Best difficulty & hard Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“One of the difficulties in living the lifestyle I lead is that it is hard to get my friends in one place.”

Hard My Friends Difficulty Lifestyle Live Life

“To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is troublesome.”

Thinking Hard Easy Difficulty Our Thoughts Threshold Troublesome

Book:Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels

Source: Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels

“Painting it was hard graft. There are one and a half large tubes of white in the ground - yet that ground is very dark.”

Hard Dark White Half Painting Difficulty Tubes

Author:Vincent Van Gogh

“Nowadays young people have great choice of occupations, hobbies, etc, so chess is experiencing difficulties because of the high competition. Now it's hard to make living in chess, so our profession does attract young people.”

People Doe Hard Young Choices Difficulty Competition Profession Chess Etc Occupation Hobbies

Author:Boris Spassky

“The positive thinker is a hard-headed, tough-minded, and factual realist. He sees all the difficulties clearly... which is more than can be said for the average negative thinker. But he sees more than difficulties - he tries to see the solutions of those difficulties.”

Trying Said Hard Motivational Solutions Tough Negative Difficulty Average Thinker Realist Factual Positive Thinker

Book:Positive Thinking Every Day: An Inspiration For Each Day of the Year

Source: Positive Thinking Every Day: An Inspiration For Each Day of the Year

“When a trout rising to a fly gets hoooked on a line and finds himself unable to swim about freeely, he begins with a fight which results in struggles and splashes and sometimes an escape. Often, of course, the situation is too tough for him. In the same way the human being struggles with his environment and with the hooks that catch him. Sometimes he masters his difficulties; sometimes they are too much for him. His struggles are all that the world sees and it naturally misunderstands them. It is hard for a free fish to understand what is happening to a hooked one.”

“It is often hard to secure unanimity about the borders of legislative power, but that is much easier than to decide how far a particular adjustment diverges from what the judges deem tolerable. On such issues experience has over and over again shown the difficulty of securing unanimity. This is disastrous because disunity cancels the impact of monolithic solidarity on which the authority of a bench of judges so largely depends.”

Hard Issues Particular Judging Depends Easier Authority Difficulty Impact Secure Borders Solidarity Adjustment Benches Tolerable Unanimity Disunity

Author:Learned Hand

“I want the shuffles and echoes, and a certain mysteriousness... It's so bloody hard to paint.”

Want Hard Certain Difficulty Paint Bloody Echoes Shuffle

Author:Leland Bell

“Out of a very intimate acquaintance with D. L. Moody, I wish to testify that he was a far greater pray-er than he was preacher. Time and time again, he was confronted by obstacles that seemed insurmountable, but he always knew the way to overcome all difficulties. He knew the way to bring to pass anything that needed to be brought to pass. He knew and believed in the deepest depths of his soul that nothing was too hard for the Lord, and that prayer could do anything that God could do.”

“As a person, when I was seven or eight, my dad would try very hard to tutor me through school because I had learning difficulties or whatever. I would wish that they could just plant a chip in my brain so that I would know everything and not have to study.”

Knows Trying Persons Hard School Wish Brain Study Dad Difficulty Plant Seven My Dad Eight Chips Tutor

Author:Dichen Lachman

“Now you say, alas! Christianity is hard; I grant it; but gainful and happy. I contemn the difficulty when I respect the advantage. The greatest labors that have answerable requitals are less than the least that have no regard. Believe me, when I look to the reward, I would not have the work easier. It is a good Master whom we serve, who not only pays, but gives; not after the proportion of our earnings, but of His own mercy.”

Giving Believe Looks Hard Pay Christianity Masters Easier Advantage Labor Mercy Difficulty Regard Rewards Proportion Grants Believe In Me Earning Alas

Author:Joseph Hall

“Evasions are the common shelter of the hard-hearted, the false, and impotent, when called upon to assist; the real great alone plan instantaneous help, even when their looks or words presage difficulties.”

Looks Hard Helping Common Plans Difficulty Shelter Really Great Hearted Evasion Instantaneous

Author:Johann Kaspar Lavater

“I'm really glad that our young people missed the Depression and missed the great big war. But I do regret that they missed the leaders that I knew, leaders who told us when things were tough and that we'd have to sacrifice, and that these difficulties might last awhile. They didn't tell us things were hard for us because we were different, or isolated, or special interests. They brought us together and they gave us a sense of national purpose.”

