I have a tendency to pick up my own challenges. The more difficult something it is, the more I want to try it.
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
Difficult as it often is to grasp someone else's pain, it is easy to judge another's behavior.
When you have mental illness you don't have a plaster or a cast or a crutch, that let everyone know that you have the illness, so people expect the same of you as from anyone else and when you are different they give you a hard time and they think you're being difficult or they think you're being a pain in the ass and they're horrible to you. You spend your life in Ireland trying to hide that you have a mental illness.
The most difficult thing about painting is the self-discipline. When I finish a job, I give myself a few days, but then I have to discipline myself quite fiercely if I want to do some painting that's worthwhile. Otherwise, you're just doodling. It's much easier when you're just told what you have to do.
Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.
I work in bits and pieces. When I'm touring it's difficult. After touring, when I have space and time, it's a process, something I've been doing since I was 10 or 11 years old. I collect lyrics, melodies, bits and pieces, and finally it all comes together. It's hard to say - I've been trying to figure out how the process works.
If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.
Art really is something very difficult. It is difficult to make, and it is sometimes difficult for the viewer to understand. It is difficult to work out what is art and what is not art.
No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.
Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
One of the difficult things about being an actor is to stick around.
I can assure the conspiracy theorists who have very effectively savaged [Gerald] Posner in their books that they're going to have a much, much more difficult time with me. As a trial lawyer in front of a jury and an author of true-crime books, credibility has always meant everything to me. My only master and my only mistress are the facts and objectivity. I have no others.
The simplest questions are the most difficult.
In difficult times, in dark times, some people shine.
It's difficult for me to ignore how many conflicts locally and worldwide have religion tagged to them.
it is easy to surpass a predecessor, but difficult to avoid being surpassed by a successor.
It is difficult to play against Einstein's theory -on his first loss to Fischer
Those with whom we can apparently become well acquainted in a few moments are generally the most difficult to rightly know and to understand.
It's difficult for me to diet, so I don't. So, I make up for it in exercise. What I am willing to eat, I have to be willing to work off. It's that simple.