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“Often we fail to voice and act on our values because, before we even apply our best thinking to developing an action plan, we engage in process of "pre-emptive rationalization." At some deep level, we anticipate difficulty and resistance so we start to back away from our own instinctive values perspective.”

Thinking Action Values Failing Perspective Difficulty

Author:Mary C. Gentile

“I don't in any way underestimate the difficulties, because it's only gotten harder. But I do think you just have to go into politics with the attitude that you're going to speak clearly and authentically about what you see the country needs...and seek out whatever possible partners you can, even in the other party. I've looked at successful presidents going back. Some of our most successful governed through periods when their party was in charge, and when the other party was in charge. There's no magic formula.”

Thinking Country Speak President Party Attitude Successful Magic Difficulty Underestimate

Author:Hillary Clinton

“The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.”

Thinking Wisdom Past Time Change History Cases Quiet Difficulty Obstacles Occasions Civil War Dogma Inadequate Stormy Unschooling Stormy Days

Author:Abraham Lincoln

“No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.”

Thinking Problem Form Science Simple Decision Mistake Essentials Elements Solutions Difficulty Concrete Vague No Problem

Author:J. P. Morgan

“We were an ill-matched pair, my husband and I, from the very outset; he, with very high ideas of a husband's authority and a wife's submission, holding strongly to the 'master-in-my-own-house theory,' thinking much of the details of home arrangements, precise, methodical, easily angered and with difficulty appeased.”

Thinking Ideas Home House My Own Wife Masters Theory Husband Authority Difficulty Ill Details Pairs My Husband Arrangements Precise Submission Matched Methodical

Book:Annie Besant: An Autobiography

Source: Annie Besant: An Autobiography

“I think the key divide between the interactive media and the narrative media is the difficulty in opening up an empathic pathway between the gamer and the character, as differentiated from the audience and the characters in a movie or a television show.”

Thinking Character Shows Audience Media Television Keys Difficulty Opening Narrative Divides Pathways Television Shows Gamer Opening Up Interactive

Author:Steven Spielberg

“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.”

“Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.”

Thinking Inspiration Order Force Bears Solutions Difficulty Deep Thinking

Author:Niels Bohr

“I think a lot of tunes can suffer from being so simple, so either they get over-complicated or their simplicity means the simple way to lay them down becomes the difficulty.”

Thinking Way Mean Suffering Simple Difficulty Lays Simplicity Complicated Tunes Get Over Simple Ways

Author:Thom Yorke

“It's not my story anymore: whenever I speak about the past now, I feel as if I were talking about something that has nothing to do with me. All that remains in the present are the voice, the presence, and the importance of fulfilling my mission. I don't regret difficulties I experienced; I think they helped me to become the person I am today, I feel the way a warrior must feel after years of training; he doesn't remember the details of everything he learned, but he knows how to strike when the time is right.”

“There is a rumour going around that I have found God. I think this is unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is empirical evidence that they exist.”

Thinking Enough Found Keys Findings Evidence Difficulty Unlikely Alzheimer's Rumours Empirical Evidence

Author:Terry Pratchett

“In my case, I think my exile saved my life, for it inexorably confirmed something which Americans appear to have great difficulty accepting. Which is, simply, this: a man is not a man until he is able and willing to accept his own vision of the world, no matter how radically this vision departs from others.”

Thinking Men World Matter Able Accepting Vision Cases Willing Difficulty Saved Exile

Author:James A. Baldwin

“To THINK BIG and to use our talents doesn't mean we won't have difficulties along the way. We will - we all do... If we choose to see the obstacles in our path as barriers, we stop trying. "We can't win," we moan. "They won't let us win."”

Ifs Thinking Way Trying Mean Use Bigs Winning Path Talent Difficulty Obstacles Barriers Think Big Stop Trying Can't Win

Author:Benjamin Carson

“I think that a president needs to have a variety of views presented. But also, there has to be a team effort, because otherwise, I think it creates a dissonance and difficulty.”

Thinking Needs President Views Effort Team Difficulty Variety Inspirational Team Dissonance Team Effort

Author:Madeleine Albright

“Think Thousand times before taking a decision But - After taking decison never turn back even if you get Thousand difficulties!!”

