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“We are difficult. Human beings are difficult. We're difficult to ourselves, we're difficult to each other. And we are mysteries to ourselves, we are mysteries to each other. One encounters in any ordinary day far more real difficulty than one confronts in the most “intellectual” piece of work. Why is it believed that poetry, prose, painting, music should be less than we are? Why does music, why does poetry have to address us in simplified terms, when if such simplification were applied to a description of our own inner selves we would find it demeaning?”

“Individuals possessing moderate-sized brains easily find their proper sphere, and enjoy in it scope for all their energy. In ordinary circumstances they distinguish themselves, but they sink when difficulties accumulate around them. Persons with large brains, on the other hand, do not readily attain their appropriate place; common occurrences do not rouse or call them forth.”

Persons Hands Individual Energy Enjoy Common Brain Circumstances Ordinary Difficulty Appropriate Spheres Scope Moderates Possessing

Book:A System of Phrenology

Source: A System of Phrenology

“So closely interwoven have been our lives, our purposes, and experiences that, separated, we have a feeling of incompleteness--united, such strength of self-association that no ordinary obstacles, difficulties, or dangers ever appear to us insurmountable.”

Has Beens Self Feelings Purpose Friendship United Our Lives Danger Friends Ordinary Difficulty Obstacles Association Insurmountable Incompleteness

Author:Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“The ordinary affairs of a nation offer little difficulty to a person of any experience.”

Littles Persons Political Politics Nations Offers Ordinary Experience Difficulty Affair

Book:Correspondence

Source: Correspondence

“Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.”

Wells Sometimes Motivational Ability Decision Ordinary Determination Difficulty Decision Making Assets

Author:Brian Tracy

“Creation,' in the ordinary sense of the word, is perfectly conceivable. I find no difficulty in conceiving that, at some former period, this universe was not in existence, and that it made its appearance in six days (or instantaneously, if that is preferred), in consequence of the volition of some preexisting Being.”

Ifs Made Universe Existence Creation Evolution Periods Six Ordinary Consequence Difficulty Appearance Former Volition Conceiving

Author:Thomas Huxley