"Difficulty is what wakes up the genius." — Ovid

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• People that go through what I went through and people going through divorce, it's really a difficulty process; it's heartbreaking… — David Arquette
• Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge… — Mary Astell
• Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn… — Saint Augustine
• Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish. — Marcus Aurelius
• Some things get written more quickly than others, but I can't really measure degrees of difficulty. — Paul Auster
• Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties… — Sai Baba
• My parents were divorced when I was a young teenager, and I was raised by a single mother after that.… — Michele Bachmann
• The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which,… — Douglas Adams
• Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend… — Ethel Barrymore
• Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. — John Quincy Adams
• Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away,… — Jean Baudrillard
• Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves… — Thomas Beecham

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