Quotes About Difficulty

Life is hard enough to be easy

But our deepest difficulties cannot be resolved merely on a narrowly intellectual plane. Our deepest difficulty is sin, rebellion against God. We have desires in our hearts that resist the Bible's views and what God has to say. We want to be our own master.

It's much easier to destroy a life than it is to live one.'

The best way to avoid a bad action is by doing a good one, for there is no difficulty in the world like that of trying to do nothing.

My personal problem is that I take the business of film-making so seriously that I find it very difficult to relax.

And what am I to do on the occasion? -- It seems an hopeless business.

Noblest. Bravest. What rot. There was no bravery in buying oneself out of difficulty.

Back when Alistair had made his promise to Hope and Arthur. A promise that had been nearly impossible to keep.

Watson told her that the sorry help at Chatham Bend these days couldn't pour piss out of a boot that had the instructions written on the heel.

trouble. Events

That is not how you do it; you do not solve one problem with another, greater problem.

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?

Fritz had to stop himself from interrupting when Karl spoke about the difficulty of working. Stories are just as hard as clocks to put together, and they can go wrong just as easily--as we shall soon see with Fritz's own story in a page or two. Still, Fritz was an optimist, and Karl was a pessimist, and that makes all the difference in the world.

human life is difficult; there are profundities and compromises and mysteries that look to the innocent eye like betrayal.

Hella isn't easy, but Captain Skyler says life isn't easy. If it were easy, everybody would do it. Death is what you do if you're not up for the challenge.

Well, I think it's extraordinarily fun to write, and I look forward to it every day, but that doesn't mean I think it's easy. There's a difference between the two. It's fun in the way all worthwhile things are fun – there's difficulty attached to it. I think that a writer has to accept a certain amount of frustration. It's inherent in the task, and you have to simply persevere. It's part of the definition of the work.

This lack of second thoughts is the telltale heart of the American left. Why no reckoning? Because reckonings are conservative. They counsel against the heedless rush to redeem the ambiguous and mottled realities of the human condition. They prove that life is made better only incrementally and with great difficulty, but it is made worse—much worse—very easily.

Trite but true: If you can pay for the solution, you haven't got a problem.

The words were clumsy in my mouth, like typing with hammers.

it's a truth of life that some things are not built so well and they become complicated and they need to be figured out and they're hard to figure out.

Nobody likes having a problem, but having a convoluted, bureaucratic one is even more galling.

If something is written in your native language and it's taking you half a year to get through it, unless you're being paid by the hour to read it, I'd say there's a problem.

Kabbalah tells us that when things are difficult, it means that some kind of Light is trying to be revealed.

The most sincere feelings are the ones hardest to be expressed by words." —Unknown