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Source: The Black Cauldron 50th Anniversary Edition

“I dont know if there is a personal identity. We all imagine that we are absolute individuals. But when we begin to look for where this individuality resides, its very difficult to find.”

Ifs Knows Looks Individual Difficult Imagine Identity Absolutes Individuality Imagine That Personal Identity

Author:John Banville

“It is in many circumstances a troubling thing to belong to the advanced class of a backward nation. One surrenders coherence and begins a difficult process of choice which ends, often, in an eclectic idiosyncrasy.”

Ends Choices Nations Process Difficult Class Circumstances Surrender Eclectic Coherence Idiosyncrasies

Author:George W. S. Trow

“By marrying to soon, many individuals sacrifice their chance to struggle through this purgatory of solitude and search toward a greater sense of self-confidence. They glance at the world outside the family and with hardly a second thought grasp anxiously for a partner. In marriage they seek a substitute for the security of the family of origin and an escape from aloneness. What they do not realize is that moving so quickly from one family to another, they make it easy to transfer to the new marriage all their difficult experiences in the family of origin.”

“Success comes from doing the hard part. When the hard part is all you've got, you're more likely to do it. And this is precisely why it's difficult to focus. Because focusing means acknowledging that you just signed up for the hard part.”

Mean Hard Difficult Focus

Author:Seth Godin

“Be not in despair, the way is very difficult, like walking on the edge of a razor; yet despair not, arise, awake, and find the ideal, the goal.”

Way Difficult Goal Walking Despair Ideals Edges Arise Awake Razors

Book:Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge

Source: Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge

“It is difficult to speak of what is common in a way of your own.”

Way Speak Difficult Common

Author:Horace

“Everyone in the world disagrees with me, including some managers, but I think managing in the American League is much more difficult for that very reason (having the designated hitter). In the National League, my situation is dictated for me. If I'm behind in the game, I've got to pinch hit. I've got to take my pitcher out. In the American League, you have to zero in. You have to know exactly when to take them out of there. In the National League, that's done for you.”

Ifs Thinking Knows World Reason Done Games Difficult Behinds Situation Including Managers League Zero Disagree Pitcher Designated Hitter

Author:Jim Leyland

“I would never wear anything with a logo. That I really find difficult. It's a frustration that I'll find a nice shirt or something and it's got 50 prints of the logo on it - why do they do this?”

Difficult Nice Shirts Frustration Print Logos

Author:Norman Foster

“Over the years, our political system has degenerated to the extent that it's difficult for anyone to make any headway, yet keep his hands clean.”

Years Hands Political Difficult Clean Political Systems

Author:Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

“Even when alternative views are clearly wrong, being exposed to them still expands our creative potential. In a way, the power of dissent is the power of surprise. After hearing someone shout out an errant answer, we work to understand it, which causes us to reassess our initial assumptions and try out new perspectives. “Authentic dissent can be difficult, but it’s always invigorating,” Nemeth says. “It wakes us right up.””

“I know that I have still before me a difficult path to traverse. I must reduce myself to zero. So long as a man does not of his own free will put himself last among his fellow creatures, there is no salvation for him. Ahimsa is the farthest limit of humility.”

Knows Men Long Doe Stills Lasts Difficult Path Humility Creatures Limits Fellows Salvation Free Will Zero Ahimsa Traverse

Book:All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections

Source: All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections

“Forecasts are difficult to make-particularly those about the future.”

Difficult Forecasts

Author:Samuel Goldwyn

“College radio is a very important medium that needs to survive in difficult economic times when some stations are being sold off and shut down. College radio is the future for broadcasting stars and pioneers of tomorrow, and we as a band, Coldplay, support the vital mission of college radio and we also support College Radio Day, the day when college radio comes together.”

Needs Important Together Stars Difficult Support Economic College Tomorrow Band Radio Missions Mediums Stations Pioneers Broadcasting

Author:Chris Martin

“For me, disability is a way of getting some extremity, some kind of very difficult situation, that throws an interesting light on people.”

People Way Kind Light Difficult Ability Interesting Situation Disability Difficult Situations Extremity People With Disabilities

Author:Mark Haddon

“If any has stumbled in his journey, there is a way back. The process is called repentance. Our Savior died to provide you and me that blessed gift. Though the path is difficult, the promise is real: 'Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow' (Isaiah 1:18).”

Ifs Way Real Process Difficult Sin White Path Journey Promise Died Blessed Snow Repentance Savior Scarlet

Author:Thomas S. Monson

“How thankful we ought to be ... how thankful we are, for a prophet to counsel us in words of divine wisdom as we walk our paths in these complex and difficult times. The solid assurance we carry in our hearts, the conviction that God will make his will known to his children through his recognized servant is the real basis of our faith and activity. We either have a prophet or we have nothing: and having a prophet, we have everything”

Heart Children Real Difficult Walks Known Path Divine Ought Activity Bases Complexes Conviction Gods Will Servant Prophet Assurance Difficult Times Divine Wisdom

Author:Gordon B. Hinckley

“I probably prefer Spanish football to the others. It's very technical, the way they play; they keep the ball well, and whenever Spurs have played against Spanish teams in the past, they've always made it difficult for us.”

