Difficulty Quotes

“I tell you, it is an exacting art to be simple.”

“I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.”

“Riding a race horse is not a gentle gallop in the park.”

“Comedy is much more difficult than drama.”

“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”

“Knowing what to do is the easy part. Doing it is the hard part.”

“It wasn't a puzzle that could be solved in a day or a week.”

“There are two theories on hitting the knuckleball. Unfortunately, neither of them works.”

“Writing a good movie is not as easy as it looks. It's a hell of a lot harder.”

“Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of a dilemma.”

“Some mathematics problems look simple, and you try them for a year or so, and then you try them for a hundred years, and it turns out that they're probably not going to be solved in our lifetime.”

“Acting is a tough business. You've got to be a little bit of a masochist to do it.”

“To be general manager of the Metropolitan Opera is like being a hydrant in a world of dogs.”

“Criticism is easy, and art is difficult.”

“To blow and to swallow at the same moment is not easy.”

“But all the things that God would have us do are hard for us to do—remember that—and hence, he oftener commands us than endeavors to persuade.”

“Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, 'tis being flayed alive.”

“A game has to be easy to learn and impossible to master.”

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

“The hardest thing in the world to do is to write straight with a crooked quill and a crooked line of thought.”