T Quotes
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“The difficulty does not lie in finding new ideas, but in escaping the long outdated belief in old ones.”
“The difficulty for me is that I'm interested in so many different things. I could never really imagine myself doing one thing, and I'm pretty sure that I'll end up doing four or five different things.”
“The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.”
Source: The essence of Alan Watts
“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.”
“The difficulty in dealing with a maze or labyrinth lies not so much in navigating the convolutions to find the exit but in not entering the damn thing in the first place.
Or, at least not yet again.
As a creature of free will, do not be tempted into futility.”
Source: The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
“The difficulty in judging what type of behavior works well arises not only because a given course of action does not always produce the outcomes. Similar outcomes can occur for reasons other than the person's actions, which further complicates inferential judgment. Effects that arise independently of one's actions distort the influence of similar effects produced by the actions, but only on some occasions. Given a strong cognitive set to perceive regularities, even chance joint occurrences of events can be easily misjudged as genuine relationships of low contingent probability”
“The difficulty in living our religion is when we haven't totally made the commitment necessary.”
“The difficulty in our education up till now lies, for the most part, in the fact that knowledge did not refine itself into will, to application of itself, to pure practice. The realists felt the need and supplied it, though in a most miserable way, by cultivating idea-less and fettered "practical men." Most college students are living examples of this sad turn of events. Trained in the most excellent manner, they go on training; drilled they continue drilling.”
Source: The False Principle of Our Education: Or, Humanism and Realism
“The difficulty in overcoming self-abandonment is that it is very often unconscious behaviour. Some of us are so deeply ingrained in our survival traits, and swamped in self-delusion, that we cannot see when we are neglecting ourselves. It is extremely difficult to heal from self-abandoning behaviour without help. We need non-shaming people to mirror back to us our disempowering behaviour.”
Source: Super Self Care: How to Find Lasting Freedom from Addiction, Toxic Relationships and Dysfunctional Lifestyles
“The difficulty in philosophy is to say no more than we know.”
“The difficulty in shooting a gun has nothing to do with pulling the trigger.”
Source: Enemies of a Sort
“The difficulty in the way of writing a children's play is that Barrie was born too soon. Many people must have felt the same about Shakespeare. We who came later have no chance. What fun to have been Adam, and to have had the whole world of plots and jokes and stories at one's disposal.”
“The difficulty in today's world is our technology and science has outrun our theological advances. The reason for that is in technology and science, we have had the courage to ask the single question that theology has been afraid to ask: "Is it possible that there's something I don't know about this, the knowing of which would change everything?"”
“The difficulty in working with someone on a show like Idol or X Factor is they have an idea of what they think is cool in their heads, and it's important as a producer to maintain control of the session and not let it get side-tracked or chase too many rabbits. But it's also important to let the artist feel like their opinion matters, so that balance is difficult.”
“The difficulty involved in the proper and adequate means of describing changes in continuous deformable bodies is the method of differential equations. ... They express mathematically the physical concept of contiguous action.
Einstein's Theory of Relativity”
“The difficulty is capturing surprise on film.”
“The difficulty is no longer to find candidates for the offices, but offices for the candidates.”
“The difficulty is not making a decision, it's living with the consequences.”
“The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for” -- Henry Home, Lord Kames, Introduction to the Art of Thinking (1761)”
“The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.”
“The difficulty is not to write, but to write what you mean.”
“The difficulty is old, but none the less real. An omnipotent being who created a world containing evil not due to sin must Himself be at least partially evil.”
Source: Bertrand Russell's Best
“The difficulty is that, so long as unreason prevails, a solution of our troubles can only be reached by chance; for while reason, being impersonal, makes universal co-operation possible, unreason, since it represents private passions, makes strife inevitable. It is for this reason that rationality, in the sense of an appeal to a universal and impersonal standard of truth, is of supreme importance to the well-being of the human species.”
