“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.” KnowsChildrenThreeLanguageHoursWorkFourMonthsBecomingSixBenefitsResearchAdultsDifficultyConstantTongueFasterDisagreeDozenSix MonthsTheoreticalExperimentationThree MonthsUnderestimatedFluentLinguists Author:Tim Ferriss
“I met my wife [Sukhinder Kaur Gill] in Bombay at an official function. And then we courted for three years. That's a great old term, 'courting’. And we had to do it quietly, of course, because you would know the difficulties one might have with Indian parents. She was advised by her father that people in the West don't take marriage seriously.” PeopleKnowsYearsMightThreeCoursesFatherParentTermWifeMetsFunctionDifficultyWestMy WifeIndianOfficialsThree YearsBombay Author:Glenn Turner
“The great difficulty with large canvases is that they should by right be painted as fast as a sketch. By speed only can you gain an appearance of fleeting effect. But to paint a three yard canvas with the same dispatch as one of ten inches is well-nigh impossible.” ShouldWellsThreeImpossibleEffectsTenGainsDifficultyPaintAppearanceSpeedInchesCanvasYardsFleeting Author:Joaquin Sorolla
“Only to two or three persons in all the world are the reminiscences of a man's early youth interesting: to the parent who nursed him; to the fond wife or child mayhap afterwards who loves him; to himself always and supremely--whatever may be his actual prosperity or ill fortune, his present age, illness, difficulties, renown, or disappointments--the dawn of his life still shines brightly for him, the early griefs and delights and attachments remain with him ever faithful and dear.” MenWorldMayChildrenPersonsStillsTwoAgeThreeParentInterestingGriefWifeChildhoodYouthDifficultyShiningFortuneDearIllIllnessDisappointmentProsperityDelightDawnFaithfulAttachmentRenown Author:William Makepeace Thackeray
“I think we're going to have some difficulty in front of us. I have absolutely no doubt the next three, four years Europe are going to be at best stagnation. We are preparing for tough times.” ThinkingYearsThreeNextDoubtFourFrontsToughEuropeDifficultyNo DoubtFour YearsPreparingTough TimesStagnation Author:Carlos Ghosn
“A successful surgeon should be a man who, when asked to name the three best surgeons in the world, would have difficulty deciding on the other two.” MenWorldShouldTwoThreeNamesSuccessfulModernDifficultyBe A ManModern LifeSurgeons Author:Denton Cooley
“Old age is a lease nature only signs as a particular favor, and it may be, to one, only in the space of two or three ages; and then with a pass to boot, to carry him through, all the traverses and difficulties she has strewed in the way of his long career.” WayMayLongTwoAgeThreeSpaceCareersParticularDifficultyFavorsOld AgeBootsLeaseLong CareersTraverse Author:Michel de Montaigne
“Perhaps you will ask whether I can raise these three millions without difficulty. Well, nearly all my capital is invested in land, but I have some money out at interest and I can borrow without any trouble.” WellsI CanThreeAsksInterestMillionsTroubleLandDifficultyRaisesInvesting Author:Pliny the Younger
“When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that three of his fingers are pointing at himself. Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics; I can assure you that mine are still greater.” MenShouldStillsI CanRememberThreeWorryGreaterMinesDifficultyMathematicsFingersPointing Author:Albert Einstein
“I used to write a monthly column for the 'New York Times' syndicate. But I stopped because I found it really hard to have one extreme opinion a month. I don't know how these columnists have two or three ideas a week; I was having difficulty having 12 things to say a year.” KnowsWritingYearsTwoIdeasHardUsedThreeFoundOpinionKnow HowWeekNew YorkMonthsDifficultyExtremesColumnsNew York TimesColumnistsSyndicate Author:Salman Rushdie
“The difficulties we face originate from one of three sources. Some are sent to us by the Lord to test our faith, others are the result of Satan's attacks, and still others are due to our own sinful choices.” StillsFacesChoicesThreeResultsLordSourceTestsDifficultyDuesSatan Author:Charles Stanley
“Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity. From discord find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.” InspirationalMotivationalLyingThreeOpportunityPeaceWorkMiddleDifficultyHarmonySimplicityWork OutSustainabilityRulesMinimalismComputer ProgrammingClutterProgramming LanguagesSimple LivingGreat OpportunityDiscordComputer LanguageMinimalistLess Is MoreLiving A Simple LifeSimplicity In DesignGolden OpportunityPositive MotivationalSimplicity In ArtInspiration And Motivation Book:The Ultimate Quotable Einstein Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein
“The only objections that have occurred to me are, 1st that you have loaded yourself with an unnecessary difficulty in adopting Natura non facit saltum so unreservedly. . . . And 2nd, it is not clear to me why, if continual physical conditions are of so little moment as you suppose, variation should occur at all. However, I must read the book two or three times more before I presume to begin picking holes.” IfsShouldLittlesTwoBookMomentsScienceThreeClearConditionsCriticismDifficultyHolesUnnecessaryThree TimesVariationLoadedObjectionsAdoptingLittle Moments Author:Thomas Huxley
“There are three difficulties in authorship;-to write any thing worth the publishing-to find honest men to publish it -and to get sensible men to read it. Literature has now become a game; in which the Booksellers are the Kings; The Critics the Knaves; the Public, the Pack; and the poor Author, the mere table, or the Thing played upon.” MenWritingThreeLiteratureGamesPoorHonestKingsDifficultyTablesMereCriticsSensiblePublishingPacksPublishHonest ManAuthorshipKnavesBooksellers Author:Charles Caleb Colton
“There are three difficulties in authorship; to write any thing worth the publishing — to find honest men to publish it — and to get sensible men to read it.” MenWritingThreeLiteratureHonestDifficultySensiblePublishingPublishHonest ManAuthorshipSuccessful Writing Author:Charles Caleb Colton
“I never had the slightest difficulty with a fellow actor. Not until One, Two, Three. In that picture, Horst Buchholz tried all sorts of scene-stealing didoes. I came close to knocking him on his ass.” TwoThreeActorsSceneDifficultyFellowsStealingAssKnocking Author:James Cagney