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“We're so used to having everything we want at our fingertips so I think that when things get tough it's difficult for people to persist through that.”

People Thinking Want Used Difficult Tough Persist Fingertips When Things Get Tough

Author:John Legend

“One of the things that I noticed in war was how difficult it was for our soldiers, at first, to realize that there are no rules to war. Our men were raised in sports, where a referee runs a football game, or an umpire a baseball game, and so forth.”

Men Firsts War Running Games Sports Difficult Realizing Football Baseball Raised Soldier Umpires Football Game Baseball Games Referee

Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“I don't think it is so difficult to solve the problems between Cuba and the United States; it all depends on whether there is a dialogue, a discussion, or if the prejudices and hatred of people like the extremists and terrorists from the Cuban community, who try to impose their policies, prevail.”

People Ifs Thinking Trying States Problem Difficult Community United United States Policy Depends Hatred Prejudice Solve Terrorist Dialogue Discussion Cuba Extremist Cuban

Author:Fidel Castro

“I realized, the older I get, the more difficult life becomes. It's not easier, it's more difficult.”

Difficult Easier I Realized Difficult Life

Author:Sylvester Stallone

“An abusive relationship should be easy to identify though often one of the most difficult to end.”

Should Ends Easy Difficult Abusive Abusive Relationship

Author:Desmond Tutu

“When you write, you're always revealing a difficult part of yourself. It may not be a part of yourself that looks as difficult - there are parts that look more difficult - but in fact, they are all difficult, and you get kind of used to doing that. It is sort of the nature of the thing.”

Writing Looks Kind May Facts Used Difficult Revealing

Author:Joan Didion

“I and everyone else in this world live in what is probably the most difficult times that have ever been. We are facing total thermonuclear destruction; and, if you can make someone believe in a ghost or a demon or a vampire in the face of that, you are doing well. From my own personal point of view, I don't think just blood and guts is enough. At least, it isn't for me. Maybe it will turn someone's stomach; but, I'm not sure that is literature or even entertainment.”

“Individuals somehow are led to find my books at times that are important to them. The mail that I get very, very often will say, "I was at a difficult time in my life, and someone gave me a copy."”

Important Book Individual Difficult Copies Mail Difficult Times

Author:Richard Bach

“In the highest sense, we are all creatures of light. And I have a very difficult time talking with people who are cynical about the world. "The world is no damn good, and we're all animals," and that kind of thing. Well, I'm an animal.”

People World Wells Kind Light Difficult Animal Talking Creatures Highest Damn Cynical Difficult Times Damn Good

Author:Richard Bach

“It's always difficult to watch someone you love die.”

Dies Difficult Watches One You Love Someone You Love

Author:Mitch Albom

“After years of abuse, it was difficult for me to understand God's love. It took me years to truly understand it.”

Years Difficult Abuse God's Love

Author:Joyce Meyer

“It's very difficult when you have learned something a certain way. Not only your mind absorbs it; your eyes also are trained to see in a certain way because eyes are only as good as you've been trained to see.”

Way Mind Eye Certain Difficult

Author:Muhammad Yunus

“It's very difficult to look at it in a kind of a free manner, what reality is. That was my first struggle, to see it as it is, rather than tainted by my own previous thoughts.”

Firsts Looks Kind Reality Difficult My Own Struggle Tainted

Author:Muhammad Yunus

“Beloved, all that is harsh and difficult I want for myself, and all that is gentle and sweet for thee.”

Want Love Heart Difficult Sweet Thee Gentle Beloved Harsh Heart Love

Author:John of the Cross

“Ironically, it is the talented who have high aspirations, which are possible but exceedingly difficult to realize, who are especially vulnerable to self-dissatisfaction despite notable achievements.”

Self Difficult Realizing Achievement Despite Vulnerable Aspiration Notable Dissatisfaction Self Efficacy

Author:Albert Bandura

“Perceived self-efficacy also shapes causal thinking. In seeking solutions to difficult problems, those who perceived themselves as highly efficacious are inclined to attribute their failures to insufficient effort, whereas those of comparable skills but lower perceived self-efficacy ascribe their failures to deficient ability”

Thinking Self Problem Difficult Ability Effort Shapes Skills Solutions Seeking Attributes Insufficient Efficacy Self Efficacy Difficult Problems Perceived Self

Book:Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory

Source: Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory

“People infer high self-efficacy from successes achieved through minimal effort on difficult tasks, but they infer low self-efficacy if they had to work hard under favorable conditions to master relatively easy tasks”

People Ifs Self Hard Easy Difficult Effort Conditions Masters Hard Work Lows Tasks Efficacy Self Efficacy Difficult Tasks Easy Tasks Minimal Effort

Author:Albert Bandura

“Cats are possessed of a shy, retiring nature, cajoling, haughty, and capricious, difficult to fathom. They reveal themselves only to certain favored individuals, and are repelled by the faintest suggestion of insult or even by the most trifling deception.”

