“The difficulty in working with someone on a show like Idol or X Factor is they have an idea of what they think is cool in their heads, and it's important as a producer to maintain control of the session and not let it get side-tracked or chase too many rabbits. But it's also important to let the artist feel like their opinion matters, so that balance is difficult.” ThinkingFeelsImportantIdeasMatterShowsArtistDifficultSidesOpinionBalanceDifficultyFactorsProducersIdolsSessionRabbits Author:Ryan Tedder
“Mostly getting old is boring. I hate the stiffness in the bones. I was physically arrogant for years. I don't like it now that I have difficulty getting around. But a certain equanimity sets in, a certain detachment. Things seem less desperately important than they once did, and that's a pleasure.” YearsImportantSeemsCertainHatePleasureI HateDifficultyBoringBonesArrogantGetting OldDetachmentEquanimityStiffness Author:Doris Lessing
“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.” PeopleIfsWantImportantDifficultUnderstandingSpecialSubjectsOvercomingDifficultyObviousIntellectSignificantInstructionContrast Book:Philosophical Occasions, 1912-1951 Source: Philosophical Occasions, 1912-1951
“It is important to distinguish the difficulty of describing and learning a piece of notation from the difficulty of mastering its implications. [...] Indeed, the very suggestiveness of a notation may make it seem harder to learn because of the many properties it suggests for exploration.” MayImportantSeemsPiecesDifficultyHarderPropertyExplorationImplicationsDescribing Author:Kenneth E. Iverson