Difficult Quotes

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When you start, the world of publishing seems like a great cathedral citadel of talent, resisting attempts to let you inside. It isn't like that… — Alan Garner
As difficult as it is for a writer to find a publisher-admittedly a daunting task-it is twice as difficult for a publisher to sort through… — Olivia Goldsmith
The calculus was the first achievement of modern mathematics and it is difficult to overestimate its importance. I think it defines more unequivocally than anything… — John von Neumann
And what a plan! This vast operation is undoubtedly the most complicated and difficult that has ever occurred. — Winston Churchill
If you eat caviar every day it's difficult to return to sausages. — Arsene Wenger
The more we try to improve our schools, the heavier the teaching task becomes; and the better our teaching methods the more difficult they are… — Jean Piaget
Endings of one rook and pawns are about the most common sort of endings arising on the chess board. Yet though they do occur so… — Jose Raul Capablanca
I have often thought that if photography were difficult in the true sense of the term-meaning that the creation of a simple photograph would entail… — Ansel Adams
When the light is right and everything is working for me, I feel as tense as when making a difficult maneuver high on a mountain.… — Galen Rowell
Give half a dozen men the same camera, lenses and plates, and send them to the same place to do the same thing, and all… — Frederick H. Evans
To the vast majority of people a photograph is an image of something within their direct experience: a more-or-less factual reality. It is difficult for… — Ansel Adams
I know some photographs that are extraodrinary in their power and conviction, but it is difficult in photography to overcome the superficial power or subject;… — Ansel Adams
A thorough understanding of the typical mating continuations makes the most complicated sacrificial combinations leading up to them not only not difficult, but almost a… — Siegbert Tarrasch
It is difficult to play against Einstein's theory -on his first loss to Fischer — Mikhail Tal
It was difficult in the beginning, in the middle and at the end. — Steve McClaren
There was a seminar for advanced students in ZÃ¼rich that I was teaching and von Neumann was in the class. I came to a certain… — George Polya
Once we ask why it should be that all human beings - including infants, the intellectually disabled, criminal psychopaths, Hitler, Stalin, and the rest -… — Peter Singer
I don't know why but I love this kind of project, when it's a little difficult and when you have a history. The beginning of… — Stephane Derenoncourt
A run is more difficult to make than no save, because batting is in its nature a far less certain and reliable thing than bowling… — Ranjitsinhji
The modern world belongs to the half-educated, a rather difficult class, because they do not realize how little they know. — William Ralph Inge

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