“For, with pure water the inversion of cane sugar scarcely proceeds and subsequently it required very thorough, difficult studies before this effect and its order of magnitude were established.” OrderDifficultWaterStudyEffectsPureSugarMagnitudeThoroughInversionsPure WaterSugar Cane Author:Wilhelm Ostwald
“Your closest relationships are often the ones that have the most effect on you, but they are frequently the ones most difficult to change. These relationships are complex and have long histories. Lifetime habits of avoiding being really present with each other may exist in many of them. Family members, for instance, might want to support you, but will not necessarily know how to genuinely listen or be present with you in a way that is enlivening. . . . Even with the best intentions, it can be very difficult to get beyond the past and into the Now.” KnowsWayWantMayLongMightPastDifficultSupportKnow HowRelationshipEffectsHabitMembersIntentionLifetimeComplexesInstanceBeing RealClosestAvoidingFamily MembersSupport YouBest Intentions Author:Richard Moss
“How difficult it is to learn not to see like cameras, which has had such an effect on us. The camera sees everything at once. We don't.” DifficultEffectsCameras Author:David Hockney
“The first effect of modernism was to make high culture difficult: to surround beauty with a wall of erudition.” FirstsCultureDifficultEffectsWallSurroundModernismErudition Book:Modern Culture Source: Modern Culture
“(Because) the notion of absolute truth is difficult to sustain outside the context of religion, ethical conduct is not something we engage in because it is somehow right in itself but because, like ourselves, all others desire to be happy and to avoid suffering. Given that this is a natural disposition, shared by all, it follows that each individual has a right to pursue this goal. Accordingly, I suggest that one of the things which determines whether an act is ethical or not is its effect on others' experience or expectation of happiness.” DesireSufferingIndividualGivenDifficultGoalNaturalEffectsTruth IsExpectationsEthicsAbsolutesNotionDeterminePursueEthicalDispositionAbsolute Truth Author:Dalai Lama
“The "cumulative effects" of unbridled commercialism, however difficult to assess, constitute one key to the impact of growing up in the core of the world's marketing system. Minimally, it suggests unpreparedness for, and lack of interest in, the world that exists outside the shopping mall.” WorldDifficultInterestGrowing UpGrowingEffectsKeysImpactMarketingCoreShoppingMallsCumulativeCommercialism Author:Herbert Schiller
“What is scurrilously called ragtime is an invention that is here to stay. That is now conceded by all classes of musicians... All publication s masquerading under the name of ragtime are not the genuine article... That real ragtime of the higher class is rather difficult to play is a painful truth which most pianists have discovered. Syncopations are no indication of light or trashy music... Joplin ragtime is destroyed by careless or imperfect rendering, and very often players lost the effect entirely by playing too fast.” RealPlayLightNamesLostDifficultClassPlayerEffectsHigherMusicianPainfulGenuineInventionDestroyedArticlesImperfectCarelessIndicationPublicationPianistRenderingConcededRagtimePainful TruthSyncopation Author:Scott Joplin
“How can we teach our children to be responsible beyond themselves and care for other human beings' welfare and for the welfare of the planet and all that it contains? It's a difficult lesson to convey, when, more than 20 years after the Exxon Valdez disaster, Prince William Sound is still experiencing the damaging effects.” YearsHumansChildrenStillsCareDifficultSoundHuman BeingsTeachEffectsPlanetsLessonsResponsibleOur ChildrenDisasterWelfareBeing Responsible Author:Gloria Reuben
“It is difficult to think of anything more important than providing the best education possible for our children. They will develop the next technologies, medical cures, and global industries, while mitigating their unintended effects, or they will fail to do these things and consign us all to oblivion.” ThinkingChildrenImportantNextDifficultTechnologyFailingEffectsIndustryOur ChildrenMedicalCuresProvidingOblivionBest Education Author:Sam Harris
“Many Westerners forget that when the Prophet spoke of four wives as the maximum allowable number, he had in mind a reduction to four as compared to the number then often prevailing; moreover, Mohammed specified that a man should acquire more than one wife only if he could treat them all with equal justice - obviously a difficult feat for even the most diligent man to achieve. In effect, then, the Prophet curtailed the number of wives.” IfsMenShouldMindDifficultJusticeForgetNumbersFourWifeAchieveEffectsEqualTreatsProphetAcquireSpokesMaximumReductionPrevailingFeatsDiligentWesternersEqual Justice Book:Maʼmūriyyat barȧ-yi vaṭanam Source: Maʼmūriyyat barȧ-yi vaṭanam
“When you're hurt very badly in your childhood, the area that it has the greatest effect on is relationships. Once you feel like you can't trust people, once you feel like that they don't care about you, that they're really not going to take care of you, it gets very difficult in relationships.” PeopleFeelsCareDifficultHurtChildhoodEffectsLike YouAreasDon't CareTake CareYour Children Author:Joyce Meyer