Best difficulty & want Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Accustom yourself to master and overcome things of difficulty; for if you observe, the left hand for want of practice is insignificant, and not adapted to general business; yet it holds the bridle better than the right, from constant use.”

Ifs Want Use Hands Left Practice Masters Overcoming Difficulty Constant Insignificant Adapted Left Hand

Author:Pliny the Elder

“When all combine in every way to make everything easier, people will want difficulty. I conceived it as my task to make difficulties everywhere.”

People Way Want Easier Tasks Difficulty

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“I learned the tricks... If you want to do academic things, you can do them. It is not difficult. Yet it is from this difficulty - the mistakes and dead ends - that artists develop, not through the quick solutions and not from something you learn and apply.”

Ifs Want Ends Artist Difficult Can Do Mistake Solutions Difficulty Tricks Academic Dead Ends

Author:Isamu Noguchi

“We of an older generation can get along with what we have, though with growing hardship; but in your full manhood and womanhood you will want what nature once so bountifully supplied and man so thoughtlessly destroyed; and because of that want you will reproach us, not for what we have used, but for what we have wasted...So any nation which in its youth lives only for the day, reaps without sowing, and consumes without husbanding, must expect the penalty of the prodigal whose labor could with difficulty find him the bare means of life.”

Source: Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia

“As long as there are guns, the individual that wants a gun for a crime is going to have one and going to get it. The only person who's going to be penalized and have difficulty is the law-abiding citizen, who then cannot have [it] if he wants protection -- the protection of a weapon in his home.”

Ifs Want Persons Long Home Law Individual Crime Citizens Weapons Gun Difficulty Protection Abiding Law Abiding Citizen

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1986

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1986

“There's a thrill in the midst of the hardship in knowing that I'm making the invisible real. And I'm doing what I want.”

Want Real Knowing Difficulty Invisible Midst Hardship Thrill

Author:Errollyn Wallen

“What makes a subject difficult to understand if it is significant, important is not that some special instruction about abstruse things is necessary to understand it. Rather it is the contrast between the understanding of the subject and what most people want to see. Because of this the very things that are most obvious can become the most difficult to understand. What has to be overcome is not difficulty of the intellect but of the will.”

People Ifs Want Important Difficult Understanding Special Subjects Overcoming Difficulty Obvious Intellect Significant Instruction Contrast

Book:Philosophical Occasions, 1912-1951

Source: Philosophical Occasions, 1912-1951

“I want my street to be crazy, I want my avenues, shops and buildings, to enter into a crazy dance, and this is why I deform and distort their outlines and colours. However I always come up against the same difficulty, that if all the elements were one by one deformed and distorted excessively, if in the end nothing remained of their real outlines, I would have totally effaced the location that I intended to suggest, that I wished to transform.”

Ifs Want Real Ends Crazy Streets Building Elements Difficulty Come Up Colour Shops Location Avenues Outlines Being Crazy

Author:Jean Dubuffet

“It’s good to have obstacles and difficulties, and to fail and have things not go the way you want. And then have to figure out how to keep moving forward.”

Way Want Moving Failing Figures Difficulty Obstacles Moving Forward Keep Moving Keep Moving Forward

Author:Maya Forbes

“Pray to God with tears in your eyes whenever you want illumination or find yourself faced with any doubt or difficulty. The Lord will remove all your impurities, assuage your mental anguish, and give you enlightenment.”

Want Giving Eye Lord Doubt Tears Praying Enlightenment Difficulty Remove Finding Yourself Anguish Illumination Praying To God Impurity Tears In Your Eyes

Author:Sarada Devi

“I want the shuffles and echoes, and a certain mysteriousness... It's so bloody hard to paint.”

Want Hard Certain Difficulty Paint Bloody Echoes Shuffle

Author:Leland Bell

“I can take this real world and superimpose upon it the world of illusion (which isn't, really), in order to either fix or prevent many of life's difficulties--or even better, create happiness and well-being for both myself and others. I can do this, and so can you ... if you really want to.”

