Difficult Things Quotes - Page 11

• The difficult thing, the glorious thing, was to be who you really were, even if that person was cruel or dangerous, particularly if cruel and dangerous. There was courage in not distinguishing the animal you happened to be. On the other hand, you had to avoid pretending to be more of an animal than you were: take that path, start exaggerating or faking and you became just another Cubby, just as much of a liar, a hypocrite

  J. K. Rowling

  Liars, Hypocrite, Animal

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• Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Leadership, Patience, Learning

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• A philosophy may explain difficult things, but has no power to change them. The gospel, the story of Jesus' life, promises change.

  Philip Yancey

  Jesus, Philosophy, Promise

  Philip Yancey (2009). “Grace Notes”, p.230, Harper Collins

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• Pitching is always a weird, difficult thing.

  J. J. Abrams

  Pitching, Difficult

  "J.J. Abrams on The End of 'Fringe,' 'Revolution' & Star Trek Into Darkness". Interview with Fred Topel, www.mandatory.com. January 12, 2013.

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• What I would say to a person who is firm in their faith and wants to go into an acting career: It is such a difficult thing to do without compromising your beliefs.

  Angus T. Jones

  Careers, Acting, Want

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• All of us have problems. We face them every day. How grateful I am that we have difficult things to wrestle with. They keep us young, they keep us alive, they keep us going, they keep us humble. Be grateful for your problems, and know that somehow there will come a solution. Just do the best you can, but be sure it is the very best.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Grateful, Humble, Alive

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• I just find in our world that forgiveness is becoming more and more a difficult thing for us to do.

  Tavis Smiley

  Our World, Becoming, Difficult

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It is a difficult thing to like anybody else's ideas of being funny.

  Gertrude Stein

  Humor, Ideas, Difficult

  Gertrude Stein (2013). “Everybody's Autobiography”, p.150, Vintage

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• The enterprise of describing something in language that has never been described before is a very difficult thing to do. When you decide to do away with old cliches or old phraseologies, and to come up with a new way of saying something, it's extremely difficult.

  Gao Xingjian

  Way, Language, Cliche

  "A Conversation with Gao Xingjian". Interview with David Der-Wei Wang, asiasociety.org.

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• After initial needs are met—enough food, shelter, comfort—there is no correlation between money and happiness. That's a difficult thing for people to believe.

  Geneen Roth

  Money, Believe, People

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• There are very few things in the mind which eat up as much energy as worry. It is one of the most difficult things not to worry about anything. Worry is experienced when things go wrong, but in relation to past happenings it is idle merely to wish that they might have been otherwise. The frozen past is what it is, and no amount of worrying is going to make it other than what it has been. But the limited ego-mind identifies itself with its past, gets entangled with it and keeps alive the pangs of frustrated desires.

  Meher Baba

  Past, Worry, Ego

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• I think that is one of the first things that I got clear in my mind when I began to play around with fiction, that I had to find a language and it was not in existance at the time. You have put it very well - it wasn't to be taken for granted. You had to go on and search until you found a way through the conversation of English and Igbo. The two languages stuck into each other and tried to find a way to express through one, the medium of the thoughts. That's a very exciting thing to do, a very difficult thing to do.

  Chinua Achebe

  Taken, Thinking, Play

  Source: www.ehlingmedia.com

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• [People] are trying to - they're trying to create something that solves a series of very complex problems inside of them or in their history. And I think when I unknowingly - when I went to do that, that's what I was - I was trying to integrate all of these very difficult things that I'd been unable to integrate in my life and in my life with my parents.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Thinking, People, Parent

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I had, like any other young novelist, started out by believing the difficult thing was to get published and that, once you managed that, well, your financial problems were over. I discovered, like any other serious novelist, that actually they had only just begun.

  Mordecai Richler

  Believe, Novelists, Financial Problems

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• There is always times where you feel discouraged and things coming against you, but I don't know if I ever wanted to throw in the towel. I think one of the most difficult things is every Sunday I am up there ministering, and so you have to have a fresh word, you have to be practical, you need to keep people's attention and so that comes around every seven days.

  Joel Osteen

  Sunday, Thinking, People

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• [Stéphane Mallarmé] theory of the hermetic is a mistake, but he can be only difficult to read when he has difficult things to say.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Mistake, Theory, Difficult

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• There are some very difficult things to understand that globalization is providing, that people really think are just here but really are a function of some of that. There are some very difficult arguments.

  Ken Moelis

  Thinking, People, Argument

  Source: nordic.businessinsider.com

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• I am absolutely behind equal rights but I am also bridging the gap between cultural mentality and society's mindset as there are huge amount of gaps that need to be addressed and progress needs to be made. Yeah I am a feminist, it is not a difficult thing to explain.

  Hozier

  Rights, Feminist, Progress

  Source: www.kaltblut-magazine.com

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• The DACA situation is a very, very difficult thing for me because, I love these kids.

  Donald Trump

  Kids, Difficult, Situation

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• The older I get, the more I think lightness of touch is an incredibly difficult thing to do.

  Peter Capaldi

  Thinking, Difficult, Things To Do

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• You know, the technology was at the right place for us to build this world. The most difficult thing about doing The Croods was no doubt the building of the world. Every single thing in this film is organic. Organic things are tough. Very very labour intensive. And we have no man-made structures. You could argue that everything in this film is really an exterior. Even the interiors of the cave are exteriors. So building this world was the biggest thing of all, and the technology was there to do it.

  Chris Sanders

  Technology, Men, Doubt

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• 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

  Irritation, Choices, Rawness

  "Pema Chödrön and Jack Kornfield talk "The Wondrous Path of Difficulties". Interview with Michael Krasny, www.lionsroar.com. 2005.

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• The most difficult thing I have ever had to do is follow the guidance I prayed for.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Guidance, Difficult

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• This is a very difficult thing to remain independent and persistent.

  John Lydon

  Independent, Difficult, Persistent

  Source: www.axs.com

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• I want to help people understand themselves a little bit better, to stop being so critical and judgmental of themselves, and to help them understand why they are going through some of the difficult things in their lives.

  Echo Bodine

  People, Want, Littles

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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