#difficult

"Success is more difficult to handle than failure."

"Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do."

"It's quite difficult to write about female friendship without it seeming to be a very niche subject. It's a difficult balance."

"Friendship is a difficult, dangerous job. It is also (though we rarely admit it) extremely exhausting."

"People will always have an opinion, but you have to live life the way you want to. It's very easy to tell others what to do, but difficult to implement it on yourself."

"A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before."

"I think it's difficult to do fashion for men, because either you become very over-homosexual fashion or very boring fashion. You don't want a boy who looks 15 in a little pair of shorts with some strange art... But to see just a jacket and tie is boring."

"Life is difficult for everyone; everyone has bad days. Everyone has trouble in their life, because it doesn't matter how rich you are: Sickness and trouble and worry and love, these things will mess with you at every level of life."

"There's not a lot of other stuff I admire about his content, but there's something about Howard Stern and his perseverance in a very difficult industry. He does tickle me in certain ways with humor."

"Difficult times always create opportunities for you to experience more love in your life."

"You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children."

"Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real."

"We crave instant success these days. If you are a really good sprinter and long jumper, you don't want to spend two or three years on a whole new set of events. You're used to doing well and it's difficult to give that up."

"To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult."

"Bringing good news is imparting hope to one's fellow man. The idea of redemption is always good news, even if it means sacrifice or some difficult times."

"It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly."

"As comedians, we are all laughing because life is so horrible. Life is so difficult, and I cope with it by making jokes about absolutely everything."

"I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good."

"I think that that's why artists make art - it is difficult to put into words unless you are a poet. What it takes is being open to the flow of universal creativity. The Zen artists knew this."

"The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread."