Difficult Things Quotes

• Simplification is one of the most difficult things to do.

  Jonathan Ive

  Kindness, Business, Comeback

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• The most difficult thing is the decision to act!

  Amelia Earhart

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  "The Official Website of Amelia Earhart/ Quotes". www.ameliaearhart.com.

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• Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

  Laozi

  Uplifting, Journey, Difficult And Easy

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• All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Change, Motivation

  Laozi (1905). “The Simple Way”

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  The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Life, Positive

  Interview with Edward W. Desmond, Time magazine, December 04, 1989.

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• According to the ancient Chinese proverb, A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

  John F. Kennedy

  Travel, New Beginnings, Journey

  Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Address to the Nation, delivered 26 July 1963

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• All things are difficult before they are easy.

  Thomas Fuller

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Gnomologia". Book by Thomas Fuller, 560, 1732.

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• To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.

  Anatole France

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Introductory speech at a session of the French Academy, December 24, 1896.

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• It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Strength, Success

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

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• The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man without trials.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• Tough times never last, but tough people do.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Robert H. Schuller (1993). “Robert H Schuller: The Inspirational Writings : Tough Times Never Last, But Tough People Do/Tough Minded Faith for Tender Hearted People”, Bbs Publishing Corporation

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• A problem is a chance for you to do your best.

  Duke Ellington

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• You can do anything you decide to do.

  Amelia Earhart

  Decision, Process Of Change, Tenacity

  "The Official Website of Amelia Earhart/ Quotes". www.ameliaearhart.com.

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• Writin songs is like a mystery. The most difficult thing to do is have a good idea. If you have a decent idea, the songs are the easy part. Actually having something to say is the hard part. If you get an idea for a song, then it pulls you along. There are just some ideas that you get that are really hard to edit out; it's hard to stop thinking about some bad ideas. So you just finish it and you end up putting it on a record.

  Lyle Lovett

  Song, Thinking, Ideas

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• Give half a dozen men the same camera, lenses and plates, and send them to the same place to do the same thing, and all the results will be alike, or so nearly alike as to reveal the real mechanicalness of photography. Yet, curiously enough, this is just one of the most difficult things a photographer can be set to do, to exactly repeat himself, or another. He may use the identical apparatus, know the subject perfectly, and yet be totally unable to bring away an exact replica.

  Frederick H. Evans

  Photography, Real, Men

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• I was at the vice president's Christmas party. I thought that his speech was spectacular, and I knew that it was a very emotional and difficult thing for him to do, but I admonished him for not waiting just one more stinking day.

  Bradley Whitford

  Christmas, Party, Emotional

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• On the whole, dialogue is the most difficult thing, without any doubt. It's very difficult, unfortunately. You have to detach yourself from the notion of a lifelike quality. You see, actually lifelike, tape-recorded dialogue like this has very little to do with good novel dialogue. It's a matter of getting that awful tyranny of mimesis out of your mind, which is difficult.

  John Fowles

  Writing, Doubt, Mind

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• Crowds are the most difficult thing for me these days because I have to walk with my head down and my eyes averted. There's still that part of me that wants to hold my head up, make eye contact and smile.

  Cameron Diaz

  Happiness, Smile, Laughter

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• The most difficult thing about an easy match is to make a weak opponent play bad football.

  Johan Cruijff

  Soccer, Football, Play

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• I couldn't believe how good Jimi Hendrix was It was a really difficult thing for me to deal with, but I just had to surrender and say, 'This is fantastic.'

  Eric Clapton

  Music, Believe, Surrender

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• Freedom is not synonymous with an easy life. ... There are many difficult things about freedom: It does not give you safety, it creates moral dilemmas for you; it requires self-discipline; it imposes great responsibilities; but such is the nature of Man and in such consists his glory and salvation.

  Margaret Thatcher

  War, Responsibility, Men

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• You may have been taught that the mind (the spirit, the brain) is a very difficult thing to know about. This is the first principle of Scientology: It is possible to know about the mind, the spirit and life.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Philosophy, Brain, Mind

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• 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

  Thinking, Numbers, People

  "Q&A: Napster creator Shawn Fanning". Interview with Giancarlo Varanini, www.zdnet.com. March 3, 2000.

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• The difficult thing about practice isn't learning to sit for an hour, or sit for a weekend, or go on a three-month retreat, as hard as those things are. The difficult thing is to pay attention to what is happening right here and now.

  Larry Rosenberg

  Weekend, Practice, Pay

  Larry Rosenberg (2004). “Breath by Breath: The Liberating Practice of Insight Meditation”, p.91, Shambhala Publications

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• Good manners and soft words have brought many a difficult thing to pass.

  John Vanbrugh

  Justice, Good Man, Ethics

  John Vanbrugh (1730). “Esop. [By Sir John Vanbrugh.]”, p.54

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