Ifs Thinking Inspirational Turns Decision Thousand Difficulty Mein Kampf

Author:Adolf Hitler

“I lay in the dark thinking about the difficulties of family, how crazy and crooked the stories of a bloodline can be.”

Thinking Stories Dark Crazy Difficulty Lays Crooked Bloodline

Book:The Sisters Brothers

Source: The Sisters Brothers

“She wasn't afraid of difficulties, what frightened her was having to choose one particular path. Choosing a path meant missing out on others. She had a whole life to live and she was always thinking that, in the future, she might regret the choices she made now.”

Thinking Made Whole Might Choices Path Missing Particular Regret Difficulty Whole Life Frightened Always Thinking Missing Out

Author:Paulo Coelho

“Do not be discouraged by the resistance you will encounter from your human nature; you must go against your human inclinations. Often, in the beginning, you will think that you are wasting time, but you must go on, be determined and persevere in it until death, despite all the difficulties.”

Thinking Humans Human Nature Goes On Difficulty Determined Resistance Despite Encounters Wasting Time Inclination Discouraged Persevere

Author:Brother Lawrence

“Most people tend to think the best of those who are blessed with beauty; we have difficulty imagining that physical perfection can conceal twisted emotions or a damaged mind.”

People Thinking Mind Beautiful Emotion Perfection Difficulty Blessed Twisted Odd Thomas

Book:The Complete Odd Thomas 8-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, Saint Odd

Source: The Complete Odd Thomas 8-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, Saint Odd

“He felt all the torment of his and her position, all the difficulties they were surrounded by in consequence of their station in life, which exposed them to the eyes of the whole world, obliged them to hide their love, to lie and deceive, and again to lie and deceive, to scheme and constantly think about others while the passion that bound them was so strong that they both forgot everything but their love.”

Source: The Works of Leo Tolstoy ...: Anna Karénina, tr. by Louise and Aylmer Maude

“Most of our difficulties, our hopes, and our worries are empty fantasies. Nothing has ever existed except this moment. That's all there is. That's all we are. Yet most human beings spend 50 to 90 percent or more of their time in their imagination, living in fantasy. We think about what has happened to us, what might have happened, how we feel about it, how we should be different, how others should be different, how it's all a shame, and on and on; it's all fantasy, all imagination. Memory is imagination. Every memory that we stick to devastates our life.”

Thinking Feels Should Humans Different Moments Might Imagination Memories Human Beings Worry Fantasy Our Lives Happened Percent Empty Difficulty Shame Sticks

Author:Joko Beck

“Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.”

People Thinking Inspirational Difficult Judging Difficulty

Author:Carl Jung

“Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.”

Thinking Inspirational Real Motivational Worry Self Esteem Inspirational Life Overcoming Difficulty Perseverance Wrestling Imaginary Social Anxiety Unconquerable Unconquerable Will Positive Thinking Images

Author:Theodore Newton Vail

“To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.”

Thinking Knows Inspirational Doe Motivation Knowledge Learning Training Difficulty Mindset Frustrated Appease Chinese Philosopher Deep Life

Book:Tao Te Ching

Source: Tao Te Ching

“The greatest difficulty is that men do not think enough of themselves, do not consider what it is that they are sacrificing when they follow in a herd, or when they cater for their establishment.”

Thinking Men Enough Sacrifice Self Esteem Respect Difficulty Esteem Establishment Herds

Book:The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Dancing is very important to people who play music with a beat. I think that people who don't dance, or who never did dance, don't really understand the beat... I know musicians who don't and never did dance, and they have difficulty communicating.”

People Thinking Knows Important Play Musician Beats Difficulty Dancing Dance Communicate

Author:Duke Ellington

“Think not of the amount to be accomplished, the difficulties to be overcome, or the end to be attained, but set earnestly at the little task at your elbow, letting that be sufficient for the day.”

Thinking Littles Ends Spiritual Spirituality Amount Tasks Overcoming Difficulty Sufficient Accomplished Elbows

Book:The Quotable Osler

Source: The Quotable Osler

“Spend 5 minutes breathing in, cherishing yourself; and, breathing out cherishing others. If you think about people you have difficulty cherishing, extend your cherishing to them anyway.”

