Best difficult & problem Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I felt strongly that since the pursuit of good science was so difficult it was essential that the problem being studied was an important one to justify the effort expanded.”

Important Problem Felt Difficult Effort Essentials Pursuit Justify Good Science

Author:Paul Nurse

“For a culture that has such a problem with death, we seem to deal with it in a quite bizarre way. We see people shot, killed and blown up, and we find it funny and sexy and all those things. But, the reality of it is that every day people die, and people are really sad and they grieve and they go through a really difficult process with it.”

People Way Problem Reality Seems Dies Culture Process Difficult Deals Shots Sexy Grieving Bizarre Really Sad

Author:Michael Sheen

“The economic and social problems would tend to become, like the military situation, more and more difficult as time went on and we became more and more isolated.”

Problem Social Difficult Situation Economic Military Isolated Social Problems

Author:Eamon de Valera

“Neumann, to a physicist seeking help with a difficult problem: Simple. This can be solved by using the method of characteristics. Physicist: I'm afraid I don't understand the method of characteristics. Neumann: In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.”

Helping Problem Science Used Difficult Understanding Simple Mathematics Method Seeking Characteristics Physicist Difficult Problems Seeking Help

Author:John von Neumann

“The problems in California have been that it's been very difficult to site and build new power plants.”

Has Beens Problem Difficult Economy Plant California Site Power Plants

Author:Kenneth Lay

“Sandeep Jauhar’s Doctored is a passionate and necessary book that asks difficult questions about the future of medicine. The narrative is gripping, and the writing is marvelous. But it was the gravity of the problem—so movingly told—that grabbed and kept my attention throughout this remarkable work.”

Writing Book Problem Asks Difficult Attention Medicine Passionate Narrative Remarkable Gravity Marvelous Gripping Difficult Questions

Author:Siddhartha Mukherjee

“To a novelist, fluidity is the ultimate good omen; suddenly difficult problems are simply solved, intractable structural knots loosen themselves, and you come upon the key without even recognizing that this is what you hold.”

Problem Difficult Keys Ultimate Novelists Recognizing Knots Omen Fluidity Good Omens Difficult Problems

Author:Zadie Smith

“It is difficult to understand precisely what the state hopes to achieve by promoting the creation and perpetuation of a subclass of illiterates within our boundaries, surely adding to the problems and costs of unemployment, welfare and crime.”

States Problem Difficult Achieve Crime Creation Cost Boundaries Welfare Unemployment Promoting

Author:William J. Brennan

“Cinema d'auteur, cinema about people, about emotions. About la difficulté d'être, the difficulty of being, existential problems. That's what the nouvelle vague is. The early '60s was all about that.”

People Problem Difficult Emotion Difficulty Cinema Existential Vague Auteurs

Author:Charlotte Rampling

“Interesting characters are troubled characters. The only problem I've had in my business is very few people - unfortunately, very vocal - confusing the difficult role that I play with me. I play these guys, but I'm not like them. I've been accused of being difficult to work with.”

People Play Character Problem Guy Difficult Interesting Roles Confusing Accused Vocal Interesting Characters

Author:Val Kilmer

“In my practice as a psychiatrist, I have found that helping people to develop personal goals has proven to be the most effective way to help them cope with problems. Observing that lives of people who have mastered adversity, I have noticed that they have established goals and sought with all their effort to achieve them. From the moment they decided to concentrate all their energies on a specific objective, they begun to surmount the most difficult odds.”

People Way Moments Helping Problem Found Energy Difficult Goal Effort Practice Achieve Decided Adversity Objectives Odds Proven Helping People Observing Psychiatrist Personal Goal

Author:Ari Kiev

“... not mere achievement, but rather the more difficult feat of handling your life efficiently. It means to be a success as a person; controlled, organized, not part of the world's problems, but part of its cure. ... of being creative individuals.”

World Mean Persons Problem Individual Difficult Creative Achievement Mere Cures Uplifting Organized Controlled Be Creative Feats

Book:The amazing results of positive thinking

Source: The amazing results of positive thinking

“The problem with the Internet startup craze isn't that too many people are starting companies; it's that too many people aren't sticking with it. That's somewhat understandable, because there are many moments that are filled with despair and agony, when you have to fire people and cancel things and deal with very difficult situations. That's when you find out who you are and what your values are.”

People Moments Problem Values Difficult Deals Business Company Situation Fire Internet Despair Filled Who You Are Starting Agony Difficult Situations Craze

Book:Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs

Source: Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs

“Whatever your problem, no matter how difficult, you can release spiritual power sufficient to solve your problem. The secret is--pray and believe.”

Believe Matter Problem Spiritual Difficult Secret Praying Solve Release Sufficient Problem Solving Spiritual Power

Book:A Guide to Confident Living

Source: A Guide to Confident Living

“I really believe, in my heart and soul, that if we would rebuild and strengthen the family structure in the country, you'd start to really deal with a number of the most difficult problems we're having in the country today, in poverty, education, and in crime, but we've broken the family structure up.”