Way Wells Made Play Past Difficult Team Football Balls Made It Spurs

Author:Gareth Bale

“The most difficult book I wrote was the fourth in a series of linked children's books. It was like pulling teeth because the publisher wanted exactly the same but completely different. I'd much rather just do something completely different even if there's a risk of it going wrong.”

Ifs Children Book Different Wanted Difficult Risk Series Teeth Fourth Pulling Publishers Linked Children's Books

Author:Mark Haddon

“But the extraordinary insight which some persons are able to gain of others from indications so slight that it is difficult to ascertain what they are, is certainly rendered more comprehensible by the view here taken.”

Persons Able Difficult Views Taken Gains Extraordinary Insight Indication

Book:Collected papers of Charles Sanders Peirce

Source: Collected papers of Charles Sanders Peirce

“Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough.”

Difficult Tough Architecture

Author:Zaha Hadid

“Usually, English personalities are difficult; they dont take criticism easily.”

Difficult Personality Criticism

Author:Natalia Makarova

“The rules for reading yourself to sleep are easier to follow than are the rules for staying awake while reading. Get into bed in a comfortable position, make sure the light is inadequate enough to cause slight eyestrain, choose a book that is either terribly difficult or terribly boring-in any event, one that you do not really care whether you read or not-and you will be asleep in a few minutes. Those who are experts in relaxing with a book do not have to wait for nightfall. A comfortable chair in the library will do any time”

Source: How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

“Ralph Ellison is a classic work of erudition, grace, and elegance. Rampersad offers us an Ellison whose gifts and warts orbit the same universe of creative genius. Like Ellison's work, Rampersad's text wrestles eloquently with difficult truths about race, politics, and American life.”

Universe Difficult Race Creative Grace Genius Offers Classic Elegance Orbit American Life Creative Genius Warts Erudition

Author:Michael Eric Dyson

“Centuries ago it may have been difficult for pregnant women and their children to get proper nourishment, probably leading to smaller - and therefore shorter-lived - adults.”

May Children Has Beens Difficult Century Adults Pregnant Nourishment Pregnant Women

Author:Robert Fogel

“I have a firm belief in such things as, you know, the water, the Earth, the trees and sky. And I'm wondering, it is increasingly difficult to find those elements in nature, because it's nature I believe in rather than some spiritual thing.”

Knows Believe Earth Spiritual Belief I Believe Difficult Water Wonder Tree Sky Elements I Believe In Firm Firm Beliefs

Author:Bill Blass

“Gratitude, being nearly the greatest of human duties, is also nearly the most difficult.”

Humans Difficult Duty Gratitude

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Marx saw that capitalism is a wasteful, irrational system, a system which controls us when we should be controlling it. That insight is still valid; but we can now see that the construction of a free and equal society is a more difficult task than Marx realized.”

Should Stills Difficult Saws Equal Capitalism Tasks Insight Construction Irrational Difficult Tasks

Book:Marx: A Very Short Introduction

Source: Marx: A Very Short Introduction

“The most essential characteristic of scientific technique is that it proceeds from experiment, not from tradition. The experimental habit of mind is a difficult one for most people to maintain; indeed, the science of one generation has already become the tradition of the next”

People Mind Next Difficult Generations Habit Essentials Tradition Technique Experiments Characteristics Habits Of Mind

Book:The Scientific Outlook

Source: The Scientific Outlook

“From the results so far obtained it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that the long-range atoms arising from collision of alpha particles with nitrogen are not nitrogen atoms but probably atoms of hydrogen, or atoms of mass 2. If this be the case, we must conclude that the nitrogen atom is disintegrated under the intense forces developed in a close collision with a swift alpha particle, and that the hydrogen atom which is liberated formed a constituent part of the nitrogen nucleus.”

Ifs Long Force Difficult Results Cases Mass Intense Conclusion Range Atoms Particles Liberated Constituents Collision Hydrogen Alphas Nucleus Nitrogen Hydrogen Atom

Author:Ernest Rutherford

“There are several kinds of stories, but only one difficult kind-the humorous.”

Kind Stories Difficult Humorous

Book:Humorous Stories and Sketches

Source: Humorous Stories and Sketches

“In the end, people don't view their life as merely the average of all its moments-which, after all, is mostly nothing much plus some sleep. For human beings, life is meaningful because it is a story. A story has a sense of a whole, and its arc is determined by the significant moments, the ones where something happens. Measurements of people's minute-by-minute levels of pleasure and pain miss this fundamental aspect of human existence. A seemingly happy life maybe empty. A seemingly difficult life may be devoted to a great cause. We have purposes larger than ourselves.”

Source: Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End

“Art is difficult. It's not entertainment. There are only a few people who can say something about art - it's very restricted. When I see a new artist I give myself a lot of time to reflect and decide whether it's art or not. Buying art is not understanding art.”

People Giving Art Artist Difficult Understanding Art Is Entertainment Buying New Artists Buying Art

Author:Anselm Kiefer

“I believe the more difficult the circumstances, the more people will be inclined to trust those in charge at the moment.”

