Difficult Quotes

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The reply is, that one ought to be both feared and loved, but as it is difficult for the two to go together, it is… — Niccolo Machiavelli
In war everything is simple, but it's the simple things that are difficult. — Carl von Clausewitz
Nothing is more difficult than the art of maneuver. What is difficult about maneuver is to make the devious route the most direct and to… — Sun Tzu
Achieving vulnerability-based trust (where team members have overcome their need for invulnerability) is difficult because in the course of career advancement and education, most successful… — Patrick Lencioni
Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually expect it to beckon us with beepers and billboards. — William Arthur Ward
Golf is a difficult game, but it's a little easier if you trust your instincts. It's too hard a game to try to play like… — Nancy Lopez
Learning to play golf is like learning to play the violin. It's not only difficult to do, it's very painful to everyone around you. — Hal Linden
The hardest shot in golf is a mashie at 90 yards from the green, where the ball has to be played against an oak tree,… — Zeppo Marx
The moment the average golfer attempts to play from long grass or a bunker or from a difficult lie of any kind, he becomes a… — Bobby Jones
There is no movement in the golf swing so difficult that it cannot be made even more difficult by careful study and diligent practice. — Tom Mulligan
It's [Augusta National] a difficult course and it doesn't make it easier when you have three shanks. — Ian Poulter
The reason the Road Hole at St. Andrews is the most difficult par 4 in the world is that it was designed as a par… — Ben Crenshaw
It is difficult to connect general principles with such thoroughly concrete things as children. — John Dewey
If the topic be highly abstract, show its nature by concrete examples; if it be unfamiliar, make it figure as part of a story; if… — William James
Don't whine. Find the positive in difficult situations. — Tony DiCicco
Practice the 101 Percent Principle. Whenever possible, find the 1 percent you do agree on in a difficult situation, and give it 100 percent of… — John C. Maxwell
People envision [looking inside the brain] as being very difficult. You had to take a spaceship, shrink it down, inject it into the bloodstream. — Christopher deCharms
The most difficult thing about an easy match is to make a weak opponent play bad football. — Johan Cruijff
It takes more time and effort and delicacy to learn the silence of a people than to learn its sounds. Some people have a special… — Ivan Illich
I loathed the game, and since I could see no pleasure or usefulness in it, it was very difficult for me to show courage at… — George Orwell

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