People Different War Hard Bigs Might Together Lasts Young Purpose Interest Leader Sacrifice Special Regret Tough Difficulty Glad Isolated Special Interests

Author:Ann Richards

“This is part of what it means to become holy, to be refined by fire. Difficulties and sufferings are God's form of hazing. Sometimes it gets so hard, we think Him cruel. But He's only looking for men and women who will keep their cool when things go horribly wrong, a people prepared to dash into burning rooms to rescue those about to be engulfed in flames.”

People Thinking Men Mean Sometimes Hard Form Suffering Rooms Fire Holy Men And Women Difficulty Prepared Burning Flames Rescue Refined Hazing Looking For A Man

Author:Mark Galli

“I think in many ways the problem that my writing would have with an American reviewer is that Americans find difficulty very hard to take. They are inevitably looking for a happy ending.”

Thinking Way Writing Hard Problem Difficulty Happy Endings Reviewers

Author:Jamaica Kincaid

“When in many dissections, carried out as opportunity offered upon living animals, I first addressed my mind to seeing how I could discover the function and offices of the heart's movement in animals through the use of my own eyes instead of through the books and writings of others, I kept finding the matter so truly hard and beset with difficulties that I all but thought, with Fracastoro, that the heart's movement had been understood by God alone.”

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Author:William Harvey

“Multilateral diplomacy is hard. It's slower, it's tougher, it's a bigger slog. I've learned that sometimes the things you'd most like to do something about, you really have difficulty unless the international community really mobilizes.”

Sometimes Hard Community Bigger Difficulty International I've Learned Diplomacy International Community

Author:Condoleezza Rice

“Eventually we'll use a CO2 tax offset by a reduction in taxes elsewhere alongside a cap-and-trade plan, but the degree of difficulty associated with a CO2 tax far exceeds that with a cap-and-trade plan. We're seeing it's hard to get a cap-and-trade plan and it's much easier to use as a basis for a global agreement than a CO2 tax.”

Hard Use Plans Seeing Easier Taxes Degrees Bases Difficulty Trade Agreement Elsewhere Exceed Caps Reduction Co2

Author:Al Gore

“This is the crisis! Difficulty getting credit, slow growth, high unemployment, low consumer confidence-these are challenges entrepreneurs can overcome with hard work, smart risk and tenacious teamwork. This is precisely what entrepreneurs do!”

Hard Growth Challenges Risk Hard Work Smart Lows Overcoming Difficulty Crisis Entrepreneur Credit Consumers Teamwork Unemployment Tenacious Slow Growth Work Smart Consumer Confidence

Author:Oliver DeMille

“For loneliness, worries, difficulties, the unsatisfied need for kindness and sympathy - that is what is hard to bear.”

Needs Hard Kindness Worry Loneliness Bears Difficulty Unsatisfied

Book:Vicent van Gogh, letters from Provence

Source: Vicent van Gogh, letters from Provence

“It is not, after all, so very hard to acquire a fortune; the real difficulty is to deserve one.”

Real Hard Deserve Difficulty Fortune Acquire

Book:Opinions, Random Reflections, and Wayside Sayings

Source: Opinions, Random Reflections, and Wayside Sayings

“Well I started out on guitar, so it is still the mainstay of my music. But I have recently been working very hard on my piano, and it is coming along to the point where it is taking more of the spotlight. It has been my plan to be able to make music well into my old age, and sitting down seems like a good idea. Also, I don't have to carry the piano on the road. I haven't been playing the banjo much of late because of the difficulties of travelling with so much gear. But maybe I'll bring it to Japan. It adds a different color to the musical palette.”

“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

“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

“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

“There is no one "root of all evil" in software development. Design is hard in many ways. People tend to underestimate the intellectual and practical difficulties involved in building a significant system involving software. It is not and will not be reduced to a simple mechanical "assembly line" process. Creativity, engineering principles, and evolutionary change are needed to create a satisfactory large system.”

