Difficult Quotes - Page 33

• There's no wrong way to meditate. And meditation should never be a difficult practice that leads to self criticism.

  Moby

  Self, Practice, Meditation

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. February 5, 2014.

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• Our [Republicans'] object is to avoid having stupid candidates who can't win general elections, who are undisciplined, can't raise money, aren't putting together the support necessary to win a general election campaign, because this money is too difficult to raise to be spending it on behalf of candidates who have little chance of winning in a general election.

  Karl Rove

  Stupid, Winning, Support

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I can't walk down the streets. It's very difficult. I can't go to the mall. I have to go to hotels just to have a meal. Everybody wants to say hi and say thank you and congratulate me, so it's very difficult.

  Manny Pacquiao

  Meals, Want, Saying Thank You

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The work in Iraq is difficult and it is dangerous. Like most Americans, I see the images of violence and bloodshed. Every picture is horrifying, and the suffering is real.

  George W. Bush

  Real, Iraq, Suffering

  President Bush's address to on Iraq from Fort Bragg, North Carolina, www.nbcnews.com. June 30, 2005.

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• I look back to the Great Depression, and what Roosevelt was able to do in very difficult times, to get Social Security through back in the time when it was seen as - well, it wasn't what it is today. It was sort of a last-ditch, if you really need it, you got it, but, today, it's much more a part of your retirement program.

  Chris Matthews

  Retirement, Needs, Looks

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• The fear among economists across the political spectrum that was - was that we were rapidly plummeting towards a second Great Depression. So, in the weeks and months that followed, we undertook a series of difficult steps to prevent that outcome. And we were forced to take those steps largely without the help of an opposition party, which, unfortunately, after having presided over the decision-making that had led to the crisis, decided to hand it over to others to solve.

  Barack Obama

  Party, Hands, Decision

  Barack Obama's Speech on Job Creation and Economic Growth, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. December 8, 2009.

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• We live in a world in which we are able to communicate very quickly in many different ways, and yet we find communicating more difficult than ever. When in fact we need communication more urgently than ever, because the enemies that threaten us are universal: drugs, illiteracy and crime. We have to fight against them together.

  Tom Cruise

  Communication, Fighting, Drug

  "Actor Tom Cruise Opens Up about his Beliefs in the Church of Scientology". Spiegel Interview, www.spiegel.de. April 27, 2005.

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• I believe in process. I believe that having a really difficult process is more valuable than a good outcome.

  Tina Fey

  Believe, Outcomes, Process

  "Tina Fey on Top". Interview with Amy Poehler, www.marieclaire.com. April 10, 2008.

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• Without women taking an active role in Afghan society, rebuilding Afghanistan is going to be very difficult.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Roles, Rebuilding, Afghanistan

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• I trust in my inspiration, really, and that's difficult because sometimes you would rather be technical. And once you empty your mind, empty your brain, it's really incredible. I'm very caring about things that dash into my brain, and I make sure I don't just clog it.

  Yoko Ono

  Inspiration, Caring, Brain

  Source: thequietus.com

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• It's difficult to explain love. You want to explain water? You need a book for it. There are many different ways to explain what water is. Love is big, it's very big. I know that I have tons of it. But maybe we don't want to open up so much, and we think, maybe we don't have so much, but yes, you know that you have tons of love. We all do. Through that love we can connect, we can heal each other, we can make people, all of us, happy, joyful, and make a better world.

  Yoko Ono

  Book, Love You, Love Is

  Source: thequietus.com

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• There’s this powerful phrase in the legal world, “Difficult cases make bad law.” The exception is the difficult case. You can’t generalize them by definition. So although they are fascinating, they don’t solve any problem because they’re so one of a kind.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Powerful, Law, Phrases

  "The Rumpus Interview With Malcolm Gladwell". Interview with Stephen Elliott, therumpus.net. January 22, 2009.

