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Quotes About Difficulty

I seem to be having difficulty—my first instructor was Dr. Chandra. He taught me to sing a song, it goes like this, 'Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer, do. I'm half crazy all for the love of you.'" The
~ Arthur C. Clarke
There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
From my boyhood I have had an intense and overwhelming conviction that my real vocation lay in the direction of literature. I have, however, had a most unaccountable difficulty in getting any responsible person to share my views. - Cyprian Overbeck Wells: A Literary Mosaic
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Pinner. 'Thank you very much,' said he; 'I fear that I underrated the difficulty of the task. This list will be of very material assistance to me.' 'It took some time,' said I.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
It was hard to be human. Hell, it was hard to live at all. Life was definitely not for the meek. Everytime something seemed to go right, at least 3 or 4 things had to go wrong. It was just the law of nature.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
The time comes when each of us has to give up as illusions the expectations which, in his youth, he pinned upon his fellow-men, and when he may learn how much difficulty and pain has been added to his life by their ill-will.
~ Sigmund Freud
It is almost humiliating that, after working so long, we should still be having difficulty in understanding the most fundamental facts. But we have made up our minds to simplify nothing and to hide nothing. If we cannot see things clearly we will at least see clearly what the obscurities are.
~ Sigmund Freud
it is relatively easy to scramble an egg, but to unscramble it is far harder.
~ Simon Singh
To find extraordinary difficulty in doing an ordinary action is a favor which calls for gratitude.
~ Simone Weil
Lucrurile grele sporesc teama de a le spune.
~ Sofocle
With age, life becomes complex and difficult, often fraught with risk on several levels, from the practical to the fiscal.
~ Henry Rollins
To me, honesty and the difficulty of honest communication are at the heart of both my life and my movies. The difficulty of being yourself.
~ Ira Sachs
All of this high-tech stuff is supposed to set us free and make life easier. To me, it makes it more difficult and demanding.
~ Jeff Bridges
Life is hard. Not great. Kind of tragic.
~ T. J. Miller
The hardest part of life is living it.
~ Kinsey
Employees in large, older firms often have difficulty getting a transformation process started because of the lack of leadership coupled with arrogance, insularity, and bureaucracy.
~ John P. Kotter
Tradition dies a hard death. Culture changes with as much difficulty in penguin colonies as in human colonies. But with this colony, culture did change.
~ John P. Kotter
I have the profound sense that many people who complain of not being able to rejoice in God treat the knowledge of God as something that ought to be easy to get. They are passive. They expect spiritual things to happen to them from out of nowhere.
~ John Piper
If the physicists seem to achieve their ends more successfully than the theologians, that is simply a reflection of how much easier science is than theology.
~ John Polkinghorne
It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately.
~ John Ruskin
Even thinking was hard.
~ John Sandford
It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after a committee of sleep has worked on it.
~ John Steinbeck
In regard to education, something has been done by the Provincial Legislature but to build churches, and to place clergymen is a work of greater difficulty.
~ John Strachan