Best difficult & giving Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.”

Giving Today Difficult Can Do Lines Simple Steps Pure Perfection Complicated Dancer

Author:Natalia Makarova

“You can teach almost anyone determined to learn them the basics required to write sentences and paragraphs that say what you want them to say clearly and concisely. It's far more difficult to get people to think like a writer, to give up conventional habits of mind and emotion. You must be able to step inside your character's skin, and at the same time to remain outside the dicey circumstances you have maneuvered her into.”

“I remember Francis Bacon would say that he felt he was giving art what he thought it previously lacked. With me, it's what Yeats called the fascination with what's difficult. I'm only trying to do what I can't do.”

Giving Trying Art I Can Remember Artist Felt Difficult Fascination Yeats

Author:Lucian Freud

“Your 'frog' should be the most difficult item on your things-to-do list, the one where you're most likely to procrastinate; because, if you eat that first, it'll give you energy and momentum for the rest of the day.”

Ifs Giving Should Firsts Energy Difficult Lists Things To Do Procrastination Items Momentum Frogs Procrastinating

Author:Brian Tracy

“People ask what are my intentions with my films - my aims. It is a difficult and dangerous question, and I usually give an evasive answer.”

People Giving Film Asks Difficult Answers Dangerous Aim Intention

Book:The seventh seal: a film

Source: The seventh seal: a film

“Being famous gives you a lot of illusions of false self, of self-importance, a grandiosity, it becomes difficult to stay humble and real. You see so many people who don't succeed.”

People Giving Real Self Difficult Succeed Illusion Importance Humble Being Famous Real You Self-importance Stay Humble

Author:Lili Taylor

“There is a built-in danger in old age which, if we give in to it, makes aging one of the most difficult periods of life, rather than one of the most satisfying - which it should be. Tye danger of old age is that we may start acting old.”

Ifs Giving Should May Age Difficult Acting Danger Periods Built Aging Old Age Satisfying

Author:Joan D. Chittister

“Power. like the diamond, dazzles the beholder, and also the wearer; it dignifies meanness; it magnifies littleness; to what is contemptible, it gives authority; to what is low, exaltation. To acquire it, appears not more difficult than to be dispossessed of it when acquired, since it enables the holder to shift his own errors on dependents, and to take their merits to himself. But the miracle of losing it vanishes, when we reflect that we are as liable to fall as to rise, by the treachery of others; and that to say "I am" is language that has been appropriated exclusively to God!”

Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“Love is something difficult and it is more difficult than other things because in other conflicts nature herself enjoins men to collect themselves, to take themselves firmly in the hand with all their strength, while in the heightening of love the impulse is to give oneself wholly away.”

Men Giving Hands Difficult Love Is Conflict Oneself Impulse

Book:Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations

Source: Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations

“This may sound like heresy, but it is the greatest truth! It is more difficult to let God love us, than to love Him! The best way to love Him in return is to open our hearts and let Him love us. Let Him draw close to us and feel Him close to us. This is really very difficult: letting ourselves be loved by Him. And that is perhaps what we need to ask today in the Mass: 'Lord, I want to love You, but teach me the difficult science, the difficult habit of letting myself be loved by You, to feel You close and feel Your tenderness ! May the Lord give us this grace.”

Way Want Needs Giving Feels Heart May Today Asks Difficult Sound Lord Teach Grace Love You Return Habit Letting Go Mass Draws Best Way God Love Tenderness Heresy God Loves Us I Want To Love You

Author:Pope Francis

“Fools, art is a heavy task, more heavy than gold crowns; it's far more difficult to match firm words than armies, they're disciplined troops, unconquered, to be placed in rhythm, the mind's most mighty foe, and not disperse in air. I'd give, believe me, a whole land for one good song, for I know well that only words, that words alone, like the high mountains, have no fear of age or death.”

Knows Giving Mind Believe Wells Art Whole Age Song Difficult Air Land Fool Mountain Art Is Tasks Gold Army Heavy Rhythm Firm Troops Believe In Me Crowns No Fear Foe Have No Fear

Book:the Odyssey a Modern Sequel

Source: the Odyssey a Modern Sequel

“You know, once you give birth, once you have kids, you realize what's important in life, and you realize it's really not difficult to be a good person. And so when people aren't good around me, I tend to move away from that. There are so many good people in the world, and you want to surround your children with that.”

“I learned how difficult it is to be an artist. There are always compromises. The record company wants you to do this, your fans want you to do this, your family, you can't concentrate on your work. It's a hard thing to be an artist and not give up. That's why I have so much respect for people like Dylan and Neil Young and Tom Waits, because they keep at it. I have a new respect for a true artist.”

