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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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• But anyone who's done a musical knows; whether you're dancing or not, physically it's the most difficult thing you can do.

  Hugh Jackman

  Dancing, Musical, Done

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• Holding a note is a very difficult thing - you have to use your whole body to achieve a perfect pitch.

  Daphne Guinness

  Perfect, Use, Body

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• Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Motivational, Thinking

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• The most difficult thing is the organization of people and the expression of your intentions. It's very easy to have a picture in your head and to imagine that you've told everybody about what you need.

  Neil Jordan

  Expression, Organization, People

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• The aim of science is to make difficult things understandable in a simpler way; the aim of poetry is to state simple things in an incomprehensible way. The two are incompatible.

  Paul Dirac

  Simple, Two, Way

  "Dirac: A Scientific Biography". Book by Helge Kragh, p. 258, 1990.

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• I've found in composing that being simple and profound—having in-depthness in your music—is the most difficult thing to do. Anybody can write a whole lot of notes, which may or may not say something . . . But why make it complicated for the musicians to play? Why make it difficult for the listeners to hear?

  Horace Silver

  Writing, Simple, Play

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• I think the two most difficult things to deal with in life are failure and success

  David Lee Roth

  Thinking, Two, Success And Failure

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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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• We accept that sometimes in difficult circumstances, difficult things happen.

  Tony Abbott

  Sometimes, Accepting, Difficult

  "Abbott faces questions over comments in Sri Lanka". "The World Today" with Eleanor Hall, www.abc.net.au. November 18, 2013.

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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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• 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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• One of the most difficult things to learn is to render service without bossing, without making a fuss about it, and without any consciousness of high and low. In the world of spirituality, humility counts at least as much as utility.

  Meher Baba

  Humility, World, Spirituality

  "Discourses". Book by Meher Baba, 1967.

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• Being thrown into the fire and getting the thing turned around in a hurry made it more difficult. Things have been done the hard way. I think you learn better when things are done the hard way.

  John Elway

  Thinking, Fire, Done

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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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• I'm not using drugs to get high like many people think. I know I made a big mistake when I started using this sh-. It's a very difficult thing to explain. My liver is not functioning and I'm throwing up all the time and shitting my pants. The pain is more than you can handle. It's the worst pain in the world. Dope sick hurts the entire body.

  Layne Staley

  Hurt, Pain, Mistake

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• The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch someone else do it wrong without comment.

  T. H. White

  Funny, Patience, Humor

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• Perfection is something we should all strive for. It's a duty and a joy to perfect one's nature... The most difficult thing is love. A loveless, driving person that just competes in the rat race is far from perfection in my book.

  R. D. Laing

  Book, Perfect One, Race

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• People are the most difficult thing in the world to change

  Gena Showalter

  People, World, Difficult

  Gena Showalter (2006). “Oh My Goth”, p.219, Simon and Schuster

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• When you surrender, the problem ceases to exist. Try to solve it, or conquer it, and you only set up more resistance. . . . The most difficult thing to admit, and to realize with one's whole being, is that you alone control nothing. . . .

  Henry Miller

  Trying, Resistance, Problem

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• Sometimes when things get hard, we tend to set our sights on what's hard, that difficult thing that keeps us upset, and we turn our back on our strengths.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Sight, Upset, Sometimes

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• I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things: disease and death... I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals.

  Emma Thompson

  Witty, Disease And Death, People

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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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• This is something that I'm sure I'd have serious debates with my fellow Christians about. I think that the difficult thing about any religion, including Christianity, is that at some level there is a call to evangelize and prostelytize. There's the belief, certainly in some quarters, that people haven't embraced Jesus Christ as their personal savior that they're going to hell.

  Barack Obama

  Christian, Jesus, Thinking

  "Obama on faith". The Patheos Interview, www.patheos.com. March 27, 2004.

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