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“It's difficult for most people to imagine the creative process in tennis. Seemingly it's just an athletic matter of hitting the ball consistently well within the boundaries of the court. That analysis is just as specious as thinking that the difficulty in portraying King Lear on stage is learning all the lines.”

“A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.”

Men Motivational Lasts Industry Difficulty Perseverance Meaningful Discouraged Persevere Diligence Perserverance Perseverence Courage And Perseverance

Author:William James

“Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.”

Inspirational Motivational Empathy Difficulty Ghost Apathy Overcoming Fear Repose

Author:Frederic Chopin

“It is very natural for young men to be vehement, acrimonious and severe. For as they seldom comprehend at once all the consequences of a position, or perceive the difficulties by which cooler and more experienced reasoners are restrained from confidence, they form their conclusions with great precipitance. Seeing nothing that can darken or embarrass the question, they expect to find their own opinion universally prevalent, and are inclined to impute uncertainty and hesitation to want of honesty, rather than of knowledge.”

Men Want Form Young Natural Opinion Seeing Honesty Position Consequence Difficulty Conclusion Uncertainty Perceive Young Man Severe Hesitation Vehement

Book:The Rambler

Source: The Rambler

“The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?”

Doe Funny Death Fun Dying Difficulty Fellows

Book:The Death and Letters of Alice James: Selected Correspondence

Source: The Death and Letters of Alice James: Selected Correspondence

“Anything that is theoretically possible will be achieved in practice, no matter what the technical difficulties are, if it is desired greatly enough.”

Ifs Matter Enough Science Practice Technology Progress Difficulty No Matter What

Book:Profiles Of The Future

Source: Profiles Of The Future

“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. Please remember that your difficulties do not define you. They simply strengthen your ability to overcome.”

May Motivational Remember Ability Please Overcoming Difficulty Defeat Encounters Defeated Express Yourself Define You

Author:Maya Angelou

“It is worth remembering that the time of greatest gain in terms of wisdom and inner strength is often that of greatest difficulty.”

Remember Term Loss Gains Difficulty Inner Strength Strength And Wisdom

Book:The Essence Of Wisdom

Source: The Essence Of Wisdom

“When life makes us face difficult situations-such as a personal loss-we have to understand that eternity is taking one more step.”

Life Faces Difficult Loss Situation Steps Eternity Difficulty Difficult Situations Personal Loss

Author:Paulo Coelho

“Modern man's difficulties, dangerous beliefs and feelings of loneliness, spiritual emptiness,and personal weakness are caused by his illusions about, and separation from, the natural world.”

Men World Feelings Spiritual Spirituality Belief Natural Modern Dangerous Loneliness Illusion Weakness Difficulty Separation Emptiness Natural World Feeling Lonely Modern Man

Author:Benjamin Hoff

“I never let the thought of failure enter my mind. My knowledge of my unity with the Universal One and the fact that I must do this thing, and the inspired belief I should do it as a demonstration of my belief in man's unlimited power, made me ignore the difficulties that lay in the way.”

Men Way Should Mind Made Facts Belief Secret Universal Difficulty Lays Unity Inspired Unlimited Demonstration Unlimited Power

Author:Walter Russell

“I think one difficulty is that the problem is one of such enormous complexity that the very mass of facts presented to the public by press and radio make it exceedingly difficult for the man in the street to reach a clear appraisement of the situation. It is virtually impossible at this distance to grasp at all the real significance of the situation.”

Thinking Men Real Facts Problem Difficult Situation Clear Impossible Streets He Man Mass Difficulty Presses Distance Radio Enormous Complexity Significance Problem Solving

Author:George C. Marshall

“God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.”

“Geology, perhaps more than any other department of natural philosophy, is a science of contemplation. It requires no experience or complicated apparatus, no minute processes upon the unknown processes of matter. It demands only an enquiring mind and senses alive to the facts almost everywhere presented in nature. And as it may be acquired without much difficulty, so it may be improved without much painful exertion.”