“The vast majority of things parents and kids get in conflict over are highly predictable. We're disagreeing about the same expectations the kid is having difficulty meeting every hour, every day, every week. Because it's predictable, we can have these conversations proactively. That is very hard for people.”

People Hard Kids Parent Hours Week Conversation Conflict Expectations Difficulty Majority Meetings Predictable

Author:Ross W. Greene

“I think I'm a very lazy writer and by that I mean that I do not battle, I don't struggle too hard against it. If I have difficulties in the writing, I just go and do other things. I don't feel a compulsion to write.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Writing Mean Hard Struggle Battle Difficulty Lazy Compulsion

Author:Wole Soyinka

“Climate change has been immense difficulties of pains or illness or hard life on this planet. So through that way, you have sense of concern of the well being, not sky, not just the environment itself.”

Way Wells Has Beens Hard Pain Environment Sky Planets Concern Difficulty Climate Climate Change Illness Well Being Immense Hard Life

Author:Dalai Lama

“It's very hard to feel the difficulties that the military goes through. It's very hard to feel the difficulties of military families, unless you're in that environment. And sometimes you have to force yourself to try and put yourself in other people's sort of shoes and environment to get the sense of that.”

People Feels Trying Sometimes Hard Force Environment Military Difficulty Shoes Military Family

Author:Jon Stewart

“I used to write a monthly column for the 'New York Times' syndicate. But I stopped because I found it really hard to have one extreme opinion a month. I don't know how these columnists have two or three ideas a week; I was having difficulty having 12 things to say a year.”

Knows Writing Years Two Ideas Hard Used Three Found Opinion Know How Week New York Months Difficulty Extremes Columns New York Times Columnists Syndicate

Author:Salman Rushdie

“We can smile, breathe, walk, and eat our meals in a way that allows us to be in touch with the abundance of happiness that is available. We are very good at preparing to live, but not very good at living. We know how to sacrifice ten years for a diploma, and we are willing to work very hard to get a job, a car, a house, and so on. But we have difficulty remembering that we are alive in the present moment, the only moment there is for us to be alive. Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy, and serenity. We need only to be awake, alive in the present moment.”

“It is clear that there must be difficulties for us in a revelation such as the Bible. If someone were to hand me a book that was as simple to me as the multiplication table and say, “This is the Word of God; in it He has revealed His whole will and wisdom,” I would shake my head and say, “I cannot believe it; that is too easy to be a perfect revelation of infinite wisdom.” There must be, in any complete revelation of God's mind and will and character and being, things hard for the beginner to understand; and the wisest and best of us are but beginners.”

“Great leadership does not mean running away from reality. Sometimes the hard truths might just demoralize the company, but at other times sharing difficulties can inspire people to take action that will make the situation better.”

People Mean Doe Sometimes Hard Reality Inspiration Might Running Action Leadership Company Situation Inspire Difficulty Running Away Great Leader Great Leadership Hard Truths

Author:John P. Kotter

“To say prayers in a decent, delicate way is not heavy work. But to pray really, to pray till hell feels the ponderous stroke, to pray till the iron gates of difficulty are opened, till the mountains of obstacles are removed, till the mists are exhaled and the clouds are lifted, and the sunshine of a cloudless day brightens-this is hard work, but it is God's work, and man's best labor.”

Men Way Feels Hard Prayer Hell Hard Work Praying Mountain Labor Difficulty Bounds Clouds Obstacles Heavy Decent Sunshine Iron Gates Delicate Strokes Mist

Book:Purpose in Prayer

Source: Purpose in Prayer

“It was hard. I came to grips with a lot of difficulties that I've overcome. Each challenge kind of makes you who you are. It wasn't always a good thing. I have my own struggles in my life because of the things I was forced to overcome.”

Inspirational Kind Hard Motivational Challenges My Own Struggle Healthy Overcoming Difficulty Suicide Who You Are Good Things Well Being Suicidal Thoughts

Author:Hope Solo

“A leading difficulty with the average player is that he totally misunderstands what is meant by concentration. He may think he is concentrating hard when he is merely worrying.”

