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• I think the biggest single thing that causes difficulty in the business world is the short-term view. We become obsessed with it. But it forces bad decisions.

  James Sinegal

  Business, Thinking, Views

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• Do not let your difficulties fill you with anxiety, after all it is only in the darkest nights that stars shine more brightly.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Stars, Night, Shining

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• I think baseball is a great support to people who have emotional voids, gaps, emotional difficulties. That is to say: all of us. Those parts of us that don’t function well. Those parts of us that are sad or depressed—not every day. They can really use baseball. It isn't just the child in a wheelchair or the shut-in senior citizen listening to the radio that needs the game. There’s part of us, part of everybody who’s a baseball fan, who needs the game at that level.

  Thomas Boswell

  Senior, Baseball, Children

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• The key to most difficulties does not lie in the dilemmas themselves, but in our relationship to them.

  David Seabury

  Lying, Keys, Doe

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• Painting should never look as if it were done with difficulty, however difficult it may actually have been.

  Robert Henri

  Looks, Done, May

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• I think a major cause of present Asian economic difficulties that mainly come from, you know, lack of market economy.

  Kim Dae-jung

  Thinking, Causes, Asian

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• So if North Korea continues present isolation, then with such economic difficulties the North Korean government must meet a very serious situation in the future.

  Kim Dae-jung

  Government, Korea, Serious

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• So South Korean ability is very much limited to handle North Korean, you know, difficulties. So we don't want to see an immediate collapse of the North Korea regime.

  Kim Dae-jung

  Korea, Want, Regimes

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• If the state, with all of the emotional resources at its command, cannot finance its most basic and vital activities without resort to compulsion, it would seem that large private organizations might also have difficulty in getting the individuals in the groups whose interests they attempt to advance to make the necessary contributions voluntarily.

  Mancur Olson

  Emotional, Organization, Groups

  Mancur OLSON (2009). “THE LOGIC OF COLLECTIVE ACTION”, p.13, Harvard University Press

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• We shall do a much better programming job, provided that we approach the task with a full appreciation of its tremendous difficulty, provided that we stick to modest and elegant programming languages, provided that we respect the intrinsic limitations of the human mind and approach the task as Very Humble Programmers.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Appreciation, Jobs, Humble

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• The spiritual life is a stern choice. It is not a consoling retreat from the difficulties of existence; but an invitation to enter fully into that difficult existence, and there apply the Charity of God and bear the cost.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Spiritual, Choices, Cost

  Evelyn Underhill (2015). “The School of Charity: Meditations on the Christian Creed”, p.16, Aeterna Press

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• That eminence of learning is not to be gained without labour, at least equal to that which any other kind of greatness can require, will be allowed by those who wish to elevate the character of a scholar; since they cannot but know that every human acquisition is valuable in proportion to the difficulty of its attainment.

  Samuel Johnson

  Character, Greatness, Effort

  Samuel Johnson (1810). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.139

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• To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity; the next is, to strive, and deserve to conquer: but he whose life has passed without a contest, and who can boast neither success nor merit, can survey himself only as a useless filler of existence; ad if he is content with his own character, must owe his satisfaction to insensibility.

  Samuel Johnson

  Character, Effort, Useless

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1834). “Murphy's essay. The rambler. The adventurer. The idler. Rasselas. Tales of the imagination. Letters. Irene. Miscellaneous poems”, p.343

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• It has been one of my difficulties, in arguing this question out of doors with friends or strangers, that I rarely find any intelligible agreement as to the object of the war.

  Richard Cobden

  War, Doors, Agreement

  Richard Cobden (1870). “Speeches on Questions of Public Policy”, p.4

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• There are grave difficulties on every hand, and more are looming ahead. Therefore, we must go forward.

  William Carey

  Christian, Prayer, Hands

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• Added to the difficulty of learning to speak the language was the greater difficulty of finding terms to express the ideas which the missionary had come halfway round the world to convey.

  Helen Barrett Montgomery

  Ideas, Missionary, Bending

  "Western Women in Eastern Lands: An Outline Study of Fity Years of Woman's Work in Foreign Missions".

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• However much we talk of the inexorable laws governing the life of individuals and of societies, we remain at the bottom convinced that in human affairs everything in more or less fortuitous. We do not even believe in the inevitability of our own death. Hence the difficulty of deciphering the present, of detecting the seeds of things to come as they germinate before our eyes. We are not attuned to seeing the inevitable.

  Eric Hoffer

  Life, Believe, Eye

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Overcoming, Delight, Coping

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Counsels and maxims (illustrated)”, p.39, Full Moon Publications

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• Never say of anything I have lost it, only say that I have given it back.

  Epictetus

  Coping, Lost, Given

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• Ex Malo Bounum (good out of evil).

  Saint Augustine

  Evil, Coping, Exes

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• There's a victory and defeat-the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats-which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.

  Plato

  Character, Responsibility, Men

  Plato (2008). “Laws”, p.11, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Whatever may be our condition in life, it is better to lay hold of its advantages than to count its evils.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Evil, May, Coping

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• Everybody loves a thing more if it has cost him trouble: for instance those who have made money love money more than those who have inherited it.

  Aristotle

  Cost, Trouble, Coping

  Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.243, Wordsworth Editions

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• Dhyana is retaining one's tranquil state of mind in any circumstance, unfavorable as well as favorable, and not being disturbed or frustrated even when adverse conditions present themselves one after another.

  D.T. Suzuki

  Anger, Frustrated, Mind

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• Each man's life is a kind of campaign, and a long and complicated one at that. You have to maintain the character of a soldier, and do each separate act at the bidding of the General.

  Epictetus

  Character, Men, Long

  Epictetus (1967). “Epictetus: the Discourses as reported by Arrian, the Manual, and fragments”

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