Difficulty Quotations

Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all.

A teacher told my mother that I would never become successful, which illustrates the difficulty of long-run forecasting on inadequate data.

The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.

It's easy when you've had difficulty or strife in your life to look at other people who seem like they've had it easier. But the thing we forget is that it is all relative, and each person's experience is uniquely their own, so that the worst thing they may be going through is truly the worst thing for them... it's just about having compassion.

But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell.

I know my own soul, how feeble and puny it is: I know the magnitude of this ministry, and the great difficulty of the work; for more stormy billows vex the soul of the priest than the gales which disturb the sea.

Art is a subjective thing, and it should be a subjective thing. And the difficulty of subjectivity is that it becomes hugely problematized when you start applying large sums of money to art objects. That's where it all starts to get a bit sticky.

There are two ways of meeting difficulties: You alter the difficulties or you alter yourself to meet them.

I had to escape the destruction of my fathers bankruptcy and all that difficulty.

Many a man renounces morals, but with great difficulty the conception, 'morality.' Morality is the 'idea' of morals, their intellectual power, their power over the conscience; on the other hand, morals are too material to rule the mind, and do not fetter an 'intellectual' man, a so-called independent, a 'freethinker.'

Restaurant critics all struggle with the difficulty of writing about eating without resorting to the word 'delicious' and its synonyms.

I write by hand, making many, many corrections. I would say I cross out more than I write. I have to hunt for words when I speak, and I have the same difficulty when writing.

A lot of times, you had to beat the bullies at their own game. But the difficulty is not becoming the bully yourself.

For women who have children, the economic difficulty of sustaining a life as an artist maybe makes it impossible. There's no maternity leave, there's no pension.

For me, most of the anxiety and difficulty of writing takes place in the act of not writing. It's the procrastination, the thinking about writing that's difficult.

I cannot explain it; but when difficulties arise, I am not perplexed or doubtful. I know how to meet them.

The majority of the world - including myself - we all have problems and difficulty in life, and life's messy. But there are great rewards in life, too.

All the English speakers, or almost all, have difficulties with the gender of words.

This whole idea of visibility by the public creates a pretty powerful lever. In the new transparency era, you are able to make change you would otherwise have difficulty making. It's no longer possible for somebody just to bury the problem. It's the reason why things like WikiLeaks are important.

The French don't seek out alliances except when there are difficulties.

It seems that the greatest difficulty is to find the end. Don't try to find it, it's there already.

For one who feels compelled, as I do, to accept the existence of the Master Architect, it is important to examine his handiwork for the light it throws on him and on his program for his children. For me, there has been no serious difficulty in reconciling the principles of true science with the principles of true religion.

The greatest difficulty with the world is not its ability to produce, but the unwillingness to share.

If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.

One of the difficulties in living the lifestyle I lead is that it is hard to get my friends in one place.

I know it's more five-star now than it was then, but it's still a difficult tour. In the same way as India and Pakistan players find it difficult coming to Australia. People sometimes have difficulty believing that.

The chief difficulty which prevents men of science from believing in divine as well as in nature Spirits is their materialism.

At school, I was never given a sense that poetry was something flowery or light. It's a complex and controlled way of using language. Rhythms and the music of it are very important. But the difficulty is that poetry makes some kind of claim of honesty.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.

One of the difficulties of photography is that it is much better at being explicit than at being reticent.

I find I'm the sort of harried working mother who has difficulty scheduling in a bit of rest amid the Ptolemaically complicated interlocking gears of professional and personal life.

Rocket science has been mythologized all out of proportion to its true difficulty.

Those of us who believe in God and derive our sense of right and wrong and ethics from God's Word really have no difficulty whatsoever defining where our ethics come from. People who believe in survival of the fittest might have more difficulty deriving where their ethics come from. A lot of evolutionists are very ethical people.

It's not just we Italians who are caught up in the difficulty.

We debated long over the situation for it is a very difficult question and all of us recognize its difficulty.

The exchange program is the thing that reconciles me to all the difficulties of political life.

