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Quotes About Difficulty

It is very difficult to tell the truth, and young people are rarely capable of it.
~ Joseph Conrad
The last of the ten unwholesome actions is wrong view, basic misperceptions that become the cause of difficulty and suffering in our lives.
~ Joseph Goldstein
Then you're up shit creek, Popinjay, without a paddle.
~ Joseph Heller
Once you begin to control your thought processes, you can apply the powers of your subconscious to any problem or difficulty. You will actually be consciously cooperating with the infinite power and omnipotent law that governs all things.
~ Joseph Murphy
Given the difficulty of using wait and notify correctly, you should use the higher-level concurrency utilities instead.
~ Joshua Bloch
Well, no. Marianne thought there could be lots worse.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Faith does help us navigate difficulty while trusting God to deliver us at the right time.
~ Joyce Meyer
I can tell you that it was not easy. It was vitally necessary in order for us to make progress as a ministry, but it was probably one of the most difficult times ever for our employees. They had to learn entirely new ways of processing information and it didn't always seem to work right immediately. Eventually the old ways were gone and the new was comfortable and much, much better—but everyone had to be patient!
~ Joyce Meyer
It was hard to borrow money to buy a house.
~ Joyce Milton
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. SENECA
~ Julia Cameron
But the day that had started crooked insisted on going crooked, like a cross-threaded screw.
~ Wallace Stegner
She sounded tinny and false. Poor lady, she found it as difficult as I did to know how to act or what to say. Later, with practice, we might do better. The star had her part down cold, but the male lead didn't like his lines, and the walk-ons had never seen the script until forty minutes ago.
~ Wallace Stegner
No one will ever comprehend the arrested civilizations unless he sees the strict dilemma of early society. Either men had no law at all, and lived in confused tribes, hardly hanging together, or they had to obtain a fixed law by processes of incredible difficulty. Those who surmounted that difficulty soon destroyed all those that lay in their way who did not.
~ Walter Bagehot
There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
~ Warren Buffett
I am inclined to think from my own experience that the difficulty to eminence lies not in the road, but in the timidity of the traveler.
~ WASHINGTON ALLSTON
Ever had one of those days you couldn't hit the ground with your hat?
~ Waylon Jennings
It is difficult to accept changes for the worse.
~ Daniel Kahneman
Add-1 with four digits caused a larger dilation than the task of holding seven digits for immediate recall. Add-3, which is much more difficult
~ Daniel Kahneman
The only thing more difficult than finding a needle in a haystack is finding a needle in a needlestack.
~ Daniel M. Gilbert
Real challenges are far more invigorating than controlled leisure.
~ Daniel Pink
The beauty of a main title is that you establish your main theme and maybe a bit of your secondary theme. You plant the seed that you're going to go water later in the score. And so, having that removed just made it so much more difficult.
~ Danny Elfman
I don t mind a reasonable amount of trouble.
~ Dasheill Hammett
The problem you face is not the problem described in the catastrophe clause of your worry. The problem you face is the discomfort you experience in response to the worrisome thought, and your natural inclination to take that thought seriously and resist it. When you resist the thought with your usual selection of anti-worry responses, this is when you once again experience the difficulty of The harder I try, the worse it gets.
~ David A. Carbonell
The observers — members of Microsoft's User Research Group — diligently note each click, key press, and hesitation, hoping they'll learn the answer to the industry's big secret: why do so many people find computers difficult to use?
~ David A. Karp