Difficult Things Quotes - Page 2

• One of the most difficult things is not to change society - but to change yourself.

  Nelson Mandela

  Love, Life, Change

  Twitter post from Mar 19, 2017

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• The most difficult thing for us seems to be to give of ourselves, to do away with selfishness. If we really love someone, nothing is too difficult for us to do for that individual. There is no real happiness in having or getting unless we are doing it for the purpose of giving it to others. Half the world seems to be following the wrong scent in the pursuit of happiness-many think it consists of having and getting and being served, when really happiness is found in serving others.

  Nathan Eldon Tanner

  Selfish, Real, Pursuit Of Happiness

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• Pittsburgh have showed me a couple deals, but we all know the money ain't what it's supposed to be. If I quit the game right now, I can take tax-free money, and that's a difficult thing that I'm going through with myself.

  Jermichael Finley

  Couple, Games, Pittsburgh

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• It's a very difficult thing for people to accept, seeing women act out anger on the screen. We're more accustomed to seeing men expressing rage and women crying.

  Rebecca De Mornay

  Anger, Men, People

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• I have realized that you can close yourself off to life if you put walls up, but it's a difficult thing ... You can't see over, people can't see in, and you also can't see out. So I've gotten quite comfortable with just being unafraid. I keep saying the same thing: it's not about being fearless but really just embracing the fears and using them.

  Kristen Stewart

  Wall, People, Fearless

  "Kristen Stewart Covers V Magazine, Says She ‘Loves People,’ & Is ‘Comfortable Being Unafraid’". www.huffingtonpost.com. January 3, 2013.

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• As in Mathematicks, so in Natural Philosophy, the Investigation of difficult Things by the Method of Analysis, ought ever to precede the Method of Composition. This Analysis consists in making Experiments and Observations, and in drawing general Conclusions from them by Induction, and admitting of no Objections against the Conclusions, but such as are taken from Experiments, or other certain Truths. For Hypotheses are not to be regarded in experimental Philosophy.

  Isaac Newton

  Truth, Philosophy, Taken

  Optics Book III, Part I

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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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• Having a true faith is the most difficult thing in the world. Many will try to take it from you.

  Steve Prefontaine

  Motivational, Running, Trying

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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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• The capacity to give one's attention to a sufferer is a very rare and difficult thing; it is almost a miracle; it is a miracle. Nearly all those who think they have the capacity do not possess it.

  Simone Weil

  Sympathy, Thinking, Compassion

  Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.36, Routledge

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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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• The most difficult thing to understand during conversation is silence.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Silence, Speech, Conversation

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• A stroke is a very difficult thing. You get depressed. . . . What I found was this: the cure for depression is to think of others, to do for others. You can always find something to be grateful for.

  Kirk Douglas

  Gratitude, Grateful, Thinking

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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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• To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.

  Oscar Wilde

  Happiness, Simplicity, Lazy

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.996, Wordsworth Editions

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• Certainly the plagiarism, and dealing with the fallout of it, was the most difficult thing I've ever faced since I started writing.

  Nora Roberts

  Writing, Plagiarism, Difficult

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• The word 'belief' is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it - I don't need to believe it.

  Carl Jung

  Believe, Needs, Belief

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• One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is that assumption on the part of the staff that because you have lost your gall bladder you have also lost your mind.

  Jean Kerr

  Women, Memorable, Health

  Jean Kerr (1959). “Please Don't Eat the Daisies”

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• I think that the most difficult thing is allowing yourself to be loved, so receiving the love and feeling like you deserve it is a pretty big struggle. I suppose that's what I've learnt recently, to allow myself to be loved.

  Nicole Kidman

  Struggle, Thinking, Feelings

  FaceBook post by Nicole Kidman from Nov 17, 2016

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• I think the difficult thing is the transition between TV competition series and going into the actual music industry. There still seems to be a slight disconnect there.

  Adam Lambert

  Thinking, Competition, Transition

  "Adam Lambert talks new album, 'Idol' knock-offs". Interview With Derrik J. Lang, www.yahoo.com. May 14, 2012.

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• It's an incredibly difficult thing to bring a giraffe down. They can kill a lion with a single blow from their feet.

  Joanna Lumley

  Blow, Feet, Lions

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• You have to keep your sanity as well as know how to distance yourself from it while still holding onto the reins tightly. That is a very difficult thing to do, but I'm learning.

  Diahann Carroll

  Distance, Holding On, Sanity

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• Hitting a baseball well, as in cricket, is a very rare skill. One of most difficult things to do in the world to do, hitting a ball coming at you at ninety miles an hour with a round bat. Wonderful to watch.

  Peter Tork

  Baseball, Skills, Bats

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• What I learned is, we have to listen to each other, even when we don't agree, even when we think we hate each other. We have to listen to each others narratives. Not interrupt defensively, or with hostility, but really try to open our hearts and listen with empathy. I learned so much from that meeting. It was a very difficult thing to do and it was one of the best things that I ever did in my life. Look what scares you in the face, and try to understand it. Empathy, I have learned, is revolutionary.

  Jane Fonda

  Hate, Heart, Thinking

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• That's one of the difficult things of being an actor that I'm still not used to. You have to go, you have to show up at these places where you know nobody, and sometimes with really impressive, high stakes people like Roman Polanski.

  John C. Reilly

  People, Actors, Sometimes

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