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Quotes About Difficulty

Big plays are such a huge factor in the outcome of games. It is so difficult to go the distance on a defense.
~ Mike McCarthy
I'm not very good at talking and being with people and being gregarious and outgoing. I love people, but I have great difficulty doing it.
~ Charlotte Rampling
In no relationship at the top of any walk of life is it always easy, least of all in politics which matters so much and which is conducted in such a piercing spotlight.
~ Tony Blair
Eva, I recognize your confusion. It is not always easy to understand another's spirit, especially if you do not know where to look" -Rovender
~ Tony DiTerlizzi
I find writing very difficult. It's hard and it hurts sometimes, and it's scary because of the fear of failure and the very unpleasant feeling that you may have reached the limit of your abilities.
~ Tony Kushner
If you know that life is basically going to be horrendously difficult, at best, and all but unlivable at worst, or possibly even unlivable, do you go on? And the choice to go on is the only thing that I think can be called hope. Because if hope isn't forced to encounter the worst possibility, then it's a lie.
~ Tony Kushner
Of course it's almost ludicrously difficult to talk about art. And about beauty. Beauty is a perversion--how can you retain your self-respect when you talk about it?
~ Unknown
Irrational terror is so hard to deal with.
~ Tove Jansson
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~ Tove Jansson
Sometimes, Reynie, trouble itself is the key. - Mr. Benedict
~ Trenton Lee Stewart
Dose MY CASHOOOS," Bumblebee announced grumpily. "Snudoo in BIG TRUBUBBLE.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Shantideva says: If you are trained, There is nothing which will not become easy. First by training to tolerate minor problems, Later you will become able to tolerate great problems.
~ Tulku Thondup
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~ Patrick O'Brian
To kiss and to kill are similar words to eyes that focus with difficulty.
~ Patrick White
The United States granted asylum to exactly eight of 24,559 Haitian refugees applying for political asylum during that period [1981]... only 20 percent of those polled [in the US] said immigration should be easier for Haitians, while 55 percent said it should be more difficult. After a decade during which less than 0.5 percent of Haitian applicants were granted asylum, one wonders how much more difficult it could be.
~ Paul Farmer
That averaging gets to be a problem. I think the single biggest problem afflicting large companies is the difficulty of assigning a value to each person's work.
~ Paul Graham
An abundance of leisure uninformed by a philosophy of life, substantial intellectual resources, or religious belief of some kind may give rise to escapism, meaningless routines, or rushing around. It seems that human beings are not programmed to enjoy unlimited amounts of leisure without unease and difficulty.
~ Unknown
Suffering has no value, but you have to suffer in order to know that. I never found it easy to travel, yet the difficulty in it made it satisfying because it seemed in that way to resemble the act of writing - groping around in the dark, wandering into the unknown, coming to understand the condition of strangeness.
~ Paul Theroux
The hardest thing was simply to speak.
~ Pauline Réage
However difficult it may be to accept what happens to us, one must understand that moments such as this give us the possibility for radical change in our behavior.
~ Paulo Coelho
The essence of life is that it's challenging.
~ Pema Chodron
The central question of a warrior's training is not how we avoid uncertainty and fear but how we relate to discomfort. How do we practice with difficulty, with our emotions, with the unpredictable encounters of an ordinary day?
~ Pema Chodron
The pragmatist knows that doubt is an art which hs to be acquired with difficulty.
~ Charles Sanders Peirce
Whenever things sound easy, it turns out there's one part you didn't hear.
~ Donald E. Westlake