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Difficulty

«The most difficult thing in the world is to start a career known only for your looks, and then to try to become a serious actress. No one will take you seriously once you are known as the pretty woman.»
«When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure»
«What is difficulty? Only a word indicating the degree of strength requisite for accomplishing particular objects; a mere notice of the necessity for exertion; a bugbear to children and fools; only a stimulus to men»
«The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was»
«You think it more difficult to turn air into wine than to turn wine into blood?»
Author: Graham Greene | About: Difficulty
«The real difficulty, the difficulty which has baffled the sages of all times, is rather this: how can we make our teaching so potent in the motional life of man, that its influence should withstand the pressure of the elemental psychic forces in the»
Author: Albert Einstein (Physicist) | About: Difficulty | Keywords: motional, potent, sages
«Where there is no difficulty there is no praise»
«To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | About: Difficulty, Mankind | Keywords: felicity

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