People Want Giving Hard Young Artist Waiting Difficult Company Records Fans Giving Up Compromise Our Family Working It Toms Not Giving Up Dylan Hard Things Record Companies True Artists

Author:Robert Hilburn

“The reputation of a Don Juan gives to a man the most dangerous power. Wise virgins resist it, but foolish virgins frequently yield to the desire to take a celebrated lover from a rival - even from a friend. This emotion is a complex one, mad up of vanity, respect for another woman's taste, and the need to establish self-assurance by winning a difficult victory. Don Juan chose his first mistresses; later he was chosen.”

“I would not leave anything to a man of action as he would be tempted to give up work; on the other hand, I would like to help dreamers as they find it difficult to get on in life.”

Men Giving Helping Hands Would Be Action Difficult Giving Up Dreamer Tempted

Author:Alfred Nobel

“Even if your difficult time comes at you out of the blue - like cancer - even those times, opens your heart to the magic and power of life, and gives you this inner commitment to live every moment.”

Ifs Giving Heart Moments Difficult Magic Commitment Blue Cancer Difficult Times Live Every Moment

Author:Elizabeth Lesser

“Many people don't wake up. They fight against a difficult time, shut the window and become more bitter. Fortunately or unfortunately, however you see it, we are served up those opportunities over and over in our life. So if you've shut the window, don't worry, another hard time is going to come around the corner - to give you that chance all over again.”

People Ifs Giving Hard Fighting Opportunity Difficult Chance Worry Our Lives Window Wake Up Corners Bitter Hard Times Difficult Times Around The Corner

Author:Elizabeth Lesser

“In their struggle for the ethical good, teachers of religion must have the stature to give up the doctrine of a personal god, that is, give up that source of fear and hope which in the past placed such vast power in the hands of priests. In their labors they will have to avail themselves of those forces which are capable of cultivating the Good, the True, and the Beautiful in humanity itself. This is, to be sure, a more difficult but an incomparably more worthy task.”

Source: Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words

“I was adored [as a kid]. I was always in the air, hurled up and kissed and thrown in the air again. Until I was six, my feet didn't touch the ground. "Look at those eyes! That nose! Those lips! That tooth! Get that child away from me, quick! I'll eat him!" Giving that up was very difficult later on in life.”

Giving Looks Children Eye Kids Difficult Air Feet Six Lips Teeth Noses Thrown

Author:Mel Brooks

“... ages in which the dominant weapon is expensive or difficult to make will tend to be ages of despotism, whereas when the dominant weapon is cheap and simple, the common people have a chance... A complex weapon makes the strong stronger, while a simple weapon -- so long as there is no answer to it -- gives claws to the weak.”

People Giving Long Age Strong Difficult Chance Simple Answers Common Weapons Weak Stronger Complexes Expensive Dominant Despotism Claws

Book:The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell: In front of your nose, 1945-1950

Source: The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell: In front of your nose, 1945-1950

“Let the risen Jesus enter your life, welcome him as a friend, with trust: he is life! If up till now you have kept him at a distance, step forward. He will receive you with open arms. If you have been indifferent, take a risk: you won’t be disappointed. If following him seems difficult, don’t be afraid, trust him, be confident that he is close to you, he is with you and he will give you the peace you are looking for and the strength to live as he would have you do.”

Ifs Giving Has Beens Seems Jesus Difficult Steps Risk Arms Distance Following Welcome Disappointed Indifferent Risen Steps Forward Be Confident Open Arms

Book:The Joy of Discipleship: Reflections from Pope Francis on Walking with Christ

Source: The Joy of Discipleship: Reflections from Pope Francis on Walking with Christ

“If you love helping people, and you love trying to bring comfort and peace to their life at a very, very difficult time, youre going to have to look pretty hard to find a profession that gives you more opportunities than the funeral business.”

People Ifs Giving Trying Looks Hard Helping Opportunity Difficult Comfort Profession Funeral Helping People Difficult Times

Author:Steve Southerland

“To give awkwardly is churlishness. The most difficult part is to give, then why not add a smile?”

Giving Difficult Add Generosity Why Not

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“How far does one combine resistance to over-control with social justice, i.e. tolerable living for people in general? We are too selfish to be trusted, if left free, to give away enough to make people comfortable enough to give them a chance. Yet if all this is ordered for us, as to some extent it has to be, it so soon leads to tyranny. It is a very difficult problem. If only human beings had more pity, unselfishness, and justice and didn't need coercion to treat each other decently.”

“I find that life, day by day, is composed of at least one joy, one problem and one sorrow. Then there are the smaller ingredients: you always learn something, whether useful or harmful - that is difficult to analyze until later; you always give something; you alwayou always grow a little in one direction or another.”

Giving Littles Problem Joy Grows Difficult Sorrow Ingredients One Direction

Author:Anais Nin

“It is very difficult to have a free, fair and honest press anywhere in the world. In the first place, as a rule, papers are largely supported by advertising, and that immediately gives the advertisers a certain hold over the medium they use.”