The honest truth is that if this government were to propose the massacre of the first-born, it would still have no difficulty in getting it through the Commons.

The difficulty with poetry is that it doesn't have the life that Shakespeare or Jane Austen have beyond the page. You can't make a costume drama out of it. There's no place for it to go except trapped inside its little book.

After my mother's death, I had such difficulty relating to people.

Where there is no choice, we do well to make no difficulty.

The fundamental difficulty that most novelists face when they are trying to adapt their own book into a screenplay is realizing that a screenplay is a completely different way of storytelling, and it has limitations.

I always anticipated difficulties in order to avoid scenes.

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

In that sense, film is superior, but the difficulty is your lack of control as a writer.

Some things get written more quickly than others, but I can't really measure degrees of difficulty.

In 1962, my injury wasn't because of violence; I just kicked the ball and it happened. And that was OK because Brazil won; I didn't have any difficulty in accepting that. I still got a medal because I'd played two games.

We have no firm hold on any knowledge or philosophy that can lift us out of our difficulties.

My approach to gymnastics in Beijing was heavily based on the amount of difficulty I could do.

I'm not very good at talking and being with people and being gregarious and outgoing. I love people, but I have great difficulty doing it.

We're under the Arts Council under the Minister for the Arts. The Minister for the Arts and the Minister for Industrial Development have great difficulty in agreeing over who should fund what in terms of film.

Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.

It's often difficult for us to act compassionately, but sacred art eases the difficulty by ennobling us.

The difficulty for the Government is there's this ideological straitjacket of the market will provide, let the market rip and everything will work out... It's back to trickle-down economics, which, it's plain to see, have not delivered.

Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment.

Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.

I have my own difficulty with movies in which the suffering of the characters is too real, and many find it difficult to watch comedies that rely too heavily on embarrassment; the vicarious reaction to this is too unpleasant.

Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.

As much as we love each other, there is some growing difficulty in my adult relationship with my father. Because we're both writers, we're having a very intimate conversation in a very public forum.

Since the beginning of my recording career in 1975, I have had a little difficulty because the pop stations think I'm a jazzer who doesn't have a feeling for pop, so it's hard to get my records played. Similarly, black urban radio doesn't understand that with my R&B roots, I am more than a jazz singer. So I get pigeonholed.

I'm more relaxed. I know I have difficulties with some verbs. But if they get me, they get me. And if they don't understand me, they don't understand me.

I think it is the height of ignorance to believe that the sexual act is an independent function necessary like sleeping or eating. Seeing, therefore, that I did not desire more children, I began to strive after self-control. There was endless difficulty in the task.

There will always be, within a party, people who backed one candidate versus people who backed another, and there will be factions in the party, and there's always a little glee faction looking at the difficulty of the other faction.

Early in my career, I had difficulty breathing during workouts and my performance on the ice suffered. It wasn't until I was diagnosed with EIB and received the proper treatment that I was able to reach my peak performance.

The best way out of a difficulty is through it.

Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.

There were several possible solutions of the difficulty of classical electrodynamics, any one of which might serve as a good starting point to the solution of the difficulties of quantum electrodynamics.

What goes on inside a star is better understood than one might guess from the difficulty of having to look at a little dot of light through a telescope, because we can calculate what the atoms in the stars should do in most circumstances.

You should know that I've been hearing-impaired, not quite since birth, but I've been wearing hearing aids since I was 13, so I'm very conscious of the difficulty of voice communication.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are difficult.

Why does Medicare have such difficulty accommodating a cut - no, wait, a trim to its annual spending increase - of two measly percentage points? Two words: baby boom.

The greatest difficulty always comes right before the birth of a dream.

One of the drivers told me about his situation. He stopped the bus with some difficulty and then it slid sideways, kitty-corner across the intersection, and had to be towed away from the curb.

One of the fundamental characteristics of striated muscle, and the one involving the greatest difficulty in investigation, is the great rapidity with which changes take place in it.

