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Quotes About Difficulty

Writing is so difficult. It's one of those things everyone thinks they can do, just because they can put together an email. But doing it well is another story.
~ Jordan Castillo Price
La ilegalidad es peligrosa y complicada. Requiere paciencia, sagacidad, viveza y un espíritu siempre alerta. No es fácil mantener íntegros los cuidados que exige. Difícil
~ Jorge Amado
Quisiera entonces que no encuentren la lupa, que no miren de cerca lo difícil, eso no nuestro, tan desprecio, tan asco. Pero insisten y, como soy patriota, digo: "Sucede que los Incas". En donde queda, dí, dí qué le hicieron.
~ Jorge Enrique Adoum
Sólo lo difícil es estimulante; sólo la resistencia que nos reta, es capaz de enarcar, suscitar y mantener nuestra potencia de conocimiento
~ José Lezama Lima
Were not this desire of fame very strong, the difficulty of obtaining it, and the danger of losing it when obtained, would be sufficient to deter a man from so vain a pursuit.
~ Joseph Addison
Getting money out of some people was harder than getting blood from a stone.
~ Joseph Delaney
Dave frowned. "You`re telling me about a failure. What happened?
~ Joseph Hansen
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.
~ Joseph Lancaster
The complaint of bad pay, and difficulty in obtaining it, is almost generally reiterated through every department of education.
~ Joseph Lancaster
A painful difficulty about happiness is that we so rarely notice its arrival.
~ Joseph O'Connor
Carl Joseph turned red. It seemed as if his father, the rain, the clocks, people, time, and nature itself were determined to make his trip even more difficult. On those afternoons when he had managed to visit the living Frau Slama, he had also listened for the golden stroke of the bells, as impatient as today, but intent on not finding the sergeant in. Those afternoons seemed buried behind many decades. Death overshadowed and concealed them, Death
~ Joseph Roth
Sometimes the right choice can be the hardest one.
~ Erin Hunter
To keep the absolute difficulty level constant, whenever you increase the time pressure on a player, you should also reduce the amount of intrinsic skill required.
~ Ernest Adams
The relative difficulty is the difficulty of a challenge relative to the player's power to meet that challenge.
~ Ernest Adams
The perceived difficulty of a challenge—the difficulty that the player actually senses, and the type we are most concerned with—consists of the relative difficulty minus the player's experience at meeting such challenges. Remembering that relative difficulty is absolute difficulty minus power provided, we can put all these factors together into a single equation such that perceived difficulty = absolute difficulty - (power provided + in-game experience)
~ Ernest Adams
In the most general sense, a balanced game is fair to the player (or players), is neither too easy nor too hard, and makes the skill of the player the most important factor in determining his success. In
~ Ernest Adams
Don't confuse the term games of progression with other ideas about progression in games, such as leveling up, difficulty curves, skill trees, and so on. We use Juul's definition of the term: A game of progression is one that offers predesigned challenges, each of which often has exactly one solution, in a fixed (or only slightly variable) sequence.
~ Ernest Adams
Kira Underwood was right, when she said that life was like an extremely difficult, horribly unbalanced videogame. But sometimes the game can have a surprise ending….
~ Ernest Cline
The translator's task is essentially a difficult and often a thankless one. He is severely criticized if he makes a mistake, but only faintly praised when he succeeds, for often it is assumed that anyone who know two languages ought to be able to do as well as the translator who has labored to produce a text.
~ Eugene A. Nida
Traveling in the way of faith and climbing the ascent to Christ may be difficult, but it is not worrisome. The weather may be adverse, but it is never fatal. We may slip and stumble and fall, but the rope will hold us.
~ Eugene H. Peterson
Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties.
~ Dalai Lama
There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it with reluctance.
~ Jean Racine
Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians.
~ Edsger Dijkstra
Doing scripted acting is a challenge to me. I can't remember things too good, so remembering lines is a challenge to your boy.
~ Flavor Flav