Mind May Matter Philosophy Facts Science Process Natural Alive Minutes Demand Difficulty Painful Complicated Senses Contemplation Department Geology Exertion Natural Philosophy

Author:Humphry Davy

“Science has not solved difficulties, only shifted the points of difficulty.”

Science Accounts Difficulty

Author:Charles Henry Parkhurst

“Any one whose disposition leads him to attach more weight to unexplained difficulties than to the explanation of facts will certainly reject my theory.”

Facts Science Theory Evidence Weight Difficulty Explanation Rejection Rejects Disposition Unexplained

Book:On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life

Source: On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life

“Mere numbers cannot bring out ... the intimate essence of the experiment. This conviction comes naturally when one watches a subject at work. ... What things can happen! What reflections, what remarks, what feelings, or, on the other hand, what blind automatism, what absence of ideas! ... The experimenter judges what may be going on in [the subject's] mind, and certainly feels difficulty in expressing all the oscillations of a thought in a simple, brutal number, which can have only a deceptive precision. How, in fact, could it sum up what would need several pages of description!”

“You must maintain unwavering faith that you can and will prevail in the end, regardless of the difficulties, AND at the same time, have the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.”

Ends Facts Reality Might Faith Challenges Discipline Difficulty Perseverance Currents Brutal Unwavering Good To Great Unwavering Faith

Author:James C. Collins

“There was a golden period that I look back upon with great regret, in which the cheapest of experimental animals were medical students. Graduate students were even better. In the old days, if you offered a graduate student a thiamine-deficient diet, he gladly went on it, for that was the only way he could eat. Science is getting to be more and more difficult.”

Ifs Way Looks Science Difficult Animal Students Regret Periods Difficulty Medical Experiments Golden Diets Graduates Old Days Graduate Students

Author:George Wald

“On our planet, all objects are subject to continual and inevitable changes which arise from the essential order of things. These changes take place at a variable rate according to the nature, condition, or situation of the objects involved, but are nevertheless accomplished within a certain period of time. Time is insignificant and never a difficulty for Nature. It is always at her disposal and represents an unlimited power with which she accomplishes her greatest and smallest tasks.”

“We took on things which people might think would take a year or two. They weren't particularly hard. What was hard was believing they weren't hard.”

People Thinking Years Believe Two Hard Might Science Belief Research Difficulty

Author:Edwin Land

“Now, I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil, having due regard for its actual existence amongst us and the difficulties of getting rid of it in any satisfactory way, and to all the constitutional obligations which have been thrown about it; but, nevertheless, desire a policy that looks to the prevention of it as a wrong, and looks hopefully to the time when as a wrong it may come to an end.”

Source: The Complete Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln

“The prejudice of unfounded belief often degenerates into the prejudice of custom, and becomes at last rank hypocrisy. When men, from custom or fashion or any worldly motive, profess or pretend to believe what they do not believe, nor can give any reason for believing, they unship the helm of their morality, and being no longer honest to their own minds they feel no moral difficulty in being unjust to others.”

Men Giving Feels Mind Believe Reason Lasts Religion Belief Moral Atheism Honest Fashion Morality Difficulty Prejudice Motive Hypocrisy Customs Unjust Worldly Degenerates Helm

Book:The Age of Reason, etc

Source: The Age of Reason, etc

“Another source of conviction in the existence of God, connected with the reason and not with the feelings, impresses me as having much more weight. This follows from the extreme difficulty or rather impossibility of conceiving this immense and wonderful universe, including man with his capacity of looking far backwards and far into futurity, as the result of blind chance or necessity. When thus reflecting I feel compelled to look to a First Cause having an intelligent mind in some degree analogous to that of man; and I deserve to be called a Theist.”

Source: The Autobiography of Charles Darwin

“Difficulties arise when reported observations seem to conflict with 'facts' that the majority of scientists accept as established and immutable. Scientists tend to reject conflicting observations.....Nevertheless, the history of science shows that new observations and theories can eventually prevail.”

