Experience proves that anyone who has studied geometry is infinitely quicker to grasp difficult subjects than one who has not.

They [Afghans] understand the difficult truth that their best hope of freedom lies in a temporary experience of imperial rule.

Comedy is difficult for an actor. But I think I have a good sense of humor and manage to make people laugh and make them happy.

Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

It's those difficult times that inform the next wonderful time, and it's a series of trade-offs, of events, of wins and losses.

Being a teenager is as difficult as living with one. And we've all been there. Perhaps that's the reason we're so hard on them.

Be careful, then, and be gentle about death. For it is hard to die, it is difficult to go through the door, even when it opens.

A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before.

Because of Bluetooth headsets, it's getting more and more difficult to tell who's schizophrenic and who's on a conference call.

Life is difficult, and if you sit around waiting for fun to show up, you'll find yourself going without it more often than not.

I try to stay as private as possible; I know that's difficult, especially playing here in New York, but I make an attempt at it.

Finding a technical cofounder would have been difficult for me. I was an English major and didn't know any computer programmers.

It's a difficult competition against silence, because silence is a perfect language, the only language which says with no words.

Yes it's difficult. Yes it's horrible. Yes it's the worst thing that has ever happen in my whole life. But I just can't give up.

It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words, like 'What about lunch?'

Simply touching a difficult memory with some slight willingness to heal begins to soften the holding and tension around it. (74)

It may be an old cliche, but I think true love will last; it has no end. But finding the right person is a very difficult thing.

It is very difficult to imagine that you can actually get rid of a dictatorship that has been there for 60 years only in 18 days.

Initiating is really and truly difficult, and that's what leaders do. They see something others are ignoring and they jump on it.

I learned running the government for the Presidency, which I always thought was difficult, is even more difficult than I thought.

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.

I cry a lot, you know. Which is very difficult for a man to recognise, but I do. I cry in movies, you know, just watching movies.

It is extremely difficult to do anything constructive, let alone deep, on daily commercial television, especially on a talk show.

Difficult times disrupt your conventional ways of thinking and push you to forge better habits of thought, performance and being.

It was a very difficult time after the fall of the Soviet Union. Jobs were difficult, and you had to fight to have anything nice.

I've always been very forward-looking, and it was actually kind of difficult to turn my gaze backwards to look at comics history.

All Norwegian children learn to swim when they are very young because if you can't swim it is difficult to find a place to bathe.

For those who don't know what they are doing, painting is easy. For those who do know what they are doing, painting is difficult.

If you can't categorize a film for a studio, it's really difficult for them to wrap their heads around it and give you the money.

It's really, really, really difficult to have the same occupation as the person you're with - especially when you're both actors.

When you are dead, you do not know you are dead. It's only painful and difficult for others. The same applies when you are stupid.

We need the disruption of categories that lead us to abandon the difficult, the disagreeable, and the least likely to go very far.

When I really want to be comforted myself, what I look for is a story about how somebody could survive something really difficult.

Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.

[Stéphane Mallarmé] theory of the hermetic is a mistake, but he can be only difficult to read when he has difficult things to say.

I've never seen myself as a manager. As a manager, you have to put all your time into the job, and that would be difficult for me.

Joy is a deeply felt contentment that transcends difficult circumstances and derives maximum enjoyment from every good experience.

You get so close, a lot of close calls, and then it just doesn't happen. That's just the way the industry is. It's very difficult.

I think the most common meme is that it's too difficult to change. It's too risky to change. My nature doesn't allow me to change.

It's hard to say, 'I don't believe in God.' I would love to know if God exists. But it's a very difficult thing for me to believe.

If you're trying to get to profitability by lowering costs as a startup, then you are in a very precarious and difficult position.

We're so complex; we're mysteries to ourselves; we're difficult to each other. And then storytelling reminds us we're all the same.

People aren't born strong. People grow stronger little by little, encountering difficult situations, learning not to run from them.

Certainly the plagiarism, and dealing with the fallout of it, was the most difficult thing I've ever faced since I started writing.

I do find comedy difficult. I don't know why. Maybe I think about it too much. There's a tremendous amount of pressure to be funny.

Humor is this great equalizer. It gets people's defenses down, and once they're down, you can discuss some really difficult topics.

When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.

Being called very, very difficult is the beginning of success. Until you're called very, very difficult you're really nobody at all.

Going through something difficult in your life, music, for me, is always a friend and something that helps you to figure things out.

It's difficult to act in a language that's not your own. It takes a long time to put your head around it and feel confident with it.

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