Difficult Things Quotes - Page 7

• There is no easy method of learning difficult things. The method is to close the door, give out that you are not at home, and work.

  Joseph de Maistre

  Home, Learning, Doors

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• Sex is difficult, yes. But they are difficult things with which we have been charged...If you only recognize this and manage out of yourself, out of your own nature and ways, out of your own experience and childhood and strength to achieve a relation to sex wholly your own (not influenced by convention and custom) then you need no longer be afraid of losing yourself and becoming unworthy of your best possession.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Sex, Childhood, Needs

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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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• The difficult thing about shooting a television series is that you never have enough time. You really don't.

  Greg Bryk

  Enough Time, Television, Shooting

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• I think one of the most difficult things for anyone who's played baseball is to accept the fact that maybe the players today are playing just as well as ever.

  Ralph Kiner

  Baseball, Player, Thinking

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• I would like to travel light on this journey of life, to get rid of the encumbrances I acquire each day. . . . The most difficult thing to let go is my self, that self which, coddled and cozened, becomes smaller as it becomes heavier. I don't understand how and why I come to be only as I lose myself, but I know from long experience that this is so.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Letting Go, Journey, Light

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• The most difficult thing in the world is to say thinkingly what everybody says without thinking.

  Emile Chartier

  Thinking, World, Difficult

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• If you have a vision, no matter how difficult things are, everything just becomes a process.

  Cher Wang

  Vision, Matter, Process

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• What a difficult thing it is to ask someone's advice on a matter without coloring his judgment by the way in which we present our problem.

  Blaise Pascal

  Advice, Matter, Way

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• I would say plotting is the most difficult thing for me. Characterization is only hard because sometimes I feel I get so interested in it that I want to talk too much about the characters and that slows the story down. So I say, "Hey, people want to find out what's going to happen next, they don't want to listen to you spout off about this or that person." But I think even the bad guy deserves to tell his side of the story.

  Stephen King

  Character, Writing, Thinking

  Stephen King, Tim Underwood, Chuck Miller (1988). “Bare bones: conversations on terror with Stephen King”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• I had a great drama teacher, and he sort of made out drama school as this incredibly difficult thing to get into: 6,000 people apply every year, and some of the schools only have 12 places. It's a phenomenally difficult thing to get into. And that excited me - I wanted that challenge.

  Jeremy Irvine

  Teacher, Drama, School

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• . . . the most difficult thing asked by our young is not our earnings but our ears.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Ears, Earning, Young

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• Painting is a very difficult thing. It absorbs the whole man, body and soul, thus have I passed blindly many things which belong to real and political life.

  Max Beckmann

  Real, Men, Political

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• To change, that is the most difficult thing to accomplish.

  Isabelle Adjani

  Difficult, Accomplish

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• I really had a rough time in middle school. Middle school to me was the way most people explain high school. Then in high school I had a blast. I basically did everything that you would do in high school or in college, so it really wasn't a difficult thing to pull out.

  Hayden Panettiere

  School, College, People

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• You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'

  Zack Snyder

  Art, Real, Drawing

  Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.ign.com. August 01, 2007.

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• We live in a time where the media is a very difficult thing to navigate because it's everywhere, and I tend to want to be a lot more private with my life.

  Emily VanCamp

  Media, Want, Difficult

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• Remakes are a difficult thing 'cause some people feel very protective of the original.

  Carey Mulligan

  People, Causes, Remakes

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• If you do something really cognitively demanding, like buying furniture, it turns out buying furniture is one of the most difficult things we do. Go into a furniture store and look at a sofa.

  David Brooks

  Looks, Buying, Furniture

  "David Brooks: From Spouses to Sofas, ‘Emotions Tell Us What to Value’". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. March 8, 2011.

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• It's a shock for me to go through and see all those years of painting my life, which is very personal for me. It's a very difficult thing for an artist to look back at his work.

  Andrew Wyeth

  Artist, Years, Looks

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• Take a deep breath and do the difficult thing first.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Deep Life, Firsts, Take A Deep Breath

  Mary Anne Radmacher (2010). “Live with Intention: Rediscovering What We Deeply Know”, p.19, Conari Press

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• For me, the most difficult thing is that I am learning melodies on guitar from some songs whose melodies were not meant to be played on guitar. Ever. They were intended mostly for keyboards or melodic percussion.

  Dweezil Zappa

  Song, Guitar, Were Not Meant To Be

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• Star quality is one of the most difficult things to describe. It emanates from the person, and he may not even understand it himself. It's a quality that separates the star from the rest of us.

  Richard D. Zanuck

  Stars, Quality, May

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• The most difficult thing for me is to take pictures from far away.

  Jacob Aue Sobol

  Far Away, Difficult

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• I think that's one of the most difficult things in any marriage - in order to build anything, you must be together. You can't build anything over the telephone.

  Julie London

  Thinking, Order, Together

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