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“Mysticism is the hidden way. It is the most difficult to discuss, because it involves the exploration of perceptual states which are difficult to describe in words.”

Way States Difficult Mysticism Exploration

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Bird taxonomy is a difficult field because of the severe anatomical constraints imposed by flight. There are only so many ways to design a bird capable, say, of catching insects in mid-air, with the result that birds of similar habitats tend to have very similar anatomies, whatever their ancestry. For example, American vultures look and behave much like Old World vultures, but biologists have come to realize that the former are related to storks, the latter to hawks, and that their resemblances result from their common lifestyle.”

“I took the repeal of the Corn Laws as light amusement compared with the difficult task of inducing the priests of all denominations to agree to suffer the people to be educated.”

People Light Law Suffering Difficult Atheism Tasks Agree Positive Atheism Educated Priests Amusement Corn Denominations Difficult Tasks

Author:Richard Cobden

“Press coverage has been difficult for him. I did not set out to ensnare him with a child.”

Children Has Beens Literature Difficult Presses Coverage

Author:Martin Bashir

“In the specific case of abortion, the matter is particularly easy in that no woman wants a late abortion. Once abortion was made legal, the age of the aborted fetus went down. The slope slipped in the other direction. If we legalize RU-486 and other similar new drugs, the age will fall to one week or less and start approaching zero. The slippery slope will slide in the other direction. The only reason we have late abortions is because we make early abortion difficult.”

Ifs Want Made Matter Reason Age Fall Easy Difficult Cases Week Atheism Drug Late Abortion Zero Slides Women Want Slippery Slopes Fetus Slippery Slope

Author:Garrett Hardin

“The important thing to remember is to follow the path of light. As the fictional character Yoda, from Star Wars, correctly pointed out, once you start down the dark path to power, it's very difficult to leave that path.”

Important War Character Light Remember Stars Difficult Dark Path Buddhism Important Things Fictional Character

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It is difficult, none the less, for the ordinary man to cast off orthodox beliefs, for he is seldom allowed to hear the other side... Whereas the Christian view is pressed on him day in and day out.”

Men Christian Belief Difficult Sides Views Atheism Ordinary Casts Positive Atheism Orthodox Ordinary Man

Author:Margaret E. Knight

“Christians have ... identified their opponents, whether Jews, pagans, or heretics, with forces of evil, and so with Satan... Nor have things improved since. The blood-soaked history of persecution, torture, murder, and destruction perpetrated in the name of religion is difficult to grasp, let alohne summarize, from the slaughter of Christians to the Crusades to the Inquisitiion to the Reformation to the European witchcraze to colonialization to today's bitter coflict in the Middle East.”

“I was at a dinner party with a group of people, and we were talking about fake names. You know, how its difficult to come up with a really great fake name. Its a very specific type of gift. You don't want to go too far into the silly, and you don't want to go too far into the banal. I always thought one of the funniest names ever was Gern Blanston, which came from a Steve Martin routine on one of his early records.”

People Knows Want Funny Names Difficult Party Talking Know How Records Groups Type Come Up Dinner Silly Fake Routine Really Great Dinner Party

Author:Paul Rudd

“Most of the difficult things in golf are mental, not physical. Are subjective, not objective. Are the created phantasms of the mind, not the veritable realities of the course.”

Mind Reality Courses Difficult Golf Objectives Subjective Difficult Things

Author:Arnold Haultain

“It's very difficult to move yourself up bit by bit. It's like trying to eat an elephant for God's sake. I can do it. It's just I have to have it bite by bite, you know. It's possible. You can eat an elephant, but you have to do it bite by bite. You can't do it all in one go.”

Knows Trying I Can Moving Bits Difficult Can Do Golf Sake Bites Elephants I Can Do It

Author:Colin Montgomerie

“We ask these players to do some very difficult things, for the team, the coaching staff, the school - at risk of injury. And when they do those things, I feel as if I'm in their debt. It's an honor to coach those guys. I want to be of service to them.”

