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Quotes About Difficulty

Life is hard and it gets worse and worse and worse.
~ Cat Power
Life is hard, but death is even harder.
~ Peter Kreeft
Life is difficult. Anyone who says different is trying to sell you something.
~ William Goldman
I think that it would be less difficult to live eternally than to be deprived of sleep throughout life.
~ Anton Chekhov
This is a tough, tough life when things aren't going your way.
~ Chauncey Billups
What about confusing clutter? Information overload? Doesn't data have to be "boiled down" and "simplified"? These common questions miss the point, for the quantity of detail is an issue completely separate from the difficulty of reading. Clutter and confusion are failures of design, not attributes of information .
~ Edward R. Tufte
Persisting in such matters that seem precisely, impossible, and difficult shows the collapse of perception and insight.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Boy, this really wasn't one of his days. He just couldn't put a foot right. It was a situation all too familiar to me, this business of setting off on the wrong foot and doggedly remaining there. Only I'd never watched it from the outside before. It was fascinating.
~ Elaine Dundy
But now you know the specific cause of your difficulty with [certain tasks] and can explore ways around the overarousal they create. So there's really very little that you can't do if you find a way to do it in your own style.
~ Elaine N. Aron
If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
~ Elbert Hubbard
It'll be just lovely for you to play -- it'll be so hard. And there's so much more fun when it is hard!
~ Eleanor Hodgman Porter
Non ho nostalgia della nostra infanzia, è piena di violenza. Ci succedeva di tutto, in casa e fuori, ma non ricordo di aver mai pensato che la vita che c'era capitata fosse particolarmente brutta. La vita era così è basta, crescevamo con l'obbligo di renderla difficile agli altri prima che gli altri la rendessero difficile a noi.
~ Elena Ferrante
writing with truth is really difficult, perhaps impossible.
~ Elena Ferrante
Stealing isn't so easy, often it's hard work, otherwise we'd all be doing it.
~ Elfriede Jelinek
Senin için, benim için ol­duÄŸundan daha zormuÅŸ gibi geldi hep." "Neden benim için daha zor olsun?" "Çünkü sen yaln?zs?n.
~ Elif Batuman
A feminine textual body is recognized by the fact that it is always endless, without ending: there's no closure, it doesn't stop, and it's this that very often makes the feminine text difficult to read," wrote Hélène Cixous, in a sentence that could definitely have been shorter.
~ Elif Batuman
cuanto mayor es la dificultad, mayor es la satisfacción al superarla
~ Antoni Bolinches
A man who truly craves for his respect will always find it difficult to go along in love with a woman.
~ Anuj Somany
Men fancy that because doing wrong is in their own power, therefore to be just is easy. But it is not so: to lie with one's neighbour's wife, and to strike some one near, and the giving with the hand the bribe ... are easy acts, and in men's own power; but to do these things with the particular disposition is neither easy nor in their power.
~ Aristotle
I'm actually really bad at puzzles.
~ Kris Marshall
It is more difficult to make film which does not have a big name. People start questioning the cast and the budget.
~ Farah Khan
For me it's more difficult to play against the quicker wingers, but for the team it's perhaps more difficult to face players that are good passers, because one through ball can take the whole team out of the game.
~ Philipp Lahm
It is expected that a children's story will raise a difficulty and then resolve it: increasingly, this resolution is so prompt and so resounding that one forgets what exactly the difficulty was.
~ Rachel Cusk
I've never been good at raising money.
~ Michael Capuano