Basketball, in America, is like a culture. It is like a foreigner learning a new language. It is difficult to learn foreign languages and it will also be difficult for me to learn the culture for basketball here.
It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.
I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.
When a twig grows hard it is difficult to twist it. Every beginning is weak.
It's difficult to take a wolf cub without bringing in the whole pack.
Ah, it is impossible." "No, it is only very difficult - so very difficult that I shall be sure to accomplish it!
Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.
I think any kind of comic sequence is as easy and as difficult as it is written. So, if it is written well, then it becomes easy. Sometimes you find it difficult because the humour is not coming out.
Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.
Don’t confuse the complex with the difficult. Most situations are simple – many are just emotionally difficult to act upon.
Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the whole woman.
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 think we live in a culture where it is really difficult to get privacy because everything is so accessible. It's very difficult to maintain your comfortable life with a sort of mystique.
Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.
I never give in to the temptation to be difficult just for the sake of being difficult. That would be too ridiculous.
Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.
It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.
I think the fact that I'm so well known to be gay makes it very difficult to have a convincing relationship with a woman on screen. It wouldn't be at all difficult for me to kiss a woman - I'll kiss a frog if you like.
You are a child of the sun, you come from the sun, and that is something true with the Earth also... your relationship with the Earth is so deep, and the Earth is in you and this is something not very difficult, much less difficult then philosophy.
It's a very brave thing to fall in love. You have to be willing to trust somebody else with your whole being, and that's very difficult, really difficult and very brave.
I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that, my music doesn't exist without the performance-art element.