Simplification is one of the most difficult things to do. — Jonathan Ive
Sometimes simple things are the most difficult things to achieve. — Keanu Reeves
All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get. — Morarji Desai
There is no such thing as a Difficult Piece. A piece is either impossible - or it is easy.
The process whereby it migrates from one category to the other is known as practicing. — Louis Kentner
Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do. — Edgar Degas
You can build a throne with bayonets, but it's difficult to sit on it. — Boris Yeltsin
It is difficult to overstate the importance of the Civil Rights Act. — Bobby Scott
Albania is at risk and we are living in difficult times. — Fatos Nano
It's very difficult to release an X-rated movie. — Jerry Bruckheimer
Thinking is difficult, that's why most people judge.
Life Is So Difficult Quotes
Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever. — Isak Dinesen
Why the Christian life is so difficult to many is because they have a divided heart. They are double-minded, which makes them unstable in all their ways. — Ellen G. White
The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed. — J. K. Rowling
Thinking is difficult, that's why most people judge.
It is just as necessary to forgive ourselves as it is to forgive others, and the principal reason why forgiveness seemed so difficult is because we have neglected to forgive ourselves. — Christian D. Larson
The higher you go in a company, the less oxygen there is, so supporting
intelligent life becomes difficult. — Guy Kawasaki
There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly. — Terence
The mind is like water. When it's turbulent, it's difficult to see. When it's calm, everything becomes clear.
Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult--at least I have found it so--than constantly to bear this conclusion in mind. — Charles Darwin
What good to us is a long life if it is difficult and barren of joys, and if it is so full of misery that we can only welcome death as a deliverer? — Sigmund Freud
There is nothing in life so difficult that it cannot be overcome. This faith can move mountains. It can change people. It can change the world. You can survive all the great storms in your life — Norman Vincent Peale
To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult. — Yann Arthus-Bertrand
Life Is Very Difficult Quotes
How strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change. And how ironic that the difficult times we fear might ruin us are the very ones that can break us open and help us blossom into who we were meant to be. — Elizabeth Lesser
It is possible for us to live in the very sense of the Lord's presence, under even the most difficult circumstances. If you and I are going to enjoy the peace of paradise during this life we must become accustomed to a familiar, humble, and very affectionate conversation with the Lord Jesus. — Brother Lawrence
For, in the end, it is impossible to have a great life unless it is a meaningful life. And it is very difficult to have a meaningful life without meaningful work. — James C. Collins
Every time you find some humor in a difficult situation, you win.
I'm very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What's most difficult to imagine is that those dreams and early yearnings and desires of childhood and adolescence will also disappear. But who knows? Maybe you become part of the eternal whatever. — Hugh Hefner
Rather than taking an easy route, taking a difficult route is more satisfying and interesting. Life is hard at times; life is easy at other times. It zig zags and spins round and round. It goes up and down When all that is done, you’ll probably smile and say, “I lived a very fun life — Minzy
We all have to start with ourselves. It is time to walk the talk. Take the journey of making very difficult decisions. Start removing things from your life that are not filling your cup and adding things that bring joy in to your life. — Lisa Hammond
Every time you are able to find some humor in a difficult situation, you win.
Young horses who cannot bear the whip or spur find life hard. At every smart they start forward and rush to their destruction, and when the way is stony and difficult, they know no better expedient than to overturn the cart and gallop madly away. — Selma Lagerlöf
Marriage is a very difficult relationship for nearly everyone and I'm sure you shouldn't do it if you want a quiet little easy life. — Fay Weldon
You may have been taught that the mind (the spirit, the brain) is a very difficult thing to know about. This is the first principle of Scientology: It is possible to know about the mind, the spirit and life. — L. Ron Hubbard
I find it very difficult to think of mistakes; not that I don't make any but because I was brought up to look only at the good things in life ... As for what lost the most money, probably Virgin Cola. It is still No 1 in Bangladesh though. — Richard Branson
Change Is Difficult Quotes
The most important ingredient of leadership is character. Most of the proficiencies can be learned, but what's inside you is something that's difficult to change. — Jesse Robredo
One of the most difficult things is not to change society - but to change yourself. — Nelson Mandela
When the going gets tough, the tough reinvent. — RuPaul
Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.
Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer. — Shunryu Suzuki
This is probably the most difficult task we have ever given ourselves, which is to intentionally transform the economic development model, for the first time in human history. — Christiana Figueres
Pain is important, and changing who you are is difficult, painful, and scary. Most of the self-help industry sees change as this euphoric, liberating thing and tells you that you can be happy all the time. I think the opposite. — Mark Manson
Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations.
The most difficult thing is the decision to act! — Amelia Earhart
As the time goes by, you change, your learn new things, your attitude is different. For the moment, I'm still enjoying ski racing so much that it would be difficult for me to think about ending my career. — Hermann Maier
If you're going through difficult times today, hold steady. It will change soon. If you are experiencing smooth sailing and easy times now, brace yourself. It will change soon. The only thing you can be certain of is change. — James Dobson
Nelson Mandela said: 'It always seems impossible until it's done.' Peace is possible. — John Bonifaz
Difficult Life Quotes
So remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and hold on to that childlike wonder about what makes the universe exist. — Stephen Hawking
Difficult times don't come your way just so you can survive them; God uses these times in your life to form and refine you. — Joel Osteen
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. — Mother Teresa
It's easy to sit up and take notice. What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
I've discovered most Christians don't know what to do with difficult situations because they have bought into the lie that God owes us (for our good behaviour). The reality of life is that if you live long enough you are going to bleed, cry and hurt. AND God is still God IN that. — Matt Chandler
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult — Seneca
What I treasure most in life is being able to dream.
During my most difficult moments and complex situations
I have been able to dream of a more beautiful future. — Rigoberta Menchu
Don't pray for an easy life. Pray for the strength to endure a difficult one
You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it. — Maya Angelou
Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one — Bruce Lee
The thing about life is that you must survive. Life is going to be difficult, and dreadful things will happen. What you do is move along, get on with it, and be tough. Not in the sense of being mean to others, but being tough with yourself and making a deadly effort not to be defeated. — Katharine Hepburn
Difficult Times Quotes
You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity. — Barbara De Angelis
The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us — Voltaire
It has taken a great deal of energy, which has not been so difficult to summon as the necessary patience to wait, simply wait much of the time - until my instincts assured me that I had assembled my materials in proper order for a final welding into their natural form. — Hart Crane
People underestimate their capacity for change. There is never right time to do a difficult thing.
Woe to the people that fails to honor its heroes! It will cease producing them, cease knowing them. Heroes spring from the essence of their people. A people without heroes is a people without leaders, for only a heroic leader is a true leader able to withstand the challenge of difficult times. — Rudolf Hess
Above all, don’t fear difficult moments. The best comes from them — Rita Levi-Montalcini
If you can't change it.. change the way you think about it — Mary Engelbreit
I think one of life's great milestones is when a person can look back and be almost as thankful for the setbacks as for the victories. — Bob Dole
In difficult times, fashion is always outrageous. — Elsa Schiaparelli
A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for a difficult time. — Bible Proverbs
Life Is Difficult Quotes
As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed. — Vincent Van Gogh
The period of greatest gain in knowledge and experience is the most difficult period in one's life. — Dalai Lama
Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person. — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
It's very difficult to accept that you know what to do and don't do it.
Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person. — Abdul Kalam
However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. — Stephen Hawking
Life is difficult. Not just for me or other ALS patients. Life is difficult for everyone. Finding ways to make life meaningful and purposeful and rewarding, doing the activities that you love and spending time with the people that you love - I think that's the meaning of this human experience. — Steve Gleason
Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless. — Audre Lorde
I have come to the conclusion that the greatest obstacle to getting what we really want in life is not the other party, as difficult as he or she can be. The biggest obstacle is actually ourselves. — William Ury
The equilibrium you admire in me is an unstable one, difficult to maintain. My inner life was split early between the call of the Ancestors and the call of Europe, between the exigencies of black-African culture and those of modern life. — Leopold Sedar Senghor
God of deep waters and infinite riches, challenge me to go where I fear, to do what is difficult and what I thought could never be done. Push me to go to the deep waters of life and cast my net wide, for I put all my hope, trust and faith in you. — Matthew Kelly
Difficult Work Quotes
Where most men work for degrees after their names, we work for one before our names: 'St.' It's a much more difficult degree to attain. It takes a lifetime, and you don't get your diploma until you're dead. — Mother Angelica
There are three stages in the work of God: impossible, difficult,done. — Hudson Taylor
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 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 Isaac Rubin
When you believe the work before you is the single piece that will forever define you, it’s difficult to let go. The urge for perfection is overwhelming. It’s too much. We are frozen, and sometimes ends up convincing ourselves that discarding the entire work is the only way to move forward. — Rick Rubin
Ice skating is very difficult. It takes a lot of discipline and a lot of hard work. It's fun, but you are there on the ice every morning freezing and trying to do these moves and these tricks. — Michelle Trachtenberg
Working with the right person can make the toughest day go well, and working with the wrong person can make the simplest task excruciatingly difficult. — Scott Kelly
Swan Lake is the most difficult thing to portray for a female ballet dancer; it really requires such specific qualities of articulation, agility, strength, and the arm work is something that takes a lot of training. — Benjamin Millepied
The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best. — Jean-Paul Sartre
Difficult Situations Quotes
People aren't born strong. people grow stronger little by little, encountering difficult situations learning not to run from them. — Christina Grimmie
Difficult things provoke all your irritations and bring your habitual patterns to the surface. And that becomes the moment of truth. You have the choice to launch into your lousy habitual patterns, or to stay with the rawness and discomfort of the situation and let it transform you. — Pema Chodron
You know the bad thing about being a survivor... You keep having to get into difficult situations in order to show off your gift. — Carrie Fisher
Good planning is important. I've also regarded a sense of humor as one of the most important things on a big expedition. When you're in a difficult or dangerous situation, or when you're depressed about the chances of success, someone who can make you laugh eases the tension. — Edmund Hillary
Anyone can see the adversity in a difficult situation, but it takes a stronger person to see the opportunity. — Drew Brees
Soldiers expect the noncommissioned officer to be technically proficient, up front, and honest with them. Soldiers must know that NCOs care, that they can approach the NCO for guidance and direction, and that NCOs can make things happen when a difficult situation arises. — Glen E. Morrell
Your practice should be strengthened by the difficult situations you encounter, just as a bonfire in a strong wind is not blown out, but blazes even brighter. — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
We live in an increasingly sophisticated world that makes it difficult to make simple comments on stuff. There are too many people on both sides of the border who are taking advantage of circumstances and the situation. — Arlo Guthrie
Altogether, Cavalry operations are exceedingly difficult, knowledge of the country is absolutely necessary, and ability to comprehend the situation at a glance, and an audacious spirit, are everything. — Maurice de Saxe
When it seems humanly impossible to do more in a difficult situation, surrender yourself to the inner silence and thereafter wait for a sign of obvious guidance or for a renewal of inner strength. — Paul Brunton
I am a very positive thinker, and I think that is what helps me the most in difficult moments. — Roger Federer
Enrollment in Colorado is expected to expand about 25 percent in seven years. It's very difficult to find those additional funds. Therefore, I think you're probably going to have increased pressure on tuition. — Roy Romer
I think playing against [Lionel Messi] is pretty difficult. Playing by the side of the best of the world is always good. Things get easier. And if I have to win, may it be by Messi's side. It would be great. — Neymar
Anyone can take pictures. What's difficult is thinking about them, organizing them, and trying to use them in some way so that some meaning can be constructed out of them. That's really where the work of the artist begins. — Lewis Baltz
Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve; nothing dies harder than the desire to think well of self. — T. S. Eliot
I think the challenge is to takedifficult and painful times and turn them into something beneficial, something that makes you grow. — Michelle Akers
Everyone is susceptible to groupthink. Thinking independently is difficult, and lonely. — Lex Fridman
