Best difficulty & has-beens Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Letters to a Young Poet

“Necessity, oftener than facility, has been the mother of invention; and the most prolific school of all has been the school of difficulty.”

Has Beens School Mother Difficulty Invention Facility

Book:Self-help; with illustrations of character and conduct

Source: Self-help; with illustrations of character and conduct

“Words, English words, are full of echoes, of memories, of associations. They have been out and about, on people's lips, in their houses, in the streets, in the fields, for so many centuries. And that is one of the chief difficulties in writing them today -- that they are stored with other meanings, with other memories, and they have contracted so many famous marriages in the past.”

People Writing Has Beens Today Past House Memories Marriage Streets Century Fields Difficulty Lips Chiefs Association Echoes English Words

Author:Virginia Woolf

“We have two distinct types of political organization to take into account; and clearly, too, when their origins are considered, it is impossible to make out that the one is a mere perversion of the other. Therefore when we include both types under a general term like government, we get into logical difficulties; difficulties of which most writers on the subject have been more or less vaguely aware, but which, until within the last half-century, none of them has tried to resolve.”

Has Beens Two Government Lasts Political Term Half Impossible Subjects Century Type Organization Accounts Difficulty Mere Logical Resolve Perversion Make Out

Author:Albert J. Nock

“That freedom can never be attained by a nation without suffering and sacrifice has been amply borne out by the recent tragic happenings in this subcontinent. We are in the midst of unparalleled difficulties and untold sufferings; we have been through dark days of apprehension and anguish; but I can say with confidence that with courage and self-reliance and by the Grace of God we shall emerge triumphant.”

“I think Bergman's films have eternal relevance, because they deal with the difficulty of personal relationships and lack of communication between people and religious aspirations and mortality, existential themes that will be relevant a thousand years from now. When many of the things that are successful and trendy today will have been long relegated to musty-looking antiques, his stuff will still be great.”

“My greatest disappointment in all the projects I worked on during the White House years was the failure of the Equal Rights Amendment to be ratified. ... Why all the controversy and why such difficulty in giving women the protection of the Constitution that should have been theirs long ago?”

“Don't dodge difficulties; meet them, greet them, beat them. All great men have been through the wringer.”

Men Has Beens Beats Difficulty Great Men Dodge

Author:Alfred Armand Montapert

“Aging is fraught with difficulties, most particularly for women who have been socialized to think of youth as beauty and the female role as reproduction.”

Thinking Has Beens Age Roles Youth Female Difficulty Aging Think Of You Reproduction Female Roles

Book:Encounters with Aging: Mythologies of Menopause in Japan and North America

Source: Encounters with Aging: Mythologies of Menopause in Japan and North America

“The fortitude which has encountered no dangers, that prudence which has surmounted no difficulties, that integrity which has been attacked by no temptation, can at best be considered but as gold not yet brought to the test, of which therefore the true value cannot be assigned.”

Has Beens Values Danger Integrity Gold Tests Difficulty Prosperity Temptation Prudence Fortitude True Value

Book:Life and Writings

Source: Life and Writings

“If the emperor had capriciously decreed the death of the most eminent and virtuous citizen of the republic, the cruel order would have been executed without hesitation by the ministers of open violence or of specious injustice. The caution, the delay, the difficulty with which he proceeded in the condemnation and punishment of a popular bishop, discovered to the world that the privileges of the church had already revived a sense of order and freedom in the Roman government.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edward Gibbon (Illustrated)

“Inspiration is not the exclusive privilege of poets or artists. There is, there has been, there will always be a certain group of people whom inspiration visits. It's made up of all those who've consciously chosen their calling and do their job with love and imagination. Difficulties and setbacks never quell their curiosity. A swarm of new questions emerges from every problem that they solve. Whatever inspiration is, it's born from a continuous 'I don't know.'”

