Difficult Quotes

It is easy to criticize an author, but difficult to appreciate him.

With the piano I'm completely in control of the gestural situation-not that I'm going to play the piece myself, but I know what's difficult, what's impossible.

Its very difficult in our society. You cannot impose certain behavioral changes. Education can do it at the right time, probably by high school. After that it is too late.

Dealing with Greece's problems will be more difficult if Greece is not a member of the eurozone.

Reason finds it difficult to take root in the arid soil of wrath.

Something that is very difficult to translate is the humor.

The physical stuff of a movie is difficult. It's one of those things where it's just harder than it looks.

I don't believe a good poet is very often deliberately obscure. A poet writes in a way necessary to him or her; the reader may then find the poem difficult.

I find teaching - I like it, but I find just walking into the classroom and facing the students very difficult.

If I was writing about an academic or a more difficult person, I would use the Latinate vocabulary more, but I do think Anglo-saxon is the language of emotion.

In most fields of endeavor there are no easy jobs; there are only graceful ways of performing difficult ones.

If you write, one of the questions you're always trying to answer is, Where do you get your ideas? And, if you write, you know how pointless a question this is and how difficult it is to answer.

Creativity needs time to harness before it goes out, and because that's difficult, memes have become the creative language.

the last steps of life are ever slow and difficult.

To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation.

If you look at my life, generally, I've been put in situations which were difficult and which I conquered.

I think the jobs [at the top] are unbelievably difficult, and there is nothing easier than second-guessing people.

If I have something I want to say that is too difficult for adults to swallow, then I will write it in a book for children.

I had my guitar and some talent so that I could make friends with intelligent people and could talk my way out of difficult situations.

The first year was hard for me to deal with. The second year was a little bit easier, but still difficult. It took me five years to get it out of me. It was a difficult moment, a difficult time.

It all started when I got injured early in my second season. This turned out to be as difficult emotionally as physically.

Appreciation of nonviolence means patient research and still more patient and difficult practice.

The truth is that cowardice itself is violence of a subtle type and therefore dangerous and far more difficult to eradicate than the habit of physical violence.

Perfect nonviolence is difficult. It admits to no weakness.

It is difficult to judge, when both sides are employing weapons of violence, which side 'deserves' to succeed.

It is much more difficult to live for nonviolence than to die for it.

It is difficult for me to regard anyone who obeys no moral principle in his conduct to be a religious man.

Faith is put to the test when the situation is most difficult.

I do think that there are people who are able to connect with and empathize with anyone who is going through something difficult, just naturally. I don't think it's a world of effort for everyone.

. . . the most difficult thing asked by our young is not our earnings but our ears.

Enlightening editorial writers is even more difficult than educating educators.

I think I found it difficult though to keep a straight face when we were actually working and I wasn't supposed to be laughing.

Being Manny Pacquiao's wife is not easy. It's fun for me and my guys but it's very difficult for her.

I have 5 teenage daughters, and I learned the hard way - it's difficult to talk to any person under the age of 25 without the presence of a cell phone.

When you have to react to a lizard that's a tennis ball, it's a really, really difficult, tricky piece of craft.

The most difficult secret for a man to keep is the opinion he has of himself.

If there is one thing more difficult than submitting oneself to a regime it is refraining from imposing it on other people.

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Difficult as it often is to grasp someone else's pain, it is easy to judge another's behavior.

The difficult thing was deciding what to leave off! I just ultimately tried to strike a balance between what was interesting to hard core fans, and what was exciting to first timers and what I liked.

Presidents don't have the benefit of hindsight. You have to make difficult decisions based on the information that's before you at that moment.

Do not try to decide a difficult matter by means of disputing, but that which is enjoined by the spiritual law, namely patience, prayer, and thoughtful hope.

It is difficult to remember all, and ungracious to omit any.

Nothing is difficult in the eyes of a lover.

Nothing is so difficult to believe that oratory cannot make it acceptable, nothing so rough and uncultured as not to gain brilliance and refinement from eloquence.

If you want to understand a difficult or trying person, begin by asking the question: 'What is the wound they are trying to heal?'

Don't misunderstand me. I am not scoffing at goodness, which is far more difficult to explain than evil, and far more complicated. But sometimes it's hard to put up with.

Comedy is quite a difficult place for queers and for women.

Times were so hard it was difficult to feed and lodge humans, much less animals.

Love is an emotion. It can't be seen or touched, and it is experienced differently by everyone, therefore it is difficult to measure.