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Saturday, June 15th, 2024
the Week of Proper 5 / Ordinary 10
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Quotations regarding 'Difficulty'

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Sometimes I write notes that I have difficulty singing.
Elvis Costello, British Musician (1954-  )
Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.
Edgar Degas, French Artist (1834-1917)
Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
Rene Descartes, French Mathematician (1596-1650)
The fundamental laws necessary for the mathematical treatment of a large part of physics and the whole of chemistry are thus completely known, and the difficulty lies only in the fact that application of these laws leads to equations that are too complex to be solved.
Paul Dirac, British Physicist (1902-1984)
But the basic difficulty still remains: It is the expansion of Federal power, about which I wish to express my alarm. How easily we embrace such business.
Everett Dirksen, American Politician (1896-1969)
On the basis of the familiar experience that that which is learned with difficulty is better retained, it would have been safe to prophesy such an effect from the greater number of repetitions.
Hermann Ebbinghaus, German Psychologist (1850-1909)
For example, in painting the form arises from abstract elements of line and color, while in cinema the material concreteness of the image within the frame presents - as an element - the greatest difficulty in manipulation.
Sergei Eisenstein, Latvian Director (1898-1948)
I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive.
Nora Ephron, American Author (1941-  )
The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
Epictetus, Greek Philosopher
The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
Epicurus, Greek Philosopher
And from the first time I picked up a basketball at age eight - I had a lot of difficulty when I first picked up a basketball, because I was a scrub - there were things that I liked about it.
Julius Erving, American Athlete (1950-  )
Sometimes my mother had difficulty communicating with me about certain topics.
Gloria Estefan, American Musician (1957-  )
Little Sparta is a garden in the traditional sense. It is perhaps not like other modern gardens, but I think that other times would have had no difficulty with it.
Ian Hamilton Finlay, Scottish Poet (1925-  )
And I really do think that the difficulty of research makes it more real to you than punching a thing to find out how many men were killed at this particular action.
Shelby Foote, American Author (1916-2005)
Whatever the medium, there is the difficulty, challenge, fascination and often productive clumsiness of learning a new method: the wonderful puzzles and problems of translating with new materials.
Helen Frankenthaler, American Artist (1928-  )
I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty.
James A. Garfield, American President (1831-1881)
This is the problem for which revolutionary theory has yet to find the right solution, if there is one. The difficulty is that the economic interests of the two classes are antagonistic.
Garet Garrett, American Journalist
It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.
Andre Gide, French Novelist (1869-1951)
In terms of the character itself, I can't really say that I find anything really difficult. I enjoy the character so much I don't perceive difficulty in trying to be him. It's just a matter of how do we get there.
Ron Glass, American Actor (1945-  )
The best opinion now is, that there are multitudinous forms which are not sufficiently differentiated to be distinctively either plant or animal, while, as respects ordinary plants and animals, the difficulty of laying down a definition has become far greater than ever before.
Asa Gray, American Scientist (1810-1888)
 
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