Difficulty Quotes - Page 3

• Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity. From discord find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Motivational, Peace

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.480, Princeton University Press

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• The greater the Difficulty the more Glory in surmounting it, and the loss of false Joys secures to us a much better Possession of real ones.

  Epicurus

  Inspirational, History, Greek

  "Epicurus's Morals".

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• An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.

  Eric Hoffer

  Inspirational, Funny, Education

  "Reflections on the Human Condition" by Eric Hoffer, (Section 49), 1973.

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• I try to deal with the complexities of power and social life, but as far as the visual presentation goes I purposely avoid a high degree of difficulty.

  Barbara Kruger

  Artist, Trying, Degrees

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• I used to find great difficulty in drawing feet.

  Ida Rentoul Outhwaite

  Drawing, Feet, Used

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• Of course, we also have the responsibility to win games and the difficulty in the job is to combine both.

  Arsene Wenger

  Jobs, Responsibility, Winning

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• One would think that in writing about literary men and matters there would be no difficulty in finding a title for one's essay, or that any embarrassment which might arise would be from excess of material. I find this, however, far from being the case.

  James Payn

  Writing, Men, Thinking

  James Payn (1882). “Sammlung”

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• 'The difficulty with this conversation,' said Arthur after a sort of pondering look had crawled slowly across his face like a mountaineer negotiating a tricky outcrop, 'is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees.'

  Douglas Adams

  Tree, Different, Conversation

  "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Omnibus: A Trilogy in Four Parts".

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• Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.

  Thomas Beecham

  Music, Memories, Magic

  1953 Television broadcast,17 Nov.

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• I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive.

  Nora Ephron

  Intelligent, People, Offensive

  Nora Ephron (1978). “Scribble Scribble Notes on the Media”

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• Coming out involves varying degrees of difficulty that are affected by class, race, religion, and geography.

  Lance Loud

  Race, Class, Degrees

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• What parent has it easy? I just never make the difficulty of it an obstacle. I just do it.

  Marlee Matlin

  Parent, Obstacles, Easy

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• The difficulty for Mr. Obama will be when the public sees where his decisions lead - higher inflation, higher interest rates, higher taxes, sluggish growth, and a jobless recovery.

  Karl Rove

  Recovery, Usa, Decision

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• Little Sparta is a garden in the traditional sense. It is perhaps not like other modern gardens, but I think that other times would have had no difficulty with it.

  Ian Hamilton Finlay

  Garden, Thinking, Sparta

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• I think one ages and one dates. I tend to have a good deal of difficulty in liking some of the new poets.

  James Laughlin

  Thinking, Age, Poet

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• The difficulty of IVF or of any fertility issues is the hope and the shattered hope, the dream that it might happen this time and then it doesn't happen.

  Brooke Shields

  Dream, Ivf, Issues

  "Paula Zahn Now", edition.cnn.com. July 1, 2005.

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• In that sense, film is superior, but the difficulty is your lack of control as a writer.

  Terry Southern

  Film, Lack Of Control, Superiors

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• Difficulties exist to be surmounted.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sports

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco (1982). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.10, Harvard University Press

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• We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.

  Oswald Chambers

  Prayer, Eye, Christian Inspirational

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “Prayer: A Holy Occupation”, p.36, Discovery House

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• Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Running, Perseverance, Healing

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• Where there is no difficulty there is no praise.

  Samuel Johnson

  Effort, Praise

  Samuel Johnson (1854). “Lives of the most eminent English poets, with critical observations on their works. With notes by P. Cunningham”, p.276

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• The chief difficulty which prevents men of science from believing in divine as well as in nature Spirits is their materialism.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Believe, Men, Spirit

  H. P. Blavatsky (2011). “The Secret Doctrine: The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy”, p.276, Cambridge University Press

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• Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

  Aesop

  Life, Trust, Wisdom

  Aesop, Joseph Jacobs (2004). “Best loved fables of Aesop”

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• A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Winston S. Churchill (2013). “Churchill By Himself”, p.1089, RosettaBooks

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• I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear.

  Robert Staughton Lynd

  Half, Quiet, Sometimes

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