Difficult Quotes

It is very difficult to pass from pleasure to work. Accordingly more poems have been swallowed up by sorrow than ever happiness caused to blaze forth in unparalleled radiance.

Nothing is so difficult but that man will accomplish it.

It is difficult to speak of the universal specifically.

Nothing is difficult to mortals; we strive to reach heaven itself in our folly. [Lat., Nil mortalibus arduum est; Coelum ipsum petimus stultitia.]

It is difficult to speak of what is common in a way of your own.

It is far more difficult, I assure you, to live for the truth than to die for it.

It would be difficult to do art without music (music subsidises the art).

It's easy, of course, for two teams to collude, but somewhat more difficult for twenty-eight

One thing we didn't know in 1996 is that it's very, very difficult, if not impossible, to sustain a culture with online advertising.

Managers are obsessed with the game. It's very, very difficult, if not impossible, to live a balanced lifestyle.

I'm a generous host, but I'm a difficult and interfering guest. When I go around to other people's houses and they're cooking, I'm always telling them what to do.

It's very difficult to censor anything anymore.

But anyone who's done a musical knows; whether you're dancing or not, physically it's the most difficult thing you can do.

Morality will be very difficult for the man who does not pray.

I find it very difficult just to sit. I would love to learn how to do that with contentment.

I love writing and can't imagine not being able to do it. I want an easy life and if it had been difficult I wouldn't be doing it. I do admire writers who do it even though it costs them.

What was it with men, that they found elementary logic so difficult?

Quite often I play roles that require quite a degree of emotional exposure, and they can be very difficult to do.

I've bashed my body for 30 years and I've just got to eat properly and not drink too much - very difficult!

I don't feel that rap has been respected as an art form. Because people have seen rappers rap off the top of their heads, they don't think it is difficult.

A pissy werelion was rather difficult to live with.

The most difficult thing for me is to leave the New Jersey Devils, a great organization that I have a lot of respect for, and our fans that have been great to me.

It is very difficult to hang onto the relics of history.

To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficult of all, and so important, withal, that nations have perished from their failure to achieve it.

The choosing of a role is so difficult for me. That's the real challenge: to choose the role, not to do the role. Once you've chosen them, the process is much easier.

Jews are a singular confusion — difficult to define, awkward to describe, impossible to understand. All the virtues, all the vices, every pleasure, every pain — nothing is spared them.

[It's] difficult to engage people in politics when they believe that what really matters is where they personally stand.

[On writing:] What a difficult kind of work to choose! But of course one did not choose it. There was no choice.

This is probably one of the most difficult challenges any parent could face - learning to love the other parent enough to make the children first.

Until you make peace with your difficult memories, that pain will continue to bleed into your current and future experiences.

It's going to be really emotional to say goodbye. I'm going to find it very difficult. But it must be done, it must be done.

I think it's difficult to be honest about certain aspects of my work without acknowledging that I have experienced or felt or questioned certain of the themes in the books.

I keep trying to define poetry, but its so difficult.

The most difficult thing about being well known? Getting out of a hotel room at 4am.

The long irons are the nemesis of the average golfer. I'm convinced that the underlying reason for this is that he keeps hearing how hard they are to handle. They're not that difficult, truly.

Golf really excites me only when the course is difficult and challenging. I love competing. The pressure of competition against fine holes and fine players makes me feel very much alive.

What's interesting about golf is that most athletes end up gravitating toward golf because it is such a difficult sport.

In hell it is difficult to tell people from other people.

The problem of transmitting scientific knowledge is a very difficult business.

It was really cool being out on the road and doing school with my tutor over Skype or on the phone, but it can definitely be difficult.

Writing, at least a craft and at its best an art, aspiring to the unique, is the most difficult to learn.

I never give in to the temptation to be difficult just for the sake of being difficult. That would be too ridiculous.

When one's function is to teach the loftiest wisdom, it is difficult to resist the temptation to believe that until you have spoken, nothing has been said.

It is difficult to be king when the gods are changing.

The most difficult battle you ever fight is the battle to be unique in a world that will marshal its every force to keep you the same.

It's very difficult in the technology space when you have been leapfrogged to prosper again.

The more successful an organization becomes, the more difficult it is to deal with.

For a much lauded writer, I'm not terribly self-absorbed. In social situations, which are difficult for me - I mean, this is an interview - I'm normally uncomfortable talking about myself.

Humor is a bit like Mary Poppins' sugar-it helps the medicine go down. A little bit of humor allows people to think about very difficult subjects.

Sleep is still difficult I sleep for three or four hours a day. Usually sometime in the afternoon. I walk in the cold, keep myself numb. I cry less, and less." (James Frey, pg.88)