Quotes About Difficulty

He that has never suffered extreme adversity knows not the full extent of his own depravation.

Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself- it is the occurring which is difficult.

But, Christ on a tricycle, Roarke, this is going to be a pain in my ass.

What's the problem?

This was trouble--of the bury-your-dead variety.

Indeed, it is almost a rule that the more simple and commonplace something is, the more difficult it is to understand it.

With 'Django Unchained,' when you're dealing with slavery, it's like a gymnastics routine with the highest amount of difficulty. Quentin Tarantino is not going to do a movie that's just going to lay there and be safe. There's going to be twists and flips.

I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty.

I don't feel as if I'm typecast - like any writer, the difficulty is that one facet of my identity becomes louder, obscuring the fact that I'm also a woman, a writer, a lover of pop culture and other things.

When you have a big, ugly problem, there's never going to be a neat, elegant solution that is totally painless or without a cost.

For some small number of people, a parental loss appears to be, ultimately, a desirable difficulty - again, not a large number.

I've told lots of lies in my life. I try not to lie, but I still do. It's very difficult to get to 37 and not be ashamed of something you've done. But I think your life is easier, ultimately, if you're honest.

It was extremely difficult to suppress my emotions, because my character in' A Girl at My Door' goes through so many infuriating situations. It was a lonely process having to portray someone that acts tough but is deeply hurting inside and is unable to express that.

In general, a lot of content creators find that their success is unable to support any sort of organization of scale. It's pretty difficult to support even three or four employees.

You know that thing people say, 'poetry is the hardest, stories are the second hardest, novels are the easiest?' I'm here to tell you that novels are the hardest. Writing a novel is unbelievably difficult. It's nightmarish.

In war everything is simple, but it's the simple things that are difficult.

The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.

I do find life difficult at times … and I behave childishly too, do foolish things, unworthy … I don't think one can have great imagination and great wisdom. Can one?

Wisdom is not found with those who dwell at their ease; rather nature, when she adds brain, adds difficulty.

It is the easiest thing in the world to go to astray, but always difficult to return.

Have patience. Everything is difficult before it is easy.

Life, people learned, was not easy. Life was not cake. Life was not a carrot cake.

it is our mistaken perception of who we are that's causing the difficulty.

It was better to talk, which would be a helluva lot easier if he would just talk back a little. Damn it, it was like pulling a teeth to get him to say anything. Like right now. He'd gone completely silent on her again, leaving the ball in her court, where the ball had been for the last half an hour.