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“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.”

“The wishes of the people, seldom founded in deep disquisitions, or resulting from other reasonings than their present feelings, may not entirely accord with our true policy and interest. If they do not, to observe a proper line of conduct for promoting the one, and avoiding offence to the other, will be a work of great difficulty.”

People Ifs May Feelings Wish Interest Lines Policy Difficulty Reasoning Avoiding Promoting Accord Offence

Book:The Life of General Washington: First President of the United States

Source: The Life of General Washington: First President of the United States

“I'm not only a writer, but have directed and produced, know the difficulties of the line producer, can deal with the studio, can talk with the director and get his or her vision and help exact that. I think it just gives you more tools.”

Thinking Knows Giving Helping Lines Deals Vision Directors Tools Difficulty Studios Producers

Author:John Lee Hancock

“Farmers, merchants, manufacturers, and the traveling public have all had their troubles with the transportation lines, and the difficulties to which these struggles have given rise have produced that problem which is even now apparently far from solution.”

Problem Given Lines Struggle Economy Trouble Solutions Difficulty Farmers Transportation Merchants

Author:John Moody

“When you plan and prepare carefully, you can legitimately expect to have success in your efforts. An optimistic, positive mind is far more likely to come up with creative solutions than a mind that dwells on setbacks and difficulties. Bottom line: expect success and you can achieve it!”

Mind Lines Effort Creative Plans Achieve Solutions Difficulty Bottom Come Up Optimistic Bottom Line Setback Positive Mind Creative Solutions

Author:Zig Ziglar

“There's a new line of research showing that people who don't get enough sleep, they're body doesn't metabolize as well. And so they actually - it leads to weight gain. So if you're not getting enough sleep, you might have difficulty losing weight.”

People Ifs Wells Enough Body Might Lines Sleep Losing Research Gains Weight Difficulty Enough Sleep

Author:Shelby Harris

“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.”

“Classical music and pop are two different universes, each with its own difficulties, peculiarities, depth and artistic dignity. In Italy, I think there is a fairly clear line of demarcation, but the history of music is full of fusion. Popular and classical music have always found points of contact, of crossing, exchange, both drawing mutual profit.”

“There is no telling what a human character is. Until the test comes. To most of us the test comes early in life. A man is confronted quite soon with the necessity to stand on his own feet, to face dangers and difficulties and to take his own line of dealing with them. It may be the straight way, it may be the crooked way --- whichever it is, a man usually learns early just what he is made of.”

Men Way Humans May Made Character Faces Lines Feet Danger Tests Difficulty Crooked

Book:Taken at the flood

Source: Taken at the flood

“It's difficult for most people to imagine the creative process in tennis. Seemingly it's just an athletic matter of hitting the ball consistently well within the boundaries of the court. That analysis is just as specious as thinking that the difficulty in portraying King Lear on stage is learning all the lines.”

“I am persuaded that a leader is not made in one life. He has to be born for it. For the difficulty is not in organisation and making plans; the test, the real test, of the leader, lies in holding widely different people together along the line of their common sympathies. And this can only be done unconsciously, never by trying.”

People Trying Made Different Real Done Together Lying Born Lines Common Leader Plans Tests Difficulty Different Peoples Organisation

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“For example, in painting the form arises from abstract elements of line and color, while in cinema the material concreteness of the image within the frame presents - as an element - the greatest difficulty in manipulation.”

Form Lines Example Color Painting Materials Elements Difficulty Arise Cinema Abstract Manipulation

Book:Film Form: Essays in Film Theory

Source: Film Form: Essays in Film Theory