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“One inconvenience... may attend bold and arduous attempts: frequent failure may discourage. This evil, however, is not more pernicious than the slow proficiency which is the natural consequence of too easy tasks.”

May Evil Easy Natural Ambition Consequence Tasks Discouraging Inconvenience Pernicious Proficiency Natural Consequences Easy Tasks

Book:The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds: Containing His Discourses, Idlers, A Journey to Flanders and Holland, and His Commentary on Du Fresnoy's Art of Painting; to which is Prefixed an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author by Edward Malone

Source: The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds: Containing His Discourses, Idlers, A Journey to Flanders and Holland, and His Commentary on Du Fresnoy's Art of Painting; to which is Prefixed an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author by Edward Malone

“It is easy at any moment to resign the possession of a great fortune; to acquire it is difficult and arduous”

Moments Easy Difficult Wealth Fortune Possession Acquire

Author:Livy

“Nothing is more easy than to deceive one's self, as our affections are subtle persuaders.”

Self Easy Affection Subtle Deceit Deceiving

Author:Demosthenes

“I draw to shock myself out of a too-easy rhythm - I may begin with no conception whatever, an image emerges . I rub it out and begin again, searching for its counterpart. When it appears I invariably find that the thing I draw is at my elbow, it is out of the window, or has been standing at my front door for a long time.”

May Long Has Beens Easy Doors Fronts Long Time Draws Standing Window Rhythm Shock Conception Elbows Counterparts Begin Again Front Doors

Author:Sean William Scott

“Parents accept their obsolescence with the best grace they can muster. . . they do all they can to make it easy for the younger generation to surpass the older, while secretly dreading the rejection that follows.”

Easy Parent Accepting Grace Generations Rejection Parenthood Younger Generation Muster Obsolescence

Author:Christopher Lasch

“In the rush of daily living it's easy to forget all the remarkable people, real or fictional, who have been a part of your life. But if you just imagine they are near for a moment, you will realize that anyone who ever touched your heart is always with you, patiently waiting to emanate warmth and support whenever you remember to think of them.”

People Ifs Thinking Heart Has Beens Real Moments Remember Easy Waiting Realizing Forget Support Imagine Touched Remarkable Warmth Emanate Daily Living Always With You Patiently Waiting

Author:Barbara Sher

“Marriage ain't easy but nothing that's worth much ever is.”

Easy Work Gender

Author:Lillian Gordy Carter

“No matter how smart you are, you're smarter if you take the easy ways when they are available.”

Ifs Way Matter Easy Effort Smart Available Smarter Easy Way

Book:Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking

Source: Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking

“We are always doing something, talking, reading, listening to the radio, planning what next. The mind is kept naggingly busy on some easy, unimportant external thing all day.”

Mind Reading Next Easy Talking Listening Busy Radio Planning Unimportant

Book:If You Want to Write

Source: If You Want to Write

“Men love to trust God (as they profess) for what they have in their hands, in possession, or what lies in an easy view; place their desires afar off, carry their accomplishment behind the clouds out of their sight, interpose difficulties and perplexities -- their hearts are instantly sick. They cannot wait for God; they do not trust Him, nor ever did. Would you have the presence of God with you? Learn to wait quietly for the salvation you expect from Him.”

Men Heart Hands Lying Desire Easy Waiting Views Behinds Sick Sight Difficulty Salvation Clouds Possession Accomplishment Trust In God Presence Of God Afar Perplexity

Author:Owen Wilson

“If decisions were a choice between alternatives, decisions would come easy. Decision is the selection and formulation of alternatives.”

Ifs Choices Easy Decision Alternatives Selection

Book:Here & Elsewhere: The Collected Fiction of Kenneth Burke

Source: Here & Elsewhere: The Collected Fiction of Kenneth Burke

“Getting control of life is never easy, and sometimes it can be definitely painful.”

Life Sometimes Life Is Easy Painful

Book:Flow: the psychology of optimal experience

Source: Flow: the psychology of optimal experience

“I've had the luxury of travel and, in the luxury of travel, I've seen the detriments of poverty and I've gone on to see how easy the cures can be - cures that cost cents to the richest nations in the world.”

World Nations Easy Poverty Gone Cost Cures Luxury Cents

Author:Brad Pitt

“Bad deeds, and deeds hurtful to ourselves, are easy to do; what is beneficial and good, that is very difficult to do.”

Easy Difficult Deeds Beneficial Hurtful

Book:Wisdom of the Buddha: The Unabridged Dhammapada

Source: Wisdom of the Buddha: The Unabridged Dhammapada

“Achieving success as an actor has not been easy for me. My biggest, probably most irrational complaint has been that I've had to work harder for what I've gotten. I've seen other people with nepotism or wealth or cheesy good looks on their side who've had it easy...”