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Author:Les Miles

“The way people respond to struggles or express their feelings in difficult situations are very different. I like imagining how characters would react in certain situations.”

People Way Different Character Feelings Certain Difficult Situation Struggle Difficult Situations

Author:Lee Yoon-ki

“As a white male in America, I have privilege. As a white male who happens to be an artist with a fan base, I have a platform to spread awareness about that privilege. However, songs about race and privilege are very difficult to A) write and B) dissect as a listener. They're heavy.”

Writing Happens America Artist Song Difficult White Race Fans Awareness Males Privilege Heavy Spread Platforms Listeners

Author:Macklemore

“I'm not a Republican, but I have some conservative views on certain things. I'm not a Democrat, either. It's just very difficult that these people hate each other over a belief. I think it all comes down to ego and competitiveness.”

People Thinking Certain Hate Belief Difficult Views Republican Ego Democrat Conservative Competitiveness

Author:Mike Tyson

“It is very difficult to follow your own method all the time because you may crash against some directors who want from you something different. Trying to understand the material, who you're working with, and how can you fit in there. That is my approach.”

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Author:Antonio Banderas

“For me, it's always more difficult and slightly exposing to play something that's close to yourself. I always like to try to hide, just because I can't stand the way I look. But, I think it's important to change every time and come up with something that's as interesting as it can be, for your characters.”

Thinking Way Trying Looks I Can Important Play Character Difficult Interesting Come Up Because I Can Exposing

Author:Johnny Depp

“When I first started out, it was very, very difficult to even get in the room with directors or casting directors because they would see that I hadn't been to drama school and wouldn't want to see me. Now, I feel like it's changing. We have this new generation of a lot of writers, directors and actors who are just breaking through, and they're doing it for the passion.”

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Author:Kaya Scodelario

“You don't cast the animal, per se. You have an animal trainer who looks for several of them. That is a different experience than dealing with actors. That is just difficult. It is what you expect from an animal on the set. You just run a lot of film and prompt it to do the right thing, but sit through it doing all the wrong things first. It's just unbelievably boring, frustrating and painstaking to shoot.”

Firsts Looks Different Running Film Actors Difficult Animal Casts Boring Right Thing Frustrating Wrong Things Trainers Prompts Different Experiences

Author:Ethan Coen

“To make magic credible on screen is always very difficult. The story is the most important thing. That is what should win. If sacrifices or compromises are made, it's usually for story. Story in magic is very, very important to me. That's what I've really championed through my career.”

Ifs Should Made Important Stories Winning Difficult Careers Magic Sacrifice Important Things Screens Compromise Made It Credible

Author:David Copperfield

“Putting together philosophy and children would have been difficult for most of history. But very fortunately for me, when I started graduate school there was a real scientific revolution taking place in developmental psychology.”

Children Has Beens Real Philosophy School Together Difficult Psychology Revolution Graduates Graduate School Developmental Scientific Revolution

Author:Alison Gopnik

“The idea of my kids being spoiled, I go to sleep thinking about it. I wake up thinking about. I'm trying to do the right thing. With the amount of money I have, it's difficult to raise children the way I was raised. But I took away the west and north wing of the house for those guys. So, they're not allowed in there.”

Thinking Way Trying Children Ideas Kids Guy House Difficult Sleep Amount Wake Up Raises Wings West Raised Right Thing Going To Sleep Spoiled Being Spoiled

Author:Adam Sandler

“It's a bit difficult to get hippies organized into anything, but I think if they get annoyed enough with the stuff that's going down, they're capable of showing up. So anything they consider important, they'll be there.”

Ifs Thinking Important Enough Stuff Bits Difficult Capable Organized Hippie Annoyed Showing Up

Author:Grace Slick

“I'm a big lover of fish. Cooking fish is so much more difficult than cooking protein meats, because there are no temperatures in the medium, rare, well done cooking a stunning sea bass or a scallop.”

