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“The desire to change the world is a tremendous advantage as you travel down the difficult path ahead because focusing on a lofty goal is more energizing and attracts more talent than simply making a buck.”

World Desire Difficult Goal Path Talent Advantage Changing The World Bucks Lofty Energizing Desire To Change Lofty Goals

Author:Guy Kawasaki

“A lot of my research time is spent daydreaming - telling an imaginary admiring audience of laymen how to understand some difficult scientific idea.”

Ideas Difficult Audience Research Imaginary Daydreaming Admiring Layman

Author:Leonard Susskind

“Scientists themselves are of surprisingly little help. They find it difficult to talk of what they do because they tend to assume detailed knowledge is required for generalities to be understood. They find it hard to grasp the concept of the meaning of their work, assuming this to be a debate that takes place at a lower level than the specialized discussions with their colleagues. When they do generalize, - or "popularize" as it is usually called with a noticeable degree of contempt - they tend to reveal a startling philosophical naiveté.”

Littles Hard Helping Difficult Levels Degrees Understood Concepts Scientist Philosophical Assuming Debate Discussion Contempt Colleagues Generalities Little Help

Book:Understanding the Present: An Alternative History of Science

Source: Understanding the Present: An Alternative History of Science

“The dark side of social media is that, within seconds, anything can be blown out of proportion and taken out of context. And it's very difficult not to get swept up in it all.”

Social Difficult Sides Dark Taken Media Social Media Proportion Seconds Dark Side Of Context

Author:Nicola Formichetti

“Because cheating is easier when we can justify our behavior, people often cheat in small amounts: We can come up with an excuse for stealing Post-It notes, but it is much more difficult to come up with an excuse for taking $10,000 from petty cash.”

People Difficult Amount Easier Behavior Notes Come Up Excuse Stealing Posts Justify Cheating Cash Cheat Petty Small Amounts Post It Notes

Author:Dan Ariely

“But those with shattered souls find it very difficult to speak.”

Soul Speak Difficult Shattered

Author:Elizabeth Smart

“People aren't born strong. people grow stronger little by little, encountering difficult situations learning not to run from them.”

People Littles Running Strong Grows Difficult Born Situation Stronger Difficult Situations Strong People

Author:Christina Grimmie

“Travel at faster than the speed of light certainly can have dramatic implications that are difficult to understand, such as time travel.”

Light Difficult Speed Faster Dramatic Time Travel Implications Speed Of Light

Author:Lisa Randall

“As companies move to web-based computing they get a lot more servers, which are difficult to manage and control. All kinds of problems can arise - security, quality and worms.”

Kind Problem Moving Difficult Quality Company Security Arise All Kinds Manage Worms Computing Server

Author:Ben Horowitz

“In life, everybody faces choices between doing what's popular, easy, and wrong vs. doing what's lonely, difficult, and right. These decisions intensify when you run a company, because the consequences get magnified 1,000 fold. As in life, the excuses for CEOs making the wrong choice are always plentiful.”

Running Faces Choices Easy Difficult Decision Company Consequence Lonely Excuse Ceo Folds Wrong Choices Plentiful

Author:Ben Horowitz

“I spent more than ten years working on the Neues Museum. It was a wonderful experience, an example of real collaboration between architects, conservationists, curators, client, politicians, the media, and the public. Discussions, even when difficult, were always about ideas. Ideas matter to Germans. They're a reflective people. That's attractive.”

People Years Ideas Real Matter Difficult Wonderful Media Example Politician Ten Discussion Attractive Museums Collaboration Architect Clients Wonderful Experience Curator

Author:David Chipperfield

“It's very difficult to play when your lung comes out of your air”

Play Difficult Air Lungs

Author:Paul Merson

“The number of strokes to the inch controls the pitch of the note: the more, the higher the pitch; the fewer, the lower the pitch, the size of the stroke controls the loudness... the tone quality is the most difficult element to control, it is made by the shape of the strokes.”

Made Difficult Numbers Quality Higher Shapes Elements Notes Size Tone Fewer Inches Strokes

Author:Norman McLaren

“Casebook is my attempt at a love story. I had a vision of a difficult love.”

Stories Difficult Vision Love Story

Author:Mona Simpson

“Maintaining marriage seems to be tougher than fatherhood: apparently its the most difficult thing in the world.”

World Seems Difficult Fatherhood Maintaining Difficult Things

Author:Kelly Slater

“Tackle the difficult things first in the morning; make changes in the way you network. Treat everyone with respect and dignity. This stops you from cynicism and negativity. End your day with that same attitude you started. Renew your contract with a day well completed.”

