T Quotes
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“The most difficult place in the world to get a clear and open perspective of the country as a whole is Washington.”
Source: Fireside chats of Franklin Delano Roosevelt: radio addresses to the American people about the Depression, the New Deal, and the Second World War, 1933-1944
“The most difficult problem in personal knowledge, whether of oneself or of others, is the problem of guessing when to think as a historian and when to think as an anthropologist.”
“The most difficult problems are naturally not involved in the search for forms for contemporary life. It is a question of working our way to forms behind which real human values lie.”
“The most difficult secret for a man to keep is the opinion he has of himself.”
“The most difficult step ever is the first step. It comes with doubts, uncertainties, and all sort of fears. If you defy all odd and take it, your confidence will replicate very fast and you'll become a master!”
Source: Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts
“The most difficult step in the study of language is the first step.”
Source: Language
“The most difficult struggle of all is the one within ourselves. Let us not get accustomed and adjusted to these conditions. The one who adjusts ceases to discriminate between good and evil. He becomes a slave in body and soul. Whatever may happen to you, remember always: Don't adjust! Revolt against the reality!”
“The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow- witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him.”
Source: The Kingdom of God is Within You: Christianity Not as a Mystic Religion But as a New Theory of Life
“The most difficult task for anyone wandering through a foreign land with the hope of gaining some insight into it is the profound need to come to terms with the lives and thoughts of strangers.”
Source: Korea: a walk through the land of miracles
“The most difficult task, phase-out over the next 20-25 years of coal use that does not capture CO₂, is Herculean, yet feasible when compared with the efforts that went into World War II. The stakes, for all life on the planet, surpass those of any previous crisis. The greatest danger is continued ignorance and denial, which could make tragic consequences unavoidable.”
“The most difficult thing a failure can do is accept his identity or status”
“The most difficult thing about acting and directing in a film is acting and directing in a film. Every ounce of your physical and emotional being, and your analytical and thoughtful and producorial being, is being exercised at all points. You are 100% working on overdrive, but because it is only for X amount of days, if you have the stomach for it, you hustle through. It's a massive undertaking, and I think preparation is the key to success for that endeavor.”
“The most difficult thing about an easy match is to make a weak opponent play bad football.”
“The most difficult thing about being humble is not being able to brag about it.”
“The most difficult thing about being well known? Getting out of a hotel room at 4am.”
“The most difficult thing about life is how everything feels just as fleeting as it does endless.”
“The most difficult thing about painting is the self-discipline. When I finish a job, I give myself a few days, but then I have to discipline myself quite fiercely if I want to do some painting that's worthwhile. Otherwise, you're just doodling. It's much easier when you're just told what you have to do.”
“The most difficult thing about success is finding someone who would be happy for you.”
Source: The New Land
“The most difficult thing about Time, I have learned, is doing it.”
Source: Nine princes in Amber. The guns of Avalon
“The most DIFFICULT thing for individuals to do when they become part of a team is to sacrifice, it is much EASIER to be selfish.”
“The most difficult thing for me is keeping yourself focused on what you're doing. As you go play, you try to get your focus and desire. You don't do it to the level you would do it if you wanted to win. You have to work at it and be on top of your game.”
“The most difficult thing for me is to leave the New Jersey Devils, a great organization that I have a lot of respect for, and our fans that have been great to me.”
“The most difficult thing for me is to take pictures from far away.”
“The most difficult thing for me to translate to date, though, has been my own life (250).”
Source: Ivy Lodge: A Memoir of Translation and Discovery
“The most difficult thing for people to do is hear their own soul.”
Source: Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue
“The most difficult thing for spiritual seekers to do is to stop struggling, striving, seeking, and searching. Why? Because in the absence of struggle you don't know who you are; you lose your boundaries, you lose your separateness, you lose your specialness, you lose the dream you have lived all your life. Eventually you lose everything that your mind has created and awaken to who you truly are: the fullness of freedom, unbound by any identifications, identities, or boundaries.”
“The most difficult thing for us seems to be to give of ourselves, to do away with selfishness. If we really love someone, nothing is too difficult for us to do for that individual. There is no real happiness in having or getting unless we are doing it for the purpose of giving it to others. Half the world seems to be following the wrong scent in the pursuit of happiness-many think it consists of having and getting and being served, when really happiness is found in serving others.”
“The most difficult thing has definitely been movies. From a comedian's standpoint, you think being real big is the best thing, but with movies, the screen is huge, you're big anyway! Also, coming from a TV personality - MTV was all about high energy and selling the hottest video - I had to learn to [take it down]. A lot of characters I'm playing are not necessarily that kind of guy.”
“The most difficult thing I have ever had to do is follow the guidance I prayed for.”
“The most difficult thing in any negotiation, almost, is making sure that you strip it of the emotion and deal with the facts.”
“The most difficult thing in baseball is to be consistent. You can have one good year, but if the next is bad you're defrauding everyone.”
“The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.”
“The most difficult thing in music is still to write a melody of several bars which can be self-sufficient. That is the secret of music. While the technique should be as perfected as possible, that is a lesser essential Anybody can acquire a brilliant technique Melody alone permits a work to survive.”
“The most difficult thing in the world is to decode mental rigidity and change the mindset of the people.”
Source: Safa Tempo: Poems New & Selected
“The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch someone else do it wrong without comment.”
“The most difficult thing in the world is to say thinkingly what everybody says without thinking.”
“The most difficult thing in the world, it seems to me, is to realize that I am a child of God; to keep that in my mind all the time.”
“The most difficult thing is not the belief in the infinite. No. The most difficult thing of all is to believe that the infinite would be so grand and gracious as to reside in the smallness of us. That is what requires the greatest faith.”
“The most difficult thing is that I don't speak Mandarin and I had this experience - of working in a language that I don't understand - before and it's really horrible. Eighteen years ago, I played a mute in one film because I couldn't speak Mandarin. There was another film where I had to speak Vietnamese. It's horrible!”
“The most difficult thing is the decision to act!”
“The most difficult thing is the decision to act. The rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life and the procedure. The process is its own reward.”
“The most difficult thing is the organization of people and the expression of your intentions. It's very easy to have a picture in your head and to imagine that you've told everybody about what you need.”
“The most difficult thing is to know what we do know, and what we do not know.”
Source: Tertium Organum
“The most difficult thing is to recognize that sometimes we too are blinded by our own incentives. Because we don’t see how our conflicts of interest work on us.”
“The most difficult thing is what is thought to be the simplest; to really see the things which are before your eyes.”
“The most difficult thing to be in a world so loud is a person so quiet.”
Source: These Words Burn Like Fire
“The most difficult thing to do is drama.”
“The most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious.”
“The most difficult thing to read is time. Maybe because it changes so many things.”
“The most difficult thing to remember: that a poem is made of words.”
Source: Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke