Top 1200 Painful Experiences Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

My songwriting process is painful. Songwriting is brilliant. It's a load of fun - when it works. It's really difficult as well.

Blind adoration, in the age of action, is perfectly valueless, is often embarrassing and, equally, often painful.

If you are 20 you don't have the same life experiences as at 25.

I don't think I'd ever write anything that I don't also direct just because it's so hard and painful to write as it is.

The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.

Repetition doesn't create memories. New experiences do.

As you experience love and relationships, you start to realize that love tends to end in a very painful goodbye.

Flow is something the reader experiences, not the writer.

As with anything that involves emotional pain, comedy isn't too far behind. There's that element of no matter how painful something is - as long as it is not you that is going through it - it can be funny.

Today I know this: when it comes time to take stock, the most painful wound is that of broken friendships; and there is nothing more foolish than to sacrifice a friendship to politics.

You've got to have as many good times as bad, or it all becomes too painful and too much work.

Seeing comes from the inside, from the heart, from life's experiences.

Fine artists deal with finery, but I deal with painful material.

It's interesting to fantasize having a man sink his teeth into your neck for sustenance, knowing that it isn't going to be terribly painful but rather very exciting.

But there is just no way to adequately prepare a 10-year old for the sudden loss of a much-loved father. It was a confusing time, with many painful moments.

Now I finally know how painful it is for a mother to be working when her child needs her.

When you see evil do not form ideas that are in the likeness of that evil; do not think of the evil as bad, but try to understand the forces that are back of that evil—forces that are good in themselves, though misdirected in their present state. By trying to understand the nature of the power that is back of evil or adversity, you will not form bad ideas, and therefore will feel no bad effects from experiences that may seem undesirable. At the same time, you will think your own thought about the experiences, thereby developing the power of the master mind.

I wish I could teleport and cut out the travelling in between gigs. I want the luxury of the shows without the painful bits stuck on a tour bus.

Liberty never had to file bankruptcy, thanks to God's blessings, but we did go through tough times and painful debt restructuring in the 1990s.

Mostly, we authors must repeat ourselves - that's the truth. We have two or three great and moving experiences in our lives - experiences so great and moving that it doesn't seem at the time anyone else has been so caught up and so pounded and dazzled and astonished and beaten and broken and rescued and illuminated and rewarded and humbled in just that way ever before. Then we learn our trade, well or less well, and we tell our two or three stories - each time in a new disguise - maybe ten times, maybe a hundred, as long as people will listen.

I loved acting, which was never about money, the fame. It was about a search for meaning. It was painful.

I tell students they will know they are getting somewhere when a scene is so painful they can just barely bring themselves to write about it. A writer has to draw blood.

I like new experiences. It's one of the reasons I went to China.

Your experiences are not limited to what you have created in the past

Mothering is one of the most beautiful experiences of my life.

I have always said 'yes' to opportunities and experiences.

When kids ask questions there is a painful honesty at times and they will ask things that throw me.

All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful.

Never give up on your dreams, no matter how painful and difficult your journey is.

Loneliness is such an omnipotent and painful threat to many persons that they have little conception of the positive values of solitude and even, at times, are frightened at the prospect of being alone.

You can't really make something or make a movie and feel all through the process that it's a painful thing. It's not possible to do that.

It is long and hard and painful to create life: it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

Practice is an ever-fresh, challenging flow of work and play in which we continually test and demolish our own delusions; therefore, it is sometimes painful.

I learn from my mistakes. It’s a very painful way to learn, but without pain, the old saying is, there’s no gain.

Do you know how painful it is to tell someone you love him and not hear him say it back?

What else should our lives be but a continual series of beginnings, of painful settings out into the unknown, pushing off from the edges of consciousness into the mystery of what we have not yet become.

Loss is very painful, because any kind of loss leaves a hole in the fabric of one's existence.

Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.

Ronald Reagan, of course, was a Republican governor of California who went through a painful defeat in the 1976 presidential race before winning four years later

Relationships ending are painful, and you can choose to carry that, or you can choose to reframe it.

How many times already had I encountered the painful lesson that although we may wish for the barb to be pulled from our flesh, it leaves a welt that doesn't heal?

The whole idea of deterrence is to convince your enemy that you are willing and able to make it so painful for them to continue on a threatening or bellicose course that they change their behavior.

We all talk about how much we hate lies. Yet we prefer, so often, to be lied to....because it allows us to dodge all those painful truths we'd rather not hear.

Warby Parker designs experiences, not products.

Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.

My boxes are life's experiences aesthetically expressed.

It's really, really painful for me to actually say the words out loud: 'I got beat.'

That's what makes writer's block so painful. You think the well has run dry, maybe somewhere in the heavens the tap has been turned off. That's beyond frightening.

To abstain from the enjoyment which is in our power, or to seek distant rather than immediate results, are among the most painful exertions of the human will.

Honesty is often very hard. The truth is often painful. But the freedom it can bring is worth the trying.

A competitive athlete is painful to look at; trying hard to become an animal rather than a man, he will never be as fast as a cheetah or as strong as an ox.

I love spicy food, love it. But wasabi is just painful.

I have a partner, Danny Strong; he's an incredible writer and, really, my backbone. So when we don't see eye to eye, it's painful.

It's a blessing not to be alone in your grief but it's also painful to see your parents and siblings in pain.

Ronald Reagan, of course, was a Republican governor of California who went through a painful defeat in the 1976 presidential race before winning four years later.

You must relate athletic experiences to life.

I like to try and mix diction and experiences.

The resort to human flesh, often after months of ever-increasing hunger pangs, appeared to be an animallike reaction without painful emotional overtones.

Rather I fear on the contrary that while we banish painful thoughts we may banish memory as well.

When I have a full schedule like that, I don't see myself sitting there for a couple of months, doing the research, going through a painful process, it's just not my thing anymore.