Difficult Quotes - Page 16

• I think that's easier to read. Pardon me. Less difficult to read.

  Larry Wall

  Thinking, Easier, Pardon Me

  Usenet article <199710120226.TAA06867@wall.org>, 1997.

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• In alchemical treatises, the formula L'Oeuvre au Noir ... designates what is said to be the most difficult phase of the alchemist's process, the separation and dissolution of substance. It is still not clear whether the term applied to daring experiments on matter itself, or whether it was understood to symbolize trials of the mind in discarding all forms of routine and prejudice. Doubtless it signified one or the other meaning alternately, or perhaps both at the same time.

  Marguerite Yourcenar

  Mind, Alchemist, Prejudice

  "The Abyss". Book by Marguerite Yourcenar, Author's note, p. 367, 1968.

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• As a man passes into middle life, or beyond it, autumn, it has been said, whispers more to his soul than any other season of the natural year. It is not difficult to see why this should be.

  Henry Parry Liddon

  Autumn, Men, Years

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• My first job was with the Burns Detective Agency. They sent me over to the East River to guard coal barges during these god-awful hours like three to six in the morning. It wasn't a very difficult job -- all I had to do was make a round every fifteen minutes -- but it turned out to be a great environment for writing. I was completely alone in a little outhouse with an electric heater and a little desk.

  Sam Shepard

  Morning, Jobs, Writing

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• The first effect of modernism was to make high culture difficult: to surround beauty with a wall of erudition.

  Roger Scruton

  Wall, Culture, Firsts

  Roger Scruton (2013). “Modern Culture”, p.85, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• One of the first and most difficult steps in a science is to conceive clearly the nature of the magnitudes about which we are arguing.

  William Stanley Jevons

  Firsts, Steps, Arguing

  William Stanley Jevons (1970). “The Theory of Political Economy”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• Nowadays children look at everyone in the magazines and they want to be a basketball star or on a television show, but there is only so many people who can do those things and not that you shouldn't aim or dream for these things, but there are so many other fantastic jobs. So it's good to talk about how to get there and how difficult it is to get there.

  Heidi Klum

  Basketball, Dream, Jobs

  "Heidi Klum Doesn't Plan to Bare Post-Baby Bod for Victoria's Secret". L.A. Confidential Magazine party, www.foxnews.com. September 30, 2009.

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• I find Christmas very difficult.

  Steven Morrissey

  On stage at Earl's Court, December 18, 2004.

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• I never enjoyed life in my twenties, not one minute of it. It was a test of endurance that I'm surprised I survived. Professionally, of course, I was doing very well but personally it couldn't have been worse or more difficult for me if I'd been living in a mud hut in Leeds.

  Steven Morrissey

  Endurance, Twenties, Tests

  "Q" Magazine Interview, 1995.

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• Difficult folk, these women!

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Women, Folks, Men Women

  Mikhail Bulgakov (2016). “THE MASTER AND MARGARITA: 50th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.170, Penguin

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• I’ve never intended to make religious records or records that preach some kind of point of view... If you’re involved with imagination and the creative process, it’s not such a difficult thing to believe in a god. But I’m not involved in any religions.

  Nick Cave

  Religious, Believe, Views

  Interview with Talia Soghomonian, www.musicomh.com. August 3, 2008.

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• I mean, look, no matter how you feel about Bush, watching him speak is difficult. It's like- it's like watching a drunk man cross an icy street.

  Tucker Carlson

  Mean, Men, Drunk

  "Real Time with Bill Maher". TV Series, www.imdb.com. (2003 - ).

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• If they think they can get anyone who could have better handled the complex and difficult issues surrounding North Korea, Iran and other controversies, they are not understanding the world right now.

  Mohamed ElBaradei

  Thinking, Iran, Korea

  "IAEA Leader's Phone Tapped". www.washingtonpost.com. December 12, 2004.

