Difficult Quotes
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The number of strokes to the inch controls the pitch of the note: the more, the higher the pitch; the fewer, the lower the pitch, the size of the stroke controls the loudness... the tone quality is the most difficult element to control, it is made by the shape of the strokes.
Norman McLaren -
I've tried every context imaginable, but the trio is the most demanding. It's very difficult to get an orchestral sound out the trio, but we do because I think orchestrally. The trio allows me a lot of space. I can play solo piano, duets with the bassist, drums and piano. Playing at optimum level is the challenge. What's necessary for me is establishing a meaningful statement musically; and my experiences dictate certain musical utterances; and my training and inherent sense of judgment all feed into this. I already know what is happening before I reach the bandstand ninety per cent of the time. The value lies in my skill to interpret a song. It may go better than I planned, in some instances, but it's not going to go any worse
Ahmad Jamal
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Reply on what constitutes scientific proof:"The question is much too difficult for me".
Albert Einstein -
To establish what is true is very difficult. Frequently it is easier to establish what is false. And, passing through the false, it's possible to understand something about truth.
Umberto Eco -
Nothing is more difficult, in my opinion, than to avoid something that fundamentally attracts you.
Catherine the Great -
Every worthy act is difficult. Ascent is always difficult. Descent is easy and often slippery.
Mahatma Gandhi -
It is a difficult matter to keep love imprisoned.
Apuleius -
I love romantic comedies. I like to watch them and I like to be in them. It's something that's increasingly difficult to find that spark of originality that makes if different than the ones that come before.
Julia Roberts
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Why did the generals who have been so ready to term me a complaisant and incompetent yes-man fail to secure my removal? Was that all that difficult? No, that wasn't it; the truth was that nobody would have been ready to replace me, because each one knew that he would end up just as much a wreck as I.
Wilhelm Keitel -
It will take you less time and effort to do a thing the difficult way than it will to buy, try and discard all the shortcuts.
Seth Godin -
It's rather difficult to think of anybody being really interested in me. But you know, man, I am totally together.
Syd Barrett Pink Floyd -
If I could have any power in the world, it would be super-metabolism. I would love to eat anything and not gain weight! That would be a great power. I would have an intravenous Guinness with me, everywhere I went! But I wouldn't want to know what my wife is thinking. It's a difficult power, yeah.
Gregory Phillip Grunberg Band from TV -
Do you think that we're products of our environments? I think so, or maybe products of our expectations. Others' expectations of us or our expectations. I mean others' expectations that you take on as your own. I realize how difficult it is to seperate the two. The expectations that others place on us help us form our expectations of ourselves.
Wes Moore -
I still love how Phil Spector turned teenage experiences into wonderful symphonies, but I find it a little more difficult to put myself in that place.
Joe Goddard The 2 Bears
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For it will be very difficult to persuade men of sense that he who with dry eyes and satisfaction of mind can deliver his brother to the executioner to be burnt alive, does sincerely and heartily concern himself to save that brother from the flames of hell in the world to come.
John Locke Nazareth -
Of all things that can happen to us, triumph is the most difficult to endure when we are alone. Deprived of witnesses, it shrinks at once.
Gabrielle Roy -
It is essential to make oneself used to putting up with a little. Even the wealthy and the well provided are continually met and frustrated by difficult times and situations. It is in no man's power to have whatever he wants; but he has it in his power not to wish for what he hasn't got, and cheerfully make the most of the things that do come his way.
Seneca the Younger -
Luxuries are easy to take up but very difficult to give up.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
It is so easy to convince others; it is so difficult to convince oneself.
Oscar Wilde -
Waiting is far more difficult than doing.
Elizabeth Gaskell
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The first time you see the film it takes you right back to those times and those moments. It's very difficult to be objective about the work because you really have to remove yourself and see it a couple of times before you can really involve yourself in the story.
Djimon Hounsou -
It is difficult to know oneself, but it isn't easy to paint oneself either.
Vincent Van Gogh -
It's difficult to be at events with a room full of women who weigh half as much as you do.
Lindsey Vonn -
Last time I was recording, I was trying to loop on the computer, but it's really difficult because it's really different from looping on hardware.
Julia Kent Antony and the Johnsons