Difficulty Quotes

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

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.

I am, really, a great writer; my only difficulty is in finding great readers.

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.

The best way out of a difficulty is through it.

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.

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.

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.

A prince who will not undergo the difficulty of understanding must undergo the danger of trusting.

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.

Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty.

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

What parent has it easy? I just never make the difficulty of it an obstacle. I just do it.

The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted.

Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.

Mistakes, after all, are endemic to foreign and military policy given the unpredictability of events and the difficulty of securing reliable information in a place like Iraq.

The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees.

The difficulty of writing a good theatre play set in new reality was even greater given that the level of similitude to life that is allowed in a film would not work on the stage.

The accidents of my life have given me the ability to make stories in which different parts of the world are brought together, sometimes harmoniously, sometimes in conflict, and sometimes both - usually both. The difficulty in these stories is that if you write about everywhere you can end up writing about nowhere.

The difficulty with any sort of esteem is that more is expected of you.

I know my own soul, how feeble and puny it is: I know the magnitude of this ministry, and the great difficulty of the work; for more stormy billows vex the soul of the priest than the gales which disturb the sea.

My approach to gymnastics in Beijing was heavily based on the amount of difficulty I could do.

The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.