People Knows Has Beens Made Problem Inspiration Jobs Artist Certain Born Imagination Groups Poet Calling Difficulty Curiosity Privilege Solve Chosen Exclusive Setback Swarms

Author:Wislawa Szymborska

“We have our difficulties, true; but we are a wiser and a tougher nation than we were in 1932. Never have there been six years of such far flung internal preparedness in all of history. And this has been done without any dictator's power to command, without conscription of labor or confiscation of capital, without concentration camps and without a scratch on freedom of speech, freedom of the press or the rest of the Bill of Rights.”

Source: The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt

“There has been abroad many times some criticism of our Government, of our people, and our ways, but that has demonstrated, I think, that when they are in real trouble and real difficulty over there, they turn to us as a nation that will be fair with them--one in whose judgment and in whose character they can rely; and that not withstanding differences that have seemed to exist, they are willing to abide by the faith that they have in us, and I think that is a very substantial accomplishment.”

People Thinking Way Has Beens Real Character Government Turns Nations Differences Trouble Willing Pride Judgment Fairs Criticism Difficulty Accomplishment Rely Patriotism Withstanding

Author:Calvin Coolidge

“Man is a rational animal—so at least I have been told. … Aristotle, so far as I know, was the first man to proclaim explicitly that man is a rational animal. His reason for this view was … that some people can do sums. … It is in virtue of the intellect that man is a rational animal. The intellect is shown in various ways, but most emphatically by mastery of arithmetic. The Greek system of numerals was very bad, so that the multiplication table was quite difficult, and complicated calculations could only be made by very clever people.”

“So closely interwoven have been our lives, our purposes, and experiences that, separated, we have a feeling of incompleteness--united, such strength of self-association that no ordinary obstacles, difficulties, or dangers ever appear to us insurmountable.”

Has Beens Self Feelings Purpose Friendship United Our Lives Danger Friends Ordinary Difficulty Obstacles Association Insurmountable Incompleteness

Author:Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“Paradoxically, the most constructive thing women can do is to write, for in the act of writing we deny our muteness and begin to eliminate some of the difficulties that have been put upon us.”

Writing Has Beens Art Artist Women Difficulty Deny Constructive

Author:Dale Spender

“Psychology should be the chief basic science upon which the practices of education depend. It should have supplied education with the information it needs concerning the processes of understanding, learning, and thinking, among other things. One of the difficulties has been that such theory as has been developed has been based primarily upon studies of behavior of rats and pigeons. As someone has said, some of the theory thus developed has been an insult even to the rat.”

Thinking Needs Should Has Beens Said Process Understanding Practice Study Psychology Information Theory Depends Behavior Should Have Difficulty Chiefs Insult Rats Pigeons

Author:J. P. Guilford

“That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.”

Has Beens Difficulty Delight

Author:Seneca the Younger

“I was pointing out the depth of the friendship between Australia and Indonesia and the fact that Australia has been there for Indonesia when Indonesia has been in difficulty.”

Has Beens Facts Friendship Difficulty Depth Australia Pointing Indonesia

Author:Tony Abbott

“Many Christians estimate difficulties in the light of their own resources, and thus attempt little and often fail in the little they attempt. All God's giants have been weak men who did great things for God because they reckoned on His power and presence with them.”

Men Littles Has Beens Light Christian Failing Resources Weak Difficulty Great Things Giants Weak Man

Author:Hudson Taylor

“In regard to education, something has been done by the Provincial Legislature but to build churches, and to place clergymen is a work of greater difficulty.”

Has Beens Done Church Education Greater Difficulty Regard Legislature Clergymen

Author:John Strachan

“In truth, there never was any remarkable lawgiver amongst any people who did not resort to divine authority, as otherwise his laws would not have been accepted by the people; for there are many good laws, the importance of which is known to be the sagacious lawgiver, but the reasons for which are not sufficiently evident to enable him to persuade others to submit to them; and therefore do wise men, for the purpose of removing this difficulty, resort to divine authority.”

People Men Has Beens Reason Law Purpose Known Wise Divine Authority Importance Difficulty Accepted Remarkable Submit Evident Resorts

Author:Niccolo Machiavelli

“The difficulty seems to be, not so much that we publish unduly in view of the extent and variety of present day interests, but rather that publication has been extended far beyond our present ability to make real use of the record.”

