Quotes with difficult

Quotes 281 till 300 of 363.

  • Susan Sontag The best emotions to write out of are anger and fear or dread. The least energizing emotion to write out of is admiration. It is very difficult to write out of because the basic feeling that goes with admiration is a passive contemplative mood.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Warren Buffett The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.
    Warren Buffett
    American investment entrepreneur (1930 - )
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • George Santayana The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • André Maurois The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather to know it.
    André Maurois
    French writer (ps. van mile Herzog) (1885 - 1967)
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  • Brene Brown The difficult thing is that vulnerability is the first thing I look for in you and the last thing I'm willing to show you. In you, it's courage and daring. In me, it's weakness.
    Brene Brown
    American professor, lecturer, author (1965 - )
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  • Benjamin Clementine The greatest in heroes in life are the anonymous. That's what I believe. Your neighbours are heroes. People who, when you walk down the street, you see them feeding their little baby - these people are heroes because they are living under difficult situations, but they're still trying to save a life.
    Benjamin Clementine
    British artist, poet, vocalist, composer, and musician (1988 - )
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  • Marcel Proust The human plagiarism which is most difficult to avoid, for individuals... is the plagiarism of ourselves.
    Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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  • Mother Teresa The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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  • Diana Spencer Princess of Wales The kindness and affection from the public have carried me through some of the most difficult periods, and always your love and affection have eased the journey.
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  • William Cowper The life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
    William Cowper
    English poet (1731 - 1800)
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  • John Burroughs The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
    John Burroughs
    American writer (1837 - 1921)
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  • Gertrude Stein The minute you or anybody else knows what you are you are not it, you are what you or anybody else knows you are and as everything in living is made up of finding out what you are it is extraordinarily difficult really not to know what you are and yet to be that thing.
    Gertrude Stein
    American author (1874 - 1946)
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  • A. B. Yehoshua The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.
    A. B. Yehoshua
    Israeli novelist (1936 - )
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  • Miguel de Cervantes The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Carlton Cuse The most difficult story that I've ever been involved in breaking on any of my shows was 'The Constant' episode of 'Lost,' which was when Desmond was consciousness-traveling.
    Carlton Cuse
    American screenwriter, producer, and director (1959 - )
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  • Amelia Earhart The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure , the process is its own reward.
    Amelia Earhart
    American aviation pioneer and author (1897 - 1937)
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  • Mark Twain The most difficult We do not deal in facts when we are contemplating ourselves.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Seng-Ts'an The Perfect Way is only difficult for those who pick and choose. Do not like, do not dislike; all will then be clear. Make a hairbreadth difference, and Heaven and Earth are set apart.
    Seng-Ts'an
    Chinese third patriarch of Zen Buddhism
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  • Barry Marshall The politics have always been difficult in medicine. There is some truth in the way medical practice is portrayed in TV dramas.
    Barry Marshall
    Australian physician, Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology (1951 - )
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