“It is not difficult to be a revolutionary when revolution has already broken out and is in spate, when all people are joining the revolution just because they are carried away, because it is the vogue, and sometimes even from careerist motives. It is far more difficult--and far more precious--to be a revolutionary when the conditions for direct, open, really mass and really revolutionary struggle do not yet exist.” PeopleSometimesDifficultStruggleConditionsBrokenRevolutionMassDirectRevolutionaryMotiveJoiningVogueCarried Away Author:Vladimir Lenin
“Though business conditions may change, corporations and securities may change, and financial institutions and regulations may change, human nature remains the same. Thus the important and difficult part of sound investment, which hinges upon the investor's own temperament and attitude, is not much affected by the passing years.” YearsHumansMayImportantDifficultSoundAttitudeConditionsSecurityHuman NatureInstitutionsRemainsInvestmentFinancialPassingPassingsCorporationsAffectedInvestorsRegulationTemperamentHingesFinancial Institutions Book:The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel Source: The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel
“I am one of a team of Iraqi weapons inspectors currently travelling through the United Kingdom under very difficult conditions searching for weapons of mass distraction.” DifficultUnitedTeamConditionsWeaponsMassKingdomsDistractionUnited KingdomInspectors Author:Attila the Stockbroker
“The issues which have created the difficult, multiplex conditions our umma finds itself in have been accumulating over a long time. The treatment is going to be multidimensional, prolonged and has to be cumulative.” LongHas BeensDifficultIssuesConditionsLong TimeTreatmentCumulative Author:Habib Ali al-Jifri
“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.” PeopleIfsKnowsImportantSometimesCertainDifficultInterestingBrainConditionsCommunicationAppreciateMy FamilyImportanceCommunicateContactInteresting ThingsDementiaAlzheimerAlzheimer's Author:Elliott Gould
“Creative work is incredibly difficult, and that is where the tests lie. Ordinary professionalism and twenty years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access the hidden places. That still needs what it always needs - a condition of complete simplicity, costing not less than everything.” NeedsYearsStillsLyingDifficultCreativeConditionsOrdinaryTestsTwentiesSimplicityAccomplishAccessProfessionalismCreative Work Author:Jeanette Winterson
“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” PeopleIfsSelfHardEasyDifficultEffortConditionsMastersHard WorkLowsTasksEfficacySelf EfficacyDifficult TasksEasy TasksMinimal Effort Author:Albert Bandura