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“Directing the process by the mind can only lead to difficulty, for the mind does not know. Commitment to the Truth is sufficient for the process to unfold.”

Knows Mind Doe Process Truth Is Commitment Difficulty Sufficient

Book:Essence With the Elixir of Enlightenment: The Diamond Approach to Inner Realization

Source: Essence With the Elixir of Enlightenment: The Diamond Approach to Inner Realization

“I'm sure other writers have no difficulties writing nice.”

Writing Nice Difficulty

Author:Justine Larbalestier

“I started writing a novel from the monster's point of view. It has its own difficulties but, I'm ashamed to say, it's much easier writing from a psychopath's point of view than from that of their empathetic opposite.”

Writing Views Novel Easier Opposites Difficulty Point Of View Monsters Ashamed Psychopath Empathetic

Author:Justine Larbalestier

“In my life there were times when dreams have nothing to do with reality, but obviously they were prophetic dreams. And I know that if we look closely and listen carefully, we can see the supernatural signs that determine our future. We all meet with various everyday difficulties and overcoming them, we grow and develop.”

Ifs Knows Looks Dream Reality Grows Overcoming Difficulty Everyday Determine Various Our Future Prophetic

Author:Russell Crowe

“I have difficulty orienting myself in space, and I'm probably one of the few people who gets lost in Manhattan.”

People Lost Space Difficulty Manhattan

Author:Paul Auster

“Some difficulty is warranted and other difficulty I think is gratuitous. And I think I can tell the difference. There are certainly very difficult poets that I really enjoy reading.”

Thinking I Can Reading Enjoy Difficult Differences Poet Difficulty

Author:Billy Collins

“More often than not in poetry I find difficulty to be gratuitous and show-offy and camouflaging, experimental to a kind of insane degree - a difficulty which really ignores the possibility of having a sensible reader.”

Kind Shows Possibility Reader Degrees Difficulty Insane Sensible

Author:Billy Collins

“Another trouble with poetry - and I'm gonna stop the list at two - is the presence of presumptuousness in poetry, the sense you get in a poem that the poet takes for granted an interest on the reader's part in the poet's autobiographical life, in the poet's memories, problems, difficulties and even minor perceptions.”

Two Problem Interest Memories Trouble Poet Reader Perception Difficulty Lists Granted Minors

Author:Billy Collins

“I try to presume that no one is interested in me. And I think experience bears that out. No one's interested in the experiences of a stranger - let's put it that way. And then you have difficulty combined with presumptuousness, which is the most dire trouble with poetry.”

Thinking Way Trying Trouble Bears Difficulty Stranger

Author:Billy Collins

“Usually the poems are written in one sitting. There's always a groping towards some satisfying ending. But I'd say the hardest part is not writing. Once the writing starts, it's too pleasurable to think of it as a difficulty.”

Thinking Writing Written Sitting Difficulty Hardest Satisfying

Author:Billy Collins

“Despite all that I know rationally, and everything that I can put into words, I can say that I have difficulty giving up the notion of the nobility of art.”

Knows Giving Art I Can Giving Up Difficulty Notion Despite Nobility

Author:Aleksandar Hemon

“I write books and either people read them or they don't read them. The rise of Facebook or e-books doesn't change the difficulty level of writing sentences and thinking up new ideas.”

People Thinking Writing Book Ideas Levels Difficulty Sentences New Ideas

Author:Colson Whitehead

“I would hope that my readers feel a sense of awe at the quality of human endurance, at the endurance of love in the face of a variety of difficulties; that the quotidian life is not always easy, and is something worthy of respect.”

Feels Humans Faces Life Is Easy Quality Reader Difficulty Worthy Variety Awe Endurance

Author:Elizabeth Strout

“The great difficulty is that you cannot be nice. If you want to take back the power, you have to behave in ways that are not conforming and will not be about pleasing other people.”

People Ifs Way Want Nice Difficulty Behave Being Nice Conform Pleasing Others

Author:Rachel Holmes

“My parents were divorced when I was a young teenager, and I was raised by a single mother after that. So, I understand the difficulties that families have. I understand single parenting.”

Young Mother Parent Difficulty Raised Teenager Divorced Single Mother

Author:Michele Bachmann

“I've always been more than a little mystified by poets who seem to think talking to people as directly as possible is a bad thing. I mean, I don't want to set up a straw man here: I understand that for many poets - and for me, at times - writing truly means writing in a way that is difficult, simply because the poem is trying to grasp for something elusive. So the difficulty of the poem is just unavoidable, and not in any way artificially imposed. So "as possible" is the key part of the phrase above, I suppose.”

People Thinking Men Way Want Writing Trying Mean Littles Seems Difficult Talking Poet Keys Difficulty Phrases Bad Things Elusive Straws

Author:Matthew Zapruder

“If anything, I've found nonfiction a little easier. You don't have to make anything up. Of course, that's the inherent difficulty as well: when you hit an information black hole, you don't get to make it up. That hasn't come up too often with this project though. I'm lucky to have tons of primary source material , reams of letters and diaries and memoirs.”

