Almost everything serious is difficult; and everything is…

Where something becomes extremely difficult and unbearable, there we also stand always already quite near its transformation.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

To explicate the uses of the Brain seems as difficult a task as to paint the Soul, of which it is commonly said, that…

— Thomas Willis

Politics only makes the difficult challenge of marriage even harder, with the demands of the job and the public spotlight it casts on a…

— Mark McKinnon

The surprise of an army is now next to an impossibility. ... Prearranged surprises are rare and difficult because in order to plan one…

— Antoine-Henri Jomini

I want to make myself and the crowd happy by way of something different, and that makes things difficult. I'm never playing something that…

— Tiesto

My friends, this body - perhaps more than any other gathering in human history - now faces that difficult task.

— Leonardo DiCaprio

Lutherans, whose arguments and mistakes will not be difficult to contest or discover, do not want to attribute any value to works, and they…

— Michael Servetus

It's difficult for people to come to the understanding that only a small minority of the people ever really get the word about life,…

— Earl Nightingale

How wonderful it would be, I thought, if only we could practice the teachings of the Buddha as he really taught them from his…

— Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche

It's only a little difficult to say no. You've got to believe that the work you're doing is ultimately more useful to the world.

— Derek Sivers

Having small children and being an investigative reporter would seem like a difficult mix, but it worked well for me. I was often working…

— Jill Abramson

It is extremely difficult to do anything constructive, let alone deep, on daily commercial television, especially on a talk show.

— Dennis Prager

Consumers can choose organic cotton grown without pesticides, but it uses more water and requires more land than conventional crops. Organic cotton can also…

— Tatiana Schlossberg

I'm not a huge social media kind of guy, so I don't really know, I don't really ever get... at least in real life,…

— Freddie Stroma

Companies with cultures that celebrate diverse opinions and encourage the exchange of ideas have an advantage when solving difficult problems. A company that doesn't…

— Doug McMillon