Difficulty Quotes

• The difficulties of peace are better than the agony of war.

  

  Menachem Begin
  • Military
  • Difficulty
  • Agony

• It reassures parents that we are aware of the employment difficulty and that we are doing as much as we can to provide information to their sons and daughters, and to help them deal with the post-graduate reality.

  

  Michael Parkinson
  • Daughter
  • Information
  • Employment

• 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

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

  

  Carl Ludwig Siegel
  • Real
  • Problem
  • Difficulty

• Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Character
  • Difficulty

• 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
  • World
  • Business
  • 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

• 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

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

  

  Alexandre Dumas
  • Pleasure
  • Plan
  • Escape

• 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

• 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

• One of the difficulties of photography is that it is much better at being explicit than at being reticent.

  

  Teju Cole
  • Photography
  • Difficulty
  • Explicit

• 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.

  

  Mem Fox
  • Knows
  • Teach
  • Difficulty

• 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

• I feel like we want to compartmentalise things and say, 'Well, that's emotional, artistic and subjective, while this is intellectual, objective and measured.' I have difficulty thinking that's the way we experience things.

  

  Shane Carruth
  • Emotional
  • Feels
  • Intellectual

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

  

  Ernest Hello
  • Work
  • Difficulty

• 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
  • Inspiration
  • Choice
  • Difficulty

• 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

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

  

  Paul Klee
  • Start
  • Difficulty
  • Necessity

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Michael Caine
  • Use
  • Difficulty

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