Ifs World Want Wells I Can Real Order Can Do Illusion Difficulty Well Being Real World I Can Do This

Author:Silver RavenWolf

“I do not yet want to form a hypothesis to test, because as soon as you make a hypothesis, you become prejudiced. Your mind slides into a groove, and once it is in that groove, has difficulty noticing anything outside of it. During this time, my sense must be sharp; that is the main thing - to be sharp, yet open.”

Want Mind Form Tests Difficulty Hypothesis Slides Noticing Groove

Author:Bernd Heinrich

“Autonomy, Purpose, & Mastery: If you are having difficulty creating the life you want, chances are one or more of these are missing.”

Ifs Want Purpose Chance Missing Creating Difficulty Mastery Autonomy Chances Are

Author:Bill Crawford

“We can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough. But the tremendous effort needed- one doesn't always want to make it-does one? ... But what else can be done? What's the alternative? What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself, in the face of difficulties.”

Want Doe Done Enough Faces Strong Wish Can Do Effort Needed Difficulty Asking Alternatives Strong Enough

Book:The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: 1922-1923

Source: The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: 1922-1923

“If people will be censors, let them weigh their words. I mean that the words were unfair by that disproportionateness of the condemnation, which everybody with some conscience must feel to be one of the great difficulties in denouncing a particular person. Every unpleasant dog is only one of many, but we kick him because he comes in our way, and there is always some want of distributive justice in the kicking.”

People Ifs Way Want Feels Mean Persons Justice Dog Particular Conscience Difficulty Kicks Unfair Kicking Condemnation

Book:Life and letters

Source: Life and letters

“I do have a lot of difficulty figuring out what I want to be working on, but what's the alternative? To be one of those people who has a million things they want to do, and then never does any of them? And then where will you be?”

People Want Doe Millions Difficulty Alternatives

Author:Cyndi Lauper

“Everybody sees a difficulty in the question of relations between Arabs and Jews. But not everybody sees that there is no solution to this question. No solution! There is a gulf, and nothing can bridge it... We, as a nation, want this country to be ours; the Arabs, as a nation, want this country to be theirs.”

Want Country Nations Solutions Difficulty Relation Jew Bridges

Author:David Ben-Gurion

“I feel like we want to compartmentalise things and say, 'Well, that's emotional, artistic and subjective, while this is intellectual, objective and measured.' I have difficulty thinking that's the way we experience things.”

Thinking Way Want Feels Wells Emotional Intellectual Difficulty Objectives Artistic Subjective

Author:Shane Carruth

“We have real difficulty here because everyone thinks of changing the world, but where, oh where, are those who think of changing themselves? People may genuinely want to be good, but seldom are they prepared to do what it takes to produce the inward life of goodness that can form the soul. Personal formation into the likeness of Christ is arduous and lifelong.”

People Thinking World Want May Real Soul Form Christ Produce Goodness Difficulty Prepared Be Good Changing The World Inward Lifelong Formation

Author:Richard J. Foster

“The rush to books and universities is like the rush to the public house. People want to drown their realization of the difficulties of living properly in this grotesque contemporary world, they want to forget their own deplorable inefficiency as artists in life.”

People World Want Book Artist House Forget Difficulty University Intelligence Contemporary Realization Grotesque Inefficiency

Book:The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Point counter point

Source: The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Point counter point

“I feel like the need to want to create and make something is stronger than the difficulties are going through.”

Want Needs Feels Difficulty Stronger

Author:Philip Seymour Hoffman

“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

“I want to emphasize in the great concentration which we now place upon scientists and engineers how much we still need the men and women educated in the liberal tradition, willing to take the long look, undisturbed by prejudices and slogans of the moment, who attempt to make an honest judgment on difficult events.”

“Everyone wants a happy life without difficulties or suffering. We create many of the problems we face. No one intentionally creates problems, but we tend to be slaves to powerful emotions like anger, hatred and attachment that are based on misconceived projections about people and things. We need to find ways of reducing these emotions by eliminating the ignorance that underlies them and applying opposing forces.”

“If you want to live your whole life free from pain you must become either a god or else a corpse. Consider other men's troubles and that will comfort you.”

