difficulty quotes

I’ve proved to be as difficult to convert as I am to hypnotize.

Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.

Some things get written more quickly than others, but I can’t really measure degrees of difficulty.

I barely can go shopping for clothes. I find it difficult to walk into stores. The whole thing bores me so much.

I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that, my music doesn’t exist without the performance-art element.

I have trouble reading modern Hebrew. In the 1950s, I could read anything. I don’t know how much experience you’ve had with contemporary Hebrew. It’s quite difficult.

No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.

There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.

All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.

To rule is easy, to govern difficult.

I think that a president needs to have a variety of views presented. But also, there has to be a team effort, because otherwise, I think it creates a dissonance and difficulty.

Life is very difficult. One of the most ancient of religious ideas that emerges everywhere, I would say, is that life is essentially suffering.

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

If it’s hard to remember, it’ll be difficult to forget.

It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality.

My name can’t be that tough to pronounce!

Confidence is always a good thing to have going into the weekend. Especially where it’s quite difficult to put the lap together.

Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.

Lettin‘ the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier ‚n puttin‘ it back in.

Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.

The complexity of things – the things within things – just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one’s thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings – words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.

I think it is the height of ignorance to believe that the sexual act is an independent function necessary like sleeping or eating. Seeing, therefore, that I did not desire more children, I began to strive after self-control. There was endless difficulty in the task.

The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best.

I don’t care much for equations myself. This is partly because it is difficult for me to write them down, but mainly because I don’t have an intuitive feeling for equations.

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.

Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven’t been made easier technically.

I go to assume a task more difficult than that which devolved upon Washington. Unless the great God, who assisted him, shall be with me and aid me, I must fail; but if the same omniscient mind and almighty arm that directed and protected him shall guide and support me, I shall not fail – I shall succeed.

To attain any assured knowledge about the soul is one of the most difficult things in the world.