No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific,… — J. P. Morgan Copy Share Image
I write books and either people read them or they don't read them. The rise of Facebook or e-books doesn't change the… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity; the next is, to strive, and deserve to conquer:… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It's no easy matter to paint a background. I venture to say that the old painters had more difficulty with their grounds… — William Morris Hunt Copy Share Image
How I hate this folly of not believing in the Eucharist, etc.! If the gospel be true, if Jesus Christ be God,… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Do not write to impress others. Authors who write to impress people have difficulty remaining true to themselves. A better path is… — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
The occasion is piled high with difficulty. We must rise to the occasion. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
No matter how hard it seems just keep going, don't quit because we only fail when we give up. — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capital... the ease or difficulty experienced by… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The natural inequality of the two powers of population and of production in the earth, and that great law of our nature… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
Love is never easy. We begin by loving the things we can, according to our stature, but it is not long before… — Alison Croggon Copy Share Image
We are convinced, then, that autistic people have their place in the organism of the social community. They fulfil their role well,… — Hans Asperger Copy Share Image
A man may call to mind the face of his friend, but not his own. Here, then, is an initial difficulty in… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The exchange program is the thing that reconciles me to all the difficulties of political life. It's the only activity that gives… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
I started writing a novel from the monster's point of view. It has its own difficulties but, I'm ashamed to say, it's… — Justine Larbalestier Copy Share Image
Yet even the rich have their own kind of suffering, anxiety, doubt, and fear. So in many cases, wealthy people aren't happy!… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The abandonment of the gold standard made it possible for the welfare statists to use the banking system as a means to… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
“As Blake wrote in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: “You never know what is enough unless you know what is more… — Andrew Davidson Copy Share Image
The raging monster upon the land is population growth. In its presence, sustainability is but a fragile theoretical construct. To say, as… — Pete Wilson Copy Share Image
And from the first time I picked up a basketball at age eight - I had a lot of difficulty when I… — Julius Erving Copy Share Image
The great difficulty about keeping the Ten Commandments is that no man can keep them and be a gentleman. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Single motherhood is a reality for a lot of women in my age group and the time difficulties in their lives are… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
The history of man is essentially zoological; it becomes human late in the day, and then only in the beautiful souls, the… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
The more obstacles you face and overcome, the more times you falter and get back on track, the more difficulties you struggle… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
I suggest that there is a splendid way out of the difficulty of marriage, and that is my way - stay out. — Agnes Macphail Copy Share Image
Men are not worried by things, but by their ideas about things. When we meet with difficulties, become anxious or troubled, let… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
It is our response to our circumstances rather than the degree of difficulty that determines whether or not we are discontent — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Few economic problems, if any, are difficult of solution. The difficulty, all but invariably, is in confronting them. We know what needs… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
To superficial observers his chin had too vanishing an aspect, looking as if it were being gradually reabsorbed. And it did indeed… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I think that the resistance against Darwin is not just the difficulty of seeing the power of a spectacularly beautiful explanation: it… — Carlo Rovelli Copy Share Image
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
One of the difficulties in living the lifestyle I lead is that it is hard to get my friends in one place. — Sean Parker Copy Share Image
Ordinary people who know nothing of phonetics or elocution have difficulties in understanding slow speech composed of perfect sounds, while they have… — Alexander Graham Bell Copy Share Image
People can't, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents. Life gives these… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