Ifs Men Want Whole Pain Trouble Comfort Difficulty Whole Life Corpses Coping

Author:Menander

“People want you to produce records. They don't care what it took to make it. When a band is out doing concerts, the fans don't want to know about equipment difficulties. They want their hour-and-a-half release, and that's it.”

People Knows Want Care Hours Half Records Fans Produce Band Difficulty Don't Care Release Concerts Equipment

Author:Slash

“To expel hunger and thirst there is no necessity of sitting in a palace and submitting to the supercilious brow and contumelious favour of the rich and great there is no necessity of sailing upon the deep or of following the camp What nature wants is every where to be found and attainable without much difficulty whereas require the sweat of the brow for these we are obliged to dress anew j compelled to grow old in the field and driven to foreign mores A sufficiency is always at hand”

“I want to accept all the difficulties that face me in life with perseverance and patience.”

Want Faces Accepting Difficulty Perseverance

Author:Ameen Rihani

“I want my audience to leave the theatre with positive emotions through this sensorial journey in the world of precious and fragile teenage beauty. And also the idea that the difficulties that we have to go through help us reveal who we really are.”

World Want Ideas Helping Emotion Audience Journey Difficulty Theatre Fragile Teenage Positive Emotions

Author:Alante Kavaite

“What you want to acquire, you should dare to acquire by any means. What you want to see, even though it is with difficulty, you should see. You should not let it pass, thinking there will be another chance to see it or acquire it. It is quite unusual to have a second chance to materialize your desire.”

Thinking Want Should Mean Desire Chance Difficulty Dare What You Want Acquire Unusual Second Chance Another Chance

Author:Yosa Buson

“God is not concerned about our plans; He doesn’t ask, “Do you want to go through this loss of a loved one, this difficulty, or this defeat?” No, He allows these things for His own purpose. The things we are going through are either making us sweeter, better, and nobler men and women, or they are making us more critical and fault-finding, and more insistent on our own way. The things that happen either make us evil, or they make us more saintly, depending entirely on our relationship with God and its level of intimacy.”

Source: My Utmost for His Highest

“The degree of difficulty in creating what we want lies within our belief about the difficulty or possibility of creating it.”

Want Lying Belief Possibility Degrees Creating Difficulty

Book:Make Your Dreams Come True: Simple Steps for Changing the Beliefs that Limit You

Source: Make Your Dreams Come True: Simple Steps for Changing the Beliefs that Limit You

“Realizing who we are and what we may become assures us that with God nothing really is impossible. From the time we learn that Jesus wants us for a Sunbeam until we learn more fully the basic principles of the gospel, we are taught to strive for perfection. It is not new to us then to talk of the importance of achievement. The difficulty arises when inflated expectations of the world alter our definition of greatness.”

“In my life, what I want and what I need are exactly the same. Anything in excess of needs is burdensome to me. You couldn't give me anything I don't need. I am penniless, but have difficulty remaining so. Several of my well meaning, well-to-do friends have offered me large sums of money, which I of course refused.”

Want Needs Giving Wells Courses Give Me Difficulty Excess Meaning Well

Author:Peace Pilgrim

“Growing up, I was always the only black kid on my team and (sometimes) I'd get questions from my friends when I'd say, `I want to be in the NHL' and they'd say, `Well, there are no black people or not very many in the NHL' and as a kid, you'd wonder why. But overall, I didn't really face any racial difficulties. Nothing too bad or too lasting.”

People Want Wells Sometimes Kids Faces Black Wonder Growing Up Growing Team My Friends Difficulty Lasting Black People Nhl

Author:Jarome Iginla

“The confusion, the difficulties, the contradictions which, in consequence of a want of accurate distinctions in this particular, have up to even a recent period encumbered mathematics in all those branches involving the consideration of negative and impossible quantities, will at once occur to the reader who is at all versed in this science, and would alone suffice to justify dwelling somewhat on the point, in connexion with any subject so peculiarly fitted to give forcible illustration of it as the Analytical Engine.”

“Well, I don't want to talk too much about my children, but a friend of one of my children, something really terrible happened to her. I just felt like I had to speak about growing up again, because I felt that there's no way I can talk about difficulties of life. I had to talk about possibilities.”

