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“It's been a difficult thing because some great opportunities have come and I've just been holding my breath and praying... I'm basically gambling hoping something will come along this season and if not, I don't know what the future holds.”

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Author:Charisma Carpenter

“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”

Ifs Persons Hands Difficult Animal Path Happened Dangerous Glorious Liars Pretending Hypocrite Difficult Things Exaggerating

Author:J. K. Rowling

“The most difficult thing about Time, I have learned, is doing it.”

Time Difficult I Have Learned Difficult Things

Book:Nine princes in Amber. The guns of Avalon

Source: Nine princes in Amber. The guns of Avalon

“The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man without trials.”

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Author:Confucius

“All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.”

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Book:The Simple Way

Source: The Simple Way

“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult”

“Forgiving is one of the most difficult things for a human being to do, but I think it means looking at some slight you feel, putting yourself in the position of the other person, and wiping away any sort of resentment and antagonism you feel toward them. Then let that other person know that everything is perfectly friendly and normal between you.”

“I think the truth is that the Labour Party isn't believed any more because people suspect it will say anything to get votes. The rebuilding of some radical alternatives to Thatcherism - and by that I mean all-party Thatcherism - will require us to do some very difficult things”

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Book:The end of an era: diaries, 1980-90

Source: The end of an era: diaries, 1980-90

“To sustain hatred is a very difficult thing to do, year after year. It's exhausting.”

Years Difficult Hatred Things To Do Music Business Difficult Things Exhausting

Author:Nick Cave

“Josh Billings said, It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too. Human beings have always employed an enormous variety of clever devices for running away from themselves, and the modern world is particularly rich in such stratagems.”

“The self-confidence one builds from achieving difficult things and accomplishing goals is the most beautiful thing of all.”

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Author:Madonna Ciccone

“The most difficult thing about an easy match is to make a weak opponent play bad football.”

Play Easy Difficult Football Weak Soccer Opponents Difficult Things Playing Football

Author:Johan Cruijff

“The most difficult thing in any negotiation, almost, is making sure that you strip it of the emotion and deal with the facts.”

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Author:Howard Baker

“Giving interviews is the most difficult thing about being a gymnast.”

Giving Difficult Interviews Difficult Things Gymnastics Giving In Gymnast

Author:Gina Gogean

“The capacity to give one's attention to a sufferer is a very rare and difficult thing; it is almost a miracle; it is a miracle. Nearly all those who think they have the capacity do not possess it.”

Thinking Giving Difficult Attention Compassion Empathy Capacity Miracle Sympathy Difficult Things Sufferers

Book:Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)

Source: Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)

“If anybody can find someone to love them and to help them through this difficult thing that we call life, I support that in any shape or form.”

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Author:Will Smith

“One of the most difficult things is not to change society - but to change yourself.”

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Author:Nelson Mandela

“Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.”

“As in Mathematicks, so in Natural Philosophy, the Investigation of difficult Things by the Method of Analysis, ought ever to precede the Method of Composition. This Analysis consists in making Experiments and Observations, and in drawing general Conclusions from them by Induction, and admitting of no Objections against the Conclusions, but such as are taken from Experiments, or other certain Truths. For Hypotheses are not to be regarded in experimental Philosophy.”

“Making a comeback is one of the most difficult things to do with dignity.”

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Author:Greg Lake

“A stroke is a very difficult thing. You get depressed. . . . What I found was this: the cure for depression is to think of others, to do for others. You can always find something to be grateful for.”

Thinking Found Difficult Gratitude Grateful Cures Be Grateful Strokes Difficult Things

Author:Kirk Douglas

“Any government, of whatever composition, needs to mobilise opinion way beyond its own ranks in order to do the difficult things that it does.”

Way Needs Doe Government Order Difficult Opinion Composition Difficult Things

Author:Nick Clegg

“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.”

“This is something that I'm sure I'd have serious debates with my fellow Christians about. I think that the difficult thing about any religion, including Christianity, is that at some level there is a call to evangelize and prostelytize. There's the belief, certainly in some quarters, that people haven't embraced Jesus Christ as their personal savior that they're going to hell.”

“There are so many difficult things we're living through in the world today, so many horrible events, but we cannot let them stop us. No matter what happens, I feel you must move forward with optimism and not get totally sideswiped.”

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Author:Gloria Estefan

“Accept yourself as you are. And that is the most difficult thing in the world, because it goes against your training, education, your culture.”

World Love Culture Difficult Accepting Training Difficult Things Accepting Yourself

Author:Rajneesh

“Good manners and soft words have brought many a difficult thing to pass.”

Difficult Justice Ethics Manners Good Man Fairness Difficult Things Good Manners

Book:Esop. [By Sir John Vanbrugh.]

Source: Esop. [By Sir John Vanbrugh.]