Certain Individual Difficult Cat Appreciation Deception Insult Shy Retiring Possessed Suggestions Fathom Trifling Capricious Haughty

Author:Pierre Loti

“Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.”

Littles Use Seems Difficult Term Moral Concepts Abuse Critics Afternoon Decadence

Book:The Hemingway Collection

Source: The Hemingway Collection

“Your politicians, priests, parents, they all are guilt-creators, because that is the only way that you can be controlled and manipulated. A very simple, but very cunning trick to manipulate you. They have condemned you, because if you are accepted, not condemned - loved, appreciated, and if it is relayed to you from everywhere that you are okay - then it will be difficult to control you. How to control a person who is absolutely okay? The very problem doesn`t arise.”

Ifs Way Persons Problem Parent Difficult Simple Politician Okay Guilt Creator Accepted Tricks Arise Priests Controlled Appreciated Cunning Manipulate

Author:Rajneesh

“Making films is much more difficult than people imagine, and so the experience of actually directing them is not one I've ever relished.”

People Film Difficult Imagine

Author:Sydney Pollack

“The most difficult thing in the world, it seems to me, is to realize that I am a child of God; to keep that in my mind all the time.”

World Mind Children Seems Difficult Realizing Difficult Things Child Of God

Author:Maya Angelou

“If you happen to fall in love with someone in another race, it's more difficult, because you have to translate yourself.”

Ifs Happens Fall Difficult Race Falling In Love Translate

Author:Maya Angelou

“No matter what happens or how difficult things become, you will eventually feel better.”

Feels Matter Happens Difficult No Matter What Feel Better Difficult Things

Author:Chris Rock

“My experience is that relationships can be difficult, hard work. I love to be in a relationship.”

Hard Difficult Hard Work

Author:Julie Delpy

“In fact, I think my life is always going to be difficult, because I am trying to do something... "original" is a big word. It's kind of pathetic, but I have to love what I'm doing.”

Thinking Trying Kind Facts Bigs Life Is Difficult Originals Pathetic

Author:Ethan Hawke

“I grew up in a dictatorship, where you couldn't talk about difficult situations - there was this culture of silence. We would run into a problem and have no one to talk to.”

Problem Running Culture Difficult Silence Situation Grew Grew Up Dictatorship Difficult Situations

Author:Julia Alvarez

“Reading is a way to take in the difficult situations and understand them. The whole point of reading a book in class is to have discussion about what these situations are like.”

Way Book Whole Reading Difficult Situation Class Discussion Difficult Situations

Author:Julia Alvarez

“We're clearly not going to stop global warming at this point. We've already raised the temperature of the planet one degree. We've got another degree in the pipeline from carbon we've already emitted. What we're talking about now is whether we're going to have a difficult, difficult century, or an impossible one.”

Difficult Talking Impossible Century Planets Degrees Raised Global Warming Carbon Temperature Pipeline

Author:Bill McKibben

“I was in fact anxious about whether I would be any good at being a father. And then I met so many people who had been good parents under difficult circumstances, and I felt inspired by them.”

People Facts Would Be Father Felt Parent Difficult Circumstances Mets Inspired Anxious Being A Father Good Parent Difficult Circumstances

Author:Andrew Solomon

“The Germans should be the first to sympathize with us [Egyptians]. They know how difficult it is to build a democracy following a dictatorship, and they were the first to be critical of Morsi's anti-democratic policies.”

Knows Should Firsts Difficult Know How Democracy Policy Democratic Following Critical Dictatorship

Author:Mohamed ElBaradei

“It's very difficult for you to speak out against your child, someone that's in your family. You can have an argument with them, but you can't condemn them. You can't cast them out, because God has not done that to us. We cannot do that to anybody else.”

Children Done Speak Difficult Argument Our Children Casts Our Family Your Children Speaks Out

Author:Otis Moss III

“[On Archimedes mathematical results:] It is not possible to find in all geometry more difficult and intricate questions, or more simple and lucid explanation... No investigation of yours would succeed in attaining the proof, and yet, once seen you immediately believe you would have discovered it.”

Believe Difficult Simple Results Succeed Discovery Proof Mathematical Explanation Investigation Geometry Epiphany Intricate

Author:Proclus

“Whenever there is injustice, there is tension. But in China it is very hard to release your anger unless you burn yourself or you jump from a bridge. In a society where there is no freedom of the press, it is difficult for victims to be noticed.”