Thinking May Hard Worry Player Difficulty Golf Average Concentration Golf Course Concentrating Golf Life Great Golf Greatest Golf Inspirational Golf

Author:Bobby Jones

“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

“...great difficulties are felt at first and these cannot be overcome except by starting from experiments .. and then be conceiving certain hypotheses ... But even so, very much hard work remains to be done and one needs not only great perspicacity but often a degree of good fortune.”

Needs Firsts Hard Done Science Certain Felt Hard Work Degrees Overcoming Difficulty Luck Remains Fortune Starting Experiments Hypothesis Good Fortune Conceiving

Author:Christiaan Huygens

“Life sometimes brings enormous difficulties and challenges that seem just too hard to bear. But bear them you can, and bear them you will, and your life can have a purpose.”

Sometimes Hard Seems Purpose Challenges Bears Difficulty Enormous

Author:Barbara Walters

“What's difficult in life is to stay centered when somebody does or says something that tempts us to close our hearts because their heart was closed. That is hard. But that is also how we grow. We go through those circumstances in order to evolve into people who can hold to our loving center no matter what the world throws us.”

People World Heart Doe Matter Hard Spiritual Life Is Order Grows Difficult Circumstances Difficulty No Matter What Evolve

Author:Marianne Williamson

“I have had to work long and hard to eradicate the dangerous delusion that, in a bad position, I could always, or nearly always, conjure up some unexpected combination to extricate me from my difficulties.”

Long Hard Dangerous Position Difficulty Combination Unexpected Delusion

Author:Alexander Alekhine

“I want hard stories, I demand them from myself. Hard stories are worth the difficulty. It seems to me the only way I have forgiven anything, understood anything, is through that process of opening up to my own terror and pain and reexamining it, re-creating it in the story, and making it something different, making it meaningful - even if the meaning is only in the act of the telling.”

Ifs Way Want Different Hard Stories Seems Pain Process My Own Demand Creating Understood Difficulty Terror Meaningful Opening Forgiven Opening Up

Author:Dorothy Allison

“I’ve learned that possibly the greatest detractor from high performance is fear: fear that you are not prepared, fear that you are in over your head, fear that you are not worthy, and ultimately, fear of failure. If you can eliminate that fear—not through arrogance or just wishing difficulties away, but through hard work and preparation—you will put yourself in an incredibly powerful position to take on the challenges you face.”

Source: Win Forever: Live, Work, and Play Like a Champion

“Considering how many fools can calculate, it is surprising that it should be thought either a difficult or a tedious task for any other fool to learn how to master the same tricks... Being myself a remarkably stupid fellow, I have had to unteach myself the difficulties, and now beg to present to my fellow fools the parts that are not hard. Master these thoroughly, and the rest will follow. What one fool can do, another can.”

Should Hard Difficult Can Do Education Stupid Masters Fool Tasks Difficulty Mathematics Fellows Math Tricks Surprising Considering Tedious Being Myself

Book:Calculus Made Easy: Differential Calculus and the Integral Calculus

Source: Calculus Made Easy: Differential Calculus and the Integral Calculus

“I take a less gloomy view. A good life means fighting to be human under growing difficulties. A lot of young folk know this and fight very hard, but after a few years life gets easier for them and they think they've become completely human when they've only stopped trying. I stopped trying, but my life was so full of strenuous routines that I wouldn't have noticed had it been not for my disease. My whole professional life was a diseased and grandiose attack on my humanity. It is an achievement to know that I am simply a wounded and dying man. Who can be more regal than a dying man?”

“Mathematical study and research are very suggestive of mountaineering. Whymper made several efforts before he climbed the Matterhorn in the 1860's and even then it cost the life of four of his party. Now, however, any tourist can be hauled up for a small cost, and perhaps does not appreciate the difficulty of the original ascent. So in mathematics, it may be found hard to realise the great initial difficulty of making a little step which now seems so natural and obvious, and it may not be surprising if such a step has been found and lost again.”

“We know how to sacrifice ten years for a diploma, and we are willing to work hard to get a job, a car, a house, and so on. But we have difficulty remembering that we are alive in the present moment, the only moment there is for us to be alive.”

Knows Years Hard Moments Jobs Remember House Know How Alive Sacrifice Car Willing Hard Work Mom Ten Difficulty Present Moment Live In The Present Being A Mom Diploma Peace Is Every Step

Author:Nhat Hanh

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