Wells Done Bigs Difficult Sea Lovers Cooking Fishes Mediums Meat Temperature Bass Protein Well Done Stunning Scallops

Author:Gordon Ramsay

“We write so many songs, it is difficult to narrow them down.”

Writing Song Difficult

Author:Miranda Lambert

“Common sense is so very simple but very difficult to grasp.”

Difficult Simple Common Common Sense

Author:Mike Tyson

“Part of the reason I fell in love with the trail is because it was so extremely difficult, more difficult than the marathons and Ironmans I'd competed in. Not just physically but emotionally it was a new challenge, as well. It really helped me to learn and grow in so many ways.”

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Author:Jennifer Pharr Davis

“It struck me that Steve Jobs, known to be such a brilliant speaker, had a very difficult time explaining things when he was younger. He was describing technology that didn't exist. He had MIT engineers, and he was trying to tell them what he wanted; but there were no terms for what he wanted yet. I think a lot of his early frustration was trying to quickly get his vision to the finish line.”

“I personally think money in politics on any level is horrible. I'd like to see a set amount and have every candidate spend it. Have it be completely transparent. But actually getting to that spot, as we have learned through all the legislation over the decades, is very difficult.”

Thinking Difficult Levels Amount Decades Horrible Spots Candidates Legislation Transparent Money In Politics

Author:Rick Santelli

“It's very difficult to speak to a large group of people these days and not offend someone. I know people walk around with their feelings on their shoulders waiting for you to say something - ahh - did you hear that? And they can't hear anything else you say. The PC police are out in force at all times.”

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Author:Benjamin Carson

“I was adored [as a kid]. I was always in the air, hurled up and kissed and thrown in the air again. Until I was six, my feet didn't touch the ground. "Look at those eyes! That nose! Those lips! That tooth! Get that child away from me, quick! I'll eat him!" Giving that up was very difficult later on in life.”

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Author:Mel Brooks

“One of the things that makes a social-media cleanse so difficult is that every time we log on, every notification we get is an addictive substance. It's just like any drug.”

Social Difficult Media Drug Social Media Substance Notifications

Author:Kim Stolz

“It becomes very difficult for us to adjust to a world without social media because we spend so much time involved with it.”

World Social Difficult Media Involved Social Media

Author:Kim Stolz

“I do a few jokes about the economy but from an everyday person perspective. People like to laugh, and they especially like to laugh during difficult circumstances.”

People Persons Difficult Laughing Economy Perspective Circumstances Jokes Everyday Difficult Circumstances

Author:Brian Regan

“A formula for comedy is comedy equals tragedy plus time. A difficult or uncomfortable situation takes place, and then you laugh about it later down the road.”

Difficult Situation Laughing Comedy Tragedy Uncomfortable Plus Formulas Down The Road Uncomfortable Situations

Author:Brian Regan

“... ages in which the dominant weapon is expensive or difficult to make will tend to be ages of despotism, whereas when the dominant weapon is cheap and simple, the common people have a chance... A complex weapon makes the strong stronger, while a simple weapon -- so long as there is no answer to it -- gives claws to the weak.”

People Giving Long Age Strong Difficult Chance Simple Answers Common Weapons Weak Stronger Complexes Expensive Dominant Despotism Claws

Book:The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell: In front of your nose, 1945-1950

Source: The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell: In front of your nose, 1945-1950

“I never did write a biography, and I don't exactly know how to set about it; you see I have to be accurate and keep to the facts, a most difficult thing for a writer of fiction.”

Knows Writing Facts Difficult Fiction Know How Accurate Biographies Difficult Things

Book:The Life of Charlotte Brontë

Source: The Life of Charlotte Brontë

“In difficult times, people too often lose the ability to face the future optimistically. They begin to think about their tomorrow's negatively. They forget that the tough times will pass. They concentrate on the problems of today rather than on the opportunities of tomorrow. In so doing, they not only lose the potential of today, they also throw away the beauty of tomorrow.”