People Ifs Thinking Minutes Difficulty Buddhist Breathing Cherish

Author:Dalai Lama

“"There are one or two elementary rules to be observed in the way of handling patients," he remarked, seating himself on the table and swinging his legs. "The most obvious is that you must never let them see that you want them. It should be pure condescension on your part seeing them at all; and the more difficulties you throw in the way of it, the more they think of it. Break your patients in early, and keep them well to heel."”

Source: ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Ultimate Collection: 21 Novels, 188 Short Stories, 88 Poems & 7 Plays, Including Works on Spirituality, Historical Writings & Personal Memoirs (Illustrated): The Sherlock Holmes Series, The Professor Challenger Books, The Brigadier Gerard Stories, The White Company, The Great Shadow, Mystery of Cloomber, Beyond The City, A History of the Great War…

“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

“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”

Thinking Inspirational Motivational Happiness Success Hope Opportunity Business Attitude Self Esteem Positive Positive Thinking Wise Words Politician Gratitude Optimism Difficulty Adversity Addiction Optimistic Positive Attitude Pessimism Cheer Negativity Encouraging Optimist Pessimist Insperational Overcoming Adversity Pessimistic Great Success Time To Think Great Opportunity Think Positive Power Of Positive Thinking Positive Thinking And Attitude Self Esteem And Confidence Positive Thinking Attitude Opportunity Knocks Addiction Recovery Business Opportunity Best Opportunity Think Positive Be Positive Life Opportunity Optimism In Life Window Of Opportunity Positive Optimistic Optimism And Pessimism Positive Thinking In Life Personal Beliefs Lost Opportunity Opportunity For Success Opportunity Knocking Golden Opportunity Optimistic Life Inspirational Addiction Recovery Powerful Motivational Optimists And Pessimists Positivity And Optimism Time For Yourself Good Optimistic Finish Strong Thinking Positive Thoughts Continuous Effort Positive Thinking Images Creating Opportunities Stay Optimistic Difficulty Of Writing

Book:Churchill By Himself

Source: Churchill By Himself

“Thought cannot avoid the ethical or reverence and love for all life. It will abandon the old confined systems of ethics and be forced to recognize the ethics that knows no bounds. But on the other hand, those who believe in love for all creation must realize clearly the difficulties involved in the problem of a boundless ethic and must be resolved not to veil from humankind the conflicts which this ethic will involve us, but allow us really to experience them. To think out in every implication the ethic of love for all creation this is the difficult task which confronts our age.”

“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 think one difficulty is that the problem is one of such enormous complexity that the very mass of facts presented to the public by press and radio make it exceedingly difficult for the man in the street to reach a clear appraisement of the situation. It is virtually impossible at this distance to grasp at all the real significance of the situation.”

Thinking Men Real Facts Problem Difficult Situation Clear Impossible Streets He Man Mass Difficulty Presses Distance Radio Enormous Complexity Significance Problem Solving

Author:George C. Marshall

“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

“Lagrange, in one of the later years of his life, imagined that he had overcome the difficulty (of the parallel axiom). He went so far as to write a paper, which he took with him to the Institute, and began to read it. But in the first paragraph something struck him that he had not observed: he muttered: 'Il faut que j'y songe encore', and put the paper in his pocket.' [I must think about it again]”

Thinking Writing Years Firsts Paper Overcoming Difficulty Mathematics Pockets Parallels Institute Paragraph Axioms Encores

Author:Augustus De Morgan

“And I really do think that the difficulty of research makes it more real to you than punching a thing to find out how many men were killed at this particular action.”

Thinking Men Real Action Particular Research Difficulty Punching

Author:Shelby Foote

“Little Sparta is a garden in the traditional sense. It is perhaps not like other modern gardens, but I think that other times would have had no difficulty with it.”

Thinking Littles Modern Garden Difficulty Traditional Sparta

Author:Ian Hamilton Finlay

“"Don't worry too much about how spiritually poor you are_God sees that,but for you it is expected to trust in God and pray to Him as best you can,never to fall into despair and to struggle according to your strength.If you ever begin to think you are spiritually_"well off"_then you can know for sure that you aren't!True spiritual life,even on the most elementary level,is always accompanied by suffering and difficulties.Therefore you should rejoice in all your difficulties and sorrows."”

