Quotes with difficulty

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  • Sir Thomas Beecham Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.
    Sir Thomas Beecham
    English conductor and impresario (1879 - 1961)
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  • Brendon Burchard Have you ever played a video game that didn't have escalating levels of difficulty? Well, life can feel like play, too, when we purposefully engage in activities that demand we test and develop our skills.
    Brendon Burchard
    American author (1977 - )
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  • Nora Ephron I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive.
    Nora Ephron
    American journalist, writer, and filmmaker (1941 - 2012)
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  • Alexander Hamilton 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.
    Alexander Hamilton
    American statesman (1757 - 1804)
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  • Albert Einstein In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him, who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty.
    First Inaugural Address (1861)
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Bainbridge Colby It is a high patriotic duty that we support and sustain the men who have been placed in position of difficulty, burden, responsibility, and even danger as the result of our suffrages.
    Bainbridge Colby
    American politician and attorney (1869 - 1950)
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  • André Gide It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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  • Thomas Jefferson It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate - to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle It was easier to know it than to explain why I know it. If you were asked to prove that two and two made four, you might find some difficulty, and yet you are quite sure of the fact.
    A Study in Scarlet (1887)
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    British author (1859 - 1930)
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  • Bianca Kajlich 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.
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  • Barbara Jordan Let there be no illusions about the difficulty of forming this kind of a national community. It's tough, difficult, not easy. But a spirit of harmony will survive in America only if each of us remembers that we share a common destiny.
    Barbara Jordan
    American lawyer, educator and politician (1936 - 1996)
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  • Lionel Trilling Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.
    Lionel Trilling
    American Critic (1905 - 1975)
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  • Baruch Spinoza Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Wyndham Lewis 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.
    Wyndham Lewis
    British painter and author (1882 - 1957)
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  • George Bernard Shaw My friend, when a man has anything to tell in this world, the difficulty is not to make him tell it, but to prevent him from telling it too often.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • John Pierpont Morgan No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.
    John Pierpont Morgan
    American banker, financer, art collector (1837 - 1913)
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  • Oscar Wilde Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Arsene Wenger Of course, we also have the responsibility to win games and the difficulty in the job is to combine both.
    Arsene Wenger
    French football manager and former player (1949 - )
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  • P. J. O'Rourke One of the annoying things about believing in free will and individual responsibility is the difficulty of finding somebody to blame your problems on. And when you do find somebody, it's remarkable how often his picture turns up on your driver's license.
    P. J. O'Rourke
    American journalist (1947 - )
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