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“No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.”
George Bernard Shaw
“The wireless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like a very long cat. You pull the tail in New York, and it meows in Los Angeles. The wireless is the same, only without the cat.”
Albert Einstein
“To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.”
Oscar Wilde
“To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.”
Plutarch
“All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.”
Lao Tzu
“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”
Winston Churchill
“It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.”
“The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was”
Walt West
“Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy”
“Self-discipline, although difficult, and not always easy while combating negative emotions, should be a defensive measure. At least we will be able to prevent the advent of negative conduct dominated by negative emotion. That is 'shila', or moral ethics. Once we develop this by familiarizing ourselves with it, along with mindfulness and conscientiousness, eventually that pattern and way of life will become a part of our own life.”
Dalai Lama