#difficulty

The art of biography is more difficult than is generally supposed. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#difficulty #personality #art

No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking. ↗

— J. P. Morgan

#concrete #difficulty #element #essential #form

It is hard work to control the workings of inclination and turn the bent of nature; but that it may be done, I know from experience. God has given us, in a measure, the power to make our own fate: and when our energies seem to demand a sustenance they cannot get--when our will strains after a path we may not follow--we need neither starve from inanition, not stand still in despair: we have but to seek another nourishment for the mind, as strong as the forbidden fruit it longed to taste--and perhaps purer; and to hew out for the adventurous foot a road as direct and broad as the one Fortune has blocked up against us, if rougher than it. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#difficulty #diligence #perseverance #experience

Out of clutter, find simplicity. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#difficulty #discord #harmony #oppurtunity #work

The difficulty is capturing surprise on film. ↗

— F. Murray Abraham

#difficulty #film #surprise

The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open. ↗

— John Berger

#confines #difficulty #dog #dreams #great

Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models. ↗

— Bill Bradley

#against #athletes #difficulty #great #important

(I)f you do not believe that hearts can bloom suddenly bigger, and that love can open like a flower out of even the hardest places, then I am afraid that for you the road will be long and brown and barren, and you will have trouble finding the light. But if you do believe, then you already know all about magic. ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#love #magic #overcoming-adversity #love

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#every #opportunity #optimist #pessimist #sees

Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance and make a seeming difficulty gives way. ↗

— Jeremy Collier

#countenance #difficulty #gives #make #out