Has Beens Real Use Seems Interest Ability Views Records Difficulty Variety Publish Publication Present Day

Author:Vannevar Bush

“A new truth always has to conend with many difficulties. If it were not so, it would have been discovered much sooner.”

Ifs Has Beens Difficulty

Book:A Survey of Physical Theory

Source: A Survey of Physical Theory

“The impediment to scientific thinking is not, I think, the difficulty of the subject. Complex intellectual feats have been mainstays even of oppressed cultures. Shamans, magicians and theologians are highly skilled in their intricate and arcane arts. No, the impediment is political and hierarchical.”

Thinking Has Beens Art Political Culture Subjects Intellectual Difficulty Complexes Oppressed Theologian Magician Intricate Feats Impediments Arcane

Book:Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

Source: Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

“The people of Iran have been battling against consecutive conflicts between tradition and modernity for over 100 years... some have tried and are trying to see the world through the eyes of their predecessors and to deal with the problems and difficulties of the existing world by virtue of the values of the ancients... many others...seek to go forth in step with world developments and not lag behind the caravan of civilization, development and progress.”

“If some should accuse us as if we held that people born before the time of Christ were not accountable to God for their actions, we shall anticipate and answer such a difficulty. We have been taught that Christ is the first-begotten of God, and we have declared him to be the Logos of which all mankind partakes. Those, therefore, who lived according to reason (logos) were really Christians, even though they were thought to be atheists, such as, among the Greeks, Socrates, Heraclitus and others like them.”

People Ifs Should Firsts Has Beens Reason Action Christian Christ Born Answers Mankind Taught Difficulty Atheist Greek Anticipate Logos

Author:Justin Martyr

“The problem of creating something new, but which is consistent with everything which has been seen before, is one of extreme difficulty.”

Has Beens Problem Creating Difficulty Extremes Consistent Something New Creating Something

Book:The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol. II: The New Millennium Edition: Mainly Electromagnetism and Matter

Source: The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol. II: The New Millennium Edition: Mainly Electromagnetism and Matter

“I think the relationship between mother and daughter is so interesting, even in a semi-normal family. Emily Thorne/Amanda Clarke's family relationship is going to be so interesting to explore. It is going to give me so many places to go. Obviously, it has been said that she is not the most stable of characters. What is interesting about that, when you think about mental health, is that young women will often come into those problems and difficulties in their 20's, so it is very possible that this will start to affect her psyche.”

“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.”

“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

“Reading their letters and the First Amendment of the US Constitution, I infer that this nation's founders noted that religions have been at the center of great deal of trouble, so they precluded the US government from getting involved in religion, i.e. "... shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..." Over the centuries, various religions have laid claim to various morals; consider the difficulties outsiders are having today in the Middle East, for example.”

“Even though Brazil has been up and down and had some difficulties, it's still a very big country, and a very important country. It's got the fourth largest domestic market in the world.”

World Has Beens Stills Important Country Bigs Difficulty Down And Fourth Up And Down Brazil

Author:David Neeleman

“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

“I think harmonious relations with the U.S. would be very good for us from the economical point of view, more than in any other field, because all our industry has been established by the U.S. and primary products and repair parts that we have to make with much difficulty or to bring from other areas could come directly. And besides, sugar, which traditionally we had the American market is also near.”

Thinking Has Beens Would Be Views Fields Products Industry Areas Difficulty Relation Very Good Point Of View Primaries Sugar Harmonious

Author:Che Guevara

“You don't achieve anything by stopping at the first sign of difficulty. If we'd stopped after Dieppe in World War II, where would we be right now as a nation? If we'd stopped before Vimy Ridge, we wouldn't have been a nation at all. Yes, you've got to know when to say "stop" as a leader, you sure do, but you've also got to know when to push for the final thing that's going to give you the full benefit.”

Ifs Knows World Giving Firsts Has Beens War Nations Leader Achieve Right Now Benefits Difficulty Finals War Of The Worlds World War Ii World War I Stopping Ridges

Author:Rick Hillier

“I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.”