Ifs Wells Littles Courses Found Black Information Materials Source Easier Lucky Projects Letters Difficulty Come Up Holes Memoir Primaries Nonfiction Inherent Diaries Black Hole Primary Source

Author:Debra Dean

“Somehow the fact of enormous privilege and freedom carries with it a sense of impotence, which is a strange, but striking, phenomenon. The fact is, we can do just about anything. There is no difficulty, wherever you are, in finding groups that are working hard on things that concern you.”

Hard Facts Can Do Groups Strange Findings Concern Difficulty Privilege Enormous Carrie Phenomenon Impotence Wherever You Are

Author:Noam Chomsky

“I think I'm up for not trying to play a literary heroine. I think I'd rather just do someone that has just been created in a script, rather than in a book that everyone knows and loves. The difficulty with it and the reason these characters are so loved is that every woman and man that reads it understands it in a different way. They're so relatable, but different aspects will be drawn from different people.”

People Thinking Knows Men Way Trying Book Different Reason Play Character Men And Women Aspect And Love Difficulty Scripts Different Ways Different Peoples Relatable Heroines

Author:Lily James

“If you just think about the difficulty you'll never get anywhere.”

Ifs Thinking Difficulty

Author:Brian Lindstrom

“I figure that I'm always going to be fine, one way or another, but I do worry about other people who have difficulty moving from one world to the next. It's the folks who are truly invested in their lives who have the hardest time with change.”

People World Way Moving Next Worry Figures Fine Difficulty Folks Hardest One Way Hardest Times

Author:Bonnie Jo Campbell

“Maybe the hardest lesson is the one I have to learn over and over again, that each story is its own animal, that every story I write is going to come only with difficulty.”

Writing Stories Animal Lessons Difficulty Hardest

Author:Bonnie Jo Campbell

“I had difficulty being friends with women who hadn't worked in either the sex or beauty industries. I felt like other women sometimes overvalued beauty and sexuality, when in actuality, they're just parts of a job.”

Sometimes Jobs Sex Felt Industry Difficulty Sexuality Actuality Beauty Industry

Author:Molly Crabapple

“I have heard from people that the first year of marriage is the toughest. Brie [Bella] and I have definitely had our share of life difficulties with me having neck surgery and that sort of thing, but things are going really well and it is getting better after year one and that is phenomenal.”

People Years Firsts Wells Heard Share Difficulty Get Better Necks Surgery Phenomenal Year One Years Of Marriage Brie First Year Marriage

Author:Daniel Bryan

“Well, at the time, we certainly regarded them [Elianor and Franklin Roosevelt] as partners. We did not know what has since come out about the difficulties of their marital life, or the problems that Franklin gave Eleanor and his mother gave Eleanor, in many respects. We didn't know much about that.”

Knows Wells Problem Mother Difficulty Partners Franklin Eleanor

Author:William A. Rusher

“People who thought that she was busy going around trying to stir up difficulty where there was none or less than she imagined, were quite critical of her. She was, we must never forget, a public figure. And in democracies, public figures tend to attract criticism as well as praise. The most dangerous thing would be if anybody were regarded as above criticism. And Eleanor Roosevelt is, in recent years, getting there.”

People Ifs Trying Years Wells Would Be Forget Democracy Dangerous Figures Criticism Difficulty Praise Busy Critical Never Forget Dangerous Things Eleanor Public Figures

Author:William A. Rusher

“And you can really see in all of these issues that are priorities for Eleanor Roosevelt, where the compromises are painful, the compromises are hard, and the difficulties between them really begin to loom very large by 1936, by 1938.”

Hard Issues Difficulty Painful Priorities Compromise Eleanor

Author:Blanche Wiesen Cook

“It's a matter of each of the two churches being very deeply enculturated in its own setting and having difficulty understand the other.”

Two Matter Church Difficulty Setting Settings Very Deep

Author:Justo L. Gonzalez

“People who are empathic definitely will have some difficulties distinguishing their own feelings from other people's feelings and they tend to take on other people's energies quite easily.”

People Feelings Energy Difficulty

Author:Doreen Virtue

“Who's willing to face the unknown- the difficulties, the disappointments, the surprises of the unfamiliar. If you're going to change, you have to face those things, and who's able? Who has the skillful means, the knowhow, the perseverance, the help, the fortitude to keep going?”

Ifs Mean Helping Able Faces Willing Difficulty Surprise Perseverance Disappointment Keep Going Fortitude Unfamiliar Skillful

Author:Surya Das

“Of course, the more you read, the more you learn, and ultimately there is more information than you can ever use. The difficulty is that as an outsider, you know you're too ignorant for your own good, and so the urge to keep researching and *never* start writing is pretty strong.”

Knows Writing Use Courses Strong Information Difficulty Ignorant Urges Outsiders

Author:Paolo Bacigalupi

“People who don't have as much power as they would like often begin by attributing their difficulties to the environment - competitors, bosses, economic circumstances, and so forth. But in reality people are customarily their own biggest impediment to being as powerful as they would like.”