Way Firsts Wells Ends Difficult Attitude Morning Dignity Treats Contracts Cynicism Negativity Making Changes Difficult Things Dignity And Respect

Author:Rick Pitino

“I think Bach is equally a romantic composer because he laid the seeds harmonically for people like Chopin and the great Romantics, Brahms, so its difficult to you know all this like labelling and putting - I think Bach is attractive to musicians because he supersedes the labels.”

People Thinking Knows Difficult Musician Seeds Labels Attractive Composer Brahms

Author:Nigel Kennedy

“I always found that if you handle a problem in a benevolent way and a transparent way and involve other people, so it's just not your personal opinion, that people get to the other side of these difficult conversations being more enthusiastic.”

People Ifs Way Problem Found Difficult Sides Opinion Conversation Handle Enthusiastic Transparent Benevolent Personal Opinions Difficult Conversations

Author:David M. Kelley

“Without ethics man has no future. This is to say mankind without them cannot be itself. Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.”

Men Action Choices Difficult Mankind Ethics Determine Priorities

Author:John Berger

“I don't know why it's difficult to admit that I miss you.”

Knows Difficult Missing

Author:Earl Sweatshirt

“Humanity is now experiencing history's most difficult evolutionary transformation.”

Humanity Difficult Transformation

Book:Grunch* of Giants: *Gross Universe Cash Heist

Source: Grunch* of Giants: *Gross Universe Cash Heist

“When I became prime minister last September, I promised the Japanese people that I would not tolerate the politics of indecision. A propensity to delay difficult and weighty decisions has been hurting our country. It is detrimental to our economy, society and future, and it cannot be allowed to continue.”

People Has Beens Country Lasts Difficult Hurt Decision Economy Our Country Ministers Prime Tolerate September Delay Prime Minister Indecision Propensity Detrimental Been Hurt

Author:Yoshihiko Noda

“Every successful artist comes from a family - parents or siblings or both - who, although equally gifted, chose not to pursue the treacherous and difficult path of the artist.”

Artist Parent Difficult Path Successful Pursue Gifted Sibling Treacherous Successful Artists

Author:Chris Abani

“Although I have won many times now, each time when I have a lead, I start to think about winning. It's very difficult not to think about winning. Every time, there are new challenges. Every time, there are new issues to overcome.”

Thinking Winning Difficult Challenges Issues Overcoming New Challenges

Author:Yani Tseng

“I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more difficult is to identify with someone you don't see, who's very far away, who's a different color, who eats a different kind of food. When you begin to do that then literature is really performing its wonders.”

Looks Kind Different Next Literature Difficult Wonder Doors Students Color Like You Performing Different Kinds Far Away Like Yourself Different Colors

Author:Chinua Achebe

“It might be hard to believe, but as difficult as cancer was, in some ways it was good for me.”

Way Believe Hard Might Difficult Cancer Hard To Believe

Author:Jon Lester

“I do love the idea of being able to take an MP to court for lying. There are ways and means of taking an MP to court just now, but it is very difficult.”

Way Mean Ideas Able Lying Difficult Court Mps

Author:Mark Thomas

“We are commanded to love God with all our strength, heart, mind and soul and our neighbor in the same way God loves us - it is the same love flowing between God and the soul - the soul and its neighbor. It is difficult, but the burden of the cross is light compared to the cross of uncontrolled emotions, anger, insistence on one's own opinion, the frustration of trying to change others rather than being changed oneself, resentment, regrets and guilt. Accepting the present moment like Jesus did is certainly a lighter burden.”

“A lot of people hate my skepticism, and I think I understand why. The psychics offer wonders and endless possibilities in a world that often seems difficult and mundane. They promise health, wealth, wisdom, eternal life. But if you examine the record, it's not the psychics but the hard-nosed scientists who have actually delivered the things that improve human life. And, to me, science describes a world far more interesting than any psychic fantasy. It's a good world -- not perfect -- but it's ours. So we'd better learn to live with it, the way it is.”

“The coma ward was boring yet difficult. Like golf.”

Difficult Golf Boring Coma

Author:Belinda Peregrin

“Marriage is an extremely difficult relationship.”

Difficult Difficult Relationship

Author:Lee Radziwill

“It's very difficult to be different from the rest of the crowd the majority of the time, which by definition is what you're doing if you're a successful trader.”

