Difficulty Quotes

• I think I'm a very lazy writer and by that I mean that I do not battle, I don't struggle too hard against it. If I have difficulties in the writing, I just go and do other things. I don't feel a compulsion to write.

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • Writing
  • Mean
  • Struggle

• One cannot guess the real difficulties of a problem before having solved it.

  

  Carl Ludwig Siegel
  • Real
  • Problem
  • Difficulty

• Much of the present difficulty in industrial relations arises from the fact that too many employers as well as too many legislators take the Labor Leader more seriously than he deserves to be taken, while taking the ordinary, everyday, middle-of-the-road wage-earner less seriously than he deserves to be taken.

  

  Whiting Williams
  • Taken
  • Leadership
  • Everyday

• I lived in Complexo do Alemao until I was 12, dealt with domestic violence in my childhood and faced difficulties in life.

  

  Maria das Gracas Silva Foster
  • Violence
  • Childhood
  • Difficulty

• Ninety percent of the difficulty in your intellectual life would never have happened if you just had better taste.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Intellectual
  • Taste
  • Happened

• Difficulty is inevitable. Drama is a choice.

  

  Anita Renfroe
  • Drama
  • Choice
  • Difficulty

• Work on your strong qualities and become resplendent like the ruby. Practice self-denial and accept difficulty. Always see infinite life in letting the self die. Your stoniness will decrease; your ruby nature will grow. The signs of self-existence will leave your body, and ecstasy will take you over.

  

  Rumi
  • Work
  • Accept
  • Qualities

• In adversity keep motivated, for often the best comes from difficulty.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Motivated
  • Adversity
  • Difficulty

• Our daily life is mostly, made of cases in which we lose money and/or time and/or energy and/or appetite, cheerfulness and good health because of the improbable action of some preposterous creature who has nothing to gain and indeed gains nothing from causing us embarrassment, difficulties or harm. Nobody knows, understands or can possibly explain why that preposterous creature does what he does. In fact there is no explanation - or better there is only one explanation: the person in question is stupid.

  

  Carlo M. Cipolla
  • Energy
  • Action
  • Health

• Every acting gig isn't the same, every writing job isn't the same, every live performance isn't the same - the challenge is the level of difficulty or ease, and that may vary.

  

  Ricky Jay
  • Writing
  • Acting
  • Challenges

• The chief difficulty of modern theoretical physics resides not in the fact that it expresses itself almost exclusively in mathematical symbols, but in the psychological difficulty of supposing that complete nonsense can be seriously promulgated and transmitted by persons who have sufficient intelligence of some kind to perform operations in differential and integral calculus.

  

  Celia Green
  • Physics
  • Nonsense
  • Symbols

• The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.

  

  Alexandre Dumas
  • Lies
  • Difficulty
  • Merit

• I think that the resistance against Darwin is not just the difficulty of seeing the power of a spectacularly beautiful explanation: it is the fear of realizing the extraordinary power that such an explanation has in shattering rests of old world views.

  

  Carlo Rovelli
  • World
  • Beautiful
  • Realizing

• The chief difficulty is that God demands of us that we live by faith: faith in God, God's sovereignty over the future, God's sufficiency for the present; while, on the other hand, the various other gods whom we can serve appeal to us in terms of the things which we can see and the forces which we can calculate. The choice between the life of faith and the life of sight is a choice between a God whom only faith can apprehend and gods whom one has only to see to understand. Choices Faith In God Invisible Difficulty Term Sovereignty Live By Various Appeals Chiefs Demand Force Hands Sight Sufficiency Seeing Visible

  

  Daniel Thambyrajah Niles
  • Faith
  • Choices
  • Invisible

• It is well, when in difficulties, to say never a word, neither black nor white. Speech is silver but silence is golden.

  

  Muriel Spark
  • Silence
  • Speech
  • Golden

• Especially when there are difficulties in our relations, parties and statesmen in China and Japan should look over the situation from a higher point of view and preserve the political foundation of bilateral ties.

  

  Wu Bangguo
  • Political
  • Should
  • Situation

• It is a great difficulty and a great necessity to have to start with the smallest.

  

  Paul Klee
  • Start
  • Difficulty
  • Necessity

• It is at least worth arguing that there is a modicum of the creative novelist in all of us, and that this absorption with how men get out of difficulties, single-handedly and alone if possible, is the stuff of which we weave the warp and woof of our own better dramatic imaginings.

  

  Humphrey Bogart
  • Creative
  • Dramatic
  • Arguing

• How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure!

  

  Alexandre Dumas
  • Pleasure
  • Plan
  • Escape

• To work is simple enough; but to rest, there is the difficulty.

  

  Ernest Hello
  • Work
  • Difficulty

• Of course, we also have the responsibility to win games and the difficulty in the job is to combine both.

  

  Arsene Wenger
  • Responsibility
  • Winning
  • Jobs

• If a single cell, under appropriate conditions, becomes a man in the space of a few years, there can surely be no difficulty in understanding how, under appropriate conditions, a cell may, in the course of untold millions of years, give origin to the human race.

  

  Herbert Spencer
  • Men
  • Science
  • Understanding

• The problem of creating something new, but which is consistent with everything which has been seen before, is one of extreme difficulty.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Problem
  • Creating
  • Consistent

• Use the difficulties - if you can't avoid them

  

  Michael Caine
  • Use
  • Difficulty

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