#difficult

So writing is a very, very difficult position to obtain... and retain. ↗

— Leon Uris

#obtain #position #retain #very #writing

I think that clearly it has an influence, to be coming of age during the punk rock era, to come from a difficult and sporadically violent background, to have been in and out of such chaos, I think it actually helps. But I don't know for sure. ↗

— Craig Ferguson

#age #background #been #chaos #clearly

The most difficult thing in the world is to reveal yourself, to express what you have to. As an artist, I feel that we must try many things - but above all we must dare to fail. You must be willing to risk everything to really express it all. ↗

— John Cassavetes

#artist #cult thing #dare #difficult #difficult thing

They were often the first students in their family to go to college and the very idea of higher education was still foreign to them. They had to make a conscious and often difficult decision to come to college. ↗

— Michael N. Castle

#come #conscious #decision #difficult #education

The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is. ↗

— Willa Cather

#believe #difficult #easy #great #how

Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't. ↗

— Paul Cezanne

#damned #difficult #got #haven #painting

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction. ↗

— Margaret Thatcher

#difficult #important #know #personal #personal satisfaction

It's very difficult to tell someone how to protect themselves from a terrorist attack, whether it occurs in the U.S. or on foreign soil, particularly when you have terrorists with no concern for human life. ↗

— Saxby Chambliss

#concern #difficult #foreign #how #human

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity. ↗

— Calvin Coolidge

#comes #comparatively #difficult #discipline #experience

The Goth character was a difficult thing to get my head round. I'm not really a fan of Goth music. I'm more a piano and guitar man - that's what I love. ↗

— Richard Fleeshman

#cult thing #difficult #difficult thing #fan #get