People Looks Has Beens Actors Easy Sides Wealth Achieve Hard Work Harder Irrational Complaints Looking Good Work Harder Cheesy Achieving Success Nepotism

Author:James Woods

“It's no easy matter to paint a background. I venture to say that the old painters had more difficulty with their grounds than with their figures. You know the story of Vandyke brought to Rubens with this recommendation: 'He already knows how to paint a background.' 'That is more than I can do!' was the reply.”

Knows I Can Matter Stories Easy Can Do Know How Figures Difficulty Paint Backgrounds Painter Venture Recommendations Rubens

Book:William Morris Hunt on painting and drawing

Source: William Morris Hunt on painting and drawing

“When do you feel most authentic? Authenticity feels so natural, so why isn't it easy?”

Feels Easy Natural Authenticity

Author:Robert Holden

“American diplomacy is easy on the brain but hell on the feet.”

Easy Brain Hell Feet Diplomacy Diplomats

Author:Charles G. Dawes

“Drawings are only a few lines on paper. Therefore it's easy to carry around in plastic bags. Drawings are cheaper than paintings. They don't pretend they'll last forever.”

Lasts Easy Lines Forever Painting Paper Drawing Bags Plastic Cheaper Plastic Bags

Author:Marlene Dumas

“There's something I believe wholeheartedly: Cynicism is the true refuge of the pseudo-intellectual, .. Cynicism is easy. Joy is an extremely advanced spiritual and intellectual tenet.”

Believe Spiritual Joy I Believe Easy Intellectual Cynicism Refuge Cynic Pseudo Wholeheartedly Pseudo Intellectuals

Author:Craig Ferguson

“A nice, easy place for freedom of speech to be eroded is comics, because comics are a natural target whenever an election comes up.”

Easy Natural Nice Speech Election Come Up Comic Target Freedom Of Speech Limiting Freedom Of Expression

Author:Neil Gaiman

“When I was young, I was just about hard work. But as I got older, I did experience anxiety, doubt, judgment, and it's so easy to lose yourself for a second.”

Hard Young Easy Loses Doubt Hard Work Anxiety Judgment Losing Yourself

Author:Jennifer Lopez

“Everyone who comes within the reach of your knowledge is, as it were, on trial in your mind. It is easy to be an unjust, ignorant, and even a merciless judge. The real character of the actions of others depends in great measure on the motives that prompt them, and these motives are unknown to you.”

Mind Real Character Action Motivation Easy Judging Depends Trials Ignorant Motive Unjust Prompts Real Character

Book:The Hidden Power of Kindness: A Practical Handbook for Souls who Dare to Transform the World, One Deed at a Time

Source: The Hidden Power of Kindness: A Practical Handbook for Souls who Dare to Transform the World, One Deed at a Time

“I've been writing about my boyhood, when I was a little kid back on my grandfather's farm where we didn't know about black widow spiders or all that stuff. But writing about that is so easy.”

Knows Writing Littles Kids Easy Stuff Black Farms Grandfather Little Kid Spiders My Grandfather Widows Boyhood Black Widow

Author:Kary Mullis

“The attractions of ceramics lie partly in its contradictions. It is both difficult and easy, with an element beyond our control. It is both extremely fragile and durable. Like 'Sumi' ink painting, it does not lend itself to erasures and indecision.”

Doe Lying Easy Difficult Painting Elements Attraction Mediums Contradiction Fragile Ink Indecision Ceramics Difficult And Easy

Author:Isamu Noguchi

“These are not easy questions. Who am I? Why am I here? They're not easy because the human being isn't wired to function as an individual.”

Humans Individual Easy Human Beings Function

Book:The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles

Source: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles

“Getting enough energy to satisfy the needs of the developing world without bringing on an eco-disaster is not going to be easy. It will require a marriage of science and technology with good international policy, something that is always hard to bring off. We need to get it right this time.”

World Needs Hard Enough Energy Easy Technology Policy International Disaster Developing Science And Technology Eco

Author:Burton Richter

“It's so easy to be undisciplined. And to be disciplined is so against my character, my general nature anyway, that I have to strain a little bit to keep on the right track.”

Littles Character Easy Bits Discipline Little Bit Track Strain Right Track Undisciplined

Author:Robert Rauschenberg

“The foolish think the Eagle weak, and easy to bring to heel. The Eagle's wings are silken, but its claws are made of steel.”

Thinking Made Easy Weak Wings Foolish Heels Steel Eagles Claws

Author:Sidney Sheldon

“Who doesn't know the easy, breezy, beautiful Covergirl line? I'm so excited to be the face of the brand in Australia and help all girls find and rock their inner Covergirl!”

