Struggling in my father's hands,
Striving against my swaddling bands,
Bound and weary, I thought best
To sulk upon my mother's breast.
Overcome Your Struggles: Quotes to Help You Persevere - page 53
When journalists are 'accused' of being 'advocates', that means: challenging and deviating from DC orthodoxies.
Glenn Greenwald
Sonically, musicians always go above and beyond in our efforts to disrupt radio. It's always about being different. Our radio is never conventional anyway.
Pusha T
A drowning man cannot be saved until he is utterly exhausted and ceases to make the slightest effort to save himself.
Watchman Nee
When you go to the mountains, you see them and you admire them. In a sense, they give you a challenge, and you try to express that challenge by climbing them.
Edmund Hillary
Liberty isn't a thing you are given as a present. You can be a free man under a dictatorship. It is sufficient if you struggle against it.
Ignazio Silone
I don't like it when people are trying too hard. That goes for clothes, for acting, for everything. It's just not good when it seems like you're making too much of an effort.
Clive Owen
Any gathering of people requires leadership to cohere, to achieve its potential contribution. What is not needed is a "boss" of yore, directing everyone else's efforts toward "the one best way.
James M Strock
In any case it is not normal to put into the satisfaction of mere curiosity the amount of time and effort that scientists put into their work.
Theodore Kaczynski
I wasn't searching for a common denominator - I started wondering about the challenge of working in other cultures. What I reached was the sudden acknowledgment of the universal aspect of filmmaking.
Abbas Kiarostami
Accept the difficulty of what you cannot yet change. But do not accept the impossibility of ever changing it.
Aubrey de Grey
Every piece of progressive social legislation passed by Congress in the 20th century bears a union label.
George Meany
Until one acknowledges the genius within oneself, one will have great difficulty recognizing it in others.
David R. Hawkins
At the present time there exist problems beyond our ability to solve, not because of theoretical difficulties, but because of insufficient means of mechanical computation.
Howard Aiken
But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge
Rachael Leigh Cook
You can use the same motto for everything in life. If you put that effort in, you'll get what you want.
Kim Kardashian
I had such a hard time finding great organic and non-toxic items for my daughter.
Soleil Moon Frye
From those who agonize that they may no longer be able to write off their private jet to someone who doesn't feel like making the three mile hike to the well to get water and carry it back, everyone struggles.
As soon as coffee is in your stomach, there is a general commotion. Ideas begin to move…similes arise, the paper is covered. Coffee is your ally and writing ceases to be a struggle.