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• As a young child, being different is isolating, and as a teenager it's humiliating. I wish I had been able to stand out with more confidence when I was a child, and especially when I was a teenager. I was different, but it wasn't always a conscious choice, and it often made me miserable. But I'm all grown up now, and so are you. Today, difference is your strength, your power, and your trademark. It's your signature. It can still be difficult to be different--sometimes even harder than it used to be. Even so, it's time to embrace being yourself. It's time to be authentic.

  Bethenny Frankel

  Being Yourself, Children, Teenager

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• Though business conditions may change, corporations and securities may change, and financial institutions and regulations may change, human nature remains the same. Thus the important and difficult part of sound investment, which hinges upon the investor's own temperament and attitude, is not much affected by the passing years.

  Benjamin Graham

  Attitude, Years, Important

  Benjamin Graham (1959). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”

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• Unusually rapid growth cannot keep up forever; when a company has already registered a brilliant expansion, its very increase in size makes a repetition of its achievement more difficult.

  Benjamin Graham

  Achievement, Forever, Growth

  Benjamin Graham (1959). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”

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• Even if your difficult time comes at you out of the blue - like cancer - even those times, opens your heart to the magic and power of life, and gives you this inner commitment to live every moment.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Cancer, Heart, Commitment

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Life actually is this mystery and gift. And every moment of it can be full of real radical joy and wakefulness. And for some reason in our most difficult times, we have the best chance to wake up. Many people will tell you that their divorce or illness or loss of job was the wake up call.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Jobs, Real, Divorce

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Many people don't wake up. They fight against a difficult time, shut the window and become more bitter. Fortunately or unfortunately, however you see it, we are served up those opportunities over and over in our life. So if you've shut the window, don't worry, another hard time is going to come around the corner - to give you that chance all over again.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Fighting, Hard Times, Opportunity

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Creativity is basically a feminine process. I'm convinced that we have in our soul, everybody, this masculine side and this feminine side. So at the end of the day, you always use this feminine creative energy to write or to do any type of art or creativity. So if I see that my protagonist is feminine, it's not more difficult, no. And even when my protagonist is masculine, I'm writing from using this feminine energy.

  Paulo Coelho

  Art, Creativity, Writing

  "Book Talk: Paulo Coelho on life, work and 'Adultery'". Interview with Lisa Von Ahn, www.reuters.com. November 13, 2014.

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• I tend to not speak up as much, so saying no is rather difficult for me. The biggest step of being an adult is saying, "This is what I do like. This is what I don't like." Being yourself means certain people aren't going to like that. I'm still figuring it out and taking things day by day.

  Selena Gomez

  Being Yourself, Mean, People

  "Selena Gomez Talks RUDDERLESS, Sympathizing with the Character, HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA 2, Where Her Career Is Headed, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 18, 2014.

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• Is it shocking that it's very difficult for a news organization to do news in America now? It's not shocking because we're a culture that doesn't want news. We want entertainment. We want info-tainment. That's why CNN is having problems.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Organization, America, Cnn

  Source: collider.com

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• In the financial markets I find it easy to predict what will happen and very difficult to predict when it will happen. I think that things were clear during the bubble as to what would happen eventually.

  Warren Buffett

  Thinking, Financial, Easy

  "Warren Buffett: 'My elephant gun is loaded'". Interview with Dominic Lawson, Robert Peston and Grant, www.telegraph.co.uk. September 22, 2002.

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• It's difficult to make any kind of action movie that might be unique or worth watching.

  Ethan Hawke

  Unique, Might, Action

  "Ethan Hawke, Selena Gomez and Director Courtney Solomon Talk GETAWAY, Surviving the Stunts, Filming in Bulgaria, Horror in Action and Casting the Voice". Press conference, collider.com. August 31, 2013.

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• If you take the time and put in the effort to write your own material and absolutely refuse to be denied the right to make your film it is difficult whatever colour you are.

  Denzel Washington

  Writing, Effort, Film

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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