Source: In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays
“The difficulty is that we try to perfect others before we perfect ourselves.”
“The difficulty is the levels of secrecy we had to maintain around the project at all different times. We had to keep it a secret while making it so we could move under the radar so we could get the stories. Before it came out we had to keep it on lock down to protect the safety and security of some people who appear in the film.”
“The difficulty is to keep a tight reign on our emotions. They may remain, but it is not they who are to rule the action. They have no authority. A life lived in God is not lived on the plane of the feelings, but of the will. In Scripture the heart is the will - the man himself, the spring of all action, the ruling power bestowed on him by his Creator, capable of choosing and acting.”
Source: Quest for Love: True Stories of Passion and Purity
“The difficulty is to know conscience from self-interest.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of William Dean Howells (Illustrated)
“The difficulty is to learn to perceive with your whole body, not with just your eyes and reason. The world becomes a stream of tremendously rapid, unique events. So you must trim your body to make it a good receptor. The body is an awareness; and it must be treated impeccably.”
“The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.”
“The difficulty is, all swing thoughts decay, like radium. What burnt up the course on Wednesday has turned to lead on Sunday. Yet it does not do to have a blank mind: the terrible hugeness of the course will rush into the vacuum and the ball will spray like a thing berserk.”
“The difficulty lay with the mind accommodating itself to the notion of the plane, with all its weight, defying gravity, staying aloft. She understood the aerodynamics of flight, could comprehend the laws of physics that made flight possible, but her heart, at the moment, would have none of it. Her heart knew the plane could fall out of the sky.”
Source: The Pilot's Wife
“The difficulty lies not in writing well but in earning that ability.”
“The Difficulty lies, in finding out an exact Measure but eat for Necessity, not Pleasure, for Lust knows not where Necessity ends.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
“The difficulty lies, not in finding a producer, but in finding a consumer.”
Source: History of Economic Theory: The Selected Writings of Adam Smith, Jean-Baptiste Say, and J.R. McCulloch
“The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.”
“The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.”
Source: General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money
“the difficulty of accommodating an erratic family member while protecting young children, which is how my mother would have viewed it – on the real possibilty that Mama brought us to our grandparents’ home only if she knew Bill wouldn’t be there. ” (117)”
Source: Letting in Air and Light
“The difficulty of accurate recognition constitutes one of the most serious sources of friction in war, by making things appear entirely different from what one had expected.”
Source: On War
“The difficulty of always feeling that you ought to be doing something is that you tend to undervalue the times when you’re apparently doing nothing, and those are very important times.”
“The difficulty of being a Latin kid, a Latin man in this country [U.S].”
“The difficulty of carrying on a leisure-oriented tradition of culture in a work-oriented society is enough in itself to keep the present crisis in our culture unresolved.”
Source: Art and Culture: Critical Essays
“The difficulty of course is that I like women. It is only wives I am in trouble with.”
Source: A Life in Letters
“The difficulty of explaining ‘why I am a Catholic’ is that there are ten thousand reasons all amounting to one reason: that Catholicism is true.”
“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.”
“The difficulty of limiting the influence of
wealth suggests that wealth itself needs to be limited. When money talks, everybody else is condemned to listen. For that reason a democratic society cannot allow unlimited
accumulation. Social and civic equality presuppose at least a rough approximation of economic equality. A "plurality of spheres," as Walzer calls it, is eminently desirable, and we should do everything possible to enforce the boundaries among them. But we also need to remember that boundaries are permeable, especially where money is concerned, that a moral condemnation of great wealth must inform any defense of the free market, and that moral condemnation must be backed up with effective political action.”
Source: The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy
“The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean.”
“The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.”
Source: Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition)
“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.”
“The difficulty of objective arises when we anticipate things to happen without good intentions. If we understand that our objectives will bring us what we expect, then we should set ourselves up for disappointment.”
“The difficulty of reducing what's inside of me and fitting it into words.”