Easier Quotes - Page 40

• An interesting question: is it easier to motivate a learned individual that never does anything, or educate an ignorant individual that actually produces things?

  John Carmack

  Interesting, Ignorant, Doe

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• Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.

  Berthold Auerbach

  Bed, Accustomed

  Berthold Auerbach (1896*). “On the Heights”

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• The death of a thousand worshipers is easier to bear than the death of a scholar who has knowledge of what Allah has permitted and forbidden.

  Umar

  Bears, Scholar, Forbidden

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• I've always tried to present a positive view of the world in my work. It's so much easier to be negative and cynical and predict doom for the world than it is to try and figure out how to make things better. We have an obligation to do the latter.

  Jim Henson

  Views, Cynical, Trying

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If I fear to hold another to the highest goal because it is so much easier to avoid doing so, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

  Amy Carmichael

  Goal, Calvary, Ifs

  Amy Carmichael (2003). “If: What do I Know of Calvary Love?”, p.28, CLC Publications

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• It's hard to face tomorrow, but it's easier than facing no tomorrow.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Faces, Tomorrow, Hard

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• It's easier to hide your light under a bushel than to keep your shady side dark.

  Helen Rowland

  Dark, Light, Sides

  Helen Rowland (1909). “Reflections of a Bachelor Girl”

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• I would argue that it might be easier to endure loneliness than to endure the idea that you might disappear.

  Susan Orlean

  Loneliness, Ideas, Might

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• I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.

  David Nicholls

  Thinking, Unhappiness, Achieve

  David Nicholls (2009). “One Day”, p.42, Hachette UK

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• Unnatural to expect that learning to be happy should be any easier than, say, learning to play the violin or require any less practice.

  Alain de Botton

  Practice, Play, Violin

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• The thieves and killers are goin' to have guns, so if the honest men don't have 'em they just make it easier for the vicious.

  Louis L'Amour

  Gun, Men, Thieves

  Louis L'Amour (2004). “North to the Rails: A Novel”, p.16, Bantam

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• I can never tell ahead of time which book will give me trouble - some balk every step of the way, others seem to write themselves - but certainly the mechanics of writing, finding the time and the psychic space, are easier now that my children are grown.

  Anne Tyler

  Children, Book, Writing

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• The life of an actor is a bit easier to take if you admit you're bonkers.

  Michael Shurtleff

  Actors, Bits, Ifs

  Michael Shurtleff (2009). “Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part”, p.4, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• When teachers try to teach, nurses try to nurse, small businesses try to serve their clients and the police try to arrest criminals, there is always a regulator or three breathing down their necks. Conservatives want to make people's lives easier.

  John Redwood

  Teacher, Breathing, Nurse

  "Tories promise to 'lift the weight of bureaucracy'" by Matthew Tempest, www.theguardian.com. April 1, 2005.

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• It's sometimes easier to defend a one goal lead than a two goal lead.

  Mark Lawrenson

  Two, Goal, Sometimes

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• I am a much happier 27-year-old than I was at 20 years old. I am so fortunate because I have an amazing family, amazing friends and a great support system. I think at 27 it is much easier for me to look at life and appreciate what I have rather than stressing about the little things day to day.

  Meryl Davis

  Stress, Thinking, Years

  "Meryl Davis Talks Role Models, Charlie White And Her Perfect Day Off". Interview with Nina Bahadur, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 3, 2014.

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• Life turns on a dime. have no idea what tomorrow will bring... sure life would be a lot easier if we knew what was going to happen. You've got to live by faith one day at a time.

  Eddie Guerrero

  Ideas, One Day At A Time, Would Be

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• Canadian is both harder and easier to explain. Nobody knows what it is even supposed to be, let far-out-alone what it actually is.

  Judith Merril

  Nobody Knows, Harder, Supposed To Be

  Tesseract Books, Judith Merril (1988). “Tesseracts”

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• I have always thought it was a terrible shame that the women's movement didn't realise how much easier it was to reach people by making them laugh than by shaking a fist and saying, 'Don't you see how oppressed you are.

  Nora Ephron

  People, Laughing, Movement

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• Be easier on yourself, on everyone, on everything. Suspend your judgments on the way things should be, must be, and ought to be. Suspending judgments gives you greater ease. Consider ease the antidote for disease.

  Peter McWilliams

  Giving, Ease, Way

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• If you change the belief first, changing the action is easier.

  Peter McWilliams

  Inspirational, Firsts, Belief

  Peter McWilliams (1997). “Do It!: Let's Get Off Our Buts”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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• It is never easy to win but it is a lot easier to win when you play well. The key is winning golf tournaments when you are not playing so well. Managing your game is something that I feel that I am still learning to do.

  Rory McIlroy

  Golf, Winning, Games

  "CNN exclusive with Jack Nicklaus and Rory McIlroy". "Living Golf" with Shane O'Donoghue, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. June 7, 2012.

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• We always know, we always know, which is the right way to go, and which is the wrong way to go. Sometimes, the wrong way is easier to go, or more satisfying, and so we choose that way instead of the right one and we justify it with complicated wordplay and such; but we are only kidding ourselves.

  Milton William Cooper

  Way, Sometimes, Complicated

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• It seems so much easier in these days to live morally than to live beautifully. Lots of us manage to exist for years without ever sinning against society, but we sin against loveliness every hour of the day.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Years, Sin, Hours

  Evelyn Underhill (2009). “The Grey World”, p.195, Scriptoria Books

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• The actual getting into the gym and working out process was easier, but the eating was harder. I had to eat every two hours. At one point, my trainer said, 'Put anything in your mouth. Go to McDonald's, get the biggest shake possible. I just need to get calories in you.' Because my body fat at the time was only, like, seven and a half percent.

  Taylor Lautner

  Mcdonalds, Two, Work Out

  "Taylor Lautner finds his inner-wolf in ‘Twilight Saga: New Moon’". Interview with Gregory Ellwood, uproxx.com. July 17, 2009.

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