Difficult Things Quotes - Page 8

• Will you just stand on the foot of a high mountain and look at it with admiration or climb the top and be the admired itself? Remember that anybody can be an admirer; but the difficult thing is to be the admired one!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Feet, Mountain, Looks

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• A man must first of all understand certain things. He has thousands of false ideas and false conceptions, chiefly about himself, and he must get rid of some of them before beginning to acquire anything new. Otherwise the new will be built on a wrong foundation and the result will be worse than before. To speak the truth is the most difficult thing in the world; one must study a great deal and for a long time in order to speak the truth. The wish alone is not enough. To speak the truth one must know what the truth is and what a lie is, and first of all in oneself. And this nobody wants to know.

  G. I. Gurdjieff

  Lying, Men, Order

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• Intellectuals say simple things in difficult ways. Artists say difficult things in simple ways.

  Charles Bukowski

  Artist, Simple, Way

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• The masses think that is is easy to flee from reality, when it is the most difficult thing in the world.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Reality, Thinking, World

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• No matter who you are, no matter how difficult things might appear to be, you are always being moved towards magnificence. Always.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Magnificence, Might, Matter

  Rhonda Byrne (2016). “How The Secret Changed My Life: Real People. Real Stories.”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

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• Learn to be good readers, which is perhaps a more difficult thing than you imagine. Learn to be discriminative in your reading; to read faithfully, and with your best attention, all kinds of things which you have a real interest in,--a real, not an imaginary,--and which you find to be really fit for what you are engaged in.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Real, Reading, Attention

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.455, Cambridge University Press

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• The people gave their money and they gave their screams, but the Beatles gave their nervous systems, which is a much more difficult thing to give.

  George Harrison

  People, Giving, Nervous

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• One of the most difficult things for a writer in this business to accept is the uncertain fate of one's work.

  Michael Crichton

  Fate, Accepting, Uncertain

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• I think writing is a difficult thing and you need to suffer a little bit, even if it's just to sit there and think what an idiot you are and how anyone else could do this better than you can.

  Brian Helgeland

  Writing, Thinking, Suffering

  Source: collider.com

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• Maintaining marriage seems to be tougher than fatherhood: apparently its the most difficult thing in the world.

  Kelly Slater

  Fatherhood, World, Maintaining

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

  Malcolm Forbes

  Ears, Earning, Young

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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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• 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

  Source: collider.com

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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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• One of the most difficult things is the first paragraph. I have spent many months on a first paragraph, and once I get it, the rest just comes out very easily.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Months, Firsts, Difficult

  FaceBook post by Gabriel García Márquez from Mar 09, 2015

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

  Isabelle Adjani

  Difficult, Accomplish

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