Quotes About Difficulty

The finished man, you know, is difficult to please; a growing mind will ever show you gratitude. --Faust 1, lines 182-3

Calamity is man's true touchstone.

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.

To make a film is very difficult - it doesn't make a difference whether you are a man or a woman

If the road is easy, you're likely going the wrong way.

If the road is easy, you're likely going the wrong way.

There is a rumour going around that I have found God. I think this is unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is empirical evidence that they exist.

Life is not an arrangement of flowers or a walk in the park

If it was difficult for a visitor to find anything to eat impromptu in Moscow, Havana, Tirana, Bucharest, or Pyongyang, it took little effort to understand the connection of this difficulty with the vulgar anti-commercialism of Saint Karl and Saint Vladimir. Indeed, it would have taken all the ingenuity of the cleverest academics not to have understood it.

Nothing in this world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty.

I have climbed Everest from the Nepal route and the China route. The other routes are too hard for me. So I don't think I can climb Everest again.

It was quite difficult to find a place to do what we wanted, namely to study the neurological basis of behaviour and especially learning and memory, which we were particularly interested in.

Anytime you play New England, you know it's going to be a challenge.

You can't really describe how difficult it is to deal with. It is any athlete's worst nightmare to be accused of cheating by taking drugs. It really is very difficult to put into words how it makes you feel.

There is no doubt that it is more difficult to read and more difficult to write but I still manage.

It's not the easiest life in the world, but then no life is easy.

I have made a number of movies that I have never seen. It's not a matter of ego. It's a matter of being disappointed. It's really a shame. It's just as difficult to make a movie that no one cares about as to make a hit.

I have a reading problem and it's hard for me to read books. But I had no problem with the 'Emerald Forest' script.

My life could send healthy people into comas

The longer it goes on, the harder its going to be.

In other words, it is impossible: we cannot function properly, and the evening ends in confusion and awkwardness, and very early.

The difficulty in life is the choice. —George Moore The Bending of the Bough

Being loved is easy. It's the loving that's difficult.

This was supposed to be easy. Why isn't it?