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Quotes About Difficulty

The difficulty with humorists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don't—whichever seems likelier to win an effect.
~ John Updike, Rabbit, Run
Its easy to know what you want to say, but not to say it
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
it is these miracles of execution," Clausewitz writes, "that we should really admire."9 The fact is that in war "things do not happen of their own accord like a well-oiled machine, indeed the machine itself starts to create resistance, and overcoming it demands enormous willpower on the part of the leader."10 In war, "everything is very simple, but the simplest thing is difficult… taking action in war is movement in a resistant medium."11
~ Stephen Bungay
We are motivated more by aversion to the unpleasant than by a will toward truth, freedom, or healing. We are constantly attempting to escape our life, to avoid rather than enter our pain we, and we wonder why it is so difficult to be fully alive. (43)
~ Stephen Levine
Death is Peaceful, Life is Harder
~ Stephenie Meyer
What's wrong?
~ Steve Alten
Doing a house is so much harder than doing a skyscraper.
~ Philip Johnson
In Germany, they have great difficulty with anything that smacks of cultism or messianic leadership. You can't talk about leadership in its charismatic forms.
~ David Whyte
As someone who has owned a small business in the past, I understand how difficult it can be to get a loan.
~ Tony Cardenas
Letter scrambling and trouble reading is just a small part of dyslexia. It is also an auditory processing problem.
~ Philip Schultz
After 'The Gamekeeper' I made one other film called 'Looks and Smiles,' but making British films was very difficult. There wasn't a tradition of British cinema.
~ Ken Loach
I know nothing about education except this: that the greatest and the most important difficulty known to human learning seems to lie in that area which treats how to bring up children and how to educate them.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Nur das Notwendige ist schwer, nur was wiegt, hat Wert.
~ Milan Kundera
Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient
~ Milton Berle
That all things are possible to him who believes, that they are less difficult to him who hopes, they are more easy to him who loves, and still more easy to him who perseveres in the practice of these three virtues.
~ Brother Lawrence
The difficulty lies in the very expression "relation to the world," which presupposes two sorts of domains, that of nature and that of culture, domains that are at once distinct and impossible to separate completely.
~ Bruno Latour
The irony is that the struggle to win love and approval makes it very difficult to experience them. Chronic
~ Byron Katie
Being smart doesn't mean being skilled at social interaction. No one ever said being a genius was easy.
~ Caren Lissner
The technological perils that science serves up, its implicit challenge to received wisdom, and its perceived difficulty, are all reasons for some people to mistrust and avoid it.
~ Carl Sagan
MarkBaynard: You know what they say- dying is easy; comedy is hard.
~ Teresa Medeiros
Nothing is ever easy.
~ Terry Goodkind
A bully, thought Susan. A very small, weak, very dull bully, who doesn't manage any real bullying because there's hardly anyone smaller and weaker than him, so he just makes everyone's lives just that little bit more difficult…
~ Terry Pratchett
Jesus said that it is as difficult for a wealthy person to enter the Kingdom of God as it is for a camel to go through the eye of a needle.
~ Thích Nh?t H?nh
Using your intelligence and your compassion, you'll be able to find your way out of any difficulty that arises in daily life. This gives you greater confidence in your own capability, making you even more solid.
~ Thích Nh?t H?nh