Difficult Quotes

To try to raise a son from inside the prison walls is a very difficult thing. But I want to say to the world my son at 16 was the one who tried the most to get me out of prison.

Getting movies made is not as difficult as people think. Making movies is easy. You get a script, you get a director, you raise the money, you make the movie.

I think it's very difficult, and it requires a tremendous amount of spiritual integrity and discipline, to not be a narcissist in a culture that encourages it every step of the way.

If mathematics is to be understood widely, we need to emphasise its elegance and its applications. Sometimes it seems that universities want to emphasise how difficult it is!

It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

And then there's also this element of - some people would describe it as spirits or a presence that appears when things are very difficult, physically and emotionally. You know, when you're really putting out. So the third man aura is sort of an appearance. It's the yeti.

When I took over, the economy had almost collapsed. I told Malawians we needed to pass through difficult times. Two days ago I even cut my own salary by 30% to show we are making sacrifices.

I cry a lot, you know. Which is very difficult for a man to recognise, but I do. I cry in movies, you know, just watching movies.

I feel in some ways I've had a difficult life. And it makes me the kind of writer I am, in what I value, what I respect, what I hold dear.

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

There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.

The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.

The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.

The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.

It is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is often exceedingly difficult to find this out.

For many years I thought my job was to go to places where it would be difficult for most of the readers to ever get to. Now, in the more than 20 years I've been doing this, the concept of adventure-travel trips or expeditions by groups has sprung up. The places I went 20 years ago now have adventure-travel trips.

To disappear your complete self into a character is quite difficult. I've tried it 85 times, and I've succeeded two or three times.

Comedy is underrepresented in every actor's life, because it's so bloody difficult to write.

My parents had a difficult divorce.

At a time when we're having to take such difficult decisions about how to cut back without damaging the things that matter the most, we should strain every sinew to cut error, waste and fraud.

When times are difficult, I tell myself, 'I'm just passing through.'

I had a really scary pregnancy and a very difficult delivery. My daughter and I are lucky to be alive.

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.

Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.

It's very difficult to read a book on your computer.

I'm modern because I make the difficult seem easy, and so I can communicate with the whole world.

He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.

The more you are known, the more difficult it is to hide behind characters.

It's difficult to gauge that. With a bad guy you just know you're bad. To play a nice guy is harder - unless you are a very nice person like me of course.

We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it was the result of good or evil motives.

Unless you've been touched personally, it's difficult to see, but there are millions of people who have no voice whatsoever.

The magazine was being started by a company that had no experience in business magazine publishing. It was a little difficult to get people to sort of buy into it and to join the staff, but we did.

I had been told that the training procedure with cats was difficult. It's not. Mine had me trained in two days.

I believe the structure of 'House of Leaves' is far more difficult to explain than it is to read. And while I'd like to lay claim to some extraordinary act of originality, truth is I'm only taking advantage of capabilities inherent in everyone.

We know we're up against the wall. We know how difficult a challenge it is, being in the minority.

Writing doesn't come easily to me. It gets more and more difficult.

The most original thing a writer can do is write like himself. It is also his most difficult task.

Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.

The kindness and affection from the public have carried me through some of the most difficult periods, and always your love and affection have eased the journey.

Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.

The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.

As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.

So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.

Anybody can be specific and obvious. That's always been the easy way. It's not that it's so difficult to be unspecific and less obvious; it's just that there's nothing, absolutely nothing, to be specific and obvious about.

The question really is how do we get Embassy Officers into the minds of the American business community. That is a much more difficult task than understanding a statistical matrix.

It is not easy to do something good, but it is extremely difficult to do something bad.

It can be very difficult to trace your birth parents.

It comes down to a question of attention: it's difficult to use the Net distractedly, unlike the television or the radio.

The hardest part about being vegan is shoes. I mean, really, that's the only difficult part, finding shoes that don't have leather on them.

By what you do, you teach your children how to respond to difficult information.

People think, 'You're an actor, you can afford clothes,' but I just try to take the clothes from the movie, which makes the selecting of film projects that much more difficult, because you try to play characters that might wear something you'd want to wear.

Psychology is as important as substance. If you treat people with respect, they will go out of their way to accommodate you. If you treat them in a patronizing way, they will go out of their way to make your life difficult.

The beauty of a main title is that you establish your main theme and maybe a bit of your secondary theme. You plant the seed that you're going to go water later in the score. And so, having that removed just made it so much more difficult.

Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?

Writing a song is actually quite easy. Writing a good one is very, very difficult.

It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.

It's a very complicated issue, this fame thing - I was not really cut out for it. There are some really fantastic things about it, but it's difficult for a private person like myself.

I think the most difficult thing had been scaling the infrastructure. Trying to support the response we had received from our users and the number of people that were interested in using the software.

Even if it was a difficult operation to copy a song, it only takes one person to do it. After that the spread of the song via the Internet or other means of propagation is only limited by the honesty of the users.

I don't 'handle' people. It's so much easier to manipulate actors than to really have an earnest discussion with them. It's very easy to say whatever's going to appease them and then turn around and do whatever you want to do. It's difficult to be forthright with people, because the job does not lend itself to that.

The serve, I think, is the most difficult, you know, in terms of coordination, because you got the two arms going, and you got to toss it up at the right time so.

I need therapy after writing. It's like leaking blood from a stone. It's brutally difficult but worth it.

It's fun to be blond, and it's almost difficult to remember how I used to look with my proper hair color.

I think that clearly it has an influence, to be coming of age during the punk rock era, to come from a difficult and sporadically violent background, to have been in and out of such chaos, I think it actually helps. But I don't know for sure.

It's not surprising so many people end up with credit-card debts. Saving for your retirement and buying a house are difficult things, and we don't educate people about them at all.

With the piano I'm completely in control of the gestural situation-not that I'm going to play the piece myself, but I know what's difficult, what's impossible.

The least-crowded channel for meeting high profile bloggers is in person. Email is the most difficult, the most crowded... I'm a top 1,000 blogger, not a top 100 blogger, and I get hundreds of pitches by email every week. Most of them I don't even see because my assistant declines them.

Words can be very powerful. I find them very difficult.

I find it difficult to watch myself... I find it boring.

The most important ways in which I think the Internet will affect the big issue is that it will make it more difficult for government to collect taxes.

I think the fact that I'm so well known to be gay makes it very difficult to have a convincing relationship with a woman on screen. It wouldn't be at all difficult for me to kiss a woman - I'll kiss a frog if you like.

It is more difficult to praise rightly than to blame.