Difficult Quotes

Life at home is cramped and dirty, it is difficult to live a spiritual life completely, perfect and pure in all its parts while cabinned.

Let the wise guard their thoughts, which are difficult to perceive, extremely subtle, and wander at will. Thought which is well guarded is the bearer of happiness.

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

The thing about parenting rules is there aren't any. That's what makes it so difficult.

To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year.

Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult.

I'm an anorak. I've always been an obsessive collector of things. Richard Briers collects stamps. I collect cars and guns, which are much more expensive, and much more difficult to store.

Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist.

Painting is a very difficult thing. It absorbs the whole man, body and soul, thus have I passed blindly many things which belong to real and political life.

What seems to me the highest and the most difficult achievement of Art is not to make us laugh or cry, or to rouse our lust or our anger, but to do as nature does-that is, fill us with wonderment.

I think for all the women who are working parents it's difficult to balance your work-life and your home-life. You make obvious sacrifices because you really just want to be with your family.

The art of walking on quicksand is still beyond me. What I learned is only how difficult this art is to master and how hard people need to struggle to learn it.

Negotiations over a shrinking pie are especially difficult because they require an allocation of losses. People tend to be much more easygoing when they bargain over an expanding pie.

The studio system is kind of an old boys system and it's difficult for them to trust women to be capable

I had some difficult times when I first moved to Los Angeles when people would tell me I was saying things wrong. I felt different although my mum kept reminding me it was OK to be different.

The most difficult part of dating is the initial invitation.

Even when life is difficult or challenging-especially when life is difficult and challenging-the present is always an opportunity for us to learn, grow, and become better than we've ever been before.

There are films that are difficult. There are films that would actually affect your personal life because of the length of the production, how long [you're away] from the family.

You'd think is something one would grow out of. But you grow into it. The more you do, the more you realize how painfully easy it is to be lousy and how very difficult to be good.

In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.

In the state of society in which we now find ourselves, it is difficult to imagine a nation which lived solely on bread and vegetables.

For me, it doesn't matter how difficult something is, it doesn't matter how impressive it is, it's what sounds best that really counts.

Every worthy act is difficult. Ascent is always difficult. Descent is easy and often slippery.

The Lord never asks the impossible. Often the difficult, but never the impossible.

I think it's difficult to be No. 1. 'There's too much attention, too much expectation from other people.

Economics seeks to be a science. Science is supposed to be objective and it is difficult to be scientific when the subject matter, the participant in the economic process, lacks objectivity.

When you come upon a difficult task ... start.

Perhaps; but I am a difficult person to live with. My difficulty consists in not wanting to live with other people.

It would be difficult to have any unfulfilled ambitions because I don't have any ambitions. I've never been that kind of performer.

What has happened by chance is often difficult to repeat when it is sought deliberately. Chance is a genius.

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

Yoga is a spectacularly multifaceted phenomenon, and as such is very difficult to define because there are exceptions to every conceivable rule.

It's a difficult business, creating a new, alternative civilization.

And she finds it difficult to believe—that a person would love her even when she isn't trying. Trying to figure out what other people need, trying to be worthy.

Each of us has an inner dream that we can unfold if we will just have the courage to admit what it is, and the faith to trust our own admission. The admitting is often very difficult.

What is difficult about learning - any kind of learning - is that you have to give up what you know already to make room for the new ideas. Children are much better at it than grownups.

The construction of the human figure, its tremendous variety of balance, of size, of rhythm, all those things make the human form much more difficult to get right in a drawing than anything else.

It is difficult to make good scalable use of a CPU like you can of a graphics card. You certainly don't want 'better or worse' physics or AI in your game

In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; but in adversity it is the most difficult of all things.

It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated.

Golf is difficult to get your personality over because you are such a bottle of concentration.

I genuinely find it difficult to think of places that I'd never want to see again. It might be because part of my career has been concerned with writing about topography.

It's very difficult to introduce the world to our culture.

Common sense is so very simple but very difficult to grasp.

Writing doesn't come easily to me. It gets more and more difficult.

My wife... its difficult to say what she does... she sells seashells on the seashore.

Adult stem cells are also problematic, as they are difficult to identify, purify and grow, and simply may not exist for certain diseased tissues that need to be replaced.

Meet the difficult while it is easy.

The finished man, you know, is difficult to please; a growing mind will ever show you gratitude. --Faust 1, lines 182-3

I never go straight to the point if I can go the most difficult way. Why be simple when you can be complicated?