The real difficulty is that people have no idea of what education truly is. We assess the value of education in the same manner as we assess the value of land or of shares in the stock-exchange market. We want to provide only such education as would enable the student to earn more. We hardly give any thought to the improvement of the character of the educated. The girls, we say, do not have to earn; so why should they be educated? As long as such ideas persist there is no hope of our ever knowing the true value of education.
A new truth always has to conend with many difficulties. If it were not so, it would have been discovered much sooner.
It is obvious that no difficulty in the way of world government can match the danger of a world without it.
Taking things lightly must lead to big difficulties.
Death brings release & removal from all evil, every tragedy & all difficulty. Death is not an enemy.
Can we fight against and subdue ourselves? That is the greatest difficulty we ever encountered, and the most arduous warfare we ever engaged in.
Part of the difficulty in trying to be both an artist and a businessperson is this: You make a picture because you have seen something beyond price; then you are to turn and assign to your record of it a cash value. If the selling is not necessarily a contradiction of the truth in the picture, it is so close to being a contradiction—and the truth is always in shades of gray-that you are worn down by the threat.
The greatest difficulty in the world is not for people to accept new ideas, but to make them forget old ideas.
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.
After every difficulty, ask yourself two questions: 'What did I do right?' and 'What would I do differently?
The chances of running out of yarn on a project are directly related to the difficulty that you will have getting more.
Some things get written more quickly than others, but I can't really measure degrees of difficulty.
Maybe the hardest lesson is the one I have to learn over and over again, that each story is its own animal, that every story I write is going to come only with difficulty.
The idea of a method that contains firm, unchanging, and absolutely binding principles for conducting the business of science meets considerable difficulty when confronted with the results of historical research. We find, then, that there is not a single rule, however plausible, and however firmly grounded in epistemology, that is not violated at some time or another.
If you are not a writer, you will not understand the difficulties of writing. If you are not a writer, you will not know the fears and hopes of the writers you teach.
The exchangeable value of all commodities rises as the difficulties of their production increase.
The honor of the conquest is rated by the difficulty.
Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment.
In grave difficulties, and with little hope, the boldest measures are the safest.
I'm sure you're well aware of the car companies that went out of business in 2008. And you've had other brands that have seen difficulties here and there, even some of the most famous ones.