Difficult Quotes
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Everything great is just as difficult to realize as it is rare to find.
Baruch Spinoza
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From all wild beasts, a child is the most difficult to handle.
Plato
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The difficult part of good temper consists in forbearance, and accommodation to the ill-humors of others.
William Empson
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I overthink everything, and one thing I find difficult is to actually be in the moment.
Jorja Smith
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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
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To be poor without murmuring is difficult. To be rich without being proud is easy.
Confucius
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Makes even the most difficult of times better and the strangest of villages home.
Pam Jenoff
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I try to keeps things pretty light, try to make people laugh. I find it difficult to keep trying to promote myself. I know that's the whole point of it, to promote my music, but I like to use it to be funny and silly.
Ingrid Michaelson
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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
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It is a difficult matter to argue with the belly since it has no ears.
Cato the Elder
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Your 'frog' should be the most difficult item on your things-to-do list, the one where you're most likely to procrastinate; because, if you eat that first, it'll give you energy and momentum for the rest of the day.
Brian Tracy
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There's always a part of my brain saying: 'Stop getting comfortable. Don't relax.' Because I find it difficult to write when I'm happy. I have to go out there and get battered up and bruised to write anything. I have to feel something.
Tom Odell
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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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True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
Honore de Balzac
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Comedy is not my world. It's difficult for me, but sometimes you just have to go with it and have a good time.
Jonathan Banks
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If you are going to do a film about the South Pole, the chances are that you will film it in Hawaii! Whatever is most difficult, you will get to do it.
Mike Newell
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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
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I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside, it's a painful, difficult search within.
Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
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Being completely free to choose what to do is actually quite difficult.
Brian Eno Roxy Music
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But I owe something to Vincent, and that is, in the consciousness of having been useful to him, the confirmation of my own original ideas about painting. And also, at difficult moments, the remembrance that one finds others unhappier than oneself.
Paul Gauguin
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Color categories are on steroids in Latin America. I find that fascinating. It's very difficult for Americans, particularly African-Americans to understand or sympathize with.
Henry Louis Gates
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The instruments for the quest for Truth are as simple as they are difficult.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Russia on its path has oftentimes discussed and overdiscussed what had happened earlier, instead of moving forward. The result is always the same: It is very difficult to move forward when you're looking backward.
Mikhail Khodorkovsky
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While also, importantly, not wanting to dumb it down or pretend the days of 'difficult' poetry are over, because we live in a pluralist culture and there's room for 'difficult' poetry alongside rap and everything else. And poetry won't be for everyone, but everyone should have the choice.
Andrew Motion