World Giving Firsts Use Certain Difficult Honest Paper Fairs Presses Mediums Advertising Papers Advertisers

Book:If You Ask Me

Source: If You Ask Me

“To be fair to Pete, I had just come off a very difficult owner relationship with my then head coach and I was looking for a different style. So I didn't give Pete all the power he should have had. I don't think there's any exact formula for how it's done. It's really what fits each individual system.”

Thinking Giving Should Different Done Individual Difficult Style Fit Fairs Should Have Coaches Nfl Owners Formulas Super Bowl Different Styles Head Coaches

Author:Robert Kraft

“I am tired to death! tired of every thing! I would give the universe for a disposition less difficult to please. Yet, after all, what is there to give pleasure? When one has seen one thing, one has seen every thing.”

Giving Universe Difficult Pleasure One Thing Please Tired Boredom Disposition

Book:Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)

Source: Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)

“Painting is so difficult that I would give it up if it were not so enjoyable.”

Ifs Giving Difficult Painting Enjoyable

Author:William McGregor Paxton

“There is nothing so difficult to describe as happiness. Whether some feeling of envy enters into the mind upon hearing of it, or whether it is so calm, so unassuming, so little ostentatious in itself, that words give an imperfect idea of it, I know not. It is easier to enjoy it, than define it. ... and is oftener found at home, when home has not been embittered by dissensions, suspicions and guilt, than any where else upon earth. Yes, it is in home and in those who watch there for us.”

Source: The Works of Lady Caroline Lamb: Glenarvon (1816)

“If God isn't giving you money, He is giving you a way to make money All your circumstances are to empower you to increase your sense of wonder in God The more difficult the circumstance, the more brilliant the sense of wonder would be”

Ifs Way Giving Would Be Difficult Wonder Circumstances Increase Brilliant Making Money Empowering Sense Of Wonder

Author:Graham Cooke

“Some authors write nonsense in a clear style, and others sense in an obscure one; some can reason without being able to persuade, others can persuade without being able to reason; some dive so deep that they descend into darkness, and others soar so high that they give us no light; and some, in a vain attempt to be cutting and dry, give us only that which is cut and dried. We should labor, therefore, to treat with ease of things that are difficult; with familiarity, of things that are novel; and with perspicuity, of things that are profound.”

Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“Attachment is your biggest strength and your biggest weakness. Though it gives you the power to love someone more than yourself, it becomes difficult to live when you lose something you are attached to. Even when we have lost, we should go beyond that and get truly attached to someone. Loving someone truly is the most beautiful feeling.”

Giving Should Feelings Beautiful Lost Difficult Loses Weakness Attachment Love Someone Loving Someone Attached To Someone

Author:Shahid Kapoor

“My childhood was very difficult. I had every childhood disease and then some, but my parents didnt mollycoddle me. They left me to fight those battles on my own. I guess that was very Canadian, very stoic. But its good. I had to become a warrior. I had to give up hope and find a substitute for hope that would be far more stable.”

Giving Would Be Fighting Left Parent Difficult My Own Childhood Battle Disease Giving Up Warrior Substitutes Stable Stoic

Author:Joni Mitchell

“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 have a problem with writer/directors, personal. I can't work well with both of them on the set, if both of them are giving instructions. Writers tend to be in love with what they wrote. You can't always translate the words into the meaning, sometimes the meaning is better served without the words, difficult to make a writer to try to understand that. It gets, sometimes, tense.”

Ifs Giving Trying Wells I Can Sometimes Problem Difficult Directors Instruction Translate Tense Giving In

Author:Morgan Freeman

“There have been many stones on my path, which frequently made me trip and give up, however I keep telling myself this is only momentary, I will get back up. Since it's our responsibility to return back the love that we have received from so many. That is why no matter how difficult or tough it becomes I cannot let go. And that is why no matter how difficult it becomes we are able to gain strength.”

Giving Has Beens Made Matter Able Difficult Responsibility Path Return Letting Go Giving Up Tough Gains Stones Get Back Momentary Return Back

Author:Kwon Yuri

“We crave instant success these days. If you are a really good sprinter and long jumper, you don't want to spend two or three years on a whole new set of events. You're used to doing well and it's difficult to give that up.”

Ifs Want Giving Years Wells Long Two Whole Used Three Difficult Events These Days Instant Three Years Crave Jumpers Sprinters

Author:Daley Thompson

“When you come to a dark valley, a difficult season or a sickness, don't worry about it, God will give you the grace and strength you need.”