Ifs Believe Heart Soul Country Problem Today Difficult Deals Numbers Poverty Crime Broken My Heart Structure Heart And Soul Difficult Problems

Author:Sam Brownback

“At 12 years old in the dangerous world that I was in, with a very difficult home life, I found the stage was the safest place to be. It was predetermined and predictable - and furthermore you got to be someone else. All the problems only began when you left the building.”

World Years Problem Home Found Left Difficult Stage Dangerous Building Predictable Predetermined Home Life Dangerous World

Author:Patrick Stewart

“I don't think escaping is necessarily a problem, but we can get addicted to almost anything. If you're craving being in this other reality and you don't want to participate in your own reality, those are the times we have to start asking ourselves difficult questions.”

Ifs Thinking Want Problem Reality Difficult Asking Craving Escaping Difficult Questions

Author:Joshua Mohr

“The next time you encounter a difficult obstacle or problem, you should smile and say, 'Here's my chance to grow.'”

Should Problem Next Grows Difficult Chance Obstacles Encounters Next Time

Author:Zig Ziglar

“All of us have problems. We face them every day. How grateful I am that we have difficult things to wrestle with. They keep us young, they keep us alive, they keep us going, they keep us humble. Be grateful for your problems, and know that somehow there will come a solution. Just do the best you can, but be sure it is the very best.”

Knows Problem Faces Young Difficult Alive Solutions Grateful Humble Be Grateful Do The Best Difficult Things

Author:Gordon B. Hinckley

“On the one hand, society needs a common faith and vigorous institutions with the power to coerce; and on the other, the individual as a human soul or as the bearer of a new and possibly saving heresy, must be free. It is difficult enough to reconcile these two needs, but the problem holds another hazard: the need of action under the pressure of time.”

Needs Humans Two Soul Enough Problem Hands Action Individual Difficult Common Pressure Institutions Saving Human Soul Heresy Vigorous Reconcile Hazards Coerce

Author:Jacques Barzun

“Mental health is such a complex thing and so difficult to diagnose. What is a mental problem? Who does have mental problems? What's the difference between mental problems and depression and sadness?”

Doe Problem Difficult Differences Sadness Mental Health Complexes

Author:Tom Sturridge

“The problem with our art form: it's so ephemeral, and catching performances can be so difficult... the important thing is what happens at the moment of performance, for the people who made the effort to be there: it lives with them.”

People Art Made Important Moments Problem Happens Form Difficult Effort Performances Important Things Catching Ephemeral

Author:Judith Weir

“I don't think that there's substantiated evidence that shows that voter fraud is such a rampant problem that we have to put in place measures that people have to pass in order to exercise that constitutional free right. Voting should be -- and is required to be -- a right that is unencumbered. That does not have tests that people must pass.... Anything put in place to restrict that right, or to make it more difficult for people to exercise it, should be outlawed, and should not be allowed.”

People Thinking Should Doe Shows Problem Order Difficult Exercise Evidence Tests Voting Voters Fraud Voter Fraud

Author:Clay Aiken

“The United States needs serious change in its fiscal, entitlement, infrastructure, immigration, and education policies, among others. And yet a polarized and often paralyzed Washington has pushed dealing with these problems off into the future, which will only make them more difficult and expensive to solve.”

Needs States Problem Difficult United United States Policy Serious Solve Immigration Expensive Infrastructure Entitlement Paralyzed

Author:Fareed Zakaria

“Is it shocking that it's very difficult for a news organization to do news in America now? It's not shocking because we're a culture that doesn't want news. We want entertainment. We want info-tainment. That's why CNN is having problems.”

Want Problem America Culture Difficult News Organization Entertainment Shocking Cnn

Author:Oprah Winfrey

“Just for the record, I'm in favor of drug testing EVERY year just as long as it's a level playing field. The problem arises that a lot of these substances are hard to detect. So, it's very difficult to have true, drug-free bodybuilding competition, especially on the professional level.”

Years Long Hard Problem Difficult Levels Records Fields Drug Competition Favors Arise Substance Testing Bodybuilding Playing Fields Level Playing Field Drug Free Drug Testing

Author:Lee Labrada

“A writer who wants to be translated and published abroad faces a very difficult challenge: first of all, he must make sure that his book is cosmopolitan in the best sense of the word, that it is interesting to a global audience. Nobody is going to read about problems that they don’t care about.”

Want Firsts Book Problem Care Faces Difficult Challenges Interesting Audience Don't Care Difficult Challenges

Author:Sergei Lukyanenko

“The problem of transmitting scientific knowledge is a very difficult business.”

Problem Difficult Scientific Knowledge

Author:Jack Steinberger

“Today it is difficult to find leaders who are independent of the forces that have brought us our problems: The Congress, the bureaucracy, the lobbyists, big business, and big labor.”

Problem Wisdom Bigs Today Politics Force Difficult Leader Economy Labor Independent Congress Liberalism Bureaucracy Big Business Lobbyists

Author:Ronald Reagan

“In difficult times, people too often lose the ability to face the future optimistically. They begin to think about their tomorrow's negatively. They forget that the tough times will pass. They concentrate on the problems of today rather than on the opportunities of tomorrow. In so doing, they not only lose the potential of today, they also throw away the beauty of tomorrow.”

