Difficulty Quotes
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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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She was having some difficulty piecing together exactly why she deserved to be in this place, but she wasn't stupid enough to deny that in the end life was cruel and didn't pay attention to what was fair.
Ted Dekker
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What we're seeing early on is Democrats rallying around Al Gore, Republicans rallying around George Bush and the difficulty of anybody else to get any room in the race.
Stuart Rothenberg
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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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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 great difficulty with politics is, that there are no established principles.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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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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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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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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I do a TV show about a priest in London, and he is also slightly beleaguered and is subject to fate and misfortune and daily difficulty.
Tom Hollander
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Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.
William Hazlitt
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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 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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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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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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'Why me?' rarely produces a positive result, while 'How can I use this?' usually leads us in the direction of turning our difficulties into a driving force to make ourselves and the world better.
Anthony Robbins
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You will live as you live in any world...With difficulty, and grief.
Catherynne M. Valente
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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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The difficulty is being able to assimilate any critical mass
Gary Myers
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Be secret and exult, Because of all things known That is most difficult.
William Butler Yeats
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To the stars through difficulties.
Seneca the Younger
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When things are going well, something will go wrong. / When things just can't get any worse, they will. / Anytime things appear to be going better, you have overlooked something.
Richard Feynman
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I would rather have ideas and some difficulties of technique than a perfect technique and no ideas.
Mstislav Rostropovich
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The experimenter judges what may be going on in [the subject's] mind, and certainly feels difficulty in expressing all the oscillations of a thought in a simple, brutal number, which can have only a deceptive precision.
Alfred Binet