Way Want Wells Children I Can Speak Felt Growing Up Too Much Growing Happened Possibility Terrible Difficulty My Children

Author:Lukas Moodysson

“If you truly desire money so keenly that your desire is an obsession, you will have no difficulty in convincing yourself that you will acquire it. The object is to want money, and to be so determined to have it that you convince yourself that you will have it.”

Ifs Want Desire Objects Difficulty Determined Obsession Acquire Convince Convincing Convincing Yourself

Book:Get Rich Collection

Source: Get Rich Collection

“Each of you should feel that you have great potential and that, with self-confidence and a little more effort, change really is possible if you want it. If you feel that your present way of life is unpleasant or has some difficulties, then don't look at these negative things. See the positive side, the potential, and make an effort.”

Ifs Way Want Feels Should Looks Littles Self Life Is Sides Effort Negative Difficulty Self Confidence

Book:Illustrated Teachings of the Dalai Lama

Source: Illustrated Teachings of the Dalai Lama

“As a storyteller, you also don't want to make people feel like they're left out, like other people who have read the book have an interior knowledge of this show, and the degree of difficulty in watching it is much higher.”

People Want Feels Book Shows Left Higher Degrees Difficulty Storyteller Interiors Left Out

Author:Damon Lindelof

“I do not intend to spare myself, not to avoid emotions or difficulties. I don't care much whether I live a longer or shorter time... the world concerns me only in so far as I feel a certain debt toward it, because I have walked on this earth for thirty years, and out of gratitude I want to leave some souvenir.”

World Want Feels Years Care Earth Certain Emotion Gratitude Concern Difficulty Don't Care Debt I Don't Care Thirty Spares Thirty Years Souvenirs

Author:Vincent Van Gogh

“Being a musician, you want to be able to do the hardest stuff there is. People would think it's classical, but in classical, it's all on the page and the difficulty is keeping up with the music.”

People Thinking Want Able Stuff Musician Pages Difficulty Hardest

Author:Brian McKnight

“The great difficulty is that you cannot be nice. If you want to take back the power, you have to behave in ways that are not conforming and will not be about pleasing other people.”

People Ifs Way Want Nice Difficulty Behave Being Nice Conform Pleasing Others

Author:Rachel Holmes

“I've always been more than a little mystified by poets who seem to think talking to people as directly as possible is a bad thing. I mean, I don't want to set up a straw man here: I understand that for many poets - and for me, at times - writing truly means writing in a way that is difficult, simply because the poem is trying to grasp for something elusive. So the difficulty of the poem is just unavoidable, and not in any way artificially imposed. So "as possible" is the key part of the phrase above, I suppose.”

People Thinking Men Way Want Writing Trying Mean Littles Seems Difficult Talking Poet Keys Difficulty Phrases Bad Things Elusive Straws

Author:Matthew Zapruder

“Why do some people, when they want to practice, keep coming against problems and difficulties, and obstacles - inner obstacles and outer obstacles? It's because of the lack of merit.”

People Want Problem Practice Difficulty Obstacles Merit

Author:Tenzin Palmo

“I think that when it comes to Social Security, all of us want to make sure that our senior citizens can retire with dignity and respect. And everybody has to be open-minded in thinking how do we firm up a system that, in fact, is going to be in difficulty in the coming years.”

Thinking Want Years Facts Social Security Citizens Dignity Difficulty Firm Retiring Senior Social Security Open Minded Senior Citizen Dignity And Respect

Author:Barack Obama

“I was raised pretty much a fundamentalist, but the one thing that fundamentalism gave to me was the love for that book and a commitment to read and study it. The difficulty is that I've read it all, I didn't skip around, I read it all, and when you read it all, you can't take it literally because you don't want to blame God for a lot of stuff that occurs in that book. There are some pretty violent scenes.”

Want Book Stuff Study One Thing Scene Commitment Difficulty Blame Raised Violent Fundamentalism Skip Fundamentalist

Author:John Shelby Spong

“There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means.”

Want Mean Use Impossible Difficulty Conquer Resolution Application

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls aren't there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to show us how badly we want things.”

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