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• My sister is a public school teacher. She makes far far less money than I do, and gets almost no public attention for her work. Yet I believe what she does is infinitely more important and more difficult than what I do.

  Anna Quindlen

  Teacher, Believe, School

  Source: www.bookbrowse.com

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• I think we need to find a way to provide people with a reason that the average man on the street can grasp and embrace, that would cause him to move away from the centuries-old idea of the individual and individualism, and move toward a different concept of what it means to be human in a collective society. Unless he has that reason, unless he has a fundamental reason to do that, it's going to be very difficult to cause him to make that shift, in my view.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Moving, Mean, Men

  Source: www.kabbalah.info

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• You want attention, you want to grab some of that airspace that exists out there in a world that's very difficult to get it because it's so competitive and to get it for more than a few seconds. Any attention is good and that can be what we would normally consider as bad attention so I wanted to make you aware of that dynamic.

  Robert Greene

  Attention, World, Want

  Source: www.josephbushnell.com

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• Every people, every society, needs a culture of resistance, a culture of being difficult and disobedient, that is the only way they will ever be able to stand up to the inevitable abuse of power by whoever runs the state apparatus, the capitalists, the communists, the socialists, the Gandhians, whoever.

  Arundhati Roy

  Running, People, Abuse

  Source: www.soldefter.com

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• It is easy to speak words of love, or to meditate lovingly upon those people with whom you are in harmony. But it is those people who seem most difficult, who may even seem hostile, that need your radiation of love most. Their very hostility is but their soul's cry for loving recognition. When you generate sufficient love to them, the discord will fade away.

  Catherine Ponder

  People, Soul, Needs

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• Pregnancy is difficult for women but it is even more difficult for men.

  Susan Cheever

  Pregnancy, Men

  Susan Cheever (1995). “A Woman's Life: The Story of an Ordinary American and Her Extraordinary Generation”, Quill

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• The most difficult thing for spiritual seekers to do is to stop struggling, striving, seeking, and searching. Why? Because in the absence of struggle you don't know who you are; you lose your boundaries, you lose your separateness, you lose your specialness, you lose the dream you have lived all your life. Eventually you lose everything that your mind has created and awaken to who you truly are: the fullness of freedom, unbound by any identifications, identities, or boundaries.

  Adyashanti

  Life, Dream, Spiritual

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• You can have no idea, if you have not tried, how difficult it is to find out anything whatever from an encyclopedia, unless you know all about it already.

  Gwen Raverat

  Knowledge, Ideas, Encyclopedia

  Gwen Raverat (2003). “Period Piece: A Cambridge Childhood”, p.112, Clear Press Ltd

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• The devil never seems so busy as where the saints are, which is another reason why I feel how difficult it would be to be religious.

  Elizabeth Charles

  Religious, Devil, Saint

  Elizabeth Rundle Charles (1865). “Chronicles of the Schönberg-Cotta Family”, p.32

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• it is perfectly possible to converse with any cat, from prize-winning Siamese to alley tabby. Humans who are slow learners may start with a highly articulate Siamese and progress in time to the more sensitive and difficult business of talking to scared strays. Other people, naturally gifted, can talk to any cat right away.

  Patricia Moyes

  Cat, Winning, Talking

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• I feel successful when the writing goes well. This lasts five minutes. Once, when I was number one on the bestseller list, I also felt successful. That lasted three minutes.

  Jacqueline Briskin

  Writing, Successful, Numbers

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• I've got a penny-ante talent, out of which I try to drum up a living for myself. And what nobody seems to realize is that it's just as difficult to get a bad idea as a good one.

  Kathleen Winsor

  Ideas, Trying, Pennies

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• The most difficult part of writing a book is not devising a plot which will captivate the reader. It's not developing characters the reader will have strong feelings for or against. It is not finding a setting which will take the reader to a place he or she as never been. It is not the research, whether in fiction or non-fiction. The most difficult task facing a writer is to find the voice in which to tell the story.

  Randy Pausch

  Strong, Book, Writing

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