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Quotes About Difficulty

Rocket science has been mythologized all out of proportion to its true difficulty.
~ John Carmack
It is indeed a matter of great difficulty to discover, and effectually to distinguish, the true motions of particular bodies from the apparent because the parts of that immovable space, in which those motions are performed, do by no means come under the observation of our senses.
~ Isaac Newton
If falling into desperation worked to make things better, then I would say, 'Let's all jump into despair.' But it doesn't help. The only way to truly find meaning and fulfillment is to look at the disaster, the pain, the difficulty, and know with complete certainty that good can come from this.
~ Yehuda Berg
I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.
~ Jesus Christ
I think life is difficult and that's that. I am not at all - absolutely not at all - interested in the pursuit of happiness. I am not interested in the pursuit of positivity. I am interested in pursuing a truth, and the truth often seems to be not happiness but its opposite.
~ Jamaica Kincaid
The first film is everything you want to say and how you want to say it. Lots of directors will do that and do it really well, but the second film is not so easy.
~ John Hurt
There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure-all your life.
~ John W. Gardner
I don't even have many friends anymore because I backed away from them. When things went wrong for me I didn't want them to have any part of my trouble.
~ Betty Hutton
Being a musician, you want to be able to do the hardest stuff there is. People would think it's classical, but in classical, it's all on the page and the difficulty is keeping up with the music.
~ Brian McKnight
It's always been difficult for me to find funding for a story that I want to follow in real time. Financiers are hesitant to support a project when they don't know the outcome.
~ Chris Hegedus
quagmire of verbosity
~ Steven Erikson
I want to show how difficult was the discovery of modern science, how far from obvious are its practices and standards.
~ Steven Weinberg
He wrinkled his nose in vexation, struggling for words to form concepts he barely grasped.
~ Storm Constantine
You'll find individuals agreeing on this, but when they get into collective societies and larger groups they find it difficult to achieve group agreement.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
They're like sleeping in a soft bed. Easy to get into and hard to get out of.
~ Johnny Bench
Computers in general, and software in particular, are much more difficult than other kinds of technology for most people to grok, and they overwhelm us with a sense of mystery.
~ Om Malik
To pay more is the easy way. In fact, the solution possibilities to the problem are many.
~ Vladimir Putin
The easiest way to solve a problem is to pick an easy one.
~ Franklin P. Jones
The problem to solve is, whether a single or a double government would be most advantageous; and, in considering that point, I am met by this difficulty - that I cannot see that the present form of government is a double government at all.
~ Richard Cobden
The way of life is not as easy as some people think... like me.
~ Mattie Stepanek
Some things get written more quickly than others, but I can't really measure degrees of difficulty.
~ Paul Auster
If you have somebody who can just do everything easily, then it's kind of boring. If you're handcuffed to a chair and you've got to fight while your handcuffed, or something like that, it just adds a cool element.
~ Ruben Fleischer
Having love and not giving it is just as difficult as not having love and needing it
~ Katerina Stoykova Klemer
Una geiko de categoría es maestra en el arte de crear un ambiente de distensión y esparcimiento, sin embargo, yo no disfruto en particular con la compañía de otros. Una geiko de renombre nunca está sola, pero yo siempre he amado la soledad. ¿No es extraño? Parece que hubiese escogido de forma deliberada el camino que entrañaba para mí mayores dificultades, una senda que me obligase a afrontar y superar mis limitaciones personales.
~ Mineko Iwasaki