Quotes About Difficulty

It was a good memory, so he drove it down, crushed it. It only made things harder.

Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt, as I understand the subject; difficulty and doubt are incommensurate.

There is an advantage in every disadvantage and a gift in every problem.

Truths are not the better nor the worse for their obviousness or difficulty, but their value is to be measured by their usefulness and tendency.

The ideas which are here expressed so laboriously are extremely simple and should be obvious. The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.

The right choice was usually the more difficult one.

Hard things are hard.

We were knee deep in a river of crap,and I was wearing metaphorical flip-flops. -Jason

Expressing emotion is not so easy. He has to remind himself that English is not her first language. Expressing emotion can be difficult even when the words are familiar. 

There is great injustice everywhere and a rankling party-spirit, and to speak the truth and act it appears still more difficult than usual.

Most men are reasonably useful in a crisis. The difficulty lies in convincing them that the situation has reached a critical point

God, Olive, you're a difficult woman. You are such a goddamn difficult woman, and fuck all, I love you. So if you don't mind, Olive, maybe you could be a little less Olive with me, even if it means being a little more Olive with others. Because I love you, and we don't have much time.

This would be Plotinus's great message to his own age and to the future. All of us, whether we know it or not, want to be one with perfection—or as later Neoplatonists will say, to be one with God. No one wants to live in the cave. We all want to see the light; and once we discover the true trail, we can retrace the path of the spirit back to whence it came. Of course, finding the trail is the great difficulty.

Matar no es difícil, pensó Lorenzo Falcó. Lo difícil era elegir el momento y la manera.

Lagrange , in one of the later years of his life, imagined that he had overcome the difficulty ( of the parallel axiom ). He went so far as to write a paper, which he took with him to the Institute, and began to read it. But in the first paragraph something struck him that he had not observed: he muttered: ' Il faut que j'y songe encore ', and put the paper in his pocket.' [ I must think about it again ].

That's why you should always start with this question: What is making this behavior hard to do?

The important thing to remember about procrastination is that the perception of difficulty can be just as important as the actual difficulty. In addition, every day you don't do the task, it grows in your head, which makes the task seem more and more difficult.

A prolonged meditation on unseen realities is sufficiently difficult, and seems scarcely the occupation for which common human nature was intended.

When you shoot at slow-motion, or a high frame rate, it makes it really difficult to rack focus.

It is always difficult when there is a lack of confidence and a lack of belief but it can be good for me to see the reaction of the team in a difficult time.

I'm a bit dyslexic so I found learning to read hard. I muddled up the letters but learnt to power through.

A system of education, which would not gratify this disposition in any party, is requisite, in order to obviate the difficulty, and the reader will find a something said to that purpose in perusing this tract.

I am, really, a great writer; my only difficulty is in finding great readers.

It is more difficult to keep the attention of hearers than of readers.