Easier Quotes - Page 33

• It is easier to argue that something nobody believes in actually exists than it is to argue that something everybody believes in is unreal.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Believe, Belief, Arguing

  Samuel R. Delany (1993). “Tales of Nevèrÿon”, p.201, Wesleyan University Press

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• The sooner we learn to be jointly responsible, the easier the sailing will be.

  Ella Maillart

  Inspirational, Funny, Sea

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• Success makes life easier. It doesn't make living easier.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Life, Success, Pick Me Up

  Q magazine, August 1992.

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• It's very depressing to live in a time where it's easier to break an atom than a prejudice.

  Albert Einstein

  Depressing, Time, Atoms

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• It is surely easier to confess a murder over a cup of coffee than in front of a jury.

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  Coffee, Cups, Murder

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• It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom. It is often easier to play the martyr, as it is to be rash in battle. Strange as it sounds, steady, patient growth in freedom is probably the most difficult task of all, requiring the greatest courage. Thus if the term "hero" is used in this discussion at all, it must refer not to the special acts of outstanding persons, but to the heroic element potentially in every man.

  Rollo May

  Courage, Moving, Hero

  Rollo May (2009). “Man's Search for Himself”, p.174, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Dancing appears glamorous, easy, delightful. But the path to paradise of the achievement is not easier than any other. There is fatigue so great that the body cries, even in its sleep. There are times of complete frustration, there are daily small deaths.

  Martha Graham

  Dance, Sleep, Frustration

  Martha Graham (1991). “Blood Memory”, Washington Square Press

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• Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Democracy does not create strong ties between people. But it does make living together easier.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Strong, Freedom, Ties

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• I think it is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. I know that sounds completely nuts. But, since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition. There are so few people this crazy that I feel like I know them all by first name. They all travel as if they are pack dogs and stick to each other like glue. The best people want to work the big challenges.

  Larry Page

  Graduation, Dream, Dog

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• Maybe the reason my memory is so bad is that I always do at least two things at once. It's easier to forget something you only half-did or quarter did.

  Andy Warhol

  Happiness, Memories, Two

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.212, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Nothing is easier than to teach historical method, but, when learned, it has little use.

  Henry Adams

  History, Historical, Use

  "Great American Lives: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie, and The Education of Henry Adams".

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• The effective executive knows that it is easier to raise the performance of one leader than it is to raise the performance of a whole mass. She therefore makes sure she puts into the leadership position, into the standard-setting, the performance-making position the person who has the strength to do the outstanding pacesetting job. This always requires focus on the one strength of a person and dismissal of weaknesses as irrelevant unless they hamper the full deployment of the available strength.

  Peter Drucker

  Leadership, Jobs, Focus

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• We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Success, Nature, Congratulations

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• It is easier to make war than to make peace.

  Georges Clemenceau

  Peace, War, Humanity

  Speech, Verdun, France, 20 July 1919

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• A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it. Dealing with Congress is a matter of give and take. The president doesn't get everything he wants, the Congress doesn't get everything they want. But we're finding good common ground.

  George W. Bush

  Giving, President, Would Be

  Remarks Prior to a Meeting With Virginia Gubernatorial Candidate Mark Earley and an Exchange With Reporters, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. July 26, 2001.

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• Goodness is easier to recognize than to define.

  W. H. Auden

  Relationship, Goodness

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• It's easier to be ignorant and say I don't know about the problem. But once you know, once you've seen it in their eyes, then you have a responsibility to do something. There is strength in numbers, and if we all work together as a team, we can be unstoppable.

  Craig Kielburger

  Strength, Teamwork, Eye

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• It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Truth, Lying, Errors

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• It's easier to change what you do than people think it is. If you don't change, your field changes around you.

  Walter Gilbert

  Change, Work, Thinking

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• It is sometimes easier to be happy if you don't know everything.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Happiness, Ironic, Irony

  Alexander McCall Smith (2002). “Morality for Beautiful Girls”, Anchor

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• The more we refuse to buy into our inner critics - and our external ones too - the easier it will get to have confidence in our choices, and to feel comfortable with who we are.

  Arianna Huffington

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Confidence

  "A Conversation Between Arianna and Her Daughters". www.huffingtonpost.com. April 9, 2007.

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• It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enough, in the face of opposition, to stand up for it.

  Archibald Alexander Hodge

  Wise, Wisdom, Courage

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• So if the dance is five minutes long, make yourself run for perhaps eight minutes. That way, you over-train and the dance will seem easier.

  Deborah Bull

  Dance, Running, Eight

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• It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.

  Seneca the Younger

  Money, Passion, Worry

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