Professional Difficulty Quotes

All writing is difficult. The most you can hope for is a day when it goes reasonably easily. Plumbers don't get plumber's block, and doctors don't get doctor's block; why should writers be the only profession that gives a special name to the difficulty of working, and then expects sympathy for it?

Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.

My challenge was even greater as a journalist, because this was happening in my own backyard.

It's easier to make the NFL than WWE.

Whenever people want to talk about how hard it is to be an actor, I want to go, 'Um, it's hard to be a baby-heart surgeon.'

I no longer practice medicine, but I can say that, for me, medicine was easier - and certainly less emotionally turbulent - than writing.

It's more difficult now, to be a Geographic photographer, than it was when I came along. And it wasn't easy at that time.

Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill, and yet without individual acquaintance with men, their haunts and habits, the pursuit of the profession becomes difficult, slow, and expensive.