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• When all combine in every way to make everything easier, people will want difficulty. I conceived it as my task to make difficulties everywhere.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  People, Tasks, Want

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• Finishing a painting demands a heart of steel: everything requires a decision, and I find difficulties where I least expect them... It is at such moments that one fully realizes one's own weaknesses.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Heart, Decision, Weakness

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• One should not be too difficult. An artist should not treat himself like an enemy.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Artist, Enemy, Should

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• It's no easy matter to paint a background. I venture to say that the old painters had more difficulty with their grounds than with their figures. You know the story of Vandyke brought to Rubens with this recommendation: 'He already knows how to paint a background.' 'That is more than I can do!' was the reply.

  William Morris Hunt

  Venture, Matter, Stories

  William Morris Hunt (1976). “William Morris Hunt on painting and drawing”, Dover Pubns

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• Difficulty is a nurse of greatness-a harsh nurse, who rocks her foster children roughly, but rocks them in strength and athletic proportion. The mind, grappling with great aims and wrestling with mighty impediments, grows by a certain necessity to the stature of greatness.

  Kobe Bryant

  Children, Wrestling, Greatness

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• My Paintings are Battles.

  Georg Baselitz

  Battle, Painting

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• My difficulties belong to me!

  Alfred Adler

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• The difficulty of looking at a system like natural selection if you have any sort of moral sense yourself, is almost what makes it beautiful.

  Paul Bettany

  Beautiful, Moral, Natural

  "Paul Bettany: Playing Darwin with Creation". Interview with Adam Rutherford, www.theguardian.com. February 11, 2009.

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• To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is troublesome.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Thinking, Easy, Threshold

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (1824). “Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels”, p.75

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• The contour eludes me.

  Paul Cezanne

  Elude

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• The virtue of obedience makes the will supple... It inspires the courage with which to fulfill the most difficult tasks.

  John Vianney

  Inspire, Tasks, Virtue

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• Difficulties will assail you only when you lack in concentration and persistence.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Persistence, Concentration

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• The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.

  M. Scott Peck

  Inspirational, Happiness, Spiritual

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• Once you realize that it is impossible to capture the character of the various manifestations of nature by pictorial means, and that an interpretation based on imagination is equally erroneous, you will not find yourself facing a gaping void as you might have feared.

  Frantisek Kupka

  Character, Mean, Imagination

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• Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Leadership, Hope, Encouragement

  "History of Logan County and Ohio" by O.L. Baskin, (p. 577), 1880.

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• Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.

  B. C. Forbes

  Motivational, Adversity, Challenges

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• It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.

  Andre Gide

  Life, Work, Failure

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• Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint.

  Don Marquis

  Funny, Hope, Witty

  Don Marquis (2012). “Archy and Mehitabel”, p.54, Anchor

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• There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Mean, Use, Want

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• Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Happiness, Success, Men

  Spurgeon, Charles H. (2015). “The Complete Works of Charles Spurgeon, Volume 86: The Sword and the Trowel, Volume 7”, p.420, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!

  Dr. Seuss

  Life, Positive, Success

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• In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.

  Albert Einstein

  Motivational, Positive, Being Strong

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• Great leadership does not mean running away from reality. Sometimes the hard truths might just demoralize the company, but at other times sharing difficulties can inspire people to take action that will make the situation better.

  John P. Kotter

  Leadership, Running, Inspiration

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• Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.

  Lionel Trilling

  Literature, Possibility, Complexity

  1950 The Liberal Imagination, preface.

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• An insuperable obstacle to rapid transit in Africa is the want of carriers, and as speed was the main object of the Expedition under my command, my duty was to lessen this difficulty as much as possible.

  Henry Morton Stanley

  Travel, Want, Obstacles

  Henry Morton Stanley (2002). “How I Found Livingstone in Central Africa”, p.31, Courier Corporation

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