One of the lessons I have learned is that clients understand the need for X-ray inspection, but sometimes have difficulty integrating the function into their operations. With the changeover to lead-free assemblies, the need for X-ray inspection services will become more critical, and so will the need for manufacturers to understand how to integrate these tools.

One of the major difficulties is that, as the head of a major corporation once said to me, Australia is on the way to Antarctica. But if the mines at Cape York were concerned about getting directly to the rest of the world then (Cape York) would be the best place for it. But the difficulty is in start-up costs and energy costs. But let's just see what we can get.

On Monday and Tuesday, we were having difficulty getting enrollment eligibility information from the government database. But by yesterday (Tuesday) afternoon, our information requests were going through and we were getting the information back that we needed. For those patients, the situation has gotten a lot better.

On the other hand, old people who have lived most of their lives are set in their habits and therefore have far more difficulty adapting themselves to a new marriage than young people.

On the planet, over 90 percent of the population 45 years and older have difficulty reading, but their distance vision is OK. The current bifocal lenses are divided ... so when people are driving they are not using the bifocal lens. Our lens, with the focusing power, allows them to use the whole lens for different vision tasks at the same time.

I would expect they're going to have real difficulty putting a jury pool together. If people are back in New Orleans, they're going to be rebuilding their homes or businesses or both.

When I have a meeting, I want to be able to focus on what we are discussing, ... You are able to carry on a conversation without difficulty of hearing or being heard.

Of course, there are some problems that need attention. Most importantly, the basis for increasing domestic demand is unstable, the level of difficulty for adjusting the economic structure is increasing and the world economy is slowing.

No-one contests the need to address the high cost of and the corresponding difficulty of having access to cross-border clearing and settlement in the EU. We have not yet reached any definitive view on the precise measures we would propose to remedy this situation. It is clear, though, that the present system is untenable. Changes are going to have to be made. We believe the industry recognizes this as well and we would encourage them to be a part of the solution and not the problem." ()

Monique handles responsibility well. She can narrow her focus without any difficulty, and her work ethic is always the same. She's a real gamer who has a history of coming through in the clutch.

None of us can honestly grasp the level of tragedy, but on an individual basis, we deal with refugees on a daily basis, ... This is a situation where one refugee camp may have difficulty helping another refugee camp.

People who are elderly make up a large part of our population and have enough difficulty as it is.

Obviously it's always very difficult. It has its benefits because we watch guys evolve and they get an opportunity. But where the difficulty comes in is all the things you've implemented you can't do, especially offensively. That's the tough part when you're sitting there and you're wondering what to call and how to call it. That's the challenge.

Riding judge is a matter of opinion. It's like gymnastics. In gymnastics, a girl can't get a 6.0 if the difficulty of all your tricks only add up to 3.0.

Right now folks are having difficulty leaving the (flooded) area.

I have difficulty calling myself a great teacher and I don't think I've really ever altered my teaching style at all. We have a lot more technology available to draw from now, but I have to admit I still do things now like I did when I started teaching at Buford in 1970.

I have every difficulty that any other entrepreneur has plus one extra. I have to hire extra help on projects that a regular person wouldn't necessarily need.

I have chosen to withdraw as director of 'Superman.' The difficulty of casting the role of Superman has contributed to my decision. I appreciate the efforts of Warner Bros. and the entire production team during this process.

I have great difficulty sitting in the middle of the night and writing. Everything I do comes spontaneous. Sometimes it takes a long time; sometimes it comes just like that.

I didn't anticipate having that much difficulty running it. They put more guys in the box (at the line of scrimmage).

I have had quite a lot of prizes, but I don't think it makes any difference to the ease or difficulty to the writing process.

I have had unusual difficulty getting a better explanation for readers, despite the paper's repeated pledges of greater transparency.

How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure.

Of all nations, those submit to civilization with the most difficulty which habitually live by the chase.

Much of the science we need to know and turn to for wisdom on environmental issues is precisely the same science that underlies evolution. That's posed a difficulty for some churches.

Men were only made into ''men'' with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally ''a man'' any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse.