Quotes About Difficulty

They've done their best to make it harder for you, haven't they?" he said.

Hope -- Hope in the face of difficulty. Hope in the face of uncertainty. The audacity of hope! In the end, that is God's greatest gift to us...A belief in things not seen. A belief that there are better days ahead.

I was discovering, the difficulty of competing in a game where there were no clearly defined rules, a game in which your opponents are not merely trying to put a ball through a basket or push it across your goal line, but are instead trying to convince the broad public—at least implicitly, more often explicitly—that in matters of judgment, intelligence, values, and character, they are more worthy than you.

Given the strong odor of imminent failure

No one seemed to realize calculating sums requires only the most basic machinery and good concentration. Poetry is far more difficult. And palindromes, with their perfect, satisfying taste: Draw a level award! Yet it is always the thin gray grocery sums that make an impression.

Nos ocultaron que era tan difícil. Por tanto trazamos vírgenes imperfectas, sorprendidos al no hallar al final aquellos ojos vacíos —sino, por el contrario, dolor y remordimiento. Por eso nos herimos, por eso morimos. Pero se trata tan sólo de una cuestión de paciencia. De ejercicio.

It seemed he'd recently learned the value of playing up the difficulty of accomplishing whatever he was tasked with, the better to play the hero when he subsequently pulled it off. He was overusing the technique the way a child overuses a new word.

Prediction," as Niels Bohr liked to say, "is very difficult, especially if it's about the future.

The fact is that solving problems is hard. If a given problem still exists, you can bet that a lot of people have already come along and failed to solve it.

The fact is that solving problem is hard. If a given problem still exists, you can bet that a lot of people have already come along and failed to solve it. Easy problems evaporate; it is the hard ones that linger. Furthermore, it takes a lot of time to track down, organize, and analyze the data to answer one small question well.

The fact is that solving problems is hard. If a given problem still exists, you can bet that a lot of people have already come along and failed to solve it. Easy problems evaporate; it is the hard ones that linger. Furthermore, it takes a lot of time to track down, organize, and analyze the data to answer even one small question well.

The United States is in a tough spot.

While every human being has a capacity for love, its realization is one of the most difficult achievements.

It is not true that love makes all things easy; it makes us choose what is difficult.

I do not believe in loving enemies; I have pretty hard work to love my friends.

We knew marriage could be difficult in the same way that we knew there were starving children in Africa.

Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell.

Violence, after all, is no mystery. It's peace that's the mystery. Violence is the default. It's easy. It's peace that is difficult: learned, inculcated, earned.

Violence, after all, is no mystery. It's peace that's the mystery. Violence is the default. It's easy. It's peace that is difficult: learned, inculcated, earned. (People often get basic psychological questions backwards. Why do people take drugs? Not a mystery. It's why they don't take them all the time that's the mystery.

We'll start our analysis with a truism, stark, self-evident and understated: Sometimes things do not go well.

The great difficulty of assessing problems in sufficient detail to understand what is causing them, followed by the equally great difficulty of generating and testing particularized solutions, is sufficient to deter even the stouthearted, let us say, from daring to tackle a true plague of mankind.

You're associating with people who are bad for you not because it's better for anyone, but because it's easier.

That would be fine if trouble did not compound, like interest—but we all know that it does.

force them to discover with as much difficulty as possible exactly what they have done to disappoint you; and, finally, let them grope around blindly in the fog that you have generated around yourself until they stumble into and injure themselves on the sharp hidden edges of your unrevealed preferences and dreams.