Quotes on Difficult

The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related, that it is difficult to class them separately. One step above the sublime makes the ridiculous, and one step above the ridiculous makes the sublime again.

The things you refuse to meet today always come back at you later on, usually under circumstances which make the decision twice as difficult as it originally was.

The photographer's most important and likewise most difficult task is not learning to manage his camera, or to develop, or to print. It is learning to see photographically — that is, learning to see his subject matter in terms of the capacities of his tools and processes, so that he can instantaneously translate the elements and values in a scene before him into the photograph he wants to make.

The portrait of a person is one of the most difficult things to do. It means you must almost bring the presence of that person photographed to other people in such a way that they don't have to know that person personally, but that they are still confronted with a human being that they won't forget. That's a portrait.

Over the years, one comes to measure a place, too, not just for the beauty it may give, the balminess of its breezes, the insouciance and relaxation it encourages, the sublime pleasures it offers, but for what it teaches. The way in which it alters our perception of the human. It is not so much that you want to return to indifferent or difficult places, but that you want to not forget.

If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.

If an actor knows how to milk a cow, I always know it will not be difficult to be in business with him.

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.

Never let yourself be seduced by any problem, no matter how difficult.

It is difficult to say what truth is, but sometimes it is so easy to recognize a falsehood.

The human plagiarism which is most difficult to avoid, for individuals... is the plagiarism of ourselves.

Even in the most difficult situation there is always, somehow, a way to triumph

The superior man is easy to serve, but difficult to please ... The inferior man is difficult to serve, but easy to please.

Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves so truly materialistic, so versed in the uses of power.

It is so difficult to draw a clear line of separation between the abuse and the wholesome use of the press, that as yet we have found it better to trust the public judgment, rather than the magistrate, with the discrimination between truth and falsehood. And hitherto the public judgment has performed that office with wonderful correctness.

It should therefore be difficult in a republic to declare war; but not to make peace.

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.

Difficult takes a day_x000D_ _x000D_ Impossible takes a week_x000D_ _x000D_ I do this in my sleep

Be humble and you will never be disturbed. It is very difficult in practice because we all want to see the result of our work. Leave it to Jesus.

Every need brings what's needed._x000D_ _x000D_ Pain bears its cure like a child._x000D_ _x000D_ Having nothing produces provisions._x000D_ _x000D_ Ask a difficult question,_x000D_ _x000D_ And the marvelous answer appears.