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“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.”

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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

“It is not easy to be a Witch, a bender, a shaper, one of the Wise; nor is it safe, comfortable, laid back, mellow, uplifting, or a guarantee of Peace of mind. It requires openness, vulnerability, courage and work. It gives no answers, only tasks to be done and questions to consider....It functions in those deeper ways of knowing which our culture has denied and for which we hunger.”

“We have both a weak self and a strong self; the two are completely different. If we allow our weak side to dominate, we will be defeated. The thought ,"I am still young and have a lot of time, so I can relax and take life easy" is a function of our own weakness.”

Ifs Stills I Can Two Different Self Young Strong Easy Sides Weakness Weak Function Relax Defeated Strong Self

Author:Daisaku Ikeda

“It's easy to talk about our system not functioning. It's actually functioning exactly the way we've designed it to function by giving so much power to the political parties, which all of our, you know, leading founders - Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison - all said don't create political parties like the ones we have now. We did it, and we're paying a very high price for it.”

Knows Way Giving Said Political Easy Party Function Founders Political Parties Madison High Prices

Author:Mickey Edwards

“If you are not generous when it's difficult, you will not be generous when it's easy. Generosity is a function of the heart, not the wallet.”

Ifs Heart Easy Difficult Function Generosity Generous Wallets Generous Person

Author:Wayne Dyer

“Maybe in writing about and through trauma it was therapeutic in a way, but it didn't feel like it at the time. I was in a very dark place, in lots of foreign cities, far from New York. A lot of personal trials and tribulations took over my life in those years. It might be some time before I see what therapeutic function this book did serve. But for now, it's not even easy to read from it.”

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Author:Porochista Khakpour

“"Jack Reacher" was easy because the function of the villain was just to spread fear and horror.”

Easy Horror Function Spread Villain

Author:Werner Herzog

“As a function of the easy access to information provided by the Internet, and the ease with which it can be shared thanks to social media, consumers are now better informed as to the behavior of brands and the multiple global crises we face.”

Faces Social Easy Media Information Internet Behavior Function Crisis Social Media Access Thanks Brands Consumers Ease Multiple Access To Information Easy Access

Author:Simon Mainwaring

“The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good, and difficult for them to do evil.”

People Government Evil Easy Difficult Function

Author:Daniel Webster

“Good, honest, hardheaded character is a function of the home. If the proper seed is sown there and properly nourished for a few years, it will not be easy for that plant to be uprooted.”

Ifs Love Years Children Character Home Easy Family Honest Dad Function Plant Seeds Parents Home

Author:George Amos Dorsey

“This is only one step in a much larger project. I discovered (no, not me: my team) the function of sugar nucleotides in cell metabolism. I want others to understood this, but it is not easy to explain: this is not a very noteworthy deed, and we hardly know even a little.”

Knows Want Littles Science Easy Steps Team Projects Understood Discovery Function Deeds Cells Sugar Metabolism

Author:Luis Federico Leloir

“As was predicted at the beginning of the Human Genome Project, getting the sequence will be the easy part as only technical issues are involved. The hard part will be finding out what it means, because this poses intellectual problems of how to understand the participation of the genes in the functions of living cells.”

Humans Mean Hard Problem Science Easy Issues Involved Findings Projects Intellectual Research Function Cells Genes Participation Sequence Genome Genome Project Human Genome Project

Author:Sydney Brenner