People Reality Powerful Environment Economic Circumstances Difficulty Boss Competitors Impediments

Author:Jeffrey Pfeffer

“Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.”

Easy Difficult Design Prove Performances Difficulty Designer Graphic Design Graphic Artist Graphic Designer Industrial Design Graphic Design Inspiration

Book:The History of Rasselas, Etc. [With a Life of Dr. Johnson.]

Source: The History of Rasselas, Etc. [With a Life of Dr. Johnson.]

“To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.”

Trying Humans Happiness Highest Difficulty Strive Inner Peace Conquer Felicity Insensibility

Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq

“Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.”

Life Motivational Wish Pleasure Steps Seeing Higher Achievement Difficulty Passing Passings

Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson: The Adventurer and Idler

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson: The Adventurer and Idler

“Every day has its emotional difficulties. I miss my mother whether I'm singing her music or not.”

Mother Missing Emotional Singing Difficulty

Author:Nina Simone

“My approach to gymnastics in Beijing was heavily based on the amount of difficulty I could do.”

Amount Approach Difficulty Gymnastics Beijing

Author:Shawn Johnson

“Choices are our choices so I am not taking away anyone's personal choice, but we run into difficulty when we're having choices made for us rather than making our own.”

Made Running Choices Difficulty Our Choices Personal Choice Choices Made

Author:Robert Moss

“What sort of difficulties would happen when people of different cultures try to come together to worship? Tiny little things such as let's tell jokes with each other.”

People Trying Littles Different Happens Together Culture Worship Jokes Difficulty Tiny Little Things Different Cultures

Author:Michael Emerson

“There's a new line of research showing that people who don't get enough sleep, they're body doesn't metabolize as well. And so they actually - it leads to weight gain. So if you're not getting enough sleep, you might have difficulty losing weight.”

People Ifs Wells Enough Body Might Lines Sleep Losing Research Gains Weight Difficulty Enough Sleep

Author:Shelby Harris

“The difficulty with coming up with a curriculum is mainly that faculty aren't trained to think in terms of general education. They're trained to think in terms of their own discipline, or their specialty.”

Thinking Term Discipline Difficulty Faculty Curriculum Specialty General Education

Author:Louis Menand

“I do worry a lot about the time it takes for people to get a PhD, about the difficulty of finding employment, about the difficulty of getting tenure, and generally about the perception that undergraduates have, that this is a very high-risk career to get started.”

People Careers Worry Risk Findings Perception Difficulty Employment Tenure Phds High Risk

Author:Louis Menand

“Truth is different from error in two respects: it is a little harder to prove and more difficult to admit.”

Littles Two Different Truth Science Difficult Truth Is Prove Difficulty Harder Errors

Author:Leo Errera

“When Thales was asked what was difficult, he said, To know one's self. And what was easy, To advise another.”

Knows Said Self Easy Difficult Difficulty Advise

Author:Diogenes Laertius

“The difficulty is not making a decision, it's living with the consequences.”

Decision Consequence Difficulty

Author:Micah Baldwin

“Have you ever played a video game that didn't have escalating levels of difficulty? Well, life can feel like play, too, when we purposefully engage in activities that demand we test and develop our skills.”

Feels Wells Play Games Levels Activity Skills Demand Tests Difficulty Video Escalating

Book:The Charge: Activating the 10 Human Drives That Make You Feel

Source: The Charge: Activating the 10 Human Drives That Make You Feel

“In matters of desire, don't get hastily involved because of easy availability; once you get involved, you will sink in deeply. In matters of principle, don't back off for fear of difficulty; once you back down, you will lose your ground entirely.”

Matter Desire Easy Loses Principles Involved Difficulty Taoism Get Involved Availability

Author:Zicheng Hong

“Diligence means to be keen in matters of virtue and justice, but worldly people use diligence to solve their economic difficulties. Frugality means to have little desire for material goods, but worldly people use frugality as a cover for stinginess. Thus do watchwords of enlightened life turn into tools for the private business of small people. What a pity!”

People Mean Littles Matter Use Desire Turns Justice Virtue Economic Materials Tools Difficulty Solve Pity Enlightened Taoism Goods Worldly Diligence Frugality Stinginess

Author:Zicheng Hong

“Evolution ... is really two theories, the vague theory and the precise theory. The vague theory has been abundantly proved.... The precise theory has never been proved at all. However, like relativity, it is accepted on faith.... On getting down to actual details, difficulties begin.”

Has Beens Two Science Theory Evolution Difficulty Details Accepted Vague Precise Relativity

Author:Anthony Standen

“I'm also a big Bob Dylan fan. The songs on The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan - which is one of his best early albums - they grow out of some of his difficulties with Suze Rotolo, and "Hard Rain," people say it had to do with the Cuban missile crisis - probably not. He denied it. I believe him, but it certainly had to do with the time.”

People Believe Hard Bigs Song I Believe Grows Fans Rain Difficulty Crisis Albums Denied Bob Dylan Missiles Cuban Cuban Missile Crisis

Author:Cass Sunstein

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