Ifs Thinking Knows Life Should Wells Truth Spiritual Suffering Fall Poor Levels Worry Struggle Too Much Praying Sorrow Despair Difficulty Expected Trust In God Rejoice Spiritual Life

Author:Seraphim Rose

“I think because I have great difficulty saying the word, 'no,' almost every day's a different adventure.”

Thinking Different Adventure Difficulty

Author:Richard Branson

“I think the challenge is to takedifficult and painful times and turn them into something beneficial, something that makes you grow.”

“That famous writer’s block is a myth as far as I’m concerned. I think bad writers must have a great difficulty writing. They don’t want to do it. They have become writers out of reasons of ambition. It must be a great strain to them to make marks on a page when they really have nothing much to say, and don’t enjoy doing it. I’m not so sure what I have to say but I certainly enjoy making sentences.”

Thinking Want Writing Reason Enjoy Ambition Pages Concerned Difficulty Mark Sentences Myth Block Strain Writer's Block Famous Writers

Author:Gore Vidal

“It constantly remains a source of disappointment to me that my drawings are not yet what I want them to be. The difficulties are indeed numerous and great, and cannot be overcome at once. To make progress is a kind of miner’s work; it doesn’t advance as quickly as one would like, and as others also expect, but as one stands before such a task, the basic necessities are patience and faithfulness. In fact, I do not think much about the difficulties, because if one thought of them too much one would get stunned or disturbed.”

Ifs Thinking Want Kind Facts Too Much Progress Source Tasks Overcoming Difficulty Remains Disappointment Drawing Working It Faithfulness Disturbed Stunned Miners

Book:Letters

Source: Letters

“Stop thinking about your difficulties, whatever they are, and start thinking about God instead.”

Thinking Difficulty Thinking About You

Author:Emmet Fox

“Most people don't put things together. Geologists study the surface of the earth and geological phenomena. Meteorogists study the weather. That isn't science. Science is the study of all things that affect human beings. They have to be together! A meteorologist has difficulty talking with a sociologist, because they don't understand each other. You can't teach sciences in 'bits'; you have to bring it all together. Science is a way of thinking - a way at arriving at conclusions without your own opinion in it.”

“The left-leaning thinking that dominates the movie business follows a common liberal instinct to deny the spiritual dimension to every problem, thereby profoundly compounding the difficulties.”

Thinking Problem Spiritual Left Common Difficulty Instinct Deny Dimensions Movie Business Spiritual Dimensions

Author:Michael Medved

“I became obsessed with making more and more tiny things. I think I was trying to find a way of compensating for my embarrassment at having learning difficulties: people had made me feel small so I wanted to show them how significant 'small' could be.”

People Thinking Way Feels Trying Made Shows Wanted Difficulty Tiny Significant Obsessed Embarrassment Tiny Things

Author:Willard Wigan

“By the time the average person finishes college, he or she will have taken over 2,600 tests, quizzes, and exams. The right answer approach becomes deeply ingrained in our thinking. This may be fine for some mathematical problems where there is in fact only one right answer. The difficulty is that most of life isn’t this way. Life is ambiguous; there are many right answers- all depending on what you’re looking for. But if you think there is only one right answer, then you’ll stop looking as soon as you find one.”

“I think the biggest single thing that causes difficulty in the business world is the short-term view. We become obsessed with it. But it forces bad decisions.”

Thinking World Force Causes Term Decision Views Business Difficulty Obsessed Short Term Business World Bad Decision Costco

Author:James Sinegal

“I think baseball is a great support to people who have emotional voids, gaps, emotional difficulties. That is to say: all of us. Those parts of us that don’t function well. Those parts of us that are sad or depressed—not every day. They can really use baseball. It isn't just the child in a wheelchair or the shut-in senior citizen listening to the radio that needs the game. There’s part of us, part of everybody who’s a baseball fan, who needs the game at that level.”

People Thinking Needs Wells Children Use Games Levels Support Fans Emotional Listening Citizens Baseball Function Difficulty Radio Gaps Void Senior Wheelchairs Senior Citizen Baseball Fans

Author:Thomas Boswell