Difficulty Quotes - Page 14

• Faith in God is the instrument which enables men and women to remove the hills of difficulty which block their path.

  William Barclay

  Block, Men, Path

  William Barclay (2002). “The Gospel of Matthew, Volume Two”, p.195, Westminster John Knox Press

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• Maximum difficulty isn't the same as optimal difficulty.

  Alfie Kohn

  Optimal, Maximum

  Alfie Kohn (2000). “The Schools Our Children Deserve: Moving Beyond Traditional Classrooms and "Tougher Standards"”, p.118, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Everyone my age had written a novel and I was still having difficulty writing a paragraph.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Age, Novel

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• The peasant finds no "natural" urgency within himself that will drive him toward Picasso in spite of all difficulties. In the end the peasant will go back to kitsch when he feels like looking at pictures, for he can enjoy kitsch without effort

  Clement Greenberg

  Effort, Kitsch, Natural

  Clement Greenberg (1971). “Art and Culture: Critical Essays”, p.18, Beacon Press

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• The last thing is simplicity. After having gone through all the difficulties, having played an endless number of notes, it is simplicity that matters, with all its charm. It is the final seal on Art. Anyone who strives for this to begin with will be disappointed. You cannot begin at the end.

  Frederic Chopin

  Art, Numbers, Simplicity

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• You can recollect the sayings of great men, you treasure up verse of renowned poets; ought you not be equally profound in your knowledge of the words of God, so that you may be able to quote them readily when you would solve a difficulty or overthrow a doubt?

  Charles Spurgeon

  Men, Profound, Doubt

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• Well, I don't want to talk too much about my children, but a friend of one of my children, something really terrible happened to her. I just felt like I had to speak about growing up again, because I felt that there's no way I can talk about difficulties of life. I had to talk about possibilities.

  Lukas Moodysson

  Children, Growing Up, Want

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Real courage embraces the twin realities of current difficulty and ultimate triumph.

  Max Lucado

  Real, Triumph, Twins

  Max Lucado (2012). “Fearless: Imagine Your Life Without Fear”, p.157, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Ignorance is the root cause of all difficulties.

  Plato

  Ignorance, Roots, Causes

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• One of the difficulties of politics is that politicians are shocked by those who are really prepared to let their thinking reach any conclusion. Political thinking consists in deciding upon the conclusion first and then finding good arguments for it. An open mind is considered irresponsible- and perhaps it really is.

  Richard Crossman

  Thinking, Political, Mind

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• Out of every difficulty Omnipotence can bring us, only let us in childlike confidence cast our burden upon the Lord.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Omnipotence, Lord, Burden

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• If you truly desire money so keenly that your desire is an obsession, you will have no difficulty in convincing yourself that you will acquire it. The object is to want money, and to be so determined to have it that you convince yourself that you will have it.

  Napoleon Hill

  Convincing Yourself, Desire, Want

  Napoleon Hill, Wallace D. Wattles (2012). “Get Rich Collection”, p.25, Penguin

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• My experience of working on this show, even though there is so much about sex and sexuality, and we find out a lot of facts and statistics that are very interesting, in their own right, I found that I started talking about relationships more, and the emotions, the difficulties and the challenges. So, I became far more open about that, which I think is probably an indication with the show itself.

  Michael Sheen

  Sex, Thinking, Talking

  Source: collider.com

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• I always had difficulty as a model just being myself. I can be very shy, and I used to have a lot of anxiety about working on set.

  Stephanie Seymour

  Anxiety, Shy, Just Being

  Interview magazine, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 12, 2013.

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• I have a name for people who went to the extreme efficient market theory-which is "bonkers". It was an intellectually consistent theory that enabled them to do pretty mathematics. So I understand its seductiveness to people with large mathematical gifts. It just had a difficulty in that the fundamental assumption did not tie properly to reality.

  Charlie Munger

  Reality, Names, Ties

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• Believing God's promises the Christian is taken through difficulties of every shape and size - and arrives safely.

  Richard Halverson

  Christian, Believe, Taken

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• We human beings have enormous difficulty in focusing on the present; we always thinking about what we did, about how we could have done it better.... or else we think about the future, about what we're going to do.... But at this precise moment, you also realize that you can change your future by bringing the past into the present. Past and future only exist in our mind. The present moment, though, is outside of time, it's Eternity.... It isn't what you did in the past the will affect the present. It's what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future.

  Paulo Coelho

  Past, Thinking, Mind

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• The man who says to one, go, and he goeth, and to another, come, and he cometh, has, in most cases, more sense of restraint and difficulty than the man who obeys him.

  John Ruskin

  Men, He Man, Cases

  John Ruskin (2013). “Selections and Essays”, p.225, Courier Corporation

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• Persisting through lesser difficulties builds your capacity to persist through greater difficulties, and achieve even greater things.

  Brian Tracy

  Achieve, Capacity, Persist

  Brian Tracy (1998). “The Gift of Self-Confidence”, p.23, Jaico Publishing House

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• In Deuteronomy 11, God offers Israel a choice; either a life of productivity and enjoyment made possible by obedience to Him, or a life of difficulty and opposition made necessary by disobedience. The happiness Israel desires can only be theirs by being properly related to Him.

  Max Anders

  Israel, Choices, Desire

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• As I am humbled by my difficulties, so I am strengthened by God's grace.

  Alistair Begg

  Grace, God's Grace

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• Much of economics isn't difficult, or rather, the difficulty is in cooking up arguments to "prove" that commonsense conclusions are wrong. The fact is that many commonsense conclusions are quite correct, and it takes a lot of education to get you to believe different.

  Jerry Pournelle

  Believe, Cooking, Different

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• When we are living our dream, the difficulties we encounter make sense.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Encounters, Make Sense

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• If some should accuse us as if we held that people born before the time of Christ were not accountable to God for their actions, we shall anticipate and answer such a difficulty. We have been taught that Christ is the first-begotten of God, and we have declared him to be the Logos of which all mankind partakes. Those, therefore, who lived according to reason (logos) were really Christians, even though they were thought to be atheists, such as, among the Greeks, Socrates, Heraclitus and others like them.

  Justin Martyr

  Christian, Atheist, People

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• The price of change is measured by our will and courage, our persistence, in the face of difficulty.

  Peter Block

  Persistence, Faces

  Peter Block (2003). “The Answer to How Is Yes: Acting on What Matters”, p.46, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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