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“I wanted to make an album that melodically people can connect to; something that reflects our times and the kinds of difficulties we face.”

People Kind Wanted Faces Difficulty Albums Our Time

Author:Emeli Sande

“One was kind, out of a bounty that could hardly be exhausted, to old governesses and gardeners, who could be relied upon to give thanks with proper abjection; one performed public duties, for which one was paid in full by deference; one was chaste, refusing to run away from one's husband with other men who for the most part did not ask one to do so, and who in any case had nothing better to offer than one's own home. Knowing no difficulties one was without fortitude; knowing no criteria but one's own achievements one was without taste.”

Source: The Thinking Reed

“In general, I feel, or I have come to feel, that the richest writing comes not from the people who dedicate themselves to writing alone. I know this is contradicted again and again but I continue to feel it. They don't, of course, write as much, or as fast, but I think it is riper and more satisfying when it does come. One of the difficulties of writing or doing any kind of creative work in America seems to me to be that we put such stress on production and material results. We put a time pressure and a mass pressure on creative work which are meaningless and infantile in that field.”

“The chief difficulty of modern theoretical physics resides not in the fact that it expresses itself almost exclusively in mathematical symbols, but in the psychological difficulty of supposing that complete nonsense can be seriously promulgated and transmitted by persons who have sufficient intelligence of some kind to perform operations in differential and integral calculus.”

Source: The decline and fall of science

“Society is the true sphere of human virtue. In social, active life, difficulties will perpetually be met with; restraints of many kinds will be necessary; and studying to behave right in respect of these is a discipline of the human heart, useful to others, and improving to itself. Suffering is no duty, but where it is necessary to avoid guilt, or to do good; nor pleasure a crime, but where it strengthens the influence of bad inclinations, or lessens the generous activity of virtue.”

Source: The Rambler: In Four Volumes ...

“There's a kind of virgin one only becomes with difficulty.”

Kind Difficulty Virgins

Author:Marian Engel

“There were too many lemmings - that was the core of their difficulty. None wanted solitude, but a crowd of this size was a torment. Being sensitive little beasts, they became overstimulated by superfluous numbers of their own kind. They had tried to escape, but with pitiable irony, all tried to escape together.”

Kind Littles Wanted Together Numbers Solitude Difficulty Size Crowds Core Irony Sensitive Beast Torment Superfluous Lemmings

Author:Sally Carrighar

“Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought so unnecessary an Accomplishment for a Woman, that few will give themselves the Trouble to assist us in the Attainment of it.”

Giving Kind Passion Trouble Difficulty Accomplishment Spite Unnecessary Attainment Discouragement

Book:Letters concerning the love of God, between the author of the Proposal to the ladies, and Mr. John Norris: wherein his late discourse, showing that it ought to be intire and exclusive of all other loves, is further cleared and justified

Source: Letters concerning the love of God, between the author of the Proposal to the ladies, and Mr. John Norris: wherein his late discourse, showing that it ought to be intire and exclusive of all other loves, is further cleared and justified

“At the center of the religious life is a peculiar kind of joy, the prospect of a happy ending that blossoms from necessarily painful ordeals, the promise of human difficulties embraced and overcome.”

Humans Kind Life Is Joy Religious Promise Overcoming Difficulty Painful Peculiar Happy Endings Ordeals Religious Life

Book:The Way Things Are: Conversations with Huston Smith on the Spiritual Life

Source: The Way Things Are: Conversations with Huston Smith on the Spiritual Life

“There never seems to be any difficulty in stretching the laws and the constitution to fit any kind of a political deal, but when it is proposed to make some concession to women they loom up like an unscalable wall.”

Kind Seems Law Political Deals Wall Fit Constitution Difficulty Stretching Concessions

Author:Susan B. Anthony

“Marriage is a state that is attended with so much care and trouble, that it is a kind of faulty indulgence and selfishness to livesingle, in order to avoid the difficulties it is attended with.”

Kind States Care Order Marriage Trouble Difficulty Selfishness Indulgence

Author:Samuel Richardson

“In spite of all their kind some elements of worth With difficulty persist here and there on earth.”

Kind Earth Elements Optimism Difficulty Spite Persist Here And There

Book:Hugh MacDiarmid: Selected Poetry

Source: Hugh MacDiarmid: Selected Poetry

“There is a certain jargon, which, in French, I should call un Persiflage d'Affaires, that a foreign Minister ought to be perfectlymaster of, and may be used very advantageously at great entertainments, in mixed companies, and in all occasions where he must speak, and should say nothing. Well turned and well spoken, it seems to mean something, though in truth it means nothing. It is a kind of political badinage, which prevents or removes a thousand difficulties, to which a foreign Minister is exposed in mixed conversations.”

Should Wells Kind May Mean Seems Political Used Certain Speak Company Ought Thousand Conversation Difficulty Entertainment Occasions Ministers Remove Exposed Jargon All Occasions

Author:Lord Chesterfield

“Every one of us knows how painful it is to be called by malicious names, to have his character undermined by false insinuations, to be overreached in a bargain, to be neglected by those who rise in life, to be thrust on one side by those who have stronger wills and stouter hearts. Every one knows, also, the pleasure of receiving a kind look, a warm greeting, a hand held out to help in distress, a difficulty solved, a higher hope revealed for this world or the next. By that pain and by that pleasure let us judge what we should do to others.”

“There's something inside of me that makes me want to help people, especially people who are having difficulty of some kind.”

People Want Kind Helping Difficulty

Author:Colonel Sanders

“Most do not fully see this truth that life is difficult. Instead they moan more or less incessantly, noisily or subtly, about the enormity of their problems, their burdens, and their difficulties as if life were generally easy, as if life should be easy. They voice their belief, noisily or subtly, that their difficulties represent a unique kind of affliction that should not be and that has somehow been especially visited upon them, or else upon their families, their tribe, their class, their nation, their race or even their species, and not upon others.”

Source: The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth

“Yet even the rich have their own kind of suffering, anxiety, doubt, and fear. So in many cases, wealthy people aren't happy! And once those with material wealth encounter small difficulties, their amount of mental suffering is sometimes bigger than it is for those who have faced such difficulties every day.”

People Kind Sometimes Suffering Wealth Cases Rich Doubt Materials Amount Anxiety Bigger Difficulty Encounters Wealthy Material Wealth Doubt And Fear

Author:Dalai Lama

“Not only do I have a great love for the game of golf - no matter how badly I play it - but I have also the belief that through every kind of meeting, through every kind of activity to which we can bring together more often and more intimately peoples of our several countries, by that measure we will do something to solve the difficulties and the tensions that this poor old world seems nowadays to so much endure.”

World Kind Country Matter Play Seems Together Games Belief Sports Poor Activity Difficulty Meetings Golf Endure Solve Tension Great Love Old World

Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Our Pavlovian response to movies has gotten to its lowest point ever. You look at a lot of movies that are successful and a lot of movies that studios hold up as examples and you go, 'My God, that isn't even a story. It isn't even two acts. It's eight set pieces drawn out with slow motion.' The difficulty for me was that you had to hope that people were interested in this kind of a story.”

People Looks Kind Two Stories Successful Pieces Example Difficulty Response Studios Eight Lowest Slow Motion Lowest Point

Author:David Fincher

“I'm full of fears and I do my best to avoid difficulties and any kind of complications. I like everything around me to be clear as crystal and completely calm.”

Kind Clear Quiet Difficulty Calm Crystals Complication

Book:Hitchcock

Source: Hitchcock

“It's one thing to make a pronouncement in a moment of inspiration about what you intend to manifest in your life or what kind of person you intend to become. It's quite another thing to make a commitment to holding that vision regardless of what difficulties or obstacles may surface. Holding the vision involves an unwillingness to compromise what you're visualizing for yourself. It means being willing to suffer through criticism and what appears to be an uncooperative universe.”

Source: The Essential Wayne Dyer Collection

“Attack work! Even the toughest work will start running away! Attack the difficulties! This is the Golden Rule of every kind of victory.”

Kind Running Victory Difficulty Golden Running Away Golden Rule

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“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

“A sermon is a form that yields a certain kind of meaning in the same way that, say, a sonnet is a form that deals with a certain kind of meaning that has to do with putting things in relation to each other, allowing for the fact of complexity reversal, such things. Sermons are, at their best, excursions into difficulty that are addressed to people who come there in order to hear that.”

People Way Kind Facts Form Certain Order Deals Difficulty Relation Complexity Yield Allowing Sermons Sonnet Reversal Excursions

Author:Marilynne Robinson

“One of the difficulties with grief research is that it risks making certain kinds of grief seem normal and others abnormal - and of course having a sense of the contours of grief is, I think, truly useful, one has to remember it's not a science, it's an individual reckoning, which science is just trying to help us describe.”

Thinking Trying Kind Helping Seems Remember Certain Courses Individual Grief Risk Normal Research Difficulty Abnormal Reckoning

Author:Meghan O'Rourke

“I discovered a long time ago that writing of the small things of the day, the trivial matters of the heart, the inconsequential but near things of this living, was the only kind of creative work which I could accomplish with any sincerity or grace. As a reporter, I was a flop, because I always came back laden not with facts about the case, but with a mind full of the little difficulties and amusements I had encountered in my travels.”

Source: The Letters of E. B. White

“I'm now nearly 79. At 16 I took responsibility for Tibet and lost my freedom. At 24 I lost my country and became a refugee. I've met difficulties, but as the saying goes: 'Wherever you're happy, you can call home, and whoever is kind to you is like your parents.' I've been happy and at home in the world at large. Living a meaningful life isn't just a matter of money; it's about dedicating your life to helping others.”

World Kind Country Matter Helping Home Lost Parent Responsibility Like You Mets Difficulty Happy Meaningful Helping Others Dedication Being Happy Refugee Meaningful Life Tibet

Author:Dalai Lama

“Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process.”

Men Needs Kind Different Problem Spiritual Process Learning Path Experience Difficulty Encouragement Adversity Obstacles Encounters Different Kinds Spiritual Path Cleansing

Author:Sai Baba

“I think we get into all kinds of difficulty by saying photographs should be taken in a certain way which guarantees their veracity. I think that's a slippery slope to hell.”

Thinking Way Should Kind Certain Hell Taken Difficulty Photograph All Kinds Guarantees Slippery Slopes Veracity Slippery Slope

Author:Errol Morris

“If the best way to learn to succeed is to fail as fast as possible, then the second-best way is to watch someone else fail as fast as possible. Watching someone else screw up is a kind of rehearsal for your own eventual downfall. A close observation of someone else's attempt to resolve a difficulty is a great way to acquire real-world insight into whether and when to deploy their method in your own times of trouble.”

“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

“Let there be no illusions about the difficulty of forming this kind of a national community. It's tough, difficult, not easy. But a spirit of harmony will survive in America only if each of us remembers that we share a common destiny.”

Ifs Kind America Remember Spirit Easy Difficult Community Common Destiny Share Illusion Tough Difficulty Harmony National Community

Author:Barbara Jordan

“If you think about the contexts in which we talk about things being fun, often there's a certain kind of misery or effort that's involved with it. The difficulty of travel, getting all your bags packed and your work done and navigating the airports and all that. That sort of struggle.”

Ifs Thinking Kind Done Certain Fun Effort Struggle Involved Difficulty Misery Bags Airports Work Done

Author:Ian Bogost

“If I am facing problems and difficulties and I find an answer, I am very eager to share it with someone else. It kind of makes going through the problems or difficulties worthwhile.”

Ifs Kind Problem Answers Share Difficulty Worthwhile

Author:Vonette Bright

“Spiritual models for me are the communities of Tibetans living in exile in India, or the banjars of Bali, which exist in times of difficulty, oppression. Alternative spaces-perhaps this kind of communication can take place over the Net? Probably only up to a point as the Net's controlled by the military. But the idea is to live outside multi-national, monocultural, commodification prison, outside the grey areas of power-mad, monied collusion.”

“In Scandinavia probably the most worker-supportive part of the planet, they have the highest rate of chronic pain and worker-related disability. So any kind of pain and difficulty is so much unwelcome that if you say that you're in pain, we're going to even pay you full salary to quit work because you're burned out, inside that what you're going to create is gigantic amounts of chronic pain syndrome. Scandinavians spend 15 percent of their gross national product on disability. 50 percent of the public health nurses are on disability. And that's where we're headed in the U.S. too.”

Kind Pain Difficulty Rate Quitting Disability Nurse Gross Public Health

Author:Steven C. Hayes

“But this cheap-thrill version, this sort of ease definition, the feel-good definition of happiness is an empty promise. Unless we get wiser as to how to carry the difficulties of life in a way that's self-compassionate and empowering, we can create this kind of world in which we'd rather sort of plug into the matrix with whatever pills or escapist tendencies we can think of instead of walking through a process of living that's going to include loss. It's going to include limitations on function. We need to learn and teach our children how to do that.”

Thinking World Kind Children Loss Teach Walking Promise Empty Difficulty Our Children Limitation Empowering Wiser

Author:Steven C. Hayes

“We did our best to do a Fox show, frankly, I don't think the difficulties we had at Fox would be exclusive to Fox. It's tough to be funny, because there's so many eyeballs and there's so much money at stake that I think everything is just kind of over-thought. And it's tough to be daring and do something different, either with regards to content or even structure.”

Thinking Kind Different Tough Difficulty Daring

Author:Aaron McGruder

“I think China is laughing about the results of the presidential elections. China, Russia, they all laugh about it. They see how dramatic U.S. has to be put this kind of shame on its own - cannot handle the situation. Or show such a difficulty with this liberal ideas. Men or women created equal. And to defend those very essential ideas.”

Thinking Men Kind Situation Laughing Equal Difficulty Shame Election Presidential Dramatic Presidential Election

Author:Ai Weiwei

“Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties.”

Kind May Easy Difficulty Intention Conversion Confusion Chaos And Confusion

Author:Dalai Lama

“The mind, placed before any kind of difficulty, can find an ideal outlet in the absurd. Accommodation to the absurd readmits adults to the mysterious realm inhabited by children.”

Mind Kind Children Adults Ideals Difficulty Absurd Mysterious Realms Absurdity Outlets Accommodations

Book:Anthology of Black Humor

Source: Anthology of Black Humor

“Unfortunately this Electric Monk had developed a fault, and had started to believe all kinds of things, more or less at random. It was even beginning to believe things they'd have difficulty believing in Salt Lake City.”

Believe Kind Cities Difficulty Faults All Kinds Lakes Salt Electric Monk Salt Lake City

Book:Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Box Set: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

Source: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Box Set: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

“And you're not the kind of girl I want." Surely he couldn't mean the fact that I was Mexican. From what I knew of Hardy, there wasn't a bit of prejudice in him. He never used racist words, never looked down on someone for things they couldn't help. "What kind do you want?" I asked with difficulty. "Someone I can leave without looking back.”

Want Kind Mean I Can Facts Helping Used Girl Bits Difficulty Prejudice Racist Looking Back Mexican Hardy Kind Of Girl

Book:The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy

Source: The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy

“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

“Honestly, I've always had difficulty relaxing, unwinding and going to bed - that kind of stuff.”

Kind Stuff Bed Difficulty Honestly

Author:Adam Carolla

“Being human is itself difficult, and therefore all kinds of settlements (except dream cities) have problems. Big cities have difficulties in abundance, because they have people in abundance.”

People Humans Kind Problem Dream Bigs Difficult Cities Difficulty All Kinds Abundance Being Human Settlement Big Cities

Author:Jane Jacobs

“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

“We have an army for fighting as well as an army for labour. For fighting, we have the Eighth Route and New Fourth Armies but even they do a dual job, warfare and production. With these two kinds of armies, and with a fighting army skilled in these two tasks and in mass work, we can overcome our difficulties and defeat Japanese imperialism.”

Wells Kind Two Jobs Fighting Mass Tasks Overcoming Difficulty Army Defeat Productions Labour Fourth Warfare Routes Imperialism

Book:Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works

Source: Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works

“Few of us will do the spectacular deeds of heroism that spread themselves across the pages of our newspapers in big black headlines. But we can all be heroic in the little things of everyday life. We can do the helpful things, say the kind words, meet our difficulties with courage and high hearts, stand up for the right when the cost is high, keep our word even though it means sacrifice, be a giver instead of a destroyer. Often this quiet, humble heroism is the greatest heroism of all.”

Source: 當代的生活藝術

“That no generally applicable law of the formulation and development of hybrids has yet been successfully formulated can hardly astonish anyone who is acquainted with the extent of the task and who can appreciate the difficulties with which experiments of this kind have to contend.”

Kind Success Law Science Development Appreciate Tasks Difficulty Experiments Hybrid

Author:Gregor Mendel