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“Painting with all its technicalities, difficulties, and peculiar ends, is nothing but a noble and expressive language, invaluable as the vehicle of thought, but by itself nothing.”

Ends Language Painting Difficulty Noble Peculiar Vehicle Expressive Invaluable Technicalities

Book:The True and the Beautiful in Nature, Art, Morals, and Religion, Selected from the Works of John Ruskin

Source: The True and the Beautiful in Nature, Art, Morals, and Religion, Selected from the Works of John Ruskin

“I learned the tricks... If you want to do academic things, you can do them. It is not difficult. Yet it is from this difficulty - the mistakes and dead ends - that artists develop, not through the quick solutions and not from something you learn and apply.”

Ifs Want Ends Artist Difficult Can Do Mistake Solutions Difficulty Tricks Academic Dead Ends

Author:Isamu Noguchi

“The nature of Christ is, I grant it, from one end to another, a web of mysteries; but this mysteriousness does not correspond to the difficulties which all existence contains. Let it be rejected, and the whole world is an enigma; let it be accepted, and we possess a wonderful explanation of the history of man.”

Men World Doe Ends Whole Christ Existence Wonderful Mystery Difficulty Accepted Whole World Explanation Grants Rejected Enigma

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“I want my street to be crazy, I want my avenues, shops and buildings, to enter into a crazy dance, and this is why I deform and distort their outlines and colours. However I always come up against the same difficulty, that if all the elements were one by one deformed and distorted excessively, if in the end nothing remained of their real outlines, I would have totally effaced the location that I intended to suggest, that I wished to transform.”

Ifs Want Real Ends Crazy Streets Building Elements Difficulty Come Up Colour Shops Location Avenues Outlines Being Crazy

Author:Jean Dubuffet

“This is exactly the message that fairy tales get across to the child in manifold form: that a struggle against severe difficulties in life is unavoidable, is an intrinsic part of human existence -- but that if one does not shy away, but steadfastly meets unexpected and often unjust hardships, one masters all obstacles and at the end emerges victorious.”

Source: The uses of enchantment: the meaning and importance of fairy tales

“If an author be supposed to involve his thoughts in voluntary obscurity, and to obstruct, by unnecessary difficulties, a mind eager in the pursuit of truth; if he writes not to make others learned, but to boast the learning which he possesses himself, and wishes to be admired rather than understood, he counteracts the first end of writing, and justly suffers the utmost severity of censure, or the more afflicting severity of neglect.”

Ifs Writing Mind Firsts Ends Suffering Wish Understood Difficulty Pursuit Neglect Unnecessary Boast Obscurity Censure Severity

Book:The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752

Source: The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752

“At least one indication of unbelief is the tendency to measure life's challenges against our own adequacy instead of God's promises. To enter our Sabbath rest, we must put an end to self-reliance - trusting in our own abilities to overcome difficulties, rise above challenges, escape tragedies, or achieve personal greatness.”

Ends Self Challenges Ability Achieve Greatness Promise Overcoming Difficulty Tragedy Tendencies Self Reliance Reliance Rise Above Indication Sabbath Unbelief Adequacy

Author:Charles R. Swindoll

“He that resolves upon any great and good end, has, by that very resolution, scaled the chief barrier to it. He will find such resolution removing difficulties, searching out or making means, giving courage for despondency, and strength for weakness, and like the star to the wise men of old, ever guiding him nearer and nearer to perfection.”

Men Giving Mean Ends Stars Wise Weakness Perfection Difficulty Chiefs Barriers Resolve Resolution Despondency

Book:The World's Laconics: Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best Authors

Source: The World's Laconics: Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best Authors

“The troubles of the 20th century are not unlike those of adolescence -- rapid growth beyond the ability of organizations to manage, uncontrollable emotion, and a desperate search for identity. Out of adolescence, however, comes maturity in which physical growth with all its attendant difficulties comes to an end, but in which growth continues in knowledge, in spirit, in community, and in love; it is to this that we look forward as a human race. This goal, once seen with our eyes, will draw our faltering feet toward it.”

“Sometimes things which at the moment may be perceived as obstacles-and actually be obstacles, difficulties, or drawbacks-can in the long run result in some good end which would not have occurred if it had not been for the obstacle.”

Ifs May Long Ends Sometimes Moments Running Results Difficulty Adversity Obstacles Long Runs Drawbacks

Author:Steve Allen

“Everything in war is very simple, but the simplest thing is difficult. The difficulties accumulate and end by producing a kind of friction that is inconceivable unless one has experienced war. ... Countless minor incidents - the kind you can never really foresee - combine to lower the general level of performance, so that one always falls short of the intended goal.”

Kind War Ends Fall Difficult Goal Simple Levels Performances Difficulty Minors Simplest Incidents Friction

Author:Carl von Clausewitz

“I like a person who knows his own mind and sticks to it; who sees at once what is to be done in given circumstances and does it. He does not beat about the bush for difficulties or excuses, but goes the shortest and most effectual way to work to attain his own ends, or to accomplish a useful object.”

Knows Way Mind Persons Doe Ends Done Given Objects Circumstances Beats Difficulty Sticks Excuse Accomplish

Book:Table talk

Source: Table talk

“Sadly, as with so much about history's heroes, it's the spotting of potential fame that's the difficulty, whether it's publishing their poems, hanging their paintings, or buying their old underwear. Think of the great men whose lives passed in penury and hacking coughs due to public unawareness that their littlest possession would end up at Sothebys or the basement at Fort Knox.”