To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Look underfoot. You are always nearer to the true sources of your power than you think. The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. Don't despise your own place and hour. Every place is the center of the world. — John Burroughs
To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be. — Anna Louise Strong
It is difficult to recognize true love, the one which you feel for the other person, when for years the girls, even more than one per night, after concerts would sneak in our beds and were willing to do everything - group sex also - just to stay with Anthony Kiedis and the Red Hot. — Anthony Kiedis
To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be. — Anna Louise Strong
I had something I was trying to say and sometimes the message is an easy transmission and sometimes it's a difficult one but I love the power of saying it so I'm gonna do it whether it's hard or easy. — Faith Ringgold
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. — Moraji R. Desai
It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Love is sometimes difficult but death even more so. — Albanian Proverbs
It is difficult to persuade mankind that the love of virtue is the love of themselves. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. Please remember that your difficulties do not define you. They simply strengthen your ability to overcome. — Maya Angelou
Be grateful for challenges because... Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then [each woman and] man would have been in his primitive state and no progress made in civilisation and mental culture. — Anandi Gopal Joshi
There may be some difficulties during a period of adjustment. Specifically, picking up their life again and making their own truly independent decisions. — Rick Ross
Never give up prayer, and should you find dryness and difficulty, persevere in it for this very reason. God often desires to see what love your soul has, and love is not tried by ease and satisfaction. — John of the Cross
We know certainly that our God calls us to a holy life. We know that he gives us every grace, every abundant grace; and though we are so weak of ourselves, this grace is able to carry us through every obstacle and difficulty. — Elizabeth Ann Seton
Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity. From discord find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. — Albert Einstein
There is no difficulty that enough LOVE will not conquer, no disease that enough LOVE will not heal, no door that enough LOVE will not open, no gulf that enough LOVE will not bridge, no wall that enough LOVE will not throw down, no sin that enough LOVE will not redeem. — Emmet Fox
It is the individual who is not interested in his fellow men who has the greatest difficulties in life and provides the greatest injury to others. It is fro+m among such individuals that all human failures spring. — Alfred Adler
Be patient. God is using today's difficulties to strengthen you for tomorrow. He is equipping you. The God who makes things grow will help you bear fruit. — Max Lucado
Difficult Problems Quotes
The specifically human capacity for language enables children to provide for auxiliary tools in the solution of difficult tasks, to overcome impulsive action, to plan a solution to a problem prior to its execution, and to master their own behavior. — Lev S. Vygotsky
Be thankful for problems. If they were less difficult, someone with less ability might have your job. — James A. Lovell
Be thankful for problems. If they were less difficult, someone with less ability might have your job. — Jim Lovell
Only a wise person can solve a difficult problem. — African Proverbs
Neumann, to a physicist seeking help with a difficult problem: Simple. This can be solved by using the method of characteristics. Physicist: I'm afraid I don't understand the method of characteristics. Neumann: In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them. — John Von Neumann
We live in a society that penalizes highly creative individuals for their non-conformist autonomy. This makes the teaching of problem solving in design both discouraging and difficult. A...student (has) massive blocks against new ways of thinking, engendered by some 16 years of mis-education. — Victor Papanek
Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods. — Denis Waitley
I grew up in a dictatorship, where you couldn't talk about difficult situations - there was this culture of silence. We would run into a problem and have no one to talk to. — Julia Alvarez
When we learn to accept difficult circumstances patiently, the real problem disappears. — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
Loving difficult people will refine us. Perhaps only in heaven will our love be so perfected that we can actually like these people, too. St. Augustine spoke of a man who, on earth, had chronic gas problems; in heaven, his flatulence became perfect music. — Scott Hahn
It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are difficult. — Seneca
It is difficult to maintain the illusion that we are interpreting a Constitution, rather than inventing one. — Antonin Scalia
The world is a severe schoolmaster, for its frowns are less dangerous than its smiles and flatteries, and it is a difficult task to keep in the path of wisdom. — Phillis Wheatley
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
Being negative only makes a difficult journey more difficult. You may be given a cactus, but you don't have to sit on it. — Joyce Meyer
It hurts, but that’s all it does. The most difficult part of the training is training your mind. You build calluses on your feet to endure the road. You build calluses on your mind to endure the pain. There’s only one way to do that. You have to get out there and run. — David Goggins
It is difficult for a student to pick a good teacher, but it is more difficult for a teacher to pick a good student. — Yip Man
I'm not the sort of person who poses in their underwear. I hate the red carpet. I prefer the green grass. After the games the highlights show mostly the goals, scoring chances, assists. The spectator tends not to remember that as a goalkeeper I make difficult saves at great risk and start moves with my efforts. — Manuel Neuer
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