I try to take large, general questions that are difficult to resolve and break them down into small, very specific questions that have clear answers.

I know it may seem surprising to people, but learning dialog that has a conversational flow to it is not that difficult.

The most difficult part of any crime novel is the plotting. It all begins simply enough, but soon you’re dealing with a multitude of linked characters, strands, themes and red herrings – and you need to try to control these unruly elements and weave them into a pattern.

Nothing is too difficult unless you decide to keep shifting it to tomorrow till you can’t do it any longer.

It’s easy to see what to do once it’s already been done. The difficult time is before it’s to be done, and while you’re doing it. This is the difference between writing and editing.

Thank God I’ve never had the sort of intense fame that means you can’t walk up the road. That sort of blazing stardom must be difficult to cope with and maintain; my career has just bubbled along happily.

We live in a difficult but inspiring world, and there is so much out there that I want to record.

The mind is crazy thing. To be focused is the most difficult thing.

But there is no withdrawal, but with tobacco there is terrible withdrawal, it is almost impossible for a lot of people. I did , I went cold turkey, they never had any patches in those days but grass was not difficult, alcohol not difficult, but tobacco – oh my god.

Slapping a catchy acronym like the JOBS Act on a piece of legislation makes it more difficult for politicians to oppose it – and indeed that’s what happened with the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act.

I wouldn’t want a tattoo at all. They’re difficult to cover up.

Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.

However, writing software without defects is not sufficient. In my experience, it is at least as difficult to write software that is safe – that is, software that behaves reasonably under adverse conditions.

It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.

Patents are like fertilizer. Applied wisely and sparingly, they can increase growth. But if you apply too many chemicals, or make patents too strong, then you can leach the land, making growth more difficult.

The economic and social problems would tend to become, like the military situation, more and more difficult as time went on and we became more and more isolated.

I think the whole question of meaning in music is difficult enough even if you hear me playing live right now in the same room! What I mean and what you take from it may be two quite different things anyway.

The difficult is what takes a little time; the impossible is what takes a little longer.

The most difficult thing in any negotiation, almost, is making sure that you strip it of the emotion and deal with the facts. And there was a considerable challenge to that here and understandably so.

Most cornmeal producers don’t tell you when their cornmeal was milled, which makes it difficult to know how long the product has been sitting in the store before you bought it.

In my early to mid-20s, a fear of confrontation made it difficult for me to end relationships in a mature or even quasi-sane way. Instead, I would hang on resentfully, praying that my doomed beau would end things first and spare me the displeasure. To add hindrance to hang-up, the men I chose were usually...

The hard part for me was being an Olympic gold medalist and having that persona; you don’t see too many Olympic gold medalists go into acting. It’s actually even more difficult. You’re not taken very seriously, and you’re looked at in a different light, so it was kind of hard for me to go straight...

Japanese universities have a chair system that is a fixed hierarchy. This has its merits when trying to work as a laboratory on one theme. But if you want to do original work you must start young, and young people are limited by the chair system. Even if students cannot become assistant professors at an...

Desires are what can most easily ruin us, lovely.

When it becomes more difficult to suffer than to change… you will change.

The first years of my life in the U.S. were very difficult.

I’ve done my time in being broke in Indonesia. Eating Goat soup. Australia’s a developed country, you’ve got a lot of taxes, rents are high and its quite difficult to survive as an artist especially when you are just coming up.

I’m just very wary that once you start military operations in any country, it’s very difficult to predict what the outcome is.

I think that any writer who is commercial, who sells a lot of books, has to face criticism. Because the more hermetic and the more difficult your book is, supposedly it’s better.

If you always find yourself numbering your troubles, you will never find time counting your blessings. There is no use becoming frustrated in your difficulties while you have all opportunities hiding in them for a turnover!

Do the most difficult thing if that is what will pay you. Dust the Rust if you Must. Success never comes with ease.

In all the things I’ve gone through as a politician, I have seen that in this system it is really very difficult to make any headway without being somehow tainted. And let me say, ‘Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.’

Because of piracy there has been a massive downturn in people buying music, which makes it more difficult for artists to make money from the sale of records.

No one should expect building a new high-growth, software-powered company in an established industry to be easy. It’s brutally difficult.

Any peace process after so many years of horror and terror will be long and difficult.

Making a movie is still very difficult in Hollywood, regardless of what you have and what level you’re at. It is a house of cards, and things have to perfectly align.

Even those of us who have tasted the radical saving grace of God find it intuitively difficult not to put conditions on grace.

I knew nothing about martial arts. And I don’t really like it! But in the film, I not only had to pretend that I knew all about it, I had to be the best at it. That was very difficult.

Maybe the truth was, it shouldn’t be so easy to be amazing. Then everything would be. It’s the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth. When something’s difficult to come by, you’ll do that much more to make sure it’s even harder–if not impossible–to lose.

When life is difficult, try looking up at the night sky. A million stars proclaim aloud His Handiwork. And you know you are never alone.

I think that clearly it has an influence, to be coming of age during the punk rock era, to come from a difficult and sporadically violent background, to have been in and out of such chaos, I think it actually helps. But I don’t know for sure.

Don’t always wish it is easier to be done; wish you have enough power to make it happen. No matter how difficult it is, you can do it when the solution is in your palms!

My simple explanation of why we human beings, the most advanced species on earth, cannot find happiness, is this: as we evolve up the ladder of being, we find three things: the first, that the tension between the range of opposites in our lives and society widens dramatically and often painfully as we evolve; the...

It’s a very complicated issue, this fame thing – I was not really cut out for it. There are some really fantastic things about it, but it’s difficult for a private person like myself.

I need therapy after writing. It’s like leaking blood from a stone. It’s brutally difficult but worth it.

For me, disability is a way of getting some extremity, some kind of very difficult situation, that throws an interesting light on people.

To go from chairman of the House Appropriations Committee in the Kansas Legislature to one of 50 on the Appropriations Committee and one of 435 in the whole House, it is more difficult to directly impact policy here.

The average credit score of today’s FHA borrowers is higher than the average American household with a score. As it becomes more costly and difficult to get a FHA loan, loans from private mortgage lenders will become more attractive and their market share will grow.

Life can be as easy as you wish to make it, or as difficult as you are prepared to believe that it is.

I’ve become one of those actors who find it difficult to say ‘no’ when things are offered.