“On the whole, dialogue is the most difficult thing, without any doubt. It's very difficult, unfortunately. You have to detach yourself from the notion of a lifelike quality. You see, actually lifelike, tape-recorded dialogue like this has very little to do with good novel dialogue. It's a matter of getting that awful tyranny of mimesis out of your mind, which is difficult.”

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Author:John Fowles

“Give half a dozen men the same camera, lenses and plates, and send them to the same place to do the same thing, and all the results will be alike, or so nearly alike as to reveal the real mechanicalness of photography. Yet, curiously enough, this is just one of the most difficult things a photographer can be set to do, to exactly repeat himself, or another. He may use the identical apparatus, know the subject perfectly, and yet be totally unable to bring away an exact replica.”

“Writin songs is like a mystery. The most difficult thing to do is have a good idea. If you have a decent idea, the songs are the easy part. Actually having something to say is the hard part. If you get an idea for a song, then it pulls you along. There are just some ideas that you get that are really hard to edit out; it's hard to stop thinking about some bad ideas. So you just finish it and you end up putting it on a record.”

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Author:Lyle Lovett

“I was at the vice president's Christmas party. I thought that his speech was spectacular, and I knew that it was a very emotional and difficult thing for him to do, but I admonished him for not waiting just one more stinking day.”

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Author:Bradley Whitford

“Crowds are the most difficult thing for me these days because I have to walk with my head down and my eyes averted. There's still that part of me that wants to hold my head up, make eye contact and smile.”

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Author:Cameron Diaz

“I just think the most difficult thing to displace is privilege.”

Thinking Politics Difficult Privilege Difficult Things

Author:Sean Connery

“I couldn't believe how good Jimi Hendrix was It was a really difficult thing for me to deal with, but I just had to surrender and say, 'This is fantastic.'”

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Author:Eric Clapton

“I have realized that you can close yourself off to life if you put walls up, but it's a difficult thing ... You can't see over, people can't see in, and you also can't see out. So I've gotten quite comfortable with just being unafraid. I keep saying the same thing: it's not about being fearless but really just embracing the fears and using them.”

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Author:Kristen Stewart

“Its a very wonderful yet difficult thing to be given a lot of really good opportunities and the world is at your fingertips.”

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Author:Troian Bellisario

“It's a very difficult thing for people to accept, seeing women act out anger on the screen. We're more accustomed to seeing men expressing rage and women crying.”

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Author:Rebecca De Mornay

“Pittsburgh have showed me a couple deals, but we all know the money ain't what it's supposed to be. If I quit the game right now, I can take tax-free money, and that's a difficult thing that I'm going through with myself.”

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Author:Jermichael Finley

“You have to keep your sanity as well as know how to distance yourself from it while still holding onto the reins tightly. That is a very difficult thing to do, but I'm learning.”

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Author:Diahann Carroll

“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.”

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Author:Darius Milhaud

“Hitting a baseball well, as in cricket, is a very rare skill. One of most difficult things to do in the world to do, hitting a ball coming at you at ninety miles an hour with a round bat. Wonderful to watch.”

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Author:Peter Tork

“The portrait of a person is one of the most difficult things to do. It means you must almost bring the presence of that person photographed to other people in such a way that they don't have to know that person personally, but that they are still confronted with a human being that they won't forget. That's a portrait.”

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Author:Paul Strand

“It is rightly said that the most difficult thing in chess is winning a won position”

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Author:Vladimir Kramnik

“Surrender is the most difficult thing in the world while you are doing it and the easiest when it is done.”

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Author:Bhai Sahib Singh

“The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.”

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Author:Thales

“For me, the first fact of human existence is the human body. But if you embrace the reality of the human body, you embrace mortality, and that is a very difficult thing for anything to do because the self-conscious mind cannot imagine non-existence. It's impossible to do.”

“To be alone in the air at night is to be very much alone indeed. . . cut off from everything and everyone . . . nothing is 'familiar' any longer . . . . I think that unfamiliarity is the most difficult thing to face; one feels rather like Alice in Wonderland after she has nibbled the toadstool that made her grow smaller - and like Alice, one hopes that the process will stop while there is still something left!”

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Author:Pauline Gower

“In the antiseptic world we try to purge ourselves of difficult things. Don't dwell on it, switch off the light and go home. But this is home. I have to be a home to myself. I am the place I come back to and I can't keep hiding difficult things in trunks. Soon the house will be full of trunks and I perched on top of them with the phone saying, "Yes, I'm fine, of course, I'm fine, everything's fine." The trunks shudder.”

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Book:Art & Lies: A Piece for Three Voices and a Bawd

Source: Art & Lies: A Piece for Three Voices and a Bawd

“First of all, war is a very, very difficult thing to deal with, even on the good days.”

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Author:Saxby Chambliss

“Certainly the plagiarism, and dealing with the fallout of it, was the most difficult thing I've ever faced since I started writing.”

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Author:Nora Roberts

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