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Quotes About Difficulty

La vida sin esperanzas es tremendamente difícil, pero con cuánta facilidad consigue la esperanza, en definitiva, volvernos necios a todos.
~ Henry Marsh
Just as it is irresistible to save a life, it is also very difficult to tell somebody that I cannot save them
~ Henry Marsh
He felt all the torment of his and her position, all the difficulties they were surrounded by in consequence of their station in life, which exposed them to the eyes of the whole world, obliged them to hide their love, to lie and deceive, and again to lie and deceive, to scheme and constantly think about others while the passion that bound them was so strong that they both forgot everything but their love.
~ Leo Tolstoy
the superfluity of the comforts of like destroys all joy in satisfying one's needs, while great freedom in the choice of occupation...is just what makes the choice of occupation insoluble difficult and destroys the need and even the possibility of having an occupation. p 1209
~ Leo Tolstoy
A change began to come over his work, which gave him immense satisfaction. In the midst of his toil there were moments during which he forgot what he was doing, and it came all easy to him, and at those same moments his row was almost as smooth and well cut as Tit's. But so soon as he recollected what he was doing, and began trying to do better, he was at once conscious of all the difficulty of his task, and the row was badly mown.
~ Leo Tolstoy
It is very difficult to tell the truth, and young people are rarely capable of it. His
~ Leo Tolstoy
È sempre difficile che l'ovvio e il sensato entrino in un processo.
~ Leonardo Sciascia
For unfortunately, simplicity is a state which is mostly achieved only through great difficulty, or the complicity of others.
~ Lesley Blanch
Every difficulty and every temptation that comes our way, if we receive it correctly, is God's opportunity.
~ Lettie B. Cowman
it wasn't that things were harder than you thought they were going to be, it was that they were hard in ways that you didn't expect.
~ Lev Grossman
With the caveat that it is much more difficult and much more dangerous and much more interesting to be a magician than it is to be a carpenter.
~ Lev Grossman
Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.
~ Niels Bohr
I think the most difficult thing had been scaling the infrastructure. Trying to support the response we had received from our users and the number of people that were interested in using the software.
~ Shawn Fanning
We were using a hand-held camera to film the scene when Morse collapses. The camera wouldn't start. Three times they said action and it still wouldn't work. To this day, they still don't know what was wrong.
~ John Thaw
I'd say 'Codename Baboushka' has been a slightly more difficult process for me, but I think that's precisely because it's quite different to my usual fare. And even then, being difficult doesn't make me prefer it, or not, to anything else. I like a challenge.
~ Antony Johnston
After Rio, I joined the gymnastics team at the University of Utah. It was a hard transition, because I've always competed in elite gymnastics, where we throw big skills. In college, you don't get any points for difficulty, but once I got the hang of it, it was a piece of cake.
~ MyKayla Skinner
Many have argued that a vacuum does not exist, others claim it exists only with difficulty in spite of the repugnance of nature; I know of no one who claims it easily exists without any resistance from nature.
~ Evangelista Torricelli
There were seven thermonuclear devices? queried Parks, who had latched on to Jack's outlandish explanation without too much difficulty, as should you.
~ Jasper Fforde
People have never had a problem disposing of the past when it gets too difficult. Flesh will burn, photos will burn, and memory, what is that?
~ Jeanette Winterson
I love you. The three most difficult words in the world. But what else can I say?
~ Jeanette Winterson
Among the many short cuts to science, we badly need someone to teach us the art of learning with difficulty.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I've been trying to get away from physical violence; it's too easy; it doesn't satisfy me artistically to work with it. Dramatic violence is much more interesting, but it's much more difficult.
~ Nicolas Winding Refn
I always find it particularly difficult to work in New York because there are so many things to do.
~ Sigourney Weaver
When I really have to push and grope and scratch and claw to make a story work, that's a telltale sign that maybe something conceptually isn't right.
~ David E. Kelley