#difficulty

Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models. ↗

— Bill Bradley

#against #athletes #difficulty #great #important

(I)f you do not believe that hearts can bloom suddenly bigger, and that love can open like a flower out of even the hardest places, then I am afraid that for you the road will be long and brown and barren, and you will have trouble finding the light. But if you do believe, then you already know all about magic. ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#love #magic #overcoming-adversity #love

Rock Band is more like Stairmaster than it is like rock 'n' roll - it's the same steps with different degrees of difficulty. ↗

— Carrie Brownstein

#degrees #different #difficulty #like #more

Somebody who was born in this country who visited China would later face difficulty getting back in to the USA. We have to keep in mind that the struggles of the Chinese against these exclusion laws really laid down the foundations of civil rights law. ↗

— Iris Chang

#back #born #china #chinese #civil

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#every #opportunity #optimist #pessimist #sees

Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance and make a seeming difficulty gives way. ↗

— Jeremy Collier

#countenance #difficulty #gives #make #out

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later. ↗

— Confucius

#difficulty #first #his #interest #later

The difficulty with any sort of esteem is that more is expected of you. ↗

— Judi Dench

#difficulty #esteem #expected #more #sort

The fundamental laws necessary for the mathematical treatment of a large part of physics and the whole of chemistry are thus completely known, and the difficulty lies only in the fact that application of these laws leads to equations that are too complex to be solved. ↗

— Paul Dirac

#chemistry #completely #complex #difficulty #equations

People think the gold medal is yours and they say you're going to win - but they have no idea how hard it is. People aren't doing it negatively - they're mostly lovely and they really do want you to win - but they don't understand the difficulty and intensity of competition. ↗

— Jessica Ennis

#difficulty #doing #going #gold #gold medal