Difficult Quotes

• In blues music, there's a lot of borrowing, so it's often difficult to identify the originator of a song.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Music
  • Song
  • Borrowing

• I find it very difficult to be funny, it's much easier to do tragedy than it is to do comedy.

  

  Eric Drooker
  • Funny
  • Comedy
  • Tragedy

• The coma ward was boring yet difficult. Like golf.

  

  Belinda Peregrín
  • Difficult
  • Golf
  • Coma

• Sometimes its difficult to accept, to recognise ones own mistakes, but one must do it. I was guilty of overconfidence and arrogance, and I was punished for that.

  

  Mikhail Gorbachev
  • Sometimes
  • Arrogance
  • Overconfidence

• It is rightly said that the most difficult thing in chess is winning a won position

  

  Vladimir Kramnik
  • Success
  • Winning
  • Chess

• When I was a kid it was much more difficult. You're trying to understand what the director wants. It's a learning process. Now, you go in and it's more of a collaboration.

  

  Moises Arias
  • Learning
  • Director
  • Collaboration

• In terms of content, you can make a problem for yourself, I mean, make the contest difficult, let's say, with certain subject matter that is inherently dramatic.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Problem
  • Mean
  • Term

• Of course the most difficult thing on the violin is always intonation. The second one is rhythm. If you play in tune, in time with a good sound that's already high level. Those three are the main things.

  

  Ruggiero Ricci
  • Play
  • Sound
  • Levels

• When you are scoring runs, you automatically become a good leader because you are armed with so much confidence. If you struggle with your performance, then it becomes very difficult for a leader to perform his role.

  

  Mohammad Azharuddin
  • Confidence
  • Because
  • Become

• Dostoevky's lack of taste, his monotonous dealings with persons suffering with pre-Freudian complexes, the way he has of wallowing in the tragic misadventures of human dignity - all this is difficult to admire.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Suffering
  • Dignity
  • Admire

• Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Money
  • Sometimes
  • Difficult

• Simplification is one of the most difficult things to do.

  

  Jonathan Ive
  • Things
  • Difficult
  • Simplification

• Over the years you encounter just about every kind of crime. It doesn't harden you, but you become capable of reporting on just about anything human beings can do. However, any time we're dealing with the murder of a child it is always difficult.

  

  Catherine Crier
  • Children
  • Kind
  • Crime

• Way up high in the Shenandoah Mountains where I live, it is difficult to maintain illusions about the natural world. It is dying.

  

  Wil S. Hylton
  • Dying
  • Natural
  • Mountains

• To use color well is as difficult as for a fish to pass from water to air or earth.

  

  Andre Lhote
  • Color
  • Difficult
  • Use

• I don't like the fashion world. It's too nasty, too rip-off, too hard. And now it's all Gucci and Prada; it's very difficult to make your own business.

  

  Anita Pallenberg
  • Business
  • Fashion
  • Difficult

• It's certainly a difficult time right now to try to make small, smart films. I'm not trying to be self-serving, but you get to Hollywood, and if you want to make something big and loud and dumb, it's pretty easy.

  

  Terry Zwigoff
  • Trying
  • Film
  • Smart

• All issues - purchasing and selling of currency - are related to the regulation of the national currency market. However, it is still difficult to say what will be the reaction of the Central Bank and if it would lead to increasing the gold and foreign currency reserves.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Gold
  • Selling
  • Currency

• The superior man is easy to serve, but difficult to please ... The inferior man is difficult to serve, but easy to please.

  

  Confucius
  • Difficult
  • Please
  • Serve

• Sometimes, when I have to learn the lines in German and French, it's that much more difficult because it doesn't just sink in automatically, organically. I have to memorize it. It's a tricky thing, as well, as when you improvise, sometimes you want to say something but you don't know how to put it. It's more difficult than in your mother tongue. It's a challenge but, at the age of fifteen, I put myself up for it and I was aware that it would be an obstacle and many times.

  

  Alicja Bachleda-Curus
  • Mother
  • Age
  • Sometimes

• The ability to find meaning in the most difficult times, I think, is one of the most important skills of life.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Ability

• The last refuge of the intelligentsia: when life gets too difficult, go find something to read.

  

  Judith Flanders
  • Life
  • Difficult
  • Read

• I don't think of it as difficult. It would be difficult if I were carrying something heavy, but I carry Leicas. You can't talk about it that way. I'm not operating a shovel and getting tired.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Thinking
  • Tired
  • Difficult

• To tell you the truth, I'm not unhappy about it. I'm not even sure that I like the idea of adapting novels into films. It's very difficult to do, and it usually doesn't work. There are exceptions, but generally speaking, one feels disappointed with the result.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Film
  • Novel
  • Unhappy

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