No matter how short or long your journey to your accomplishment is, if you don’t begin you can’t get there. Beginning is difficult, but unavoidable!

I think it’s difficult to forget things that are unresolved.

We live in a time where the media is a very difficult thing to navigate because it’s everywhere, and I tend to want to be a lot more private with my life.

Guitar playing is both extremely easy for me and extremely difficult for me at the same time.

Spain is finding it very difficult to finance itself with sovereign debt risk premium so high.

One of the difficult things, especially about blogging, is that you put all of your personal out there, into the political. And what’s been difficult, for me at least, is trying to keep some of...

If mathematics is to be understood widely, we need to emphasise its elegance and its applications. Sometimes it seems that universities want to emphasise how difficult it is!

Russell Crowe is very difficult, but it’s worth it. He’s the real thing. I can tell you this. Russell Crowe was just as difficult before he was an international star as he was afterwards.

It will be difficult to finish my career here. I don’t know if I am going to end it at Barcelona, although I would like to. I don’t know what is going to happen.

I suddenly think the job of acting is a difficult one. It’s not as flip, irrelevant and shallow a calling as I thought it was in the Eighties.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.