Difficulty Quotes
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A [psychological] difficulty is not an impossibility.
John Stuart Mill
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Any great achievement is preceded by many difficulties and many lessons; great achievements are not possible without them.
Brian Tracy
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People tend to want to follow the beaten path. The difficulty is that the beaten path doesn't seem to be leading anywhere.
Charles Mathias
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One of the difficulties of photography is that it is much better at being explicit than at being reticent.
Teju Cole
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For example, in painting the form arises from abstract elements of line and color, while in cinema the material concreteness of the image within the frame presents - as an element - the greatest difficulty in manipulation.
Sergei Eisenstein
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One of the difficulties in living the lifestyle I lead is that it is hard to get my friends in one place.
Sean Parker
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The best architects feel it to be their duty to make the path to the hole as free as possible from annoying difficulties for the less skillful golfers, while at the same time presenting to the scratch players a route calling for the best shots at their command.
Robert Hunter Grateful Dead
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I’m going to share something I learned since I been here and that is us as people when we have difficulty on our journey of life we tend to focus on what we need at the moment that we forget what we already have…
Alex Kotlowitz
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Young people coming up who are having difficulty with their so-called celebrity need to get back into their lives. It's your life and you can't let the fact that you do something pretty good take away the joy of it.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
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To the stars through difficulties.
Seneca the Younger
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I consider myself to be a very good skateboarder, but the difficulty when you're being pulled behind any car, when there's only a 20-ft. line, is that you can't see the potholes.
Casey Neistat
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Not every day can be an easy one, nor every day fully happy; but even a day of tough going and difficulty can be a good day.
Norman Vincent Peale
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The difficulties of living in a secular risk culture are compounded by the importance of lifestyle choices.
Anthony Giddens
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It cannot be too often repeated that it is not helps, but obstacles, not facilities, but difficulties that make men.
William Mathews
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Although the way ahead for immunology is full of pitfalls and difficulties, this is indeed an exhilarating prospect. There is no danger of a shortage of forthcoming excitement in the subject. Yet, as always, the highlights of tomorrow are the unpredictabilities of today.
Cesar Milstein
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Be secret and exult, Because of all things known That is most difficult.
William Butler Yeats
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I think the biggest single thing that causes difficulty in the business world is the short-term view. We become obsessed with it. But it forces bad decisions.
James Sinegal
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Neither in war nor yet at law ought any man to use every way of escaping death. For often in battle there is no doubt that if a man will throw away his arms, and fall on his knees before his pursuers, he may escape death; and in other dangers there are other ways of escaping death, if a man is willing to say and do anything. The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death.
Socrates
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The great difficulty with politics is, that there are no established principles.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Economists can never be free of from difficulties unless they will distinguish between a theory and the application of a theory.
William Stanley Jevons
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It takes the passage of time before an image of a commonplace subject can be assessed. The great difficulty of what I attempt is seeing beyond the moment; the everydayness of life gets in the way of the eternal.
George A Tice
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The difficulty is being able to assimilate any critical mass
Gary Myers
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To stop short in any research that bids fair to widen the gates of knowledge, to recoil from fear of difficulty or adverse criticism, is to bring reproach on science. There is nothing for the investigator to do but go straight on, 'to explore up and down, inch by inch, with the taper his reason;' to follow the light wherever it may lead, even should it at times resemble a will-o'-the-wisp.
William Crookes
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You can curl up in the fetal position and try to wish away all the things that need doing, or you can get started on that uphill battle to reclaim your life. The difficulty isn’t what choice to make, because that part is obvious. The difficulty lies in finding the energy and inspiration to make the right choice.
Noel Fisher