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• Feedback for leaders is often nuanced and difficult to deliver. That said, hearing you are passive-aggressive from 10 different people described 10 different ways becomes hard to ignore.

  Scott Weiss

  People, Leader, Way

  "Treating the Dysfunctional CEO". scott.a16z.com. December 6, 2011.

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• It's very difficult to evaluate a leader in a very short-term perspective because to be a leader you must be able to have a long-term perspective. You must be able to carry changes which take many years. And this is why you can really only see whether it has been a good leadership after some years have passed.

  Gro Harlem Brundtland

  Leadership, Years, Perspective

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• All people, even one's own children, come with baggage. When they're little, you have to help them carry it. But when they grow up, you have to do that difficult thing of setting their baggage down and taking up your own again.

  Lucille Clifton

  Children, Growing Up, People

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• Poverty, chastity, and obedience are extremely difficult. But there are always the graces if you will pray for them.

  Kathryn Hulme

  Grace, Poverty, Praying

  Kathryn Hulme, Edward Streeter, Helen Howe, Frank O'Rourke, Winston Graham (1956). “The Nun's Story, Merry Christmas Mr. Baxter, The Success, The Diamond Hitch, The Sleeping Partner”

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• Anger is like the blade of a butcher knife - very difficult to hold on to for long without harming yourself.

  Patti LaBelle

  Anger, Knives, Long

  Patti LaBelle, Laura Randolph Lancaster (2001). “Patti's Pearls: Lessons in Living Genuinely, Joyfully, Generously”, p.55, Hachette UK

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• Recognizing the good, not just in one's own personal circumstances, but in the world, makes anything possible. When I am asked about the important characteristics of leadership, being of good, positive mind is at the top of my list. If a leader can focus on the meritorious characteristics of other people and try to play to their strengths as well as find value in even the most difficult situation, she can inspire hope and faith in others and motivate them to move forward.

  Wilma Mankiller

  Leadership, Moving, Difficult Situations

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• Every writer's difficult journey is a movement from silence to speech. We must be intensely private and interior in order to find a voice and a vision - and we must bring our work to an outside world where the market, or public outrage, or even government censorship can destroy our voice.

  Sara Paretsky

  Journey, Voice, Government

  Sara Paretsky (2007). “Writing in an Age of Silence”, Verso Books

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• It is more difficult ... to rule the King's favorites than for the favorites to rule the King.

  Marjorie Bowen

  Kings

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• So many people seem to imagine that because the actual tools of writing are easily accessible, it is less difficult than the other arts. This is entirely an illusion.

  Vera Brittain

  Art, Writing, People

  Vera Brittain (1947). “On becoming a writer”

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• It is difficult to be yourself on court, as you become very involved in the match and very focused.

  Dominika Cibulkova

  Being Yourself, Court, Involved

  "Q&A: Dominika Cibulkova on Xperia Hot Shots". Interview with Ellen J. Horrow, www.usatoday.com. March 20, 2011.

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• Magic is the craft of shaping, the craft of the wise, exhilarating, dangerous - the ultimate adventure. The power of magic should not be underestimated. It works, often in ways that are unexpected and difficult to control.

  Starhawk

  Wise, Adventure, Magic

  Starhawk (1999). “Spiral Dance: Slipcase”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• New ideas are difficult just because they are new. Repetition has somehow plastered over the gaps and inconsistencies in the old ones, and the new cannot penetrate.

  Joan Robinson

  Ideas, Gaps, Repetition

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• Perhaps the best testimony to the effectiveness of the reforms of 1852 is the fact, that men of a slightly later generation, familiar with the working of the courts half a century after, find it difficult to believe that such abuses as are plainly described by the legislation of that year, should really have existed in the middle of the nineteenth century.

  Edward Jenks

  Believe, Men, Years

  Edward Jenks (1922). “A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919”

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• The 'Cercle et Carré' group owes its existence to my encounter with the Uruguayan painter Torrès-Gracia in 1929... However difficult our relationship, his obstinacy matching my patience, this unholy team of fire and water was bound to produce something. Towards the end of the year, after consulting sundry artists, including Arp, Mondrian, and Van Doesburg, we drew up the program for a new group and launched a magazine which was be called 'Cercle et Carré'.

  Michel Seuphor

  Team, Artist, Fire

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• Walking alone is not difficult but when we have walked a mile worth a thousand years with someone then coming back alone is what is difficult.

  Faraaz Kazi

  Sad Love, Years, Walking Alone

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• It is difficult to believe that a true gentleman will ever become a gamester, a libertine, or a sot.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Believe, Gentleman, Libertine

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• I write because, exacting as it may be to do so, it is still more difficult to refrain, and because - however conscious of one's limitations one may be - there is always at the back of one's mind an irrational hope that this next book will be different: it will be the rounded achievement, the complete fulfilment. It never has been: yet I am still writing.

  Iris Origo

  Book, Writing, Achievement

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• In most fields of endeavor there are no easy jobs; there are only graceful ways of performing difficult ones.

  Lynda Obst

  Jobs, Work, Way

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• There is nothing so difficult to describe as happiness. Whether some feeling of envy enters into the mind upon hearing of it, or whether it is so calm, so unassuming, so little ostentatious in itself, that words give an imperfect idea of it, I know not. It is easier to enjoy it, than define it. ... and is oftener found at home, when home has not been embittered by dissensions, suspicions and guilt, than any where else upon earth. Yes, it is in home and in those who watch there for us.

  Lady Caroline Lamb

  Happiness, Home, Ideas

  Lady Caroline Lamb (2009). “The Works of Lady Caroline Lamb: Glenarvon (1816)”

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• There is nothing more difficult to measure than the value of visible emotion.

  Gertrude Bell

  Emotion, Visible, Values

  Gertrude Bell (2014). “Persian Pictures: From the Mountains to the Sea”, p.42, I.B.Tauris

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• Lifes That Way was an extraordinarily difficult book to write, because it wasnt written as a book. It was written as a journal of events that were happening as I wrote it, without the space or time either to digest or analyze those events and without the hindsight and peace that writing in the aftermath would have provided.

  Jim Beaver

  Book, Writing, Space

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• Poets think in short lines. Unless you're Samuel Beckett, Twitter might be more difficult for novelists.

  Kenneth Goldsmith

  Thinking, Novelists, Lines

  Source: logger.believermag.com

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• It's difficult to make a movie about a complicated, non-traditional female character. We see a lot more movies with male characters who are at that point in their lives, but not that many about females.

  Megan Griffiths

  Character, Males, Female

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• In terms of homosexuality, not everyone is prepared for a daily struggle against nature. In some ways, people who challenge and subvert their biologically-determined body are struggling against nature. It's a mysterious combination of nature and nurture that determines a person's gender, and for whatever reason some people are driven to challenge their biological "destiny". It's a difficult struggle, and I believe it takes a lot of courage.

  Bruce LaBruce

  Believe, Struggle, Destiny

  Interview with Jane Harris, logger.believermag.com. May 29, 2014.

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• There's no wrong way to meditate. And meditation should never be a difficult practice that leads to self criticism.

  Moby

  Self, Practice, Meditation

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. February 5, 2014.

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