Easy Quotes - Page 9

• Doing something extraordinarily good is very hard to do and you could fail. Extraordinarily bad is easy to do - it's much easier to burn down a building than to build one.

  Tony Robbins

  Failing, Building, Easier

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Our whole message is it's easy to just keep preaching to the church and people that already come.

  Joel Osteen

  People, Church, Messages

  "Pastor Joel Osteen on 'FNS'". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. December 23, 2007.

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• If I had my choice in life I would have had the gifts of Tennessee Williams or Eugene O'Neill. Unfortunately my gifts lie in comedy and so comedy comes fairly easy to me and I occasionally have an idea for a very serious piece and I do it, but the ideas don't come that readily to me.

  Woody Allen

  Lying, Ideas, Choices

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2001.

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• A Romantic ideology that predates rock glorifies the self-destructive artist as someone who's too honest and delicate for this world... It's not an easy job, and its stresses can take their toll.

  Jon Pareles

  Jobs, Stress, Artist

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• Learning the art of painting is not an easy task. It takes a great deal of intelligence, keen analysis, study and practice.

  Edgar Alwin Payne

  Art, Practice, Tasks

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• I ask myself, 'Do you want to sit on the sidelines of life or do you want to be on the field?' I suppose all those years of building thicker skin has made it easy to endure criticism.

  Don Watson

  Years, Skins, Criticism

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• What I proposed was a computer that would be easy to use, mix text and graphics, and sell for about $1,000. Steve Jobs said that it was a crazy idea, that it would never sell, and we didn't want anything like it. He tried to shoot the project down.

  Jef Raskin

  Jobs, Crazy, Ideas

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• Reading off a Teleprompter is an easy skill to do passably well and a difficult skill to do very well. I still have room for improvement there. I still talk too fast and I'm trying to slow myself down.

  Chris Hayes

  Reading, Skills, Trying

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• A multifaceted writer, very easy on the surface to pin down but incredibly difficult once you actually read him with any depth.

  Joshua Ferris

  Depth, Surface, Pins

  "Joshua Ferris Reads George Saunders" by Sally Law, www.newyorker.com. August 10, 2009.

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• Music is a current of hard choices made to seem easy by the mind.

  Adam Gopnik

  Choices Made, Mind, Currents

  "Music To Your Ears" by Adam Gopnik, www.newyorker.com. January 28, 2013.

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• It became easy for me to detach myself from the course of life, so that while my hands and mind were engaged in the common affairs of every day, my spirit maintained its attitude of communion with God.

  John G. Lake

  Attitude, Hands, Mind

  John G. Lake (2012). “Living In God's Power”, p.172, Whitaker House

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• Let me mention that not all sun-like stars host planets - perhaps about 30% of them are planet-builders. It's not so easy to form a planet!

  Garik Israelian

  Stars, Sun, Host

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• Plans are easy to make, dreams are easy to dream. But putting your back into it? A little bit of hard graft and discipline? That is just too scary and far too much effort for the masses

  Chris Murray

  Dream, Discipline, Effort

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• Navigation is easy. If it wasn't, they wouldn't be able to teach it
  to Sailors.

  James Lawrence

  Able, Sailor, Navigation

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• When I illustrate a cover or a book, I draw upon what the author tells me; that's how I see my responsibility as an illustrator. J.K. Rowling is very descriptive in her writing — she gives an illustrator a lot to work with. Each story is packed full of rich visual descriptions of the atmosphere, the mood, the setting, and all the different creatures and people. She makes it easy for me. The images just develop as I sketch and retrace until it feels right and matches her vision.

  Mary GrandPre

  Book, Writing, Responsibility

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• There's a bookstore in New York where you could buy scripts, and I got addicted to them because they were easy, quick reads and the pictures were so vivid.

  Robbie Robertson

  New York, Bookstores, Vivid

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• I tried to be the greatest boxer in the world and a good parent, too. I had instant feedback on my success as a boxer. Often, parents don't really know if what they are doing is right or wrong until their child is grown and it is too late to change any of the decisions. Whatever my failings as a parent, I am very proud of all my children. It wasn't easy for them to make their own way with such a controversial and public father.

  Muhammad Ali

  Children, Father, Decision

  Muhammad Ali, Hana Yasmeen Ali (2004). “The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey”, p.169, Simon and Schuster

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• Great Love has many attributes, and shrines For varied worshippers, but his force divine Shows most its many-named fulness in the man Whose nature multitudinously mixed-- Each ardent impulse grappling with a thought-- Resists all easy gladness, all content Save mystic rapture, where the questioning soul Flooded with consciousness of good that is Finds life one bounteous answer.

  George Eliot

  Love, Men, Soul

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.4145, Delphi Classics

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• Your trouble's easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.

  George Eliot

  Giving, Trouble, Lifts

  George Eliot (2013). “The Complete Novels of George Eliot: Adam Bede + The Lifted Veil + The Mill on the Floss + Silas Marner + Romola + Brother Jacob + Felix Holt the Radical + Middlemarch + Daniel Deronda”, p.2278, e-artnow

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• Philosophy is not politics, and we do our best, within our all-too-human limitations, to seek the truth, not to score points against opponents. There is little satisfaction in gaining an easy triumph over a weak opponent while ignoring better arguments against your views.

  Peter Singer

  Philosophy, Views, Triumph

  "'Last Generation': A Response". opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. June 16, 2010.

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• Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Important, Would Be, Important Things

  Bertolt Brecht, Ralph Manheim (1987). “Poems, 1913-1956”, p.41, Taylor & Francis

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• No people are so easy to govern as the intelligent, and none are so hard to govern as the ignorant.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Intelligent, People, Ignorant

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• Nature isn't classical, dammit, and if you want to make a simulation of nature, you'd better make it quantum mechanical, and by golly it's a wonderful problem, because it doesn't look so easy.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Looks, Want, Problem

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.76, Princeton University Press

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• In the case of some people, not even if we had the most accurate scientific knowledge, would it be easy to persuade them were we to address them through the medium of that knowledge; for a scientific discourse, it is the privilege of education to appreciate, and it is impossible that this should extend to the multitude.

  Aristotle

  People, Appreciate, Addresses

  Aristotle (1857). “Treatise on Rhetoric: Literally Translated from the Greek”, p.8

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• It is not easy to determine the nature of music, or why any one should have a knowledge of it.

  Aristotle

  Should Have, Should, Determine

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.393, Simon and Schuster

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