Hard Difficult Victim Presses Injustice China Release Bridges Tension Freedom Of The Press

Author:Ai Weiwei

“It will be difficult, even painful, but democracy will prevail in Russia. There will be no dictatorship, although relapses into authoritarianism are possible.”

Difficult Democracy Painful Russia Dictatorship Authoritarianism Relapse

Author:Mikhail Gorbachev

“My childhood proved to me that there could be no enjoyment of football without community. But it becomes difficult when this community is having problems with its identity. That's when we experience all possible forms of nationalist exaggeration.”

Problem Form Difficult Community Childhood Identity Football Enjoyment Exaggeration

Author:Orhan Pamuk

“The political system of the People's Republic of China can make things easy. Decisions are made quickly and results come quickly, too. In our democracy [in India], on the other hand, such things are extremely difficult.”

People Made Hands Political Easy Difficult Decision Results Democracy India China Republic Political Systems

Author:Ratan Tata

“I just think it's difficult for them to see the forest for the trees right now, which I can't blame them for, given the circumstances they found themselves in.”

Thinking I Can Humor Funny Found Given Difficult Tree Circumstances Right Now Blame Forests

Author:Denis Leary

“My wife... its difficult to say what she does... she sells seashells on the seashore.”

Doe Humor Funny Difficult Wife Sells My Wife Seashore

Author:Milton Jones

“The pollen count, now that's a difficult job. Especially if you've got hay fever.”

Ifs Humor Funny Jobs Difficult Fever Hay Pollen Hay Fever

Author:Milton Jones

“It's difficult isn't it, when you're in a Mosque and everyone's praying and you really enjoy leapfrog.”

Humor Funny Enjoy Difficult Praying Mosques

Author:Milton Jones

“I don't think there's any way that war can have a place in peace. I think that peace is the active and difficult resistance to the temptation of war; it is the prerogative and the obligation of the injured. Peace is something that has to be vigilantly maintained; it is a vigilance, and it involves temptation, and it does not mean we as human beings are not aggressive. This is a mistaken way of understanding non-violence.”

Thinking Way Humans Mean Doe War Difficult Understanding Human Beings Violence Active Obligation Resistance Temptation Aggressive Mistaken Injured Non Violence Vigilance Prerogative

Author:Judith Butler

“EU expansion is, unfortunately, continuing without a constitution, as a gradual process of standardization - and that's far more dangerous. It is very difficult to slow down this process, which is being pushed forward without significant public participation.”

Process Difficult Dangerous Constitution Significant Continuing Expansion Participation Slow Down Standardization

Author:Vaclav Klaus

“I'm not ambitious when it comes to my acting career. I'm not breaking down my agency's doors or sending out headshots. Even when I'm offered work, I always want small parts. When it comes to things that other people have written, I just don't know what I'm doing. I'm terrible at memorizing a script and reading lines. I get confused and I don't understand and it just looks fake to me. It's more difficult for me to be creative that way.”

“Human relations tend to be more difficult when you're dealing with someone who weighs 30 kilograms more than you do. That's when you worry about whether a well-meaning gesture could produce complications. We have no problems with countries like Madagascar or Bolivia, for example. But Germany is our neighbor and we have a shared past. Besides, Germany is powerful and ambitious and more than four times as large as we are. It makes complete sense that we would act cautiously. It's simply Realpolitik.”

“I think it's quite difficult to understand what kind of life a writer leads. They might be millionaires, or they might be starving people.”

People Thinking Kind Might Difficult Starving Millionaire

Author:Kazuo Ishiguro

“That's the most terrible mistake you can make: to relax. It's difficult to become a champion, but it's more difficult to maintain it for many years because you're getting too comfortable.”

Years Difficult Mistake Terrible Comfortable Champion Relax

Author:Wladimir Klitschko

“You can take your fitness seriously, but not yourself. That's the most difficult part: not to relax. That's the most difficult challenge I'm facing every fight.”

Fighting Difficult Challenges Relax Difficult Challenges

Author:Wladimir Klitschko

“If someone is difficult to talk to, if someone cannot communicate clearly, it's a real problem in terms of their likelihood to work out.”

Ifs Real Problem Difficult Term Team Communicate Work Out Real Problems Likelihood

Author:Sam Altman

“Someday, you need to build a business that's difficult to replicate. This is an important part of a good idea.”

Needs Important Ideas Difficult Someday Good Ideas Replicate

Author:Sam Altman

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