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Quotes About Difficulty

I find as long as I acknowledge the truth of something, then that's it. I know what it is and then I can operate. But if I overestimate the downside of something or the challenge of something and I get too obsessed about the difficulty of it, then I don't leave enough room to be open to the upside, the possibility.
~ Michael J. Fox
Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity. From discord find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
~ Albert Einstein
That which hinders your task is your task.
~ Sanford Meisner
Rarely is any good done without difficulty; the devil is too subtle and the world too corrupt not to attempt to nip such a good work in the bud
~ Vincent de Paul
Art really is something very difficult. It is difficult to make, and it is sometimes difficult for the viewer to understand. It is difficult to work out what is art and what is not art.
~ Anselm Kiefer
Chess is difficult, it demands work, serious reflection and zealous research.
~ Wilhelm Steinitz
I'd been told there are 10 difficult holes and eight impossible ones. I'm still trying to work out which the 10 difficult holes are.
~ Lee Westwood
But I found that being an artist and doing accurate work is very difficult.
~ Alan Bean
For me, meditation's hard because I feel like I have developed 'cultural attention-deficit disorder,' where, because we have so much stimulation, I feel like I have trouble focusing on things for very long. So when I try to meditate, my brain gets so scattered.
~ Shawn Achor
The ability to select stocks, manage them over time and know when to sell them is incredibly difficult, even for professional fund managers.
~ Barry Ritholtz
I barely can go shopping for clothes. I find it difficult to walk into stores. The whole thing bores me so much.
~ Paul Auster
I know my own soul, how feeble and puny it is: I know the magnitude of this ministry, and the great difficulty of the work; for more stormy billows vex the soul of the priest than the gales which disturb the sea.
~ John Chrysostom
I think storytelling is a thing of beauty, and also very difficult. It's a craft you have to continue to work at.
~ James Gray
I find it hard to deliver straightforward things.
~ Ang Lee
The strange thing about the Olympics is that delivering on your potential is always quite difficult.
~ Nathan Outteridge
I personally think skateboarding is harder because it has so many moving parts. With snowboarding, your feet are strapped to your board.
~ Shaun White
Most situations are simple—many are just emotionally difficult to act upon.
~ Timothy Ferriss
If you've got enough money to solve the problem, you don't have the problem." In
~ Timothy Ferriss
We shouldn't be surprised when suffering and difficulty come our way; in fact, we should probably be surprised when they don't.
~ Timothy S. Lane
Along with that, the Bible continually reminds us that God sends the uncomfortable grace of trial not to crush or discourage us, but to mature and refine us. As we are realistic about difficulty, that needs to be our hope.
~ Timothy S. Lane
Name the problem.
~ Timothy S. Lane
Pursuing comfortable relationships and avoiding difficult ones
~ Timothy S. Lane
They have all faced the difficulty of having relationships with flawed people in a broken world, and they have opted to check out.
~ Timothy S. Lane
I like to crack the jokes now and again, but it's only because I struggle with math.
~ Tina Fey