Difficulty Quotes - Page 24

• Nothing external to you has any power over you.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Positive, Powerful, Caring

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• Modernism in other arts brought extreme difficulty. In poetry, the characteristic difficulty imported under the name of modernism was obscurity. But obscurity could just as easily be a quality of metrical as of free verse.

  James Fenton

  Art, Names, Quality

  "Negative images" by James Fenton, www.theguardian.com. November 15, 2002.

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• I find as long as I acknowledge the truth of something, then that's it. I know what it is and then I can operate. But if I overestimate the downside of something or the challenge of something and I get too obsessed about the difficulty of it, then I don't leave enough room to be open to the upside, the possibility.

  Michael J. Fox

  Long, Challenges, Rooms

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• With Django Unchained, when you're dealing with slavery, it's like a gymnastics routine with the highest amount of difficulty. Quentin Tarantino is not going to do a movie that's just going to lay there and be safe. There's going to be twists and flips.

  Jamie Foxx

  Gymnastics, Django Unchained, Routine

  "Jamie Foxx Talks PROJECT IMAGINAT10N, Playing the President in WHITE HOUSE DOWN, Tarantino’s DJANGO UNCHAINED and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 24, 2012.

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• When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?

  Benjamin Franklin

  War, Arbitration, Compromise

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• I just think I've always been sensitive and had difficulty containing my feelings, and I've always searched for outlets for that, because otherwise those feelings come out in chaotic ways that aren't always great.

  Andrew Garfield

  Thinking, Feelings, Way

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• The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Inspirational, Adversity, Order

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• I think we're going to have some difficulty in front of us. I have absolutely no doubt the next three, four years Europe are going to be at best stagnation. We are preparing for tough times.

  Carlos Ghosn

  Thinking, Years, Europe

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• Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Beauty, Fashion, Passion

  "Daily Bread for Your Mind and Soul: A Handbook of Transcultural Proverb and Sayings". Book by Fayek S. Hourani, p. 169, 2012.

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• As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Strength, Meaningful, Heart

  Letter to Theo, from Amsterdam, on May 30, 1877. "Dear Theo: the Autobiography of Vincent Van Gogh" by Irving Stone and Jean Stone, p. 26, 1995.

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• Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Life, True Love, Art

  Vincent van Gogh (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)”, p.2259, Delphi Classics

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• It strikes me as very strange that whereas Tennyson could support most of Mr. Buckley's propositions about free trade, and the private sector, and private enterprise, Tennyson found no difficulty also in lending intellectual support to the idea of Women's Liberation.

  Germaine Greer

  Ideas, Support, Intellectual

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• The solution of the difficulty is that the two mental pictures which experiment lead us to form - the one of the particles, the other of the waves - are both incomplete and have only the validity of analogies which are accurate only in limiting cases.

  Werner Heisenberg

  Two, Analogies, Wave

  Werner Heisenberg (2013). “The Physical Principles of the Quantum Theory”, p.15, Courier Corporation

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• It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence.

  Eric Hoffer

  Degrees, Would Be, Literature

  Eric Hoffer (1969). “Working and Thinking on the Waterfront: A Journal, June 1958-May 1959”

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• Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives, and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist.

  E. W. Howe

  Life, Men, Worry

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• A man who dreads trials and difficulties cannot become a revolutionary. If he is to become a revolutionary with an indomitable fighting spirit, he must be tempered in the arduous struggle from his youth. As the saying goes, early training means more than late earning.

  Kim Jong Il

  Fear, Struggle, Mean

  Chŏng-il Kim, Jong Il Kim (1989). “The Present Times and the Tasks Facing Young People: Talk to the Senior Officials of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, October 12, 1988”

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• My approach to gymnastics in Beijing was heavily based on the amount of difficulty I could do.

  Shawn Johnson

  Gymnastics, Beijing, Approach

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• Let there be no illusions about the difficulty of forming this kind of a national community. It's tough, difficult, not easy. But a spirit of harmony will survive in America only if each of us remembers that we share a common destiny.

  Barbara Jordan

  Destiny, America, Community

  1976 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 12 July 1976, New York, NY

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• I only used a cell phone for the first time after I was released. I had difficulty coping with it because it seemed so small and insubstantial.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Phones, Cells, Firsts

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• Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties.

  Dalai Lama

  Confusion, May, Kind

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• After my mother's death, I had such difficulty relating to people.

  Jaron Lanier

  Mother, People

  "The Visionary" by Jennifer Kahn, www.newyorker.com. July 11-18, 2011.

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• Anyone that has a job that takes them away from home, I think, can understand the difficulties in maintaining consistency, not only with your family and those you love but with your friends.

  Heath Ledger

  Jobs, Home, Thinking

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• A Louisiana politician can't afford to let his animosities carry him away, and still less his principles, although there is seldom difficulty in that department.

  A. J. Liebling

  Principles, Louisiana, Politician

  Abbott Joseph Liebling (1970). “The Earl of Louisiana”, p.19, LSU Press

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• Pessimism doesn't grow your business or even maintain the status quo. The pessimists on your staff make the job harder for everyone around them. They make difficulties out of opportunities.

  Harvey Mackay

  Jobs, Opportunity, Maintaining The Status Quo

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• I'm a professional fighter and like most professional fighters I have had difficulties with my hands in the past.

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

  Past, Hands, Fighter

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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