People Thinking Problem Today Faces Opportunity Difficult Loses Ability Forget Tomorrow Tough Difficult Times Tough Times

Book:Tough Times Never Last, But Tough People Do!

Source: Tough Times Never Last, But Tough People Do!

“Spiritual matters are difficult to explain because you must live with them in order to fully understand them.”

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Book:Yellowtail, Crow Medicine Man and Sun Dance Chief: An Autobiography

Source: Yellowtail, Crow Medicine Man and Sun Dance Chief: An Autobiography

“Most skills can be learned, but it is difficult to train people on their personality.”

People Difficult Personality Skills Train Company Culture

Author:Richard Branson

“I think that that's why artists make art - it is difficult to put into words unless you are a poet. What it takes is being open to the flow of universal creativity. The Zen artists knew this.”

Thinking Art Artist Difficult Creativity Poet Flow Universal

Author:Alex Grey

“Here's an idea: eat like an adult. Stop eating fast food, stop eating kid's cereal, knock it off with all the sweets and comfort foods, and ease up on the snacking. And don't act like you don't know this: eat more vegetables and fruits. Really, how difficult is this? Stop with the whining. Stop with the excuses. Act like an adult and stop eating like a television commercial. Grow up.”

“Almost nothing worthwhile is easy, and it's hard to just jump in and be good at something difficult right off the bat... The only reliable way to succeed at anything is to actually do it, repeatedly, with concentrated effort. True for individuals, and true for organizations. Athletes, artists, businesses.”

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Author:John Gruber

“The signs that the world is spinning out of kilter are increasingly difficult to misinterpret. The question is how to convince enough people to join a critical mass of urgent opinion, in the U.S. and the rest of the world.”

People World Enough Difficult Opinion Mass Critical Convince Urgent Spinning Critical Mass

Author:Al Gore

“Photography is a medium of formidable contradictions. It is both ridiculously easy and almost impossibly difficult. It is easy because its technical rudiments can readily be mastered by anyonwith a few simple instructions. It is difficult because, while while the artist working in any other medium begins with a blank surface and gradually brings his conception into being, the photographer is the only imagemaker who begins with the picture completed. His emotions, his knowledge, and his native talent are brought into focus and fixed beyond recall the moment the shutter of his camera has closed.”

“God knows His own. It is well that He does, for sometimes it would be difficult for us to determine who are His!”

Knows Wells Doe Sometimes Would Be Difficult Determine God Knows

Book:Day by Day

Source: Day by Day

“Just as bees make honey from thyme, the strongest and driest of herbs, so do the wise profit from the most difficult of experiences.”

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Author:Plato

“Know that wherever you are in your life right now is both temporary, and exactly where you are supposed to be. You have arrived at this moment to learn what you must learn, so you can become the person you need to be to create the life you truly want. Even when life is difficult or challenging-especially when life is difficult and challenging-the present is always an opportunity for us to learn, grow, and become better than we've ever been before.”

Knows Want Needs Persons Moments Life Is Opportunity Grows Difficult Challenges Right Now Supposed To Be Temporary Where You Are Be You Wherever You Are Life Is Difficult

Author:Hal Elrod

“It is difficult to remove by logic an idea not placed there by logic in the first place.”

Firsts Ideas Difficult Logic Remove

Book:Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart: Thirty True Things You Need to Know Now

Source: Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart: Thirty True Things You Need to Know Now

“The core of a man's life should be his relationship with God. The man who walks humbly with God is motivated and empowered to step up and assume the difficult responsibilitie s that come his way.”

Men Way Should Difficult Walks Steps He Man Assuming Core Motivated Empowered Step Up Relationship With God

Author:Dennis Rainey

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