Struggle Quotes - Page 18

• It is setting goals and trying to be a business person, but at the same time not losing sight of who you are writing songs for and what your goals are as a songwriter. So believe me, if you think I've got it down I don't it is a constant struggle.

  Christine Lavin

  Song, Believe, Writing

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• I would not go so far as to say that the French trade unions attached greater importance to the struggle for peace than the others did; but they certainly seemed to take it more to heart.

  Leon Jouhaux

  Heart, Unions, Importance

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• A character on screen that's the 'good guy' or the 'bad guy,' they're never interesting. There's got to be an internal struggle, the duality is important to find.

  Bill Skarsgard

  Character, Interesting, Guy

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• I think I'm very interested in people, in the way our minds work and how we navigate through the experience that is life. Very interested in people's struggles and their choices and their regrets and joys. I'm very interested in the human animal.

  Victor Salva

  Regret, Animal, Thinking

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• Of all human struggles there is none so treacherous and remorseless as the struggle between the artist man and the mother woman.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Mother, Artist, Men

  'Man and Superman' (1903) act 1

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• We are at that very point in time when a 400-year-old age is dying and another is struggling to be born - a shifting of culture, science, society, and institutions enormously greater than the world has ever experienced. Ahead, the possibility of the regeneration of individuality, liberty, community, and ethics such as the world has never known, and a harmony with nature, with one another, and with the divine intelligence such as the world has never dreamed.

  Dee Hock

  Nature, Years, Community

  "The Trillion-Dollar Vision of Dee Hock". Interview with M. Mitchell Waldrop, www.fastcompany.com. October 31, 1996.

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• The refugee resettlement program is a kind of worldwide business. There is pressure to keep the numbers up even as you are struggling with the people who do come in.

  Romano L. Mazzoli

  Numbers, People, Immigration

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• By now, a million pedal strokes have etched the muscles in my legs with a single purpose: to power the crank and move the bicycle forward. Food flows into my body, bringing it power and strength. It is no longer a question of struggle. Now the journey evolves into the spiritual realm-where the pedaling becomes instinctive. It's a free-flow of energy that comes through my body and willingly expresses itself in the flight of the pedals.

  Frosty Wooldridge

  Spiritual, Travel, Moving

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• The struggle with the past is not a hand-to-hand fight. The future overcomes it by swallowing it. If it leaves anything outside it is lost.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Fighting, Past, Hands

  Jose Ortega Y Gasset (1960). “the Revolt of the Masses”

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• Transformation of any kind always exacts a holy tussle. The newborn butterfly struggles to open its wings so it can conjure up the strength to fly. So, too, with artists, inventors, mystics, and entrepreneurs.

  Tama J. Kieves

  Strong, Butterfly, Artist

  Tama J. Kieves (2004). “This Time I Dance!: Trusting the Journey of Creating the Work You Love”, Tarcher

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• It is necessary to be strong, in order to become great: that is our duty. Life is a struggle, which we cannot avoid. We must triumph!

  Pio of Pietrelcina

  Strong, Order, Suffering

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• Every time we push personal development aside, we invite personal struggle into our lives.

  Hal Elrod

  Wake Up, Development, Waking Up Early

  FaceBook post by Hal Elrod from Jun 25, 2013

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• Deep practice is built on a paradox: struggling in certain targeted ways-operating at the edges of your ability, where you make mistakes-makes you smarter. Or to put it in a slightly different way, experiences where you're forced to slow down, make errors, and correct them-as you would if you were walking up an ice-covered hill, slipping and stumbling as you go-end up making you swift and graceful without your realizing it.

  Daniel Coyle

  Inspirational, Mistake, Ice

  "The Talent Code: Greatness isn't born. It's grown". Book by Daniel Coyle, 2010.

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• So often we look at a calendar of days as merely a symbol of the passage of time. We forget why we are on this earth. We forget that there is a reason for all the pain and the struggle.

  Lynn Andrews

  Inspirational, Life, Pain

  Lynn V. Andrews (1993). “Walk in Balance: Meditations with Lynn Andrews”, Harper San Francisco

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• By freely choosing to believe God's promises, a person's faith may be more strongly embraced and, therefore, less likely to falter in times of struggle, sadness, or other such difficulties.

  Mary C. Neal

  God, Faith, Christian

  Mary C. Neal, M.D. (2012). “To Heaven and Back: A Doctor's Extraordinary Account of Her Death, Heaven, Angels, and Life Again: A True Story”, p.148, WaterBrook

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• Women have always struggled with their men-folk for the abolition of slavery, the liberation of countries from colonialism, the dismantling of apartheid and the attainment of peace. It is now the turn of men to join women in their struggle for equality.

  Gertrude Mongella

  Country, Men, Abolition Of Slavery

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• The nobility which exists within any cause is to be found not in any achievement, but instead within the struggle.

  Derek R. Audette

  Life, Achievement, Causes

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• The question is not whether the good outweighs the bad. The question is whether or not the good excuses the bad. And, in my opinion, it doesn't. It never does. As long as wrongs are being commited, in any quantity, and in any ratio to the amount of good that is being done, it is both irresponsible and wrong not to bring awareness to it, and struggle to put an end to it.

  Derek R. Audette

  Life, Long, Doe

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• The gap between the rich and poor is growing among and within most nations. The political and social effects of unequal location of energy and other mineral resources are acute. Population numbers continue to climb. The global environment shows signs of widespread deterioration. Both natural and social environments are increasingly vulnerable to catastrophic disturbances... There may, however, be a cheering challenge in the possibility that out of its struggle with these realities the human race may move a bit nearer to behaving as if it were indeed one family.

  Gilbert F. White

  Cheer, Moving, Reality

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• In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.

  Tacitus

  Power, Politics, Middle

  "Annales". Book by Tacitus, II. 74,

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• The musician lifestyle is not easy for most people to understand. This is something I'm struggling with. When you're on tour, people think you're just having the time of your life and it's really romantic.

  Sharon Van Etten

  Thinking, People, Musician

  "Without Her Happy Hookers". Interview With Shilpa Ray, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 27, 2015.

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• The world is a dangerous, unstable place and sometimes there are casualties and struggles for power.

  Greg Bryk

  World, Sometimes, Casualties

  Source: collider.com

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• Within the stability of a family struggle, when there's less chaos, you can have the most soul-searching and the most digging to find out what and who you really are.

  Greg Bryk

  Soul, Digging, Chaos

  Source: collider.com

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• To conceive music, to execute it in front of others, to make it so others can do it...it can be pretty humbling, and kind of scary. So yeah, I don't really feel in competition with anybody. Not because I feel elitist, but because I have enough self-competition. I'm always struggling.

  Ryan Adams

  Self, Scary, Competition

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. June 28, 2007.

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• After years of struggling with how I looked, I'm pretty comfortable and proud of my body now.

  Shiri Appleby

  Years, Body, Proud

  Source: collider.com

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