 'I'm working now, and you go work.' That was all I knew, because I was trying to keep my head above water. Now I'm more willing to say, 'Let's do our work side by side and cooperate.' That's really difficult to do in this sport sometimes because it can be so individualized.

If you go to a second-rate place, and you are first-rate, it is very difficult to do first-rate work because you do not get that critical feedback you need for first-rate work on a daily basis.

Persistence and resilience only come from having been given the chance to work though difficult problems.

I'm a very shy person and find it difficult to ask for work even if I know somebody for ages.

I know how difficult it is for actors to get work, because I did casting for all those years.

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I know how difficult it is to be an actor and work and then have to look after your personal life.

Marriage is like a row boat: it fits two, it doesn't work on auto-pilot and it's very difficult to have sex in.

When you are in the biggest clubs, and you are fighting for the best players with a lot of money, maybe the work of a sporting director is not so difficult.

One could work on a lot of albums such as 'Thiruvasagam in Symphony,' but with issues such as illegal downloading from the Internet and piracy, it is difficult.

Life is difficult no matter what, but hard work and perseverance make it a lot easier.

I've been very fortunate, because sometimes it's difficult to work with your spouse. But in our case, it's a great working relationship, and we have complementary skills which makes it easy to work together. So I've been very fortunate in that regard.

I understand how difficult it can be for an African-American in today’s society. In fact, I can relate to black people very well indeed. My ancestors once owned slaves, and it is in my lineage to work closely with the black community. However, just because they were freed over a century ago doesn’t mean they can now be freeloaders. They need to be told to work hard, and the incentives just aren’t there for them anymore. When I’m president I plan to work closely with the black community to bring a sense of pride and work ethic back into view for them.

It is difficult to feel sympathy for these people. It is difficult to regard some bawdy drunk and see them as sick and powerless. It is difficult to suffer the selfishness of a drug addict who will lie to you and steal from you and forgive them and offer them help. Can there be any other disease that renders its victims so unappealing?

It is a law of nature that you must do difficult things to gain strength and power. As with working out, after a while you make the connection between doing difficult things and the benefits you get from doing them, and you come to look forward to doing these difficult things.

It's only a little difficult to say no. You've got to believe that the work you're doing is ultimately more useful to the world.

I like to produce work for specific places, and it is difficult to do repeat shows in the same space.

In bringing my baby to work, I am happy to be a visible reminder of how messy and difficult it is to be a working parent.

It is easy to love one's enemy when one is making fine speeches; but so difficult to do so in the actual everyday work of life.

Whereas it is difficult for everything to work out easily, A man cannot even afford to be a human

Writing a book is as difficult or as easy as any other job. Everyone's job is difficult. So to fetishize difficulties in writing as something extra-difficult or something very privileged - I don't buy that at all.

It is difficult for the isolated individual to work himself out of the immaturity which has become almost natural for him.

One of the most difficult things for a writer in this business to accept is the uncertain fate of one's work.

Almost anything difficult, any challenge takes time, patience, and hard work.

Writing is difficult. It's a time commitment, it's labor and I'd have to get myself to sit down and actually do the work and outline.

The nuns taught me that the best thing you can do in life when things get difficult is to work.

It's much harder, much more work to be your own artist, and it's hard for me to just want to do one thing. I love doing my own music, but I really have to get into a groove with it, which has been difficult over the last few years because I've had so much great work coming in.