Difficult
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.
Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.
People aren't born strong. People grow stronger little by little, encountering difficult situations, learning not to run from them.
It's strange how the simple things in life go on while we become more difficult.
Your personal life, your professional life, and your creative life are all intertwined. I went through a few very difficult years where I felt like a failure. But it was actually really important for me to go through that. Struggle, for me, is the most inspirational thing in the world at the end of the day — as long as you treat it that way.
Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.
Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.
My mom was a source of strength. She showed me by example that women, regardless of how difficult life may get, can do it all.
There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
It's in the difficult times that we're growing and you can't just rebuke everything hard. We've got to endure it and fight the good fight of faith and pass the test.
Obviously you have to have talent in order to play so you can't overlook that, but we won't overlook the character issue when it comes to talent because if they have talent and they don't have character, it's going to be very difficult to coach that person.
Without effective protection of the citizens' right to property, it will be difficult to attract and accumulate valuable capital.
Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones.