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Difficult Quotes - Page 14

It is good to view things as familiar or unfamiliar, rather than as difficult or easy.

It is good to view things as familiar or unfamiliar, rather than as difficult or easy.

Kenny Werner (1996). “Effortless Mastery: Liberating the Master Musician Within”, Jamey Aebersold Jazz Incorporated

So he with difficulty and labour hard Mov'd on, with difficulty and labour he.

John Milton, James BUCHANAN (Grammarian.) (1773). “The First Six Books of Milton's Paradise Lost, Rendered Into Grammatical Construction ... With Notes ... To which are Prefixed Remarks on Ellipsis and Transposition ... By J. Buchanan”, p.170

Regarding Christianity: Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt.

'Apologia pro Vita Sua' (1864) 'Position of my Mind since 1845'

For a wrongdoer to be undetected is difficult; and for him to have confidence that his concealment will continue is impossible.

Epicurus (1964). “Letters: Principles Doctrines, and Vatican Sayings Translated, with an Introd. and Notes, by Russel M. Geor. Indianapolis Merrill”

After every difficulty, ask yourself two questions: 'What did I do right?' and 'What would I do differently?

Brian Tracy (1998). “The Gift of Self-Confidence”, p.11, Jaico Publishing House

To choose what is difficult all one's days, as if it were easy, that is faith

W. H. Auden (2013). “For the Time Being: A Christmas Oratorio”, p.23, Princeton University Press

Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.

Samuel Johnson (1997). “The Sayings of Doctor Johnson”, p.10, Gerald Duckworth & Co

It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.

Sallust, John Carew Rolfe (1931). “Sallust”, Loeb Classical Library

The most difficult thing is to know what we do know, and what we do not know.

P. D. Ouspensky (2009). “Tertium Organum”, p.11, Cosimo, Inc.

Men are always averse to enterprises in which they foresee difficulties.

Niccolo Machiavelli (2017). “The Prince”, p.34, Race Point Publishing

I understand it's difficult but you've got to think about yourself, you know, and not just follow the crowd.

"Jermain Defoe: 'I wanted to put something back and stop all this youth violence'". Interview with Andrew Anthony, www.theguardian.com. April 7, 2012.

Silence can pose a greater threat than the difficult truth.

Harriet Goldhor Lerner (1996). “Life preservers: staying afloat in love and life”