Difficulty Quotes

And from the first time I picked up a basketball at age eight - I had a lot of difficulty when I first picked up a basketball, because I was a scrub - there were things that I liked about it.

Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.

Sometimes I write notes that I have difficulty singing.

The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.

The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.

If most people are not willing to see the difficulty, this is mainly because, consciously or unconsciously, they assume that it will be they who will settle these questions for the others, and because they are convinced of their own capacity to do this.

I only used a cell phone for the first time after I was released. I had difficulty coping with it because it seemed so small and insubstantial.

A lot of these industries are having difficulty finding reliable workers with the skills they require.

Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models.

A major difficulty is that the answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx is partly a product of the answers that we already have given to the riddle in its various forms.

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capital... the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining capital, and thereby the strength and potential for growth in the economy.

The difficulty for me is that I'm interested in so many different things. I could never really imagine myself doing one thing, and I'm pretty sure that I'll end up doing four or five different things.

It's not just we Italians who are caught up in the difficulty.

I think we're going to have some difficulty in front of us. I have absolutely no doubt the next three, four years Europe are going to be at best stagnation. We are preparing for tough times.

I suppose that every time there is difficulty. I remember about Space Mountain: It took us ten years before we found the technology that would allow such a ride. And during these ten years, I had a model that I kept, waiting for the technology we needed.

Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.

Rocket science has been mythologized all out of proportion to its true difficulty.

Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.

Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood.

The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.

The hypothesis of surviving intelligence and personality - not only surviving but anxious and able with difficulty to communicate - is the simplest and most straightforward and the only one that fits all the facts.

Somebody who was born in this country who visited China would later face difficulty getting back in to the USA. We have to keep in mind that the struggles of the Chinese against these exclusion laws really laid down the foundations of civil rights law.

If we wait until our lives are free from sorrow or difficulty, then we wait forever. And miss the entire point.

The Western poet and writer of romance has exactly the same kind of difficulty in comprehending Eastern subjects as you have in comprehending Western subjects.

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty.

The fuss that actors began making about the difficulty of shifting to sound struck me as perfectly foolish.

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.