Quotes with difficult

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  • Joan Didion Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves so truly materialistic, so versed in the uses of power.
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Alberto Salazar An athlete who tells you the training is always easy and always fun simply hasn't been there. Goals can be elusive which makes the difficult journey all the more rewarding.
    Alberto Salazar
    American track coach and long-distance runner (1958 - )
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  • Edmund Burke An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Bob Schieffer And I came away from that experience, and it was a very difficult experience - I came to understand that you have to practice at being a good father and practice at being a good husband, just as you have to practice at being a good journalist.
    Bob Schieffer
    American television journalist (1937 - )
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  • Aleksander Kwasniewski And still the time, especially in the economy, is very tough, very difficult. It's necessary to be active still, to work, to fight, to make our economy more competitive.
    Aleksander Kwasniewski
    Polish politician and journalist (1954 - )
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  • Ann Bancroft And then there's also this element of - some people would describe it as spirits or a presence that appears when things are very difficult, physically and emotionally. You know, when you're really putting out. So the third man aura is sort of an appearance. It's the yeti.
    Ann Bancroft
    American author, teacher, adventurer (1955 - )
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  • Sylvia Plath Apparently, the most difficult feat for a Cambridge male is to accept a woman not merely as feeling, not merely as thinking, but as managing a complex, vital interweaving of both.
    Sylvia Plath
    American poet (1932 - 1963)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Willa Cather Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.
    Willa Cather
    American author (1873 - 1947)
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  • Boz Scaggs As a guitar player, you can gravitate to the blues because you can play it easily. It's not a style that's difficult to pick up. It's purely emotive and dead easy to get a start with.
    Boz Scaggs
    American singer, songwriter, and guitarist (1944 - )
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  • Arthur Conan Doyle As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    British writer and medical doctor (1859 - 1930)
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  • Ben Horowitz 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.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Candice Millard As I have encountered difficult moments in my own life, I have been privileged to learn from the great men I have come to know as a writer.
    Candice Millard
    American writer and journalist (1968 - )
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  • Bayard Taylor As I toiled up the Mount of Olives, in the very footsteps of Christ, panting with the heat and the difficult ascent, I found it utterly impossible to conceive that the Deity, in human form, had walked there before me.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Cao Yu As society diversifies, the number of people who read literature is decreasing. It will be difficult for readers to digest my ideas through literature.
    Cao Yu
     
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  • Peter Gabriel 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]
    Peter Gabriel
    British musician, composer and songwriter (born 1950) (1950 - )
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  • Anna Held At home in Paris I take a milk bath two times a week, but here on the road it is more difficult. I miss them.
    Anna Held
    Polish-born stage performer and singer (1872 - 1918)
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  • Baltasar Gracián Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.
    Baltasar Gracián
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Warren Bennis Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.
    Warren Bennis
    American scholar, organizational consultant and author (1925 - 2014)
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  • Kingsley Amis Being American is, I think, a very difficult thing in art, because all the elements are European.
    Kingsley Amis
    English novelist, poet, critic, and teacher (1922 - 1995)
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