Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It is taking so long, in fact, to train a physicist to the place where he understands the...

To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.

I find it difficult to be in rooms now for long periods of time. I can usually take it for about an hour. Then I stride out.

Perseverance is not a passive submission to circumstances—it is a strong and active response to the difficult events of life.

Never choose a situation which is a burden to your command only to satisfy fellows’ standards; rather choose a situation that may be difficult but is compliment to your will.

The increasing legal pressure against archives has created anxieties among researchers, librarians, and journalists. They cite the need to protect sources who wish to make a record for posterity; procuring documents and interviews from those...

Possibly because I’ve lived so much of my life in difficult circumstances, I think I have a more profound understanding of life.

I think most bands probably peak on their first album. We peaked on our third album. On the first album, I feel like I wish the production was a little better. I’ll always hear a...

But it’s always really difficult to find someone that has the qualities to be a great accompanist.

It’s very comforting to know that you are faced with a difficult job. If someone gives you a job which shows every sign of being easy, then you are a prisoner of effortlessness.

Not everybody wants to have the same career. I think what’s difficult is when you have two people that do something very, very similar and they both, say, want the limelight. That’s very tricky.

The difference between H7N9 and H5N1, is that H5N1 kills chickens very rapidly, so it is easy to identify where the infected flocks of chickens are. H7N9 doesn’t make the chicken sick, so it has...

I find it quite difficult to think that there’s, you know, about 20 million people listening to my album that I wrote very selfishly to get over a breakup. I didn’t write it being that...

It’s a difficult task to deal with cities. But with some original ways of getting things done, with some basic commandments, you can really get cities to be a great, great place to live.

I don’t feel that rap has been respected as an art form. Because people have seen rappers rap off the top of their heads, they don’t think it is difficult.

Don’t neglect adverse situations. Sometimes, they carry the yolk of great differences. When you break them away, you waste the yolk!

It is difficult to violently suppress people in the long run, as the example of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries has shown.

I’ve been hounded by a reputation of being difficult when really what I’m being is truthful and honest. And I think that’s been a thorn in my side.

The whole process of making ‘Bloody Sunday’ was difficult but extraordinary.

Dealing with Greece’s problems will be more difficult if Greece is not a member of the eurozone.

But sometimes you have to wait for an answer to come to you. Especially when the questions are difficult ones.

In Moscow I feel most comfortable. I’m used to four different seasons; it’s difficult for people in London to understand. People brought up in Russia like my kids want to play in the snow.

Take a deep breath when you see the unpleasant people. The arrogant, the racist, the know-it-all and the mouthful of nonsense. Don’t curse or blame them because it’s their nature and perhaps have not grown...

What troubles me is not that movie stars run for office, but that they find it easy to get elected. It should be difficult. It should be difficult for millionaires, too.

I see the American experience as being defined by the immigrant paradigm of rupture and renewal: rupture with the old world, the old ways, and renewal of the self in a bright but difficult New...

Making a film is so hard that if you don’t have your main actors going along with the ride with the rest of the crew it can make your life very difficult.

I am really impressed by lawyers who write books and tell us that they never lost a case. Most lawyers who have never lost a case have not had enough hard cases. But there are...

It is also difficult to articulate the subtleties in cinema, because there aren’t words or metaphors which describe many of the emotions you are attempting to evoke.

It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.

Pitching is always a weird, difficult thing.

Psychoanalysts have been occupied for a long time with the difficult question of what the psychological conditions are which determine the form of the neurotic disease to which the individual will succumb. It is as...

You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.

Most people don’t grow up. It’s too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. That’s the truth of it. They honor their credit cards, they find parking spaces, they marry, they have the...

All Norwegian children learn to swim when they are very young because if you can’t swim it is difficult to find a place to bathe.

I find performing very difficult. It’s difficult to be a good actor. I get very nervous, even though it sounds disingenuous, because you could legitimately go, ‘Well, why do it?’

I was lucky to come from a difficult area. It teaches you not just about football but also life. There were lots of kids from different races and poor families. People had to struggle to...

It’s difficult when you want it all.

The most challenging and difficult part in laying the right path come from the sandwiched people who walk astride between talents and duffers.

Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone’s heart; know that you’re really loved.

I find writing extraordinarily difficult and not very pleasurable, though I find having done it very pleasurable. I won’t lie about that.

Whatever is difficult for you become easy if you take a bite of it every day. Try again and again!

I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a working proposition as any one of the axioms of physics.

Allow God to use the difficulties and disappointments in life as polish to transform your faith into a glistening diamond that takes in and reflects His love.

Marriage is an extremely difficult relationship.

For me, the most difficult piece is the one I’m about to make.

We always expect tremendous criticism. It is my role to be the lightning rod … to attract the attacks against the organization for our work, and that is a difficult role. On the other hand,...

When I was a child growing up in Maine, one of my favorite things to do was to look for sand dollars on the seashores of Maine, because my parents told me it would bring...

I barely can go shopping for clothes. I find it difficult to walk into stores. The whole thing bores me so much.

I’ve shot a lot of places, and I’ve produced. I always thought, ‘Gosh, when you shoot in a big city, it’s so difficult.’ And New York, I always think, ‘Where are you going to park...

When one doesn’t want the limelight, but is also creative in developing whatever it is they are, then you can have two equal people that aren’t competing against each other. I think when you are...