Firsts Littles Has Beens Two Reason Film Literature Given Reader Difficulty China Instance Chinese

Author:Salman Rushdie

“There is a widespread difficulty in the Muslim world, which has to do with how the people are taught about examining their own history. A whole range of stuff has been placed off limits.”

People World Has Beens Whole Stuff Taught Limits Difficulty Range Examining Muslim World

Author:Salman Rushdie

“The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted.”

Men Has Beens Done Suffering Work Duty Difficulty Inspired Trials Shore Tides Exhausted Tidy Greatest Man

Book:Character. Repr

Source: Character. Repr

“If you're having difficulty coming up with new ideas, then slow down. For me, slowing down has been a tremendous source of creativity. It has allowed me to open up -- to know that there's life under the earth and that I have to let it come through me in a new way. Creativity exists in the present moment. You can't find it anywhere else.”

Ifs Knows Way Has Beens Art Ideas Moments Earth Creativity Source Difficulty Present Moment New Ways New Ideas Slow Down Slowing

Author:Natalie Goldberg

“To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree.”

“Do not assume that he who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, he would never have been able to find these words.”

May Has Beens Sometimes Able Friendship Simple Sadness Comfort Quiet Difficulty Remains Assuming Simplicity Assumption Emo

Author:Rainer Maria Rilke

“The time comes when each of us has to give up as illusions the expectations which, in his youth, he pinned upon his fellow-men, and when he may learn how much difficulty and pain has been added to his life by their ill-will.”

Men Life Giving May Has Beens Pain Learning Youth Giving Up Illusion Expectations Difficulty Fellows Ill Fellow Man Ill Will

Book:Civilization and Its Discontents

Source: Civilization and Its Discontents

“I had a recent delivery of new fashion plates from Paris, and you hardly glanced at the hairstyles. My husband tells me you are still having difficulty controlling the change. And your cravat has been tied very simply of late, even for evening events.”

Has Beens Stills Fashion Events Husband Late Difficulty Evening Paris My Husband Tied Plates Delivery Hairstyles

Author:Gail Carriger

“It is surprising that people do not believe that there is imagination in science. It is a very interesting kind of imagination, unlike that of the artist. The great difficulty is in trying to imagine something that you have never seen, that is consistent in every detail with what has already been seen, and that is different from what has been thought of; furthermore, it must be definite and not a vague proposition. That is indeed difficult.”

People Trying Believe Kind Has Beens Different Artist Difficult Imagination Interesting Imagine Difficulty Details Consistent Surprising Definite Vague Propositions Very Interesting

Author:Richard P. Feynman

“I soon began to sense a fundamental perceptual difficulty among male scholars (and some female ones) for which 'sexism' is too facile a term. It is really an intellectual defect, which might be termed 'patrivincialism' or patrochialism': the assumption that women are a subgroup, that men's culture is the 'real' world, that patriarchy is equivalent to culture and culture to patriarchy, that the 'great' or 'liberalizing' periods of history have been the same for women as for men.”

Men World Has Beens Real Might Culture Term Periods Intellectual Female Difficulty Fundamentals Males Assumption Sexism Real World Scholar Patriarchy Defects

Author:Adrienne Rich

“It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.”

Life Inspirational Has Beens Philosophy Life Philosophy Difficulty Ballet Short Life Best Short

Book:Foundation Trilogy

Source: Foundation Trilogy

“The difficulty in the way of writing a children's play is that Barrie was born too soon. Many people must have felt the same about Shakespeare. We who came later have no chance. What fun to have been Adam, and to have had the whole world of plots and jokes and stories at one's disposal.”

People World Way Writing Children Has Beens Play Whole Stories Fun Felt Born Chance Jokes Difficulty Whole World Plot Adam

Author:A. A. Milne

“Rocket science has been mythologized all out of proportion to its true difficulty.”

Has Beens Difficulty Proportion Rockets Rocket Science

Author:John Carmack

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