Ifs Different Difficult Successful Majority Definitions Crowds Traders

Author:Bill Lipschutz

“Writing on the blog, you want to get attention and make strong claims. In academic work, that often doesn't pay, so sometimes it's a little bit difficult going back and forth to navigate these differences.”

Want Writing Littles Sometimes Strong Bits Difficult Differences Pay Attention Little Bit Claims Academic Blogs Back And Forth Navigate Academic Work

Author:Alex Tabarrok

“Patents are like fertilizer. Applied wisely and sparingly, they can increase growth. But if you apply too many chemicals, or make patents too strong, then you can leach the land, making growth more difficult.”

Ifs Strong Difficult Growth Land Increase Chemicals Patents Fertilizer

Author:Alex Tabarrok

“I was just studying with my father, a very difficult task for me since he was a great, great Qawwali singer.”

Father Difficult Study Tasks Singers Difficult Tasks

Author:Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

“I think when war becomes your life, I think its very difficult to have the proper perspective to be able to create a fully balanced policy.”

Thinking War Able Difficult Policy Perspective Balanced

Author:Michael Hastings

“Once you have something so deeply infused in your culture and your brand, it would be very difficult to reverse that inertia if you wanted to.”

Ifs Would Be Wanted Culture Difficult Brands Reverse Inertia

Author:Andrew Mason

“History is the long, difficult and confused dream of Mankind.”

Long Dream Difficult Mankind Confused

Author:Arthur Schopenhauer

“It's always difficult to say goodbye, especially when one has spent a long time - literally years, in the case of a series - inside a character or two, suffering and celebrating with them.”

Years Long Two Character Suffering Difficult Cases Long Time Series Celebrate Goodbye Saying Goodbye

Author:Lilith Saintcrow

“I am facing the most difficult thing of my life, my own greatest failure.”

Difficult My Own Difficult Things

Author:Richard Paul Evans

“There are two things you can't argue in film: comedy and eroticism. If something doesn't make you laugh, no one can tell you why it's funny, and it's difficult to reason someone out of an erection.”

Ifs Two Reason Film Difficult Laughing Comedy Arguing Two Things Make You Laugh

Author:Roger Ebert

“I have never really believed that acting is very difficult. I think some people have a skill and are able to act, and if you have that natural gift, it's not difficult.”

People Ifs Thinking Able Difficult Natural Acting Skills Natural Gifts

Author:Mark Strickson

“The most functional way to regulate difficult emotions in love relationships is to share them.”

Way Difficult Emotion Share Love Relationship

Author:Sue Johnson

“I think it is immensely difficult to get the U.S. interested in non-U.S. topics. I dont think this is because the average American reader is disinterested, but more because of publishers playing it safe: if a thriller based in L.A. is a sure winner, why spend money plugging one based in Paris - or Bangkok?”

Ifs Thinking Difficult Reader Safe Average Winner Paris Topics Publishers Thrillers Disinterested Playing It Safe Bangkok

Author:John Burdett

“Das Kapital, I think, is very difficult to read, and for me, it was not very influential.”

Thinking Difficult Influential

Author:Thomas Piketty

“I learned to take those experiences that were difficult in my life and in the adversity that I had overcome to use it for a positive change.”

Use Difficult Overcoming Adversity Positive Change

Author:Dominique Moceanu

“The Internet, too, has strong attributes of a public good, and has undermined the “private good” attributes of old media. Internet service providers obviously can exclude people, but the actual content -the values, the ideas- can be shared with no loss of value for the consumer. It is also extremely inexpensive and easy to share material. Sharing is built into the culture and practices of the Web and has made it difficult for the subscription model to be effective.”

“When you are solving a difficult problem re-ask the problem so that your solution helps you learn faster. Find a faster way to fail, recover, and try again. If the problem you are trying to solve involves creating a magnum opus, you are solving the wrong problem.”

Ifs Way Trying Helping Problem Asks Difficult Failing Creating Solutions Solve Faster Try Again Difficult Problems

Author:Aza Raskin

“It is more difficult to stay on top than to get there.”

Difficult Athlete Soccer Endurance Motivational Soccer

Book:Go For The Goal: A Champion's Guide To Winning In Soccer And Life

Source: Go For The Goal: A Champion's Guide To Winning In Soccer And Life

“I, myself, was always recognized . . . as the “slow one” in the family. It was quite true, and I knew it and accepted it. Writing and spelling were always terribly difficult for me. My letters were without originality. I was . . . an extraordinarily bad speller and have remained so until this day.”

Writing Difficult Letters Accepted This Day Originality Spelling Dyslexic Dyslexia

Author:Agatha Christie

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