Difficult Quotes

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In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons. — Juvenal
If at great things thou would'st arrive, Get riches first, get wealth, and treasure heap, Not difficult, if thou hearken to me; Riches are mine,… — John Milton
May you gain more and more confidence in what is difficult and in your solitude among other people. — Rainer Maria Rilke
Those tasks that have been entrusted to us are difficult; almost everything serious is difficult; and everything is serious. — Rainer Maria Rilke
One of the most difficult tests for the creator: he must always remain unconscious, unaware of his best virtues, if he doesn't want to rob… — Rainer Maria Rilke
He was a worker whose only desire was to penetrate with all his forces into the humble and difficult significance of his tools. Therein lay… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Getting ahead in a difficult profession - singing, acting, writing, whatever requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering… — Sophia Loren
The construction of the human figure, its tremendous variety of balance, of size, of rhythm, all those things make the human form much more difficult… — Henry Moore
To complicate things in new ways, that is really very easy; but to see things in new ways, that is difficult and that is why… — Gertrude Stein
Toward the person who has died we adopt a special attitude: something like admiration for someone who has accomplished a very difficult task. — Sigmund Freud
I have a theory that women are generally given space and appointed to jobs when the situation is tough. I've observed that in many instances.… — Christine Lagarde
Hatred, rancor, and the spirit of vengeance are useless baggage to the artist. His road is difficult enough for him to cleanse his soul of… — Henri Matisse
If painting weren't so difficult, it wouldn't be fun. — Edgar Degas
I am a believer and a conformist. Anyone can revolt; it is much more difficult to obey our inner promptings. — Georges Rouault
It is difficult to judge one's contemporaries; perhaps it is impossible to understand them. — Odilon Redon
Everything that we think God has in his mind necessarily proceeds from our own mind; it is what we imagine to be in God's mind,… — Lin Yutang
Why do you always write poetry? Why do you not write prose? Prose is so much more difficult. — Walter Pater
Even though you try very hard, the progress you make is always little by little. It is not like going out in a shower in… — Shunryu Suzuki
The economy is turning, and credit comes in with a lag, .. To the extent that a number of small firms are finding it difficult… — Alan Greenspan
It is true that every day has its own evil, and its good too. But how difficult must life be, especially farther on when the… — Vincent Van Gogh
When we are working at a difficult task and strive after a good thing, we are fighting a righteous battle, the direct reward of which… — Vincent Van Gogh
There are so many people, especially among our comrades, who imagine that words are nothing - on the contrary, isn't it true that saying a… — Vincent Van Gogh
We ought to be thankful to nature for having made those things which are necessary easy to be discovered; while other things that are difficult… — Epicurus
Ideas, as the raw material from which knowledge is produced, exist in superabundance, but that makes the production of knowledge more difficult rather than easier.… — Thomas Sowell
It really is appallingly difficult to do something which is complete in every respect, and I think most people are content with mere approximations. Well,… — Claude Monet

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