Difficulty Quotes - Page 4

• Between you and every goal that you wish to achieve, there is a series of obstacles, and the bigger the goal, the bigger the obstacles.

  Brian Tracy

  Goal, Wish, Obstacles

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• It seems to me that when I see nature I see it ready-made, completely written - but then, try to do it!

  Claude Monet

  Trying, Made, Ready

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• I have once more taken up things that can't be done: water with grasses weaving on the bottom. But I'm always tackling that sort of thing!

  Claude Monet

  Taken, Water, Done

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• It was a startling task to undertake, for the Book of Mormon had never been illustrated before, at least on any professional level. There were no precedents.

  Arnold Friberg

  Book, Tasks, Levels

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• Only the four corners of the background remained. It was terribly difficult to fix my eyes on all of them at the same time. My experience was that the most difficult thing of all in art is painting in all four corners at the same time.

  Arnulf Rainer

  Art, Eye, Four

  Arnulf Rainer, Rudolf Herman Fuchs, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Haags Gemeentemuseum (1989). “Arnulf Rainer: an exhibition curated”, Solomon R Guggenheim Museum

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• What makes you think painting is any less difficult than brain surgery?

  Christopher Willard

  Thinking, Make You Think, Brain

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• It's difficult to paint every day, and people who say they do, probably don't; it's a very demanding thing.

  Roger de Grey

  People, Paint, Difficult

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• No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Motivational, Respect

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.2405, e-artnow

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• The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.

  John Berger

  Dream, Dog, Philosophy

  John Berger (2011). “Keeping a Rendezvous”, p.231, Vintage

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• The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Education, Teacher, Trying

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• If we wait until our lives are free from sorrow or difficulty, then we wait forever. And miss the entire point.

  Dirk Benedict

  Sympathy, Courage, Condolences

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• Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.

  Frederic Chopin

  Inspirational, Motivational, Empathy

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• Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Inspiration, Thinking, Order

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• The sense organs experience the external light, sound, etc. with difficulty; the different sense organs only have a so-called specific receptivity for particular stimuli.

  Johannes Peter Muller

  Light, Sound, Different

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• It's the difficulty we had with Mr. Bean, actually, when it went from TV to film. You certainly discover that you need to explain more about a character.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Character, Needs, Tvs

  "An Interview with Rowan Atkinson". Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. July 18, 2003.

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• The difficulty is capturing surprise on film.

  F. Murray Abraham

  Surprise, Film

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

  Peter De Vries

  Love, Marriage, Wedding

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• To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.

  Samuel Johnson

  Happiness, Inner Peace, Trying

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1837). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq”, p.343

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• Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process.

  Sai Baba

  Spiritual, Encouragement, Learning

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• It really is appallingly difficult to do something which is complete in every respect, and I think most people are content with mere approximations. Well, my dear friend, I intend to battle on, scrape off and start again.

  Claude Monet

  Thinking, People, Battle

  Claude Monet (2014). “Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters”, Chartwell

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• The road to Lourdes is littered with crutches, but not one wooden leg.

  Emile Zola

  Legs, Crutches, Lourdes

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• Because there is something difficult and destructive involved, there must be something creative involved as well. Relating to that creative aspect is the point.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Creative, Aspect, Difficult

  Chogyam Trungpa (2011). “Work, Sex, Money: Real Life on the Path of Mindfulness”, p.6, Shambhala Publications

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• Difficulties give us the opportunity to prove our greatness by overcoming them.

  Meher Baba

  Opportunity, Greatness, Giving

  Meher Baba's message dictated to Sanjeeva Reddy at Guruprasad (June 6, 1960), as quoted in Charles Benjamin Purdom "The God Man: The Life, Journeys and Work of Meher Baba with an Interpretation of His Silence and Spiritual Teaching" (p. 353), December 25, 1964.

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• You have it in your power to make your days on Earth a path of flowers, instead of a path of thorns.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Flower, Path, Earth

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