Difficulty Quotes - page 19

He was pursuing a running debate with his own guilts and ghosts-unless he was spouting proverbs and aphorisms, most of the meanings fairly obvious but a few convolute and obscure. He was particularly fond of "Fortune smiles. And then betrays.” He just could not get into bed comfortably with the truth that he had made that bed himself. He still had difficulty separating "ought to be” from "the way things really are.”. (Glen Cook)
I was painfully shy, and I had tremendous difficulty making friends. So, lacking friends, I watched other people. Watching is something all writers must do, and it was in junior high that I learned to do it. View quote
Alex Flinn
The thing is, if you always catch fish then you lose interest because any achievement is related to facing difficulty; having to work hard for it. View quote
Jeremy Wade
The difficulty with any sort of esteem is that more is expected of you. View quote
Judi Dench
God is bigger than any problem. God in you is greater than any difficulty you have to meet. God cares for you more than it is possible for any human being to realize. God can help you in proportion to the degree in which you worship him. You worship God by really putting your trust in him instead of in outer conditions, or in fear, or in depression, or in seeming dangers, and so forth. You worship God by recognizing his presence everywhere, in all people and conditions that you meet; and by praying regularly. You pray well when you pray with joy. View quote
Emmet Fox
When you resist a difficulty you antagonize it, and it bites back. View quote
Emmet Fox
There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer. View quote
Emmet Fox
The main concern with a very large baby is difficulty in delivery. View quote
Emily Oster
A teacher told my mother that I would never become successful, which illustrates the difficulty of long-run forecasting on inadequate data. View quote
Clive Granger
Realize that your present difficulty is only a small part of you, and the rest of you is doing quite well, thank you. View quote
Lynn Grabhorn
I find as long as I acknowledge the truth of something, then that's it. I know what it is and then I can operate. But if I overestimate the downside of something or the challenge of something and I get too obsessed about the difficulty of it, then I don't leave enough room to be open to the upside, the possibility. (Michael Fox)
The amount of money we receive will always be in direct ratio to the demand for what we do our ability to do it and the difficulty in replacing us. View quote
Earl Nightingale
Science has not solved difficulties, only shifted the points of difficulty. View quote
Charles Henry Parkhurst
By not first explaining the bones, anatomists delay the inexperienced student and, because of the difficulty of the subject, deter him from a very worthy examination of the works of God. View quote
Andreas Vesalius
There comes up another difficulty which more nearly concerns our vanity: namely, the impossibility of our conceiving this property [the faculty of feeling] as a dependence or attribute of matter. View quote
Julien Offray de La Mettrie
The objection made to the numerical method, to wit, the difficulty or impossibility of forming classes of similar facts, is alike applicable to all the methods that might be substituted; that it is impossible to appreciate each case with mathematical exactness, and it is precisely on this account that enumeration becomes necessary; by so doing, the errors, (which are inevitable,) being the same in two groups of patients subjected to different treatment, mutually compensate each other, and they may be disregarded without sensibly affecting the exactness of the results. View quote
Pierre Charles Alexandre Louis
There is only one possible settlement – war! It has got to come... The difficulty is in the occasion and not the job itself, that is very easily done and I think nothing of the bogies and difficulties of settling South Africa afterwards. You will find a very different tone and temper when the center of unrest is dealt with. - Milner as recorded by Percy FitzPatrick, cited in Diamonds, Gold, and War: The British, the Boers, and the Making of South Africa, 2008, Martin Meredith, p. 374. View quote
Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner
There is only one possible settlement – war! It has got to come ... The difficulty is in the occasion and not the job itself, that is very easily done and I think nothing of the bogies and difficulties of settling South Africa afterwards. You will find a very different tone and temper when the center of unrest is dealt with. View quote
Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner
Anyone with a good classical education could learn Chinese by himself without difficulty. View quote
Arthur Waley
It started with me being a vegetarian, and then it eventually moved towards veganism. Now it's permanent. It's a true way of life. As a professional athlete, my diet helps me tremendously. There's no difficulty in me making weight before fights, or maintaining it. I feel better than ever, light on my feet... Heck, I even think with a more clear mind, all from my eating the right choices for me and my body. I research everyday on veganism, learning new things daily, which is pretty cool. View quote
Bryant Jennings
We have called attention to this difficulty with respect to fiscal accountability. We hold that once the Congress has made an appropriation, an appropriation which it is free to withhold, the responsibility for the administration of the expenditures under that appropriation is and should be solely upon the Executive. The Executive then should be held to account through an independent audit made by an independent auditor who will report promptly to the Congress his criticisms and exceptions of the actions of the Executive. (Louis Brownlow)
Opticks was out of harmony with the ideas of 19th-century physics. ...an exposition of the "wrong" (i. e., corpuscular) theory of light,-even though it also contained many of the basic principles of the "correct" (i. e., wave) theory. Not only had Newton erred in his choice... but also he apparently had found no insuperable difficulty in simultaneously embracing features of two opposing theories. ...by adopting a combination of the two theories at once, he had violated one of the major canons of 19th-century physics... Today our point of view is influenced by the theory of photons and matter waves, or the... complementarity of Niels Bohr; and we may read with a new interest Newtons ideas on the interaction of light and matter or his explanation of the corpuscular and undulatory aspects of light. View quote
I. Bernard Cohen
Campbell (1979) has shown how the learning theory developed in the tight research group surrounding Kenneth Spence was less powerful than the learning theory developed within the much looser group surrounding Edward Tolman. These differences are explained in part by the relative ease people in Tolman's group had evaluating and changing ideas without regard for the effect of these changes on their reputations and the relative difficulty people in Spence's group had when they tried to do the same thing. View quote
Karl E. Weick
I've been hearing-impaired, not quite since birth, but I've been wearing hearing aids since I was 13, so I'm very conscious of the difficulty of voice communication. View quote
Vint Cerf
This is my wedding day! The day I marry Emmanuel! And the word "wedding," which she had always linked the happiness, now seemed austere, distressing, full of snares and revelations. She saw her mother, heavy and moving with difficulty. A vision of herself as a victim of the same deformity was vivid in her mind. View quote
Gabrielle Roy