Knows Helping Beautiful Faces Girl Easy Lines Rocks Excited Brands Australia Breezy

Author:Ricki-Lee Coulter

“I know what we can control, we can control our effort and we can control our approach. We do what we're supposed to do to get some second-chance points off the offensive glass, maybe our pressure can get us some easy opportunities in the open floor and we've got to capitalize.”

Knows Opportunity Easy Chance Effort Approach Pressure Glasses Offensive Second Chance

Author:Andy Kennedy

“It is easy to have a lot of paintings or projects hanging around that are 'almost done.”

Done Easy Painting Projects Finishing Hanging Around Almost Done

Author:Thomas Kinkade

“But when I'm done with the job I can take it off pretty easy, it's like a suit of clothes, put on something else.”

I Can Done Jobs Easy Clothes Suits

Author:Beau Bridges

“The first floor could be a restaurant. A good restaurant can survive as long as it has easy accessibility.”

Firsts Long Easy Restaurants Accessibility

Author:David Lee

“I wish I wasn't so fragile / 'Cos I know that I'm not easy to handle”

Knows Wish Easy Handle Fragile

Author:Schuyler Fisk

“All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.”

“I've only myself to blame. It would be easy for me to blame others but I have to look at myself.”

Looks Would Be Easy Blame

Author:Craig Bellamy

“One trouble with a kind of falsely therapeutic and always reassuring attitude that it is easy to fall into with old people, is the tendency to be satisfied with too little.”

People Kind Littles Fall Easy Attitude Trouble Satisfied Tendencies Maturity Old People Therapeutic Reassuring

Book:I Never Told Anybody: Teaching Poetry Writing in a Nursing Home

Source: I Never Told Anybody: Teaching Poetry Writing in a Nursing Home

“A true leader must have enough backbone to stand alone - even when the crowd wants to take the easy road home. A true leader cannot be dependent on companionship for his or her security, but must learn to trust in God alone.”

Want Enough Home Easy Leader Security Crowds Dependent Trust In God Companionship Backbone Stand Alone True Leader Easy Road

Author:Leslie Ludy

“Intuitively, one would assume if you don't grow up with other children you might not learn that easy give and take. What often happens is that there are some only children who act that way, and that stands out more than the only children who seem to get along with others.”

Ifs Way Giving Children Seems Might Happens Grows Easy Growing Up Assuming Standing Out Only Child Give And Take

Author:Peter Thomas

“People are increasingly using the Internet for easy price comparisons. Also, the reliability of delivery of a product bought over the Internet has increased.”

People Easy Products Internet Comparison Delivery Reliability

Author:Gian Fulgoni

“Playing against someone like Roger Federer is not easy. I had my chance today, but I guess I made a lot of errors. But I have no complaints.”

Made Today Easy Chance Errors Complaints Roger Federer

Author:Gael Monfils

“Nine Inch Nails was an experiment with me in discipline. I realized when I was 23 that I had never really tried anything. Schoolwork came easy to me. I learned to play piano effortlessly. I was coasting. I realized that I was afraid to really, really try something, 100 percent, because I had never reached true failure.”

Trying Play Easy Discipline Percent I Realized Nine Experiments Piano Inches Nails Schoolwork

Author:Trent Reznor

“In past times when one lived in contact with nature, abstraction was easy; it was done unconsciously. Now in our denaturalized age abstraction becomes an effort.”

Done Age Past Easy Effort Contact Abstraction

Author:Piet Mondrian

“It's always easy to judge from afar”

Easy Judging Afar Easy To Judge

Author:Roberto Mancini

“Spelling is very easy to practice yourself whereas signing is not. So I would sit on the subway riding around New York and I would spell whatever I would see. When I watched a movie I would spell words as they came up.”

Easy Practice New York Spells Riding Subway Signing Spelling

Author:Richard Masur

“Blaming society makes it awfully easy for a person of weak character to shrug off his own responsibility for his actions.”

Persons Character Action Easy Responsibility Weak Blame Weak Character

Author:Stanley Schmidt

“You've got to be strong enough for love. It's very easy to be cool and cynical. It's very difficult to just let yourself go and be in love. You've got to be strong enough for that.”

Enough Strong Easy Difficult Love You Cynical Strong Enough Being Cool

Author:Noel Gallagher

“Dying young is the easy way out. It's much harder to keep your edge and keep it going.”

Way Young Easy Dying Harder Edges Easy Way

Author:Robert Longo

“Nothing worth having comes easy.”

Easy Work Hard Work Difficult Times Hardwork Hardworking Hard Work Comes Success Life Is Not Easy Nothing Is Easy

Author:Theodore Roosevelt