Difficult Quotes - Page 8

• You've got to trust people. And because I am a control freak, sometimes that's difficult for me, because I want to micro-manage absolutely everything. I can't hand over. But I'm trying to do that more.

  Victoria Beckham

  Hands, People, Trying

  "Victoria Beckham is ELLE’s March cover star". www.elle.com. January 1, 2013.

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• I’ ve always been a fan of the basics. After you have a good solid foundation of Jiu-Jitsu, the rest comes by instinct. You create, invent. The rest is easy. The difficult part is the beginning.

  Carlos Gracie, Jr.

  Foundation, Fans, Jiu Jitsu

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• It can be difficult to run your own firm, but the trade off is fewer conflicts and more control.

  Dan Gelber

  Running, Conflict, Trade

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• GREAT SECRET Whenever I’m learning something difficult, I keep expectations low, and aspirations high.

  James Marcus

  Expectations, Secret, Lows

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• In the end, this is a difficult story to sum up. The making of the atomic bomb is one of history's most amazing examples of teamwork and genius and poise under pressure. But it's also the story of how humans created a weapon capable of wiping our species off the planet. It's a story with no end in sight.
  And, like it or not, you're in it.

  Steve Sheinkin

  Teamwork, Sight, Example

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• It's always great to play at home. I won here last year and it's great to start with a win like this today. The first match was difficult and I thought it was step in the right direction.

  Gustavo Kuerten

  Home, Winning, Years

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• Unfortunately, most people do not stop to feel their tiredness. Faced with the pressures of life, they believe that it is a matter of survival to go on as they have been. Feeling tired raises a deep fear that they may not be able to continue the struggle. Many find it difficult to say, ‘I can’t.’ As children, they were taught that where there’s a will, there’s a way. To say, ‘I can’t,’ is to admit failure, which is seen as evidence that they are unworthy of love.

  Alexander Lowen

  Children, Believe, Struggle

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• Nothing in the world is difficult, it is only our own thoughts that make things seem so.

  Wu Cheng'en

  World, Seems

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• It is not difficult to be a revolutionary when revolution has already broken out and is in spate, when all people are joining the revolution just because they are carried away, because it is the vogue, and sometimes even from careerist motives. It is far more difficult--and far more precious--to be a revolutionary when the conditions for direct, open, really mass and really revolutionary struggle do not yet exist.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Struggle, People, Broken

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• The most difficult place in the world to get a clear and open perspective of the country as a whole is Washington.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Country, Perspective, World

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (2008). “Fireside chats of Franklin Delano Roosevelt: radio addresses to the American people about the Depression, the New Deal, and the Second World War, 1933-1944”, Red & Black Pub

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• Positive change always encounters resistance, conflict, and obstacles. We must embrace difficult and heated situations in life, for that is the method of igniting our reactions in order to transform them.

  Yehuda Berg

  Change, Situations In Life, Order

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• The Kerry campaign was a difficult one to be involved with, it is a real juggling act to set the tone and pace of these things accurately.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Real, Campaigns, Pace

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• I have a very happy marriage and friends who keep my feet on the ground. But looking for satisfaction in life is difficult. Maybe being happy is as simple as not being unhappy.

  Jasper Carrott

  Simple, Satisfaction In Life, Feet

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In spite of overwhelming evidence, it is most difficult for a citizen of western Europe to bring thoroughly home to himself the truth that the civilisation which surrounds him is a rare exception in the history of the world.

  Henry James Sumner Maine

  Home, Europe, Citizens

  Henry Sumner Maine, Sir, J. H. Morgan (2000). “Ancient Law”, p.13, Beard Books

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• Calmness is a huge gift. And once you master it, you will be able to respond in a useful way to every difficult situation that decides to walk into your heart.

  Geri Larkin

  Heart, Difficult Situations, Able

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• The next time you encounter a difficult obstacle or problem, you should smile and say, 'Here's my chance to grow.'

  Zig Ziglar

  Encounters, Next, Chance

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• I think art has a right — not an obligation — to be difficult if it wishes. And, since people generally go on from this to talk about elitism versus democracy, I would add that genuinely difficult art is truly democratic.

  Geoffrey Hill

  Art, Thinking, People

  "Geoffrey Hill, The Art of Poetry No. 80". Interview with Carl Phillips, www.theparisreview.org. Spring 2000.

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• All that remains is a fate whose outcome alone is fatal. Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty. A world remains of which man is the sole master. What bound him was the illusion of another world. The outcome of his thought, ceasing to be renunciatory, flowers in images. It frolics-\-\-in myths, to be sure, but myths with no other depth than that of human suffering and, like it, inexhaustible. Not the divine fable that amuses and blinds, but the terrestrial face, gesture, and drama in which are summed up a difficult wisdom and an ephemeral passion.

  Albert Camus

  Drama, Flower, Passion

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• The reality is that while heliocentrism was discussed and often accepted within Catholic circles - it was effectively the only place where it could be - the more traditional view of the solar system still prevailed even among leading scientists. So it's hardly surprising that Galileo's Catholic judges had difficult accepting his views, especially when they saw themselves as defending scientific orthodoxy and were supported in this by the scientific establishment.

  Michael Coren

  Reality, Views, Circles

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• To cure ALS medically is not economical. The realities are that it's difficult to find funding for research for a medical cure. I believe in developing technology as opposed to medical research. Technology can be economical.

  Steve Gleason

  Believe, Technology, Reality

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• Genius, throughout history, has been found difficult to classify because it varies in amount: It's rare to find a genius in the context of the noun, but most people, if not all, have a bit of genius in them in the context of the adjective.

  Criss Jami

  People, Adjectives, Genius

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.31, Criss Jami

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• The struggle of the mind to keep itself free from every sort of
  bondage -- to remain curious, open, unsatiated in all its
  relations with nature -- is tenfold more difficult than the
  cultivation of a stable, satisfying point of view, but a
  thousandfold more precious.

  Gardner Murphy

  Struggle, Views, Mind

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• It is difficult to preach, this morality of mediocrity! It may never admit what it is and what it wants! It must speak about restraint and worth and duty and love of one's neighbor.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  And Love, Mediocrity, May

  "Beyond Good and Evil". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, I. Johnston trans., § 262, 1886.

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• It is difficult to say which is the greatest evil--to have too violent passions, or to be wholly devoid of them. Controlled with firmness, guided by discretion, and hallowed by the imagination, the passions are the vivifiers and quickeners of our being. Without passion there can be no energy of character. Indeed, the passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways, and dangerous only in one--through their excess.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Passion, Character, Fire

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.77

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• It is so very easy and so very pleasant, too, to read only books which lead to nothing, light and interesting books, and the more the better, that it is almost as difficult to wean ourselves from it as from the habit of chewing tobacco to excess, or of smoking the whole time, or of depending for stimulus upon tea or coffee or spirits.

  Charles Francis Adams, Sr.

  Coffee, Book, Light

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