Having A Hard Time Quotes

• We're having a hard time understanding where jazz is going. What happened to jazz?

  Ken Burns

  Hard Times, Understanding, Jazz

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• Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Hard Times, Today, Existentialism

  Martin Heidegger, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre (2016). “The Philosophical Library Existentialism Collection: Essays in Metaphysics, The Ethics of Ambiguity, and The Philosophy of Existentialism”, p.116, Open Road Media

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• Action that is inspired from aligned thought is joyful action. Action that is offered from a place of contridicted thought is hard work that is not satisfying and does not yield good results. When you really feel like jumping into action, that is a clear sign that your vibration is pure and you are not offering contridicting thoughts to your own desire. When you are having a hard time making yourself do something, or when the action you offer does not produce the results you are seeking, it is always because you are offering thoughts in opposition to your desire.

  Esther Hicks

  Hard Work, Hard Times, Offering

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• If there's one thing that differentiates me from the rest of my family it's the rock element. I hung out with friends who like punk rock a lot. Not getting a big record deal, and having a hard time for years, it means you have to prove yourself and scratch your way up from nothing.

  Martha Wainwright

  Mean, Hard Times, Years

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• You’re not the one having a hard time in the battlefield. The enemy’s also having a hard time—the only question is who breaks down first.

  Rafael Eitan

  Hard Times, Enemy, Firsts

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• Find someone who is having a hard time or is ill or lonely, and do something for him or her.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Lonely, Hard Times, Ill

  Speech in Memory of President Thomas S. Monson, www.lee.senate.gov. January 04, 2018.

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• I have a great deal of empathy for anyone who's having a hard time. I believe this ability to see another's viewpoint has served me well as a writer.

  Alex Flinn

  Believe, Hard Times, Empathy

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• Prior to my father's death, I was having a hard time committing to a career as an artist, but that's not because of who he was - it was because of who I am. It's true, though, that I felt I shouldn't compete with him, and that those feelings went away after he died.

  Kiki Smith

  Father, Artist, Hard Times

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• Actually, my friendships are changing because my friends have kids, so that's a new aspect to the material. Not just that I don't want to have kids, it's that I'm having a hard time relating to people I know.

  Jen Kirkman

  Kids, Hard Times, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• One of the biggest things I learned was that it's OK to be nervous and admit that you're having a hard time.

  Samuel Larsen

  Hard Times, Nervous, Hard

  "'Glee Project' Winner Samuel Larsen Talks Mentoring, Temptation and Romancing Quinn" by Lesley Goldberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 12, 2012.

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• The man who is meek is not even sensitive about himself. He is not always watching himself and his own interests. He is not always on the defensive… To be truly meek means we no longer protect ourselves, because we see there is nothing worth defending… The man who is truly meek never pities himself, he is never sorry for himself. He never talks to himself and says, “You are having a hard time, how unkind these people are not to understand you.

  Martyn

  Sorry, Mean, Hard Times

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• A lot of people love Marco Rubio but they're gonna have - they also love Jeb Bush. They are having a hard time trying to figure out how they gonna - you know, figure that one out.

  Eric Bolling

  Hard Times, People, Trying

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• You're having a hard time and lately you don't feel so good; You're getting a bad reputation in your neighborhood. It's alright, it's alright; Sometimes that's what it takes. You're only human, you're allowed to make your share of mistakes.

  Billy Joel

  Mistake, Hard Times, Reputation

  Song: You're Only Human

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• I really loved Kelsey [Grammer]. It wasn't a romantic love, but there was something about him. It's very difficult to see someone you care about having a hard time.

  Bebe Neuwirth

  Hard Times, Romantic Love, Care

  Source: www.gq.com

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• Even though there is rampant unemployment in many parts of the world, there are still large numbers of jobs that are going unfilled because employers are having a hard time identifying people with the right set of skills.

  Daphne Koller

  Jobs, Hard Times, Skills

  "Online Education Grows Up, And For Now, It's Free". "All Things Considered" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. September 30, 2012.

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• U.N. officials said today they desperately need $7 billion to help people cope with disasters, but they're having a hard time getting people to send rescue money. Here's what the UN should do: Invest in bad mortgages, run a bank into the ground, give yourself a bonus, get some spa treatments and, in no time, the government will send you $750 billion.

  Jay Leno

  Running, Hard Times, Government

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• I would encourage women to own their vulnerable moments. We're all human and we don't have it all together - that is perfectly okay. Admit when you're having a hard time and don't hesitate to ask for help. You will be very surprised when you realise we are all in the same boat at one time or another.

  Lizzie Velasquez

  Hard Times, Together, Helping

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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• If you are drawing a blank, or are having a hard time drawing a certain thing, then it is because you have not studied it enough.

  Glen Keane

  Hard Times, Drawing, Enough

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• The story was writing itself and I was having a hard time keeping up with it.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Hard Times, Time Keeping

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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• It's really funny - when I'm depressed or I'm having a hard time, I'll write really fun stuff. And then when I'm really happy, I write really depressing stuff.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Depressing, Fun, Writing

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• A curtain of stars, miles of them, are scattered, glowing, across the sky and their multitude humbles me, which I have a hard time tolerating. She shrugs and nods after I say something about forms of anxiety. It's as if her mind is having a hard time communicating with her mouth, as if she is searching for a rational analysis of who I am, which is, of course, an impossibility: there... is... no... key.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Stars, Hard Times, Keys

  Bret Easton Ellis (2014). “American Psycho: Picador Classic”, p.213, Pan Macmillan

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• If you have doubts about someone, lay on a couple of jokes. If he doesn't find anything funny, your radar should be screaming. Then I would say be patient with people who are negative, because they're really having a hard time.

  Michael J. Fox

  Couple, Hard Times, People

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• God seemed to be having a hard time killing him, and he'd be damned if he was going to make the job easy for mere mortals

  Mario Puzo

  Jobs, Hard Times, Killing

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• All this hoping for something- or someone- that's maybe hopeless. I'm having a hard time processing what I am supposed to believe, or if I'm even supposed to. There is too much information, and I don't like a lot of it.

  David Levithan

  Believe, Hard Times, Hoping For Something

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.71, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Let me tell you what I do know: I am more than one thing, and not all of those things are good. The truth is complicated. It’s two-toned, multi-vocal, bittersweet. I used to think that if I dug deep enough to discover something sad and ugly, I’d know it was something true. Now I’m trying to dig deeper. I didn’t want to write these pages until there were no hard feelings, no sharp ones. I do not have that luxury. I am sad and angry and I want everyone to be alive again. I want more landmarks, less landmines. I want to be grateful but I’m having a hard time with it.

  Richard Siken

  Grateful, Writing, Thinking

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