Difficulty shows what men are. Therefore when a difficulty falls upon you, remember that God, like a trainer of wrestlers, has matched you with a rough young man. Why? So that you may become an Olympic conqueror; but it is not accomplished without sweat.
The difficulty that contestation must be done in the name of an authority is resolved this: I contest in the name of contestation what experience itself is.
Are not the thoughts of the dying often turned towards the practical, painful, obscure, visceral aspect, towards the "seamy side" of death which is, as it happens, the side that death actually presents to them and forces them to feel, and which far more closely resembles a crushing burden, a difficulty in breathing, a destroying thirst, than the abstract idea to which we are accustomed to give the name of Death?
. . . God knows you can have complication and difficulty without any compensating depth or seriousness
The ultimate Path is without difficulty. Just avoid picking and choosing.
Ignorance, according to the Buddha, is our basic difficulty. Psychedelics and the process of aging make that clear to me all the time.
Economists can never be free of from difficulties unless they will distinguish between a theory and the application of a theory.
Mere numbers cannot bring out. . . the intimate essence of the experiment. This conviction comes naturally when one watches a subject at work. . . . What things can happen! What reflections, what remarks, what feelings, or, on the other hand, what blind automatism, what absence of ideas!. . . The experimenter judges what may be going on in [the subject's] mind, and certainly feels difficulty in expressing all the oscillations of a thought in a simple, brutal number, which can have only a deceptive precision. How, in fact, could it sum up what would need several pages of description!
To understand the difficulty of predicting the next 100 years, we have to appreciate the difficulty that the people of 1900 had in predicting the world of 2000.
Our mass media have little difficulty in selling particular interests as those of all sensible men. The political needs of society become individual needs and aspirations, their satisfaction promotes business and the commonweal, and the whole appeals to be the very embodiment of Reason.
A lot of these industries are having difficulty finding reliable workers with the skills they require.
The occasion is piled high with difficulty. We must rise to the occasion.
if you don't believe in yourself, you'll have some difficulty in making other people believe in you.
Until you take charge of your own life, things don't happen.
There is some lack either of sense or of character in one who becomes involved in difficulties with the worthless or the vicious.
Spain is facing an economic situation of extreme difficulty, I repeat, of extreme difficulty, and anyone who doesn't understand that is fooling themselves.
I count him a great man who inhabits a higher sphere of thought, into which other men rise with labor and difficulty; he has but to open his eyes to see things in a true light, and in large relations; whilst they must make painful corrections, and keep a vigilant eye on many sources of error.
Stop thinking about your difficulties, whatever they are, and start thinking about God instead.
The President Donald Trump has great difficulty with the truth on many issues.
Some things get written more quickly than others, but I can't really measure degrees of difficulty.