You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if it's too difficult for grown-ups, you write it for children.
Without effective protection of the citizens' right to property, it will be difficult to attract and accumulate valuable capital.
The ability to suspend reality and go into a make-believe world can be really, really difficult if there's something really big going on.
I can inhabit any character in a way that is difficult to do successfully in a contemporary novel.
It is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is often exceedingly difficult to find this out.
I'm controlling, and I want everything orderly, and I need lists. My mind goes a mile a minute. I'm difficult on every single level.
For everything in life there is always a beginning and an end. This is the tough part the most difficult thing when you see that it’s coming: The end.
Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases.
I embraced, I think, the process of becoming No. 1 of the world, which was long and difficult, but it's sweeter in the end.
Boys in bands are more difficult to deal with than one-year-old babies. I've been one of them, and I am one of them, but it is the truth.
It is easy to love but difficult to forget, so love every moment to create an enormous unforgettable memory.
I don't know if music can change the world overnight but I know that music can help someone make it through a difficult night.
When people talk about their God, it is difficult to know what they actually mean, and when people talk about their atheism, it is usually incomprehensible also.
I may be a public figure, but really, I'm just like a guy who could be in your family and have some difficult things happen to him.
However, writing software without defects is not sufficient. In my experience, it is at least as difficult to write software that is safe - that is, software that behaves reasonably under adverse conditions.
We've become slaves to words like 'local,' 'fresh,' and 'seasonal.' We all want to be Thomas Jefferson's agrarian hero, but sustainable food is a difficult beast.
I think family is very important in West Virginia and has long been so because the mountains made travel difficult in the past, and family members had to depend on each other.
I tried to keep it secret, but the story got into the newspapers. It was more difficult for my family, who couldn't understand why the media wouldn't leave me in peace.
I find people who want to help other people to be the most interesting. I come from a family of teachers, and my friends are teachers, often times in very difficult school situations.
I grew up in a family that was very barbed and difficult, and there was a lot of humor. None of it was painless humor. All of it was at someone else's expense. It was kind of always about power.
The reason why it is so difficult for existing firms to capitalize on disruptive innovations is that their processes and their business model that make them good at the existing business actually make them bad at competing for the disruption.
