Quotes About Difficulty

There was also no character arc. Change only comes when we face the difficulty of reality head-on. Fantasy changes nothing, which is why, once we're done fantasizing, it feels like a bankrupt story.

Step 1: Problem

The problem is the hook. If a story doesn't have a problem, the story never gets started.

Change only comes when we face the difficulty of reality head-on. Fantasy changes nothing, which is why, once we're done fantasizing, it feels like a bankrupt story.

What is the difference between an obstacle and an opportunity? Our attitude toward it. Every opportunity has a difficulty, and every difficulty has an opportunity.

Don't let people suffer! Don't let anyone be hurt! If you can help, then help! What about that is complicated?" Mari demanded. Alain thought about her words. "It is not complicated, but doing it might be…" What was the right word? "Difficult." "Yeah, well, that's me in a nutshell, isn't it?

Why does everything have to be so complicated?" Kira complained. "Everything is simple," Alera said. "Doing it is complicated.

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. —WINSTON CHURCHILL (1874–1965)

Nothing was ever easy or simple, not one blasted thing.

Here lies Joseph II, who was unfortunate in everything that he undertook

I think in many ways the problem that my writing would have with an American reviewer is that Americans find difficulty very hard to take. They are inevitably looking for a happy ending. Perversely, I will not give the happy ending. I think life is difficult and that's that.

Talking to that fool is like trying to put socks on an octopus!

It's a choice: Either you try to make it look easy or you emphasize how hard it is.

He hadn't enjoyed school all that much, but they could have warned him that language would prove overtaxing.

hope is 'that virtue by which we take responsibility for the future.' ...hope is our positive orientation toward the future, a future in which we simultaneously recognize difficulty, responsibility, and delight. Hope is not relative to the present situation, nor is it dependent upon a specific outcome... Hope is not an antidote to despair, or a sidestepping of difficulty, but a companion to all these things.

Me iba yo sintiendo como el barco: todo rodeado de color nostalgia. Un color nostalgia que incluso iba enrojeciendo de lo difícil que me parecía entenderlo todo.

Do not worry about your problems with mathematics, I assure you mine are far greater. Albert Einstein.

she learned slowly and painfully that it was easier to overthrow a government than to create a one...

Transformation helps us more clearly see Jesus. And when we more clearly see Him, we can more clearly see the miracle in our mess, the good in our difficulty, the redemption in rejection.

How hard something is often depends on your vantage point.

Death is a difficulty, but it is not a punishment for the wrongdoings of our first parents; life is difficult, but it is not a trial through which we must pass to earn an eternal reward. Mortality is not a wounding disability but the enabling condition that lends life its intensity, tenderness, poignancy, and beauty, let us say its wounded glory, the difficult glory, that has tasted the bitter truth.

we will do this not because it is easy, but because it is hard ...

It takes the Almighty God and the Holy Spirit and the Lord Jesus Christ to get down into the depth of man's nature and find the real difficulty that is there and destroy it.

Of all points of faith, the being of a God is, to my own apprehension, encompassed with most difficulty, and yet borne in upon our minds with most power.