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Because the more you write the more you're aware of the weight of your tradition and the difficulties of the form and the more you have already done that you do not want to do again.
Author:
Tobias Wolff
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A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.
Author:
Harry Truman
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I always anticipated difficulties in order to avoid scenes.
Author:
Gloria Swanson
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We all read news stories about the difficulties and tensions that the United States has with our allies and even with coalition partners in Iraq, but we rarely read about the good news.
Author:
Michael Simpson
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Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all.
Author:
Ernest Shackleton
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There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means.
Author:
Francois Rochefoucauld
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The exchangeable value of all commodities, rises as the difficulties of their production increase.
Author:
David Ricardo
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All the English speakers, or almost all, have difficulties with the gender of words.
Author:
Bernard Pivot
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It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes.
Author:
Louis Pasteur
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Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt.
Author:
John Newman
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There are no insuperable constitutional difficulties.
Author:
Lionel Murphy
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My task is becoming more and more delicate, while the difficulties increase constantly.
Author:
Jean Moulin
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I do recognise that, where recruitment difficulties persist, teachers can be put under great pressure.
Author:
Estelle Morris
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Farmers, merchants, manufacturers, and the traveling public have all had their troubles with the transportation lines, and the difficulties to which these struggles have given rise have produced that problem which is even now apparently far from solution.
Author:
John Moody
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What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself, in the face of difficulties.
Author:
Katherine Mansfield
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It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.
Author:
Joseph Maistre
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I cannot explain it; but when difficulties arise, I am not perplexed or doubtful. I know how to meet them.
Author:
Anne Macy
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Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.
Author:
Niccolo Machiavelli
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I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear.
Author:
Robert Lynd
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It does not do to use it with forms whose origin is intimately bound up with a specific material simply because no technical difficulties stand in the way.
Author:
Adolf Loos
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The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise; the hero sees both; diminishes the former and makes the latter preponderate, and so conquers.
Author:
Johann Lavater
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There is no doubt that I, also, had long been aware of the problem, i.e. producing X-ray interferences, before the inherent difficulties had finally been surmounted.
Author:
Max Laue
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To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.
Author:
Samuel Johnson
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A man who dreads trials and difficulties cannot become a revolutionary. If he is to become a revolutionary with an indomitable fighting spirit, he must be tempered in the arduous struggle from his youth. As the saying goes, early training means more than late earning.
Author:
Kim Il
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You can put in all the difficulties, jumps, runs, and any other devilish complexities you like, except octave spans and similar features which do not suit the formation of hands.
Author:
Johann Hummel
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I'm full of fears and I do my best to avoid difficulties and any kind of complications. I like everything around me to be clear as crystal and completely calm.
Author:
Alfred Hitchcock
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The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities.
Author:
Jose Gasset
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When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?
Author:
Benjamin Franklin
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There are some guys you have problems beating because of their style - I always had difficulties with guys like Michael Chang and Andre Agassi because their returns were so good and they played so well in defence.
Author:
Guy Forget
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Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.
Author:
Epictetus
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Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment.
Author:
T. Eliot
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Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
Author:
Albert Einstein
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However, the difficulties and pleasures of the writing itself are similar for a novel with a historical setting and a novel with a contemporary setting, as far as I'm concerned.
Author:
Helen Dunmore
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It is no secret that the Golf Foundation has had its difficulties.
Author:
Peter Dawson
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Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.
Author:
Winston Churchill
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I've always had difficulties with female characters.
Author:
John Carre
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Out of difficulties grow miracles.
Author:
Jean Bruyere
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There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties or you alter yourself meeting them.
Author:
Phyllis Bottome
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The mistakes and unresolved difficulties of the past in mathematics have always been the opportunities of its future.
Author:
E. Bell
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Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping.
Author:
Ethel Barrymore
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The difficulties of conducting espionage against the Soviet Union in the Soviet Union were such that historically the Agency had backed away from the task.
Author:
Aldrich Ames
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My difficulties belong to me!
Author:
Alfred Adler
