Difficulty Quotes

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The tragic reality is that there have been occasions when [Mormon] Church leaders, teachers, and writers have not told the truth they knew about difficulties… — D. Michael Quinn
A peculiarity of the higher arithmetic is the great difficulty which has often been experienced in proving simple general theorems which had been suggested quite… — Harold Davenport
The best therapy for emotional blocks to math is the realization that the human race took centuries or millennia to see through the mist of… — Lancelot Hogben
Among the minor, yet striking characteristics of mathematics, may be mentioned the fleshless and skeletal build of its propositions; the peculiar difficulty, complication, and stress… — Charles Sanders Peirce
Can the difficulty of an exam be measured by how many bits of information a student would need to pass it? This may not be… — Alfred Renyi
... I soon found an opportunity to be introduced to a famous professor Johann Bernoulli. ... True, he was very busy and so refused flatly… — Leonhard Euler
Considering how many fools can calculate, it is surprising that it should be thought either a difficult or a tedious task for any other fool… — Silvanus P. Thompson
Clearly Democrats are not united in what is the critique of what we're doing there and what is the answer to what we do next.… — Steve Elmendorf
You have very accurately described the difficulty of presenting my books on film: many of my characters are alone most of the time, and when… — Thomas Perry
The Difficulty lies, in finding out an exact Measure but eat for Necessity, not Pleasure, for Lust knows not where Necessity ends. — Benjamin Franklin
The sweetest pleasure arises from difficulties overcome. — Publilius Syrus
Taking things lightly must lead to big difficulties. — Laozi
The sage regards things as difficult, and thereby avoids difficulty. — Laozi
I became obsessed with making more and more tiny things. I think I was trying to find a way of compensating for my embarrassment at… — Willard Wigan
The difficulties of conducting espionage against the Soviet Union in the Soviet Union were such that historically the Agency had backed away from the task. — Aldrich Ames
Constantly seek difficulties. You shouldn't be afraid to fail; rather you should fail continually, so that you can win in the end. Without difficulties, we… — Michio Kushi
Men don't have as many difficulties and are more supported to combine the different aspects of their life. — Emma Bonino
It is a high patriotic duty that we support and sustain the men who have been placed in position of difficulty, burden, responsibility, and even… — Bainbridge Colby
Nothing influences our ability to cope with the difficulties of our existence so much as the context in which we view them; the more contexts… — Theodore Zeldin
There is a tendency for humans to consciously see what they wish to see. They literally have difficulty seeing things with negative connotations while seeing… — Lionel Tiger

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