Difficult Quotes

It is very difficult to be learned; it seems as if people were worn out on the way to great thoughts, and can never enjoy them because they are too tired.

Most men find it difficult to remain true to a single woman, but relatively easy to be true to three or four at the same time.

Anyone can revolt. It is more difficult silently to obey our own inner promptings, and to spend our lives finding sincere and fitting means of expression for our temperament and our gifts.

To complicate things in new ways, that is really very easy; but to see things in new ways, that is difficult and that is why genius is so rare.

A modern man may disapprove of some of his sweeping reforms, and approve others; but finds it difficult not to admire even where he does not approve.

It’s a very difficult era in which to be a person, just a real, actual person, instead of a collection of personality traits selected from an endless Automat of characters.

The only people who think writing is easy are people who don't write. Writing's a difficult, courageous act. Bravery is required, as well as a great deal of slogging along. A lot of our work is work.

You think it more difficult to turn air into wine than to turn wine into blood?.

Repression in the human psyche is tightly bundled. When it has been pulled out of the sprung package so often it is perhaps difficult to push it back in the box.

The political process is rough and tumble by definition, and being grounded in faith in a Higher Power has proven helpful in navigating the difficult terrain.

Shooting an improv-based film is incredibly liberating, exhilarating, and fun, but editing that kind of movie can be difficult for obvious continuity reasons.

Great mathematics is achieved by solving difficult problems not by fabricating elaborate theories in search of a problem.

Recreational number theory [...] is that part of number theory that is too difficult to study.

He(C. Ronaldo) makes the most difficult plays look easy.

We find it difficult to choose our direction because it does not yet exist distinctly in our idea.

It's difficult for me to be around anyone for longer than an hour. Love, death, elation, sorrow, I just don't care all that much about any of it. I am at this point, more of an observer/journalist.

It's hard to get along with people. As much as you try to like them and accept them as individuals, it becomes difficult because they keep getting out of line and wasting your time.

All I really wanted was to try and live the life that was spontaneously welling up within me. Why was that so very difficult?

The power of home run hitters in the majors is different from those here. It's probably difficult for me to match that power now.

Restrictions are difficult to enforce in a world where anybody can make anything.

Being a typical teenager isn't easy. When you have autism, it can be extra difficult. We need more public awareness about these hurdles as well as compassion towards these young people.

It is difficult to administer properly what belongs to all in common.

It is difficult to divest one's self of vanity; because impossible to divest one's self of self-love.

The longer one doesn't write, the more difficult it is to communicate.

All of a sudden, I was hearing stories about how difficult I was to work with, ridiculous rumors about drugs and what a diva I was. I never had to go to rehab or a program.

Nobody can be happy. You could have moments of happiness, moments of joy. But life is very difficult. Unless you're a total idiot. Then you can be happy.

I think my work is very difficult to understand. Sometimes people do and sometimes they don't. I can't do much about that.

Some roles are easier to choose, some roles are more difficult because they are more daring. Sometimes you have to dare.

Today, making money is very simple. But making sustainable money while being responsible to the society and improving the world is very difficult.

The easier you make it look, the more difficult it is. Creating characters out of nothing, and making them interesting - and that's another advice I would give to writers.

I have a talent for dealing with difficult men.

I'm not a household word. The climate for original music is always a bit difficult.

As artists, it’s our job to delve into the uncomfortable, the difficult and the challenging.

Things are difficult enough about Iraq without the Federal Government suppressing the truth about Iraq.

How easy it is to destroy the past and how difficult to forget it.

When it gets difficult is often right before you succeed.

Finding a technical cofounder would have been difficult for me. I was an English major and didn't know any computer programmers.

Silence is difficult and arduous, it is not to be played with.

When you go through difficult times...recognize that God is refining you, knocking off some of your rough edges.

The most difficult thing is what is thought to be the simplest; to really see the things which are before your eyes.

Without ethics man has no future. This is to say mankind without them cannot be itself. Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.

Knowing the future is difficult, controlling the future is impossible. Knowing today is essential; controlling today is possible.

Isn't it also that on some fundamental level we find it difficult to understand that other people are human beings in the same way that we are? We idealize them as gods or dismiss them as animals.

I think it would be very difficult to play somebody if they didn't think they had any virtues or redeeming characteristics.

Investment based on genuine long-term expectations is so difficult today as to be scarcely practicable.

Making money is easy. It is. The difficult thing in life is not making it, it's keeping it.

When you open box after box of old comics and they're ALL "Archie," you have suffered a trauma from which it is difficult to ever recover.

The longer Jose Mourinho goes on, and on, and on, the more difficult it is for me not to despise him and the set of values he's bringing to football.

Comedy is not my world. It's difficult for me, but sometimes you just have to go with it and have a good time.

Its difficult to do something radically new, unless you are at the heart of a company.