Difficulty Quotes
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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.
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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.
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The great difficulty with politics is, that there are no established principles.
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Men were only made into 'men' with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally 'a man' any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse.
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Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.
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If you are not a writer, you will not understand the difficulties of writing. If you are not a writer, you will not know the fears and hopes of the writers you teach.
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It is easier taking the beaten path than making our way over bogs and precipices. The great difficulty in philosophy is to come to every question with a mind fresh and unshackled by former theories, though strengthened by exercise and information.
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It is indeed a matter of great difficulty to discover, and effectually to distinguish, the true motions of particular bodies from the apparent; because the parts of that immovable space, in which those motions are performed, do by no means come under the observation of our senses. Yet the thing is not altogether desperate; for we have some arguments to guide us, partly from the apparent motions, which are the differences of the true motions; partly from the forces, which are the causes and effects of the true motions.
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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.
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I happen to like household chores and resent them only when performing them makes it difficult for me to fulfill my professional duties.
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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.
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I would rather have ideas and some difficulties of technique than a perfect technique and no ideas.
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I have a great female support system. We encourage each other because we all face some of the same difficulties. We all experience mommy guilt. It's always great to have an uplifting support system.
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The difficulty with all of these things comes around economics and how much of what you see as your baby you are willing to give up to be part of something.
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Some things get written more quickly than others, but I can't really measure degrees of difficulty.
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The simplest way of understanding justice is giving people what they deserve. This idea goes back to Aristotle. The real difficulty begins with figuring out who deserves what and why.
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I lived in Complexo do Alemao until I was 12, dealt with domestic violence in my childhood and faced difficulties in life.
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The secret of the difficulties of those people who make a great deal of money, and yet are always in want of it, is this-they throw it away as soon as they get it on the first whim or extravagance that strikes them, and have nothing left to meet ordinary expenses or discharge old debts.
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It is not possible to refer a complex difficulty to a single cause.
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The present system under the control of the whites trains the Negro to be white and at the same time convinces him of the impropriety or the impossibility of his becoming white... the Negros will have no outlet but to go down a blind alley, if the sort of education which they are now receiving is to enable them to find the way out of their present difficulties.
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One can't realize difficulty arriving at a momentous decision until one comes to do so.
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The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was.
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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.
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Ninety percent of the difficulty in your intellectual life would never have happened if you just had better taste.
