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“Those tasks that have been entrusted to us are difficult; almost everything serious is difficult; and everything is serious.”

Has Beens Difficult Serious Tasks Difficulty

Book:Letters to a Young Poet

Source: Letters to a Young Poet

“Every serious novel is, beyond its immediate thematic preoccupations, a discussion of the craft, a conquest of the form, a conflict with its difficulties and a pursuit of its felicities and beauty.”

Form Novel Serious Conflict Difficulty Pursuit Crafts Discussion Conquest Preoccupation Felicity Thematic

Author:Ralph Ellison

“If a man successful in business expends a part of his income in things of no real use, while the poor employed by him pass through difficulties in getting the necessaries of life, this requires his serious attention.”

Ifs Men Real Use Wealth Poor Attention Successful Serious Difficulty Income Employed

Book:A Journal of the Life and Travels of John Woolman: In the Service of the Gospel

Source: A Journal of the Life and Travels of John Woolman: In the Service of the Gospel

“serious difficulties don't vanish by themselves, they are standing around your bed when you open the eyes the next morning.”

Eye Next Morning Trouble Serious Bed Standing Difficulty

Author:Vicki Baum

“Reasonably accurate appraisal of one's own capabilities is, therefore, of considerable value in successful functioning. Large misjudgments of personal efficacy in either direction have consequences. People who grossly overestimate their capabilities undertake activities that are clearly beyond their reach. As a result, they get themselves into considerable difficulties, undermine their credibility, and suffer needless failures. Some of the missteps, of course, can produce serious, irreparable harm”

“Consequently many large railroad systems of heavy capitalization bid fair to run into difficulties on the first serious falling off in general business”

Firsts Running Fall Economy Serious Fairs Difficulty Heavy Railroads Falling Off Capitalization

Author:John Moody

“So if God should place me in serious perplexity, must He not give me much guidance; in places of great difficulty, much grace; in circumstances of great pressure and trial, much strength? No fear that HIs resources will prove unequal to the emergency! And His resources are mine, for He is mine, and is with me and dwells in me.”

Ifs Giving Should Grace Mines Serious Circumstances Prove Resources Give Me Difficulty Pressure Trials Guidance No Fear Emergencies Perplexity

Author:Hudson Taylor

“The difficulty of accurate recognition constitutes one of the most serious sources of friction in war, by making things appear entirely different from what one had expected.”

Different War Serious Source Difficulty Expected Recognition Accurate Friction

Book:On War

Source: On War