Difficult Quotes

Let the wise one control his thoughts, for they are difficult to perceive, often elusive, and they rush about frantically: a mind well controlled achieves peace and happiness.

Self-discipline, although difficult, and not always easy while combating negative emotions, should be a defensive measure.

And to turn it into rap wasn't too difficult besides just rhymin' the last words of each line.

There is no such thing as a difficult dog, only an inexperienced owner.

I think we're living in a world where society is very difficult.

It isn't the ups and downs that make life difficult; it's the jerks.

An athlete who tells you the training is always easy and always fun simply hasn't been there. Goals can be elusive which makes the difficult journey all the more rewarding.

What I do when speaking in public is trying to do it as best as possible and trying to make everybody comfortable with my words. Sometimes getting this is very difficult, but I try my best.

...arranging the journey was so difficult. Getting home again was much easier.

The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.

It is not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your set.

Thinking is difficult and sometimes unpleasant.

I think when I was on the corporate ladder, it was very difficult to maintain the hours. It's a little easier when you have you're an entrepreneur.

If you can't enjoy the time between golf shots, then you are going to have a pretty difficult life because most of you life is the time spent in-between.

It's just as difficult to live in a self-made hell of privacy as it is to live in a self-made hell of publicity.

God grant us patience!

Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough.

Our predicament is not the difficulty of attaining happiness, but the difficult of avoiding the misery to which the pursuit of happiness exposes us.

[A difficult childhood gave me] a kind of cocky confidence. ... I could never have so little that I hadn't had less. It took away my fear.

If all Europe lies flat while the Russian mob tramps over it, we will then be faced with a war under difficult circumstances, and with a very good chance of losing it.

At Home in the World is the story of a young woman, raised in some difficult circumstances, and how she survives. It tells a story of redemption, not victimhood.

When we have disorderly lives, it makes it difficult for our minds to be orderly and for us to be at ease with disorder.

I used to hang out with Salvador Dali a lot. He was such a nice man. I really liked his wife Gala, too. People say that she was tricky, but she was never difficult with me.

The most difficult thing in any negotiation, almost, is making sure that you strip it of the emotion and deal with the facts.

After a person dies, there is always something like a feeling of stupefaction, so difficult is it to comprehend this unexpected advent of nothingness and to resign oneself to believing it.

Amazing, how much more difficult it was to extend his arm twelve inches and touch her hand than it was to snatch a speeding Snitch from midair.

The pollen count, now that's a difficult job. Especially if you've got hay fever.

There's a lot about discovering who you are and how difficult that is. And it never stops.

When the depressive psychosis has become manifest, its cardinal feature seems to be a mental inhibition which renders a rapport between the patient and the external world more difficult.

I would not leave anything to a man of action as he would be tempted to give up work; on the other hand, I would like to help dreamers as they find it difficult to get on in life.

If we can keep at least a bit of the mind clear about temporality, we can mange complicated, even difficult, times with grace.

I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays.

It has become inordinately difficult even to begin to think about constructing a naturalistic theory of the evolution of that first reproducing organism.

There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.

When life makes us face difficult situations-such as a personal loss-we have to understand that eternity is taking one more step.

If you are trying to take a difficult decision and you're weighing up the pros and cons, you have frank conversations. Everybody knows this in their walk of life.

We are honored to have had the opportunity to serve our country under difficult circumstances. We are profoundly grateful to our Commander-in-Chief and to our nation for this day. God bless America.

It's very satisfying to take a problem we thought difficult and find a simple solution. The best solutions are always simple.

People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.

Loafing" is easy, but "leisure" is difficult.

The Internet has usurped the collective unconscious and access to cosmic consciousness has become difficult and almost primitive.

Getting married is easy. Staying married is more difficult. Staying happily married for a lifetime is among the fine arts.

It is not difficult to govern. All one has to do is not to offend the noble families.

I find it difficult to watch myself... I find it boring.

I find it very difficult to wear nice, pretty shoes. I'm much more comfortable in boots or Birkenstocks or loafers.

It is difficult to remove by logic an idea not placed there by logic in the first place.

It's always more interesting and more difficult to make something positive than negative. To be negative is very easy.

When I arrived in France, it was very, very difficult. Not because I was in France - I could have been anywhere - but because I was so far, far away from my parents. I missed them so much.

No matter what, it is very tricky and difficult just to be a good parent at all. I have a lot of help. And for that I'm very grateful.

God is much in the difficult home problems as in the times of quiet and prayer.