Thinking Men Ends Painting Hero Fame Difficulty Possession Dues Great Men Buying Publishing Underwear Basements Hacking Forts Unawareness

Book:Chocolate and Cuckoo Clocks: The Essential Alan Coren

Source: Chocolate and Cuckoo Clocks: The Essential Alan Coren

“The peasant finds no "natural" urgency within himself that will drive him toward Picasso in spite of all difficulties. In the end the peasant will go back to kitsch when he feels like looking at pictures, for he can enjoy kitsch without effort”

Feels Ends Enjoy Natural Effort Difficulty Spite Peasants Urgency Kitsch

Book:Art and Culture: Critical Essays

Source: Art and Culture: Critical Essays

“The last thing is simplicity. After having gone through all the difficulties, having played an endless number of notes, it is simplicity that matters, with all its charm. It is the final seal on Art. Anyone who strives for this to begin with will be disappointed. You cannot begin at the end.”

Art Ends Matter Lasts Numbers Gone Difficulty Notes Strive Finals Simplicity Endless Charm Disappointed Strife Seals

Author:Frederic Chopin

“The accidents of my life have given me the ability to make stories in which different parts of the world are brought together, sometimes harmoniously, sometimes in conflict, and sometimes both - usually both. The difficulty in these stories is that if you write about everywhere you can end up writing about nowhere.”

Ifs World Writing Different Ends Sometimes Stories Together Given Ability Conflict Difficulty Accidents

Author:Salman Rushdie

“The difficulty for me is that I'm interested in so many different things. I could never really imagine myself doing one thing, and I'm pretty sure that I'll end up doing four or five different things.”

Different Ends Five Four Imagine One Thing Difficulty Different Things

Author:Emma Watson

“Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.”

“To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted my no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forgo even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?”

Heart Ends Wisdom Lost Greater Greatness Ambition Difficulty Patience Fortune Endure Dare Hostile Intrigue Tire

Book:Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)

“She was having some difficulty piecing together exactly why she deserved to be in this place, but she wasn't stupid enough to deny that in the end life was cruel and didn't pay attention to what was fair.”

Ends Enough Together Pay Attention Stupid Fairs Difficulty Deny Pay Attention

Author:Ted Dekker

“Hope -- Hope in the face of difficulty. Hope in the face of uncertainty. The audacity of hope! In the end, that is God’s greatest gift to us...A belief in things not seen. A belief that there are better days ahead.”

Ends Faces Faith Belief Difficulty Uncertainty Greatest Gifts Audacity Better Days Audacity Of Hope

Author:Barack Obama

“Things end. People leave. And you know what? Life goes on. Besides, if bad things didn't happen, how would you be able to feel the good ones?”

Source: Perfect You

“If the world were a paradise of luxury and ease, a land flowing with milk and honey, where every Jack obtained his Jill at once and without any difficulty, men would either die of boredom or hang themselves; or there would be wars, massacres, and murders; so that in the end mankind would inflict more suffering on itself than it has now to accept at the hands of Nature.”

Ifs Men World War Ends Hands Would Be Suffering Dies Accepting Land Mankind Difficulty Murder Luxury Ease Boredom Paradise Honey Milk Massacres Milk And Honey

Book:The Suffering of the World

Source: The Suffering of the World

“Think not of the amount to be accomplished, the difficulties to be overcome, or the end to be attained, but set earnestly at the little task at your elbow, letting that be sufficient for the day.”

Thinking Littles Ends Spiritual Spirituality Amount Tasks Overcoming Difficulty Sufficient Accomplished Elbows

Book:The Quotable Osler

Source: The Quotable Osler

“If we take care of the means, we are bound to reach the end sooner or later. When once we have grasped this point, final victory is beyond question. Whatever difficulties we encounter, whatever apparent reverses we sustain, we may not give up the quest for truth.”

Ifs Giving May Mean Ends Wisdom Care Victory Giving Up Difficulty Finals Bounds Take Care Encounters Quests Sooner Or Later Reverse Not Giving Up

Book:All Men Are Brothers

Source: All Men Are Brothers

“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

“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

“Ive had my share of difficult moments, but whatever difficulties Ive gone through, Ive always gotten a prize at the end.”

Ends Moments Difficult Gone Share Difficulty Prize Difficult Moments

Author:Audrey Hepburn

“Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. We see our past achievements as the end results of a clean forward thrust, and our present difficulties as signs of decline and decay.”

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

“The only idea man can affix to the name of God, is that of a first cause, the cause of all things. And, incomprehensibly difficult as it is for a man to conceive what a first cause is, he arrives at the belief of it, from the tenfold greater difficulty of disbelieving it. It is difficult beyond description to conceive that space can have no end; but it is more difficult to conceive an end. It is difficult beyond the power of man to conceive an eternal duration of what we call time; but it is more impossible to conceive a time when there shall be no time.”

Men Firsts Ideas Ends Names Belief Causes Difficult Space Greater Impossible Eternal All Things Difficulty All Time Description Duration

Book:Paine's Age of Reason, with Remarks, Containing a Vindication of the Doctrines of Christianity from the Aspersions of that Author. By a Citizen of the World [i.e. James Tytler]

Source: Paine's Age of Reason, with Remarks, Containing a Vindication of the Doctrines of Christianity from the Aspersions of that Author. By a Citizen of the World [i.e. James Tytler]

“The Difficulty lies, in finding out an exact Measure but eat for Necessity, not Pleasure, for Lust knows not where Necessity ends.”

Knows Ends Lying Pleasure Findings Difficulty Lust Deceit

Book:Poor Richard's Almanack

Source: Poor Richard's Almanack

“Constantly seek difficulties. You shouldn't be afraid to fail; rather you should fail continually, so that you can win in the end. Without difficulties, we cannot grow.”

Should Ends Winning Grows Failing Difficulty You Can Win Afraid To Fail

Author:Michio Kushi