Facts Shows Seems Accepting Atheism Theory Conflict Scientist Difficulty Majority Arise Observation Rejects Nevertheless History Of Science

Author:Ian Stevenson

“Mindfulness can play a big role in transforming our experience with pain & other difficulties; it allows us to recognize the authenticity of the distress & yet not be overwhelmed by it.”

Play Bigs Pain Roles Meditation Mindfulness Difficulty Authenticity Distress Overwhelmed Transforming

Book:Real Happiness - Enhanced Ebook Edition: The Power of Meditation: A 28-Day Program

Source: Real Happiness - Enhanced Ebook Edition: The Power of Meditation: A 28-Day Program

“Lincoln's appeal to "the better angels of our nature" failed to avert a fratricidal war. But the compassionate wisdom of Lincoln's first and second inaugurals bequeathed to the Union, cemented with blood, a moral heritage which, when drawn upon in times of stress and strife, is sure to find specific ways and means to surmount difficulties that may appear to be insurmountable.”

Way Firsts May Mean War Compassion Moral Blood Angel Difficulty Stress Unions Appeals Heritage Compassionate Strife Insurmountable Avert

Author:Felix Frankfurter

“I am compassionate. I allow my heart and imagination to embrace the difficulties and concerns of others. While maintaining my own balance, I find it within myself to extend sympathy, attention, and support. When they are grieved, I listen with openness and gentle strength. I offer loyalty, friendship, and human understanding. Without undermining or enabling, I aid and assist others to find their strength. I allow the healing power of the Universe to flow through me, soothing the hearts and feelings of those I encounter.”

“Our job this day is to become part of the answer to the world's immense and protracted suffering rather than continuing our ancient task of being part of the difficulty.”

World Jobs Suffering Answers Compassion Society Tasks Difficulty Ancient This Day Immense Continuing

Author:Hugh Prather

“The main cause of my difficulties stemmed from the tragedy of my daughter's unsound birth and my inability to face my feelings.”

Feelings Faces Mother Causes Birth Daughter Difficulty Tragedy My Daughter Inability

Book:Self-portrait

Source: Self-portrait

“Considering the great importance to the public liberty of the freedom of the press, and the difficulty of submitting it to very precise rules, the laws have thought it less mischievous to give greater scope to its freedom than to the restraint of it.”

Giving Law Liberty Greater Importance Difficulty Presses Civil Rights Considering Restraint Precise Scope Freedom Of The Press Mischievous

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“If gun laws in fact worked, the sponsors of this type of legislation should have no difficulty drawing upon long lists of examples of criminal acts reduced by such legislation. That they cannot do so after a century and a half of trying - that they must sweep under the rug the southern attempts at gun control in the 1870-1910 period, the northeastern attempts in the 1920-1939 period, the attempts at both Federal and State levels in 1965-1976 - establishes the repeated, complete and inevitable failure of gun laws to control serious crime.”

“Creation,' in the ordinary sense of the word, is perfectly conceivable. I find no difficulty in conceiving that, at some former period, this universe was not in existence, and that it made its appearance in six days (or instantaneously, if that is preferred), in consequence of the volition of some preexisting Being.”

Ifs Made Universe Existence Creation Evolution Periods Six Ordinary Consequence Difficulty Appearance Former Volition Conceiving

Author:Thomas Huxley

“Rather than getting more spoilt with age, as difficulties pile up, epiphanies of gratitude abound.”

Age Gratitude Difficulty Grateful Epiphany Spoilt

Author:Alain de Botton

“The difficulties, hardships and trials of life, the obstacles... are positive blessings. They knit the muscles more firmly, and teach self-reliance.”

Self Teach Gratitude Blessing Difficulty Obstacles Trials Muscles Hardship Self Reliance Reliance

Author:William Matthews

“Love and kindness are the very basis of society. If we lose these feelings, society will face tremendous difficulties; the survival of humanity will be endangered.”