Needs Giving Difficult Dark Worry Grace Seasons Gods Will Sickness Valleys Ups & Downs Good Times And Bad Times

Author:Joel Osteen

“Everyone has a right to be interested in himself, and I am confident that God wants us to be interested in ourselves first; that is, the first soul that anyone should bring to God should be his own soul. We cannot do very much for anyone else until we have first done something for ourselves. That is, it is pretty difficult to give someone else an education unless we have some education ourselves. It is pretty hard to get someone else to think unless we ourselves are thinkers.”

Thinking Want Giving Should Firsts Soul Hard Done Difficult Thinker Want U

Author:Sterling W Sill

“I think directing yourself is a monumental task. Just to self edit as an actor, you work for some directors who don't give you a lot of feedback so you have to do that. That's a difficult thing to do as an actor.”

Thinking Giving Self Actors Difficult Directors Tasks Things To Do Feedback Difficult Things Edits

Author:Ashton Kutcher

“We humans, once we have become emotionally invested in a homeplace, a prized personal possession, or, especially, in another person, find it immensely difficult to give them up....Because they were made at a time of life when we were utterly dependent on them, the love attachments of infancy have inordinate power over us, more than any other emotional investment.”

Giving Humans Persons Made Difficult Emotional Investment Possession Dependent Attachment Infancy Emotional Investment

Author:Louise J. Kaplan

“Yes, NFL players deserve to be paid well. Unfortunately, economic realities are forcing everyone to make tough choices and the NFL is no different. These are not easy negotiations, but the outcome can be positive. If both sides give a little, everyone, including fans, will get a lot and the game will improve through innovation. Even in difficult economic times, a new CBA presents us with the opportunity to secure the future of our game.”

“Empower me to be a bold participant, rather than a timid saint in waiting, in the difficult ordinariness of now; to exercise the authority of honesty, rather than to defer to power, or deceive to get it; to influence someone for justice, rather than impress anyone for gain and, by grace, to find treasures of joy, of friendship, of peace hidden in the fields of the daily you give me to plow.”

Giving Joy Waiting Difficult Justice Grace Influence Honesty Fields Exercise Authority Gains Give Me Saint Treasure Empowering Deceiving Impress Participants Ordinariness

Author:Ted Loder

“There is an education of the mind Which all require and parents only start. But there is training of a nobler kind And that's the education of the heart. Lessons that are most difficult to give Are Faith and Courage and the way to live.”

Way Giving Mind Heart Kind Parent Difficult Education Lessons Training Way To Live Faith And Courage

Author:Edgar Guest

“You can purchase the mind of Pascal for a crown. Pleasures even cheaper are sold to those who give themselves up to them. It is only luxuries and objects of caprice that are rare and difficult to obtain; unfortunately they are the only things that touch the curiosity and taste of ordinary men.”

Men Giving Mind Difficult Pleasure Objects Taste Ordinary Curiosity Luxury Crowns Cheaper Ordinary Man Caprice Pascal

Book:La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims

Source: La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims

“When discouraged some people will give up, give in or give out far too early. They blame their problems on difficult situations, unreasonable people or their own inabilities. When discouraged other people will push back that first impulse to quit, push down their initial fear, push through feelings of helplessness and push ahead. They're less likely to find something to blame and more likely to find a way through.”

People Way Giving Firsts Feelings Problem Difficult Situation Giving Up Blame Quitting Impulse Inability Initials Discouraged Helplessness Unreasonable Difficult Situations

Author:Steve Goodier

“What I find really difficult is making career decisions. Normally it will take me two weeks, until the very last minute and I have to say yes or no. For a couple of weeks, I will tune everyone out who is giving me advice, so that I can make a clear decision on my own and it takes time.”

Giving I Can Two Lasts Difficult My Own Decision Careers Clear Week Minutes Advice Couple Tunes Take Me Take Time Two Weeks It Takes Time Last Minute Yes Or No

Author:Paul Walker

“We can tell people abstract rules of thumb which we have derived from prior experiences, but it is very difficult for other people to learn from these. We have difficulty remembering such abstractions, but we can more easily remember a good story. Stories give life to past experience. Stories make the events in memory memorable to others and to ourselves. This is one of the reasons why people like to tell stories.”

People Giving Writing Reason Stories Past Remember Difficult Memories Events Difficulty Reason Why Memorable Abstract Abstraction Thumbs Good Story Past Experiences

Book:Tell Me a Story: Narrative and Intelligence

Source: Tell Me a Story: Narrative and Intelligence

“Barrels are very difficult to find. But when you have them, give them lots of equity. Promote them, take them to dinner every week, because they are virtually irreplaceable because they are also very culturally specific. So a barrel at one company may not be a barrel at another company. One of the ways, the definition of a barrel is, they can take an idea from conception and take it all the way to shipping and bring people with them.”

People Way Giving May Ideas Difficult Company Week Definitions Dinner Conception Equity Barrels Cuz Irreplaceable Shipping

Author:Keith Rabois

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