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  • Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.
  • Men aren't the way they are because they want to drive women crazy; they've been trained to be that way for thousands of years. And that training makes it very difficult for men to be intimate.
  • When I talk about that Apple ecosystem, the ability to get one application to run across those five platforms is very difficult. In the future of Microsoft, using HTML5, IE9 and 10, the scalable OS, the ability to do that gets much, much easier.
  • As the band got more successful, it was increasingly difficult to get people to take a risk with something that might jeopardize their livelihood. [On Genesis]
  • Herr Schroder has conducted two electoral campaigns, and he is doing it again now, by not telling people what is really necessary. He keeps avoiding the difficult and uncomfortable issues, those that imply changes and therefore provoke discussions.
  • Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs.
  • As companies move to web-based computing they get a lot more servers, which are difficult to manage and control. All kinds of problems can arise - security, quality and worms.
  • One of the reasons it has seemed so difficult for a person to change his habits, his personality, or his way of life, has been that heretofore nearly all efforts at change have been directed to the circumference of the self, so to speak, rather than to the center.
  • It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.
  • The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Oscar Wilde Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Stephen Hawking However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • Morarji Desai It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.
    Morarji Desai
     
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  • Assata Shakur People are really beginning to see the mechanisms of imperialism. When colonialism existed people could see colonialism. When racial segregation existed in its apartheid form, people could see the whites only signs. But it's much more difficult to see the structures of neo-imperialism, neo-colonialism, neo-slavery.
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • Theodore I. Rubin Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.
    Theodore I. Rubin
     
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  • Calvin Coolidge Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • G. Randolf Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.
    G. Randolf
     
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  • Barbara de Angelis A man's brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women's brain does.
    Barbara de Angelis
    American relationship consultant, lecturer and author (1951 - )
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  • Alfred A. Montapert Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to.
    Alfred A. Montapert
    American writer
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  • Jean-Luc Godard Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion.
    Jean-Luc Godard
    French film director (1930 - 2022)
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  • Les Brown Change is difficult but often essential to survival.
    Les Brown
    American motivational speaker, author and radio DJ (1945 - )
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  • Saadi Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.
    Saadi
    Persian poet and literary of the medieval period (1200 - 1292)
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  • Ovid I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement.
    Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
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  • Harold S. Geneen It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away.
    Harold S. Geneen
    American Accountant, Industrialist, CEO, ITT (1910 - 1997)
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  • B. R. Ambedkar One can quite understand vegetarianism. One can quite understand meat-eating. But it is difficult to understand why a person who is a flesh-eater should object to one kind of flesh, namely cow's flesh. This is an anomaly which call for explanation.
    B. R. Ambedkar
    Indian jurist, economist and politician (1891 - 1956)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Leo Buscaglia The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.
    Leo Buscaglia
    American author and motivational speaker (1924 - 1998)
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  • Ezra Pound There are few things more difficult than to appraise the work of a man suddenly dead in his youth; to disentangle ''promise'' from achievement; to save him from that sentimentalizing which confuses the tragedy of the interruption with the merit of the work actually performed.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Benjamin Graham Unusually rapid growth cannot keep up forever; when a company has already registered a brilliant expansion, its very increase in size makes a repetition of its achievement more difficult.
    The Intelligent Investor Ch. 7, Portfolio Policy: The Positive Side, p. 75
    Benjamin Graham
    British-born American economist, professor and investor (1894 - 1976)
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