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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

“The benefits of becoming fluent in a foreign tongue are as underestimated as the difficulty is overestimated. Thousands of theoretical linguists will disagree, but I know from research and personal experimentation with more than a dozen languages that (1) adults can learn languages much faster than children when constant 9-5 work is removed and that (2) it is possible to become conversationally fluent in any language in six months or less. At four hours per day, six months can be whittled down to less than three months.”

“With some exceptions in science fiction and other genres I have small difficulty in avoiding anything that could be called American literature. I feel it is unnatural, not I think entirely because it uses a language that is not mine, however closely akin to my own.”

Thinking Feels Use Literature Language My Own Fiction Mines Difficulty Science Fiction Genre Exception Avoiding Unnatural American Literature

Author:Kingsley Amis

“For, in the language of Heraclitus, the virtuous soul is pure and unmixed light, springing from the body as a flash of lightning darts from the cloud. But the soul that is carnal and immersed in sense, like a heavy and dank vapor, can with difficulty be kindled, and caused to raise its eyes heavenward.”

Soul Body Light Eye Language Pure Difficulty Raises Clouds Heavy Sensuality Virtuous Flash Lightning Vapor Darts Dank

Author:Plutarch

“A major difficulty in translation is that a word in one language seldom has a precise equivalent in another one.”

Language Majors Difficulty Precise Translations

Author:Arthur Schopenhauer

“One of the things that was really influential early on was Ezra Pound's Cantos, one poem he worked on for 50 years. It's epic. I had a great deal of difficulty understanding it. One of the problems was you'd be reading along in English and he would move to a Chinese ideogram or French-he actually used seven different languages in a given poem. And for somebody who's not fluent in different languages it has the impact of rupturing your way of understanding something.”

Way Years Different Problem Moving Used Reading Language Given Understanding Deals Photography Difficulty Impact Seven Chinese Pounds Epic Influential Different Languages Fluent

Author:Richard Misrach

“Though I am never exactly "blocked" I do have difficult periods. I am led by a fascination with material - the challenge of presenting it in an original and engaging way. I have no problem imagining stories, characters, distinctive settings & themes - but the difficulty is choosing a voice & a language in which to present it.”

“I'm happy with my language progress - the only difficulty when I tour Premier League matches is that different people talk to me in different accents - and sometimes I can hardly understand a word!”

People I Can Different Sometimes Language Progress Difficulty League Accents Different Peoples Talk To Me Premier League

Author:Fabio Capello

“The difficulty is not to write, but to write what you mean.”

Writing Mean Literature Language Difficulty

Author:Robert Louis Stevenson

“In my formative years the people who influenced me most were the Christian existentialists, I mean men like Munier and Kierkegaard and perhaps most of all Nicholas Berdyaev and in my travels I looked for one thing more than anything. I rarely discussed, probably mainly because of language difficulties, metaphysics with the various religious people of other groups I'd meet with. But I'd very much try to see how they were incarnated, how their particular soul was incarnated or took roots into reality.”

People Men Trying Years Mean Soul Reality Christian Language Religious One Thing Groups Particular Roots Difficulty Various Metaphysics Existentialist Formative Years Mean Man

Author:Pierre Trudeau

“I have difficulties with contemporary language. Big difficulties. I counted, you know, something like 160 words have disappeared from the English language because of the use of the word "like." "I'm like, he's like" - not "thought," not "as if ."”

Ifs Knows Use Bigs Language Difficulty Contemporary English Language

Author:Toni Morrison

“Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.”

Literature Language Difficulty Outcomes Internals

Book:Collected Impressions

Source: Collected Impressions

“When Mr. Miyamoto says easy, he doesnt mean simple. He means easily -- this is the difficulty of the language here. Its accessible, and you know how to do things, if not necessarily what to do. You may have a series of puzzles to figure out, and it may be difficult to decipher the meaning, but its not difficult to accomplish what you need to do.”

Ifs Knows Needs May Mean Language Easy Difficult Simple Know How Figures Difficulty Series Accomplish Puzzles Decipher

Author:Eiji Aonuma

“I can't recall any difficulty in making the C language definition completely open - any discussion on the matter tended to mention languages whose inventors tried to keep tight control, and consequent ill fate”

I Can Matter Language Fate Difficulty Ill Definitions Discussion Recalls Inventor

Author:Dennis Ritchie

“I've found that the chief difficulty for most people was to realize that they had really heard new things: that is things that they had never heard before. They kept translating what they heard into their habitual language. They had ceased to hope and believe there might be anything new.”

People Believe Might Found Language Realizing Heard Difficulty Chiefs New Things Translate Habitual

Author:P.D. Ouspensky

“We shall do a much better programming job, provided that we approach the task with a full appreciation of its tremendous difficulty, provided that we stick to modest and elegant programming languages, provided that we respect the intrinsic limitations of the human mind and approach the task as Very Humble Programmers.”

Mind Humans Jobs Language Approach Tasks Difficulty Sticks Appreciation Humble Limitation Programming Human Mind Modest Elegant Programmers Programming Languages

Author:Edsger Dijkstra

“You know, this dialogue is only helpful when we come, both of us, to a point where we realize that no dialogue is possible, that no dialogue is necessary. When I say understanding or seeing, they mean something different to me. Understanding is a state of being where the question isn't there any more. There is nothing there that says, "Now I understand!" That's the basic difficulty between us. By understanding what I am saying, you are not going to get anywhere.”

Knows Mean Different States Language Understanding Realizing Seeing Difficulty Dialogue Helpful

Author:U.G. Krishnamurti

“You have certainly observed the curious fact that a given word which is perfectly clear when you hear it or use it in everyday language, and which does not give rise to any difficulty when it is engaged in the rapid movement of an ordinary sentence becomes magically embarrassing, introduces a strange resistance, frustrates any effort at definition as soon as you take it out of circulation to examine it separately and look for its meaning after taking away its instantaneous function.”

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