People Believe Moments I Believe Difficult Circumstances

Author:Tony Benn

“It is clear that for many of our members two websites would make things more difficult, so we are going to keep Netflix as one place to go for streaming and DVDs.”

Two Difficult Clear Members Website Dvds Places To Go Streaming Netflix

Author:Reed Hastings

“I never suffered from the absence of a father. On the contrary, as a child I was more inclined to see men as a disturbing factor. It made things difficult for me when I started working as a director.”

Men Children Made Father Difficult Directors Absence Contrary Factors Disturbing

Author:Michael Haneke

“I want to make it clear: it's not that I hate mainstream cinema. It's perfectly fine. There are a lot of people who need to escape, because they are in very difficult situations, so they have the right to escape from the world. But this has nothing to do with an art form.”

People World Want Needs Art Form Hate Difficult Situation Clear Fine I Hate Cinema Mainstream Difficult Situations

Author:Michael Haneke

“At Lackland Air Force Base, they make an effort to retrain military dogs that suffer from PTSD. It's a lengthy, long process. The treatment is much the same as it would be for people, but it's a difficult road back.”

People Long Would Be Suffering Force Process Difficult Effort Air Dog Military Treatment Ptsd Air Force Lengthy

Author:Robert Crais

“The Warmth of Other Suns is a sweeping and yet deeply personal tale of America's hidden 20th century history - the long and difficult trek of Southern blacks to the northern and western cities. This is an epic for all Americans who want to understand the making of our modern nation.”

Want Long America Nations Difficult Cities Sun Modern Century Western Tales Warmth Southern Epic 20th Century Sweeping

Author:Tom Brokaw

“I love the pole vault because it is a professor's sport. One must not only run and jump, but one must think. Which pole to use, which height to jump, which strategy to use. I love it because the results are immediate and the strongest is the winner. Everyone knows it. In everyday life that is difficult to prove.”

Thinking Knows Use Running Sports Difficult Results Prove Strategy Everyday Winner Height Strongest Professors Everyday Life Vaults Pole Vault

Author:Sergei Bubka

“I still miss the players and I miss the game and the strategy. The first couple years were really difficult. Now I realize I'll never coach again. It's still hard to go into the stadium on a game day, because it's hard to just be a fan. But it's easier now than it was the first two or three years.”

Years Firsts Stills Two Hard Three Games Difficult Realizing Player Fans Missing Couple Easier Strategy Coaches Three Years Stadiums Game Day

Author:Tom Osborne

“I was once a single mother, with very few resources, so I have a special place in my heart for women in difficult situations.”

Heart Mother Difficult Situation Special My Heart Resources Special Places Difficult Situations Single Mother

Author:Linda Lael Miller

“Odd that the future should be so difficult to bring into focus when the past, uninvited, offered itself up so easily for inspection.”

Should Past Difficult Focus Odd Inspection Uninvited

Author:Richard Russo

“Believe it or not, friendships are difficult to write in fiction. They can easily come across as forced, particularly if they involve too much explication and too many overt gestures of affection.”

Ifs Writing Believe Difficult Fiction Too Much Affection Gestures Not Friends

Author:Steven Erikson

“They say that life is tough enough. But I guess I like to make things difficult on myself, because I do that all the time. Every day and on purpose. That's because I believe in disrupting my comfort zone.”

Believe Enough Life Is Purpose I Believe Difficult Comfort Tough I Believe In Zone Comfort Zone Life Is Tough

Author:Brian Grazer

“But there is no withdrawal, but with tobacco there is terrible withdrawal, it is almost impossible for a lot of people. I did , I went cold turkey, they never had any patches in those days but grass was not difficult, alcohol not difficult, but tobacco - oh my god.”

People Difficult Impossible Cold Terrible Alcohol Grass Turkeys Patches Tobacco Withdrawal Cold Turkey

Author:Larry Hagman

“In difficult times your best must be hugged, loved, kissed, rewarded, paid - everything. And your worst must be the people that leave, because your best are going to take you to the next game.”

People Next Games Difficult Worst Paid Difficult Times

Author:Jack Welch

“It's very advantageous to be sensitive with your work - and, yet, being sensitive, in reality, when criticized, it can annihilate you. It can destroy you. And with the internet there sometimes is a lot of harm, which I find must be very difficult for youngsters coming on - it can be very harsh; the criticism. And, sometimes, it can be a little cruel - which makes it hard for young performers coming on.”

Littles Sometimes Hard Reality Young Difficult Internet Criticism Harm Sensitive Performers Harsh Youngsters

Author:Michael Crawford

“I do know people and there are people in my family who have had Alzheimer's and dementia, and I appreciate the importance of communication and having contact with them. Communicating is an interesting thing with a condition like that. Sometimes it's difficult to communicate. If the brain becomes atrophied or certain channels of the brain become atrophied, then contact is what becomes really important.”

“The constant buzz and pressure and noise and static of the Internet, and the way it makes young people feel makes it difficult to grow up and develop the way one might want to.”

People Way Want Feels Might Young Grows Difficult Growing Up Internet Pressure Constant Noise Static Buzz

Author:Ethan Hawke

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