Ifs Feelings Inspiration Faces Humanity Loses Kindness Survival Bases Difficulty Love And Kindness

Book:Kindness, Clarity, and Insight

Source: Kindness, Clarity, and Insight

“They who lack talent expect things to happen without effort. They ascribe failure to a lack of inspiration or ability, or to misfortune, rather than to insufficient application. At the core of every true talent there is an awareness of the difficulties inherent in any achievement, and the confidence that by persistence and patience something worthwhile will be realized. Thus talent is a species of vigor.”

Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

“Let your courage mount with difficulties. There would be no will if there were no resistance.”

Ifs Would Be Spiritual Difficulty Resistance

Author:Nilakanta Sri Ram

“Give me ... a compassionate heart, quickly moved to grieve for the woes of others and to active pity for them, even as our Lord Jesus Christ beheld our poverty and hasted to help us. Give me grace ever to alleviate the crosses and difficulties of those around me, and never to add to them; teach me to be a consoler in sorrow, to take thought for the stranger, the widow, and the orphan; let my charity show itself not in words only but in deed and truth.”

“One of the difficulties in understanding the brain is that it is like nothing so much as a lump of porridge.”

Understanding Brain Difficulty Neuroscience Lumps Porridge

Author:Richard Gregory

“The infantryman slithers in the mud, while many teams of horses are needed to drag each gun forward. All wheeled vehicles sink up to their axles in the slime. Even tractors can only move with great difficulty. A large portion of our heavy artillery was soon stuck fast... The strain that all this caused our already exhausted troops can perhaps be imagined.”

Moving Team Military Needed Gun Horse Difficulty Heavy Stuck Portions Vehicle Drag Troops Exhausted Mud Strain Artillery Slime Tractors Infantryman

Author:Gunther Blumentritt

“In war, while everything is simple, even the simplest thing is difficult. Difficulties accumulate and produce frictions which no one can comprehend who has not seen war.”

War Difficult Simple Military Produce Difficulty Simplest Friction

Author:Carl von Clausewitz

“The biggest difficulty in getting to the top of the ladder is getting through the crowd at the bottom.”

Inspirational Basketball Difficulty Bottom Crowds Ladders

Author:Bobby Knight

“Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties.”

People Love Life Wise Masters Difficulty Clever

Author:Emil Nolde

“There is perhaps nothing so admirable in Christianity and Buddhism as their art of teaching even the lowest to elevate themselves by piety to a seemingly higher order of things, and thereby to retain their satisfaction with the actual world in which they find it difficult enough to live - this very difficulty being necessary.”

World Art Enough Order Difficult Christianity Teaching Buddhism Higher Difficulty Satisfaction Lowest Piety Admirable

Book:BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL (Modern Philosophy Series): From World’s Most Influential & Revolutionary Philosopher, the Author of The Antichrist, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, The Genealogy of Morals, The Gay Science and The Birth of Tragedy

Source: BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL (Modern Philosophy Series): From World’s Most Influential & Revolutionary Philosopher, the Author of The Antichrist, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, The Genealogy of Morals, The Gay Science and The Birth of Tragedy

“There are few positions in life in which difficulties have not to be encountered. These difficulties are, however, our best instructors, as our mistakes often form our best experience.”

Form Success Sports Mistake Position Difficulty Instructors Best Experiences

Author:Edwin Paxton Hood

“Many have argued that a vacuum does not exist, others claim it exists only with difficulty in spite of the repugnance of nature; I know of no one who claims it easily exists without any resistance from nature.”

Knows Doe Science Nature Existence Claims Difficulty Resistance Spite Vacuums

Author:Evangelista Torricelli

“One of the principal obstacles to the rapid diffusion of a new idea lies in the difficulty of finding suitable expression to convey its essential point to other minds. Words may have to be strained into a new sense, and scientific controversies constantly resolve themselves into differences about the meaning of words. On the other hand, a happy nomenclature has sometimes been more powerful than rigorous logic in allowing a new train of thought to be quickly and generally accepted.”

“We prove what we want to prove, and the real difficulty is to know what we want to prove.”

Knows Want Real Prove Difficulty Proof

Author:Emile Chartier

“How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people.”

People Difficult Honest Honesty Easier Difficulty Oneself Being Honest

Author:Edward Benson