T Quotes
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“The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.”
“The difficult is what takes a little time; the impossible is what takes a little longer.”
“The difficult life of the illuminated heart is not a life that has escaped difficulty. It is a life in which difficulty has been deprived of its power to have the final word.”
Source: From The Core: The Heart, the Light, and the Life You Were Meant to Live
“The difficult notes are when they say, "And this is how we want you to fix it . . ." Just tell me what the problem is. Just tell me what the issue is, and I'll go off an fix it. It's usually when executives get to a place where they're trying to fix the problem for you that you have issues”
“The difficult opponent is the best.”
“The difficult part about being close to friends is that you will get a share in their darkness too...”
“The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it.”
“The difficult part of good temper consists in forbearance, and accommodation to the ill-humors of others.”
“The difficult part of love
Is being selfish enough.”
Source: Required Writing: Miscellaneous Pieces 1955-1982
“The difficult part of the process is the long exploration and discovery of your own soul and living with the results.”
“The difficult part was to tell the world that I was finishing.”
“The difficult people in our life are really our teachers.”
Source: A Lil' Bert Can't Hurt: Words and Wisdom for Daily Life
“The difficult problems in life always start off being simple. Great affairs always start off being small.”
“The difficult task of knowing another soul is not for young gentlemen whose consciousness is chiefly made up of their own wishes.”
Source: Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“The difficult tasks to be performed are not the ones that mean physical and mental labor, but the ones that you dislike, are the ones that you do not love. There are unpleasant angles to nearly every important job to be done in this world, but there must be an over all love for doing each, else precious time and effort are uselessly wasted. I shall never forget noting a sign above a construction job that read: "Builder of Difficult Foundations." That man must have loved that calling, else he would not have made a point of advertising the fact!”
“The difficult & the slow moving things eventually, eventually bear more fruit than anything. Do not give up. Do not stop praying. God will keep you moving forward. It’s the only good way. The only way we can grow, & we will.”
“The difficult thing about practice isn't learning to sit for an hour, or sit for a weekend, or go on a three-month retreat, as hard as those things are. The difficult thing is to pay attention to what is happening right here and now.”
Source: Breath by Breath: The Liberating Practice of Insight Meditation
“The difficult thing about shooting a television series is that you never have enough time. You really don't.”
“The difficult thing is that vulnerability is the first thing I look for in you and the last thing I'm willing to show you. In you, it's courage and daring. In me, it's weakness.”
“The difficult thing isn't living with other people, it's understanding them.”
“The difficult thing was deciding what to leave off! I just ultimately tried to strike a balance between what was interesting to hard core fans, and what was exciting to first timers and what I liked.”
“The difficult thing, the glorious thing, was to be who you really were, even if that person was cruel or dangerous, particularly if cruel and dangerous. There was courage in not distinguishing the animal you happened to be. On the other hand, you had to avoid pretending to be more of an animal than you were: take that path, start exaggerating or faking and you became just another Cubby, just as much of a liar, a hypocrite”
“The difficult we do now.
The impossible takes a little longer.”
Source: Swinging in the Rain
“The difficulties and challenges in your life are the lessons you need to learn to grow and development.”
“The difficulties and hazards of marriage are greatly increased where backgrounds are different”
Source: The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
“The difficulties and struggles of today are but the price we must pay for the accomplishments and victories of tomorrow.”
“The difficulties connected with my criterion of demarcation (D) are important, but must not be exaggerated. It is vague, since it is a methodological rule, and since the demarcation between science and nonscience is vague. But it is more than sharp enough to make a distinction between many physical theories on the one hand, and metaphysical theories, such as psychoanalysis, or Marxism (in its present form), on the other. This is, of course, one of my main theses; and nobody who has not understood it can be said to have understood my theory.
The situation with Marxism is, incidentally, very different from that with psychoanalysis. Marxism was once a scientific theory: it predicted that capitalism would lead to increasing misery and, through a more or less mild revolution, to socialism; it predicted that this would happen first in the technically highest developed countries; and it predicted that the technical evolution of the 'means of production' would lead to social, political, and ideological developments, rather than the other way round.
But the (so-called) socialist revolution came first in one of the technically backward countries. And instead of the means of production producing a new ideology, it was Lenin's and Stalin's ideology that Russia must push forward with its industrialization ('Socialism is dictatorship of the proletariat plus electrification') which promoted the new development of the means of production.
Thus one might say that Marxism was once a science, but one which was refuted by some of the facts which happened to clash with its predictions (I have here mentioned just a few of these facts).
However, Marxism is no longer a science; for it broke the methodological rule that we must accept falsification, and it immunized itself against the most blatant refutations of its predictions. Ever since then, it can be described only as nonscience—as a metaphysical dream, if you like, married to a cruel reality.
Psychoanalysis is a very different case. It is an interesting psychological metaphysics (and no doubt there is some truth in it, as there is so often in metaphysical ideas), but it never was a science. There may be lots of people who are Freudian or Adlerian cases: Freud himself was clearly a Freudian case, and Adler an Adlerian case. But what prevents their theories from being scientific in the sense here described is, very simply, that they do not exclude any physically possible human behaviour. Whatever anybody may do is, in principle, explicable in Freudian or Adlerian terms. (Adler's break with Freud was more Adlerian than Freudian, but Freud never looked on it as a refutation of his theory.)