People Thinking Problem Today Faces Opportunity Difficult Loses Ability Forget Tomorrow Tough Difficult Times Tough Times

Book:Tough Times Never Last, But Tough People Do!

Source: Tough Times Never Last, But Tough People Do!

“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

“The matter of making christening robes for caterpillars, it is not a difficult one; the difficulty is to get a frisky caterpillar to keep still while one is putting on his christening robe. And then it is a problem to keep it on, after one does get it on. I do have much troubles with caterpillars crawling out of their christening robes after I do get them on.”

Doe Stills Matter Problem Difficult Trouble Difficulty Insects Robes Crawling Caterpillars Christening

Author:Opal Whiteley

“There’s this powerful phrase in the legal world, “Difficult cases make bad law.” The exception is the difficult case. You can’t generalize them by definition. So although they are fascinating, they don’t solve any problem because they’re so one of a kind.”

World Kind Problem Law Difficult Powerful Cases Definitions Solve Phrases Fascinating Exception One Of A Kind Bad Laws

Author:Malcolm Gladwell

“Why does it seem to be more and more challenging to find a perfect mate or maintain a happy and compatible relationship? Was love always this difficult? Haven't we heard stories of people being truly fulfilled and happy in love? Is love a myth? There are more people on the planet than ever before, and traveling the world has never been easier. Not only that; now we can use technologies like the Internet to connect with others. So what is the problem? Why does it seem to be more complicated than ever to meet the right person and live happily ever after?”

Source: Love Colors: A New Approach to Love, Relationships, and Auras

“I think thinking about becoming an adult, and having to face up to your problems and face up to your insecurities, is difficult for everybody.”

Thinking Problem Faces Difficult Becoming Adults Insecurity Becoming An Adult

Author:Mary Elizabeth Winstead

“Financial planning is like navigation. If you know where you are and where you want to go, navigation isn't such a great problem. It's when you don't know the two points that it's difficult.”

Ifs Knows Want Two Problem Difficult Money Financial Planning Where You Are Navigation Financial Planning

Book:The power of money dynamics

Source: The power of money dynamics

“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

“The oldest problem in economic education is how to exclude the incompetent. A certain glib mastery of verbiage-the ability to speak portentously and sententiously about the relation of money supply to the price level-is easy for the unlearned and may even be aided by a mildly enfeebled intellect. The requirement that there be ability to master difficult models, including ones for which mathematical competence is required, is a highly useful screening device.”

“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

“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

“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

“A book is a map. There will be times in your life when you will feel lost and confused. The way back to yourself is through reading. There is not a problem in existence that has not been eased, somewhere and at some time, by a book. I want you to remember that.The answers have all been written. And the more you read, the more you will know how to find your way through those difficult times.”

Knows Way Want Feels Book Problem Remember Reading Lost Difficult Answers Existence Know How Written Confused Maps I Want You Difficult Times Lost And Confused

Author:Matt Haig

“As musicians it's often difficult. You go to a dinner party and most people treat you like some kind of exotic animal and in a way like you don't have any problems and that it's all fantastic and glamorous and that you wake up in the morning, you kick the groupies out of bed, you roll onto the floor onto a needle, right, which fills you with a lovely substance, you roll into the gutter and you stare at the moon and out comes beautiful poetry. The fact of the matter is that that's nonsense. It's a lot of hard work.”

“To the young I should offer two maxims: Don't accept superficial solutions of difficult problems. It is better to do a little good than much harm. I should not offer anything more specific; every young person should decide on his or her own credo.”

Should Littles Persons Two Problem Young Difficult Accepting Youth Offers Solutions Harm Superficial Maxims Difficult Problems Credo

Author:Bertrand Russell

“It is difficult to distinguish deduction from what in other circumstances is called problem-solving. And concept learning, inference, and reasoning by analogy are all instances of inductive reasoning. (Detectives typically induce, rather than deduce.) None of these things can be done separately from each other, or from anything else. They are pseudo-categories.”

Done Problem Difficult Circumstances Concepts Instance Reasoning Categories Problem Solving Detectives Analogies Pseudo Deductions Inference

Book:To Think: In Language, Learning and Education

Source: To Think: In Language, Learning and Education

“Every film is difficult. Making films, you're always going to have problems, there's always going to be challenges.”

Problem Film Difficult Challenges

Author:Alfonso Cuaron

“Problems reconciling mom and the wife are difficult in the best of times.”

Problem Difficult Wife Mom

Author:Natalie Dormer

“Perhaps the most difficult ethical problem of the scientific community arises not so much from conflict with other subcultures as from its own success. Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.”

Problem Difficult Community Failing Conflict Arise Ethical Subculture

Author:Kenneth E. Boulding

“If you can stare hard at your problems, they almost always shrink or disappear, because you almost always find a better way of dealing with them than if you don't face them head on. The more difficult the problem, the more important it is that you stare at it and deal with it.”

Ifs Way Life Important Hard Problem Faces Difficult Growth Deals Personal Growth Investing Disappear Staring Shrinks Better Ways

Author:Ray Dalio

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