Difficulty Quotes
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Do every day or two something for no other reason than its difficulty.
William James -
People can experience loss of memory, daytime sleepiness. They can also have a difficulty concentrating.
Karen Allen
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The road to Lourdes is littered with crutches, but not one wooden leg.
Emile Zola -
I feel nothing, apart from a certain difficulty in continuing to exist.
Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle -
Few diseases present greater difficulties in the way of diagnosis than malignant endocarditis, difficulties which in many cases are practi- cally insurmountable. It is no disparagement to the many skilled physicians who have put their cases upon record to say that, in fully one-half the diagnosis was made post mortem.
William Osler -
There are some things which men confess with ease, and others with difficulty.
Epictetus -
Painting it was hard graft. There are one and a half large tubes of white in the ground - yet that ground is very dark.
Vincent Van Gogh -
The idea of difficulty animates us all the time. We don’t want man to be an angel; we want him to be a hero. That is to say, a man like us, but who does extraordinary things. He jumps, yes, but in spite of the law of gravity. And everything he does is always ‘in spite of.’
Etienne Decroux
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The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?
Alice James -
If you concern yourself mainly with others, the broader your thinking becomes, and life’s inevitable difficulties disturb you less.
Dalai Lama -
In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.
Beverly Sills -
The key of success is for you to set one big, challenging goal and then to pay any price, overcome any obstacle and persist through any difficulty until you finally achieve it
Brian Tracy -
The thing about opium is that it makes pain or difficulty unimaginable.
Sebastian Faulks -
The chances of running out of yarn on a project are directly related to the difficulty that you will have getting more.
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
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The more humanity owes him, the more society denies him. Every door is shut against him, even when he has a right to its being opened: and if he ever obtains justice, it is with much greater difficulty than others obtain favors.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
Your rewards in life will be determined by what you do, how well you do it, and the difficulty of replacing you.
Brian Tracy -
When all combine in every way to make everything easier, people will want difficulty. I conceived it as my task to make difficulties everywhere.
Soren Kierkegaard -
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.
William Morris Hunt -
The wishes of the people, seldom founded in deep disquisitions, or resulting from other reasonings than their present feelings, may not entirely accord with our true policy and interest. If they do not, to observe a proper line of conduct for promoting the one, and avoiding offence to the other, will be a work of great difficulty.
George Washington -
Sometimes I think the most difficult moments in life were actually good because they made me strong. I was a child labourer. From this, I learned to stand on my own feet. So I don't want to forget the difficulty of my life.
Sonita Alizadeh
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....those who become princes through their skill acquire the pricipality with difficulty, buy they hold onto it with ease.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli -
As the size of cyclotrons increases and faster particles are produced, a difficulty arises due to the relativistic increase of mass of the particle.
Ernest Walton -
Improve yourself by other men's writings thus attaining effortlessly what they acquired through great difficulty.
Socrates -
Persisting through lesser difficulties builds your capacity to persist through greater difficulties, and achieve even greater things.
Brian Tracy