The point is very clear. Neither Freud nor Adler excludes any particular person's acting in any particular way, whatever the outward circumstances. Whether a man sacrificed his life to rescue a drowning, child (a case of sublimation) or whether he murdered the child by drowning him (a case of repression) could not possibly be predicted or excluded by Freud's theory; the theory was compatible with everything that could happen—even without any special immunization treatment.
Thus while Marxism became non-scientific by its adoption of an immunizing strategy, psychoanalysis was immune to start with, and remained so. In contrast, most physical theories are pretty free of immunizing tactics and highly falsifiable to start with. As a rule, they exclude an infinity of conceivable possibilities.”
“The difficulties in diagnosing DID result primarily from lack of education among clinicians about dissociation, dissociative disorders, and the effects of psychological trauma, as well as from clinician bias. This leads to limited clinical suspicion about dissociative disorders and misconceptions about their clinical presentation. Most clinicians have been taught (or assume) that DID is a rare disorder with a florid, dramatic presentation. Although DID is a relatively common disorder, R. P. Kluft (2009) observed that “only 6% make their DID obvious on an ongoing basis” (p. 600).
- Guidelines for Treating Dissociative Identity Disorder in Adults, Third Revision, p4-5”
“The difficulties in life are vital for our personal growth and well-being.”
“The difficulties in the study of the infinite arise because we attempt, with our finite minds, to discuss the infinite, assigning to it those properties which we give to the finite and limited; but this... is wrong, for we cannot speak of infinite quantities as being the one greater or less than or equal to another.”
“The difficulties of a (four-county) regional study:
Since this regional survey spans four counties, it is, clearly, impossible to provide the depth and detail expected of a single-shire study–to undertake a four-county investigation with the same intensity and intricacy as a single-county survey would presumably take four times as long to complete. Instead, this study intends to give an overview of shire societies thereby examining how ‘regional’ was the political community of the south-west… This study aims to contribute to discourse on fifteenth-century governance not only because it investigates Edward IV’s regional policy (which, as mentioned, requires further research at a provincial level), but because a regional approach has not previously been attempted for south-west England during the late Middle Ages, and moreover because the duchy of Cornwall’s place in contemporaneous regional politics has never been thoroughly examined before (p. 21).
…While there are obviously certain limitations to a study with such a regional breadth, these restrictions do not inhibit the worth or originality of this work as a whole–this investigation cannot claim to provide definitive answers but offers an alternative way of looking at the existing perceptions and perspectives of late-medieval English politics and governance (p. 22).
…the problem of studying four shires presented difficulties over the arrangement of these analyses. Would an account of the south-western region as a whole give equal weighting to each constituent county? …the most appropriate arrangement seemed to be one which gave, as far as possible, each shire an analysis on an equal basis. Consequently, in each chronological chapter, accounts of local governance and politics are structured on a county-by-county model (p. 25).
…The consequence of this equality of approach to the counties, and of the requirement to draw regional and national evaluations, is a certain amount of repetition… Yet, it is only by recognising the frequency with which particular individuals, connections, and structures reappear–across shires, and throughout the period–that it is possible to summarise the extent to which there was a ‘regional’ element to the western political elites (p. 26).”
Source: Political Elites in South-West England, 1450–1500: Politics, Governance, and the Wars of the Roses
“The difficulties of conducting espionage against the Soviet Union in the Soviet Union were such that historically the Agency had backed away from the task.”
“The difficulties of economics are mainly the difficulties of conceiving clearly and fully the conditions of utility.”
Source: The Theory of Political Economy
“The difficulties of life are real but God always makes us stronger to wtihstand the storm.”
“The difficulties of life do not have to be unbearable. It is the way we look at them - through faith or unbelief - that makes them seem so. We must be convinced that our Father is full of love for us and that He only permits trials to come our way for our own good.
Let us occupy ourselves entirely in knowing God. The more we know Him, the more we will desire to know Him. As love increases with knowledge, the more we know God, the more we will truly love Him. We will learn to love Him equally in times of distress or in times of great joy.”
Source: The Practice of the Presence of God
“The difficulties of life do not keep you from greatness. They show you to its door.”
“The difficulties of living in a secular risk culture are compounded by the importance of lifestyle choices.”
Source: Modernity and Self-identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age
“The difficulties of not knowing are always much greater than the effort of learning.”
Source: The Successful Drawing
“The difficulties of peace are better than the agony of war.”
“The difficulties of people should be our business.”
Source: The Mountain of Ignorance
“The difficulties on your path can be overcome by divine power.”
“The difficulties we face in life are sometimes molding us into greatness.”
Source: Reconditioning: Change your life in one minute
“The difficulties we face originate from one of three sources. Some are sent to us by the Lord to test our faith, others are the result of Satan's attacks, and still others are due to our own sinful choices.”
“The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities.”
“The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.”
“The difficulties, hardships and trials of life, the obstacles... are positive blessings. They knit the muscles more firmly, and teach self-reliance.”
“The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?”
Source: The Death and Letters of Alice James: Selected Correspondence
“The difficulty can be overcome by divine power.”
“The difficulty can be overcome with diligent determination.”
“The difficulty comes from this, that Christianity (Christian orthodoxy) is exclusive and that belief in its truth excludes belief in any other truth. It does not absorb; it repulses.”