For example, in painting the form arises from abstract elements of line and color, while in cinema the material concreteness of the image within the frame presents - as an element - the greatest difficulty in manipulation.
~By Sergei Eisenstein ~
Perhaps, to the uninformed, it may appear unaccountable that a man should be able to retain in his memory such a variety of learning; but the close alliance with each other, of the different branches of science, will explain the difficulty.
~By Marcus V. Pollio ~
The complaint of bad pay, and difficulty in obtaining it, is almost generally reiterated through every department of education.
~By Joseph Lancaster ~
Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.
~By Edgar Degas ~
With European powers no new subjects of difficulty have arisen, and those which were under discussion, although not terminated, do not present a more unfavorable aspect for the future preservation of that good understanding which it has ever been our desire to cultivate.
~By Martin Van Buren ~
A man's love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.
~By Anthony Trollope ~
The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.
~By Alan Watts ~
Little Sparta is a garden in the traditional sense. It is perhaps not like other modern gardens, but I think that other times would have had no difficulty with it.
~By Ian Hamilton Finlay ~
But whatever the POV, and the difficulty of forcing the action into a particular frame, stay within it.
~By Arthur Herzog ~
The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.
~By Henry Home ~
The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.
~By Peter De Vries ~
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
~By George Santayana ~
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
~By Marcus Fabius Quintilian ~
A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
~By St. Jerome ~
Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness - a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster - children into strength and athletic proportion.
~By William C. Bryant ~
After saying yes to Turkey, the EU is having difficulty finding clear and consistent grounds for saying no to other, still more remote candidates - but being in the general vicinity of Europe does seem to be a continuing requirement.
~By Timothy Garton Ash ~
Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.
~By Chanakya ~
The fuss that actors began making about the difficulty of shifting to sound struck me as perfectly foolish.
~By Gloria Swanson ~
Given the difficulty of resisting such temptations over the longer run, a proper concern for the welfare of congressional souls may well be the ultimate argument in favor of term limitations.
~By James L. Buckley ~
Sometimes my mother had difficulty communicating with me about certain topics.
~By Gloria Estefan ~
A system of education, which would not gratify this disposition in any party, is requisite, in order to obviate the difficulty, and the reader will find a something said to that purpose in perusing this tract.
~By Joseph Lancaster ~
Now the difficulty with those warnings is that they were not specific.
~By Lee H. Hamilton ~
If most people are not willing to see the difficulty, this is mainly because, consciously or unconsciously, they assume that it will be they who will settle these questions for the others, and because they are convinced of their own capacity to do this.
~By Friedrich August von Hayek ~
We're under the Arts Council under the Minister for the Arts. The Minister for the Arts and the Minister for Industrial Development have great difficulty in agreeing over who should fund what in terms of film.
~By Ann Macbeth ~
Almost any difficulty will move in the face of honesty. When I am honest I never feel stupid. And when I am honest I am automatically humble.
~By Hugh Prather ~
The problem to solve is, whether a single or a double government would be most advantageous; and, in considering that point, I am met by this difficulty - that I cannot see that the present form of government is a double government at all.
~By Richard Cobden ~
The difficulty is capturing surprise on film.
~By F. Murray Abraham ~
Of course, we also have the responsibility to win games and the difficulty in the job is to combine both.
~By Arsene Wenger ~
The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted.
~By Samuel Smiles ~
A lot of these industries are having difficulty finding reliable workers with the skills they require.
~By Jerry Rubin ~
I really worked to try and be creative enough on the guitar parts so those who aren't real educated would know that there was some difficulty in doing it.
~By Brad Paisley ~
The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
~By Epicurus ~
An insuperable obstacle to rapid transit in Africa is the want of carriers, and as speed was the main object of the Expedition under my command, my duty was to lessen this difficulty as much as possible.
~By Henry Morton Stanley ~
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
~By Winston Churchill ~
A major difficulty is that the answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx is partly a product of the answers that we already have given to the riddle in its various forms.
~By Gregory Bateson ~
Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy.
~By Pope Paul VI ~
In terms of the character itself, I can't really say that I find anything really difficult. I enjoy the character so much I don't perceive difficulty in trying to be him. It's just a matter of how do we get there.
~By Ron Glass ~
I have no difficulty with the recognition of civil unions for non-traditional relationships but I believe in law we should protect the traditional definition of marriage.
~By Stephen Harper ~
A prince who will not undergo the difficulty of understanding must undergo the danger of trusting.
~By George Savile ~
What we're seeing early on is Democrats rallying around Al Gore, Republicans rallying around George Bush and the difficulty of anybody else to get any room in the race.
~By Stuart Rothenberg ~
The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capital... the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining capital, and thereby the strength and potential for growth in the economy.
~By John F. Kennedy ~
The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty.
~By Samuel Smiles ~
The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees.
~By Douglas Adams ~
Rocket science has been mythologized all out of proportion to its true difficulty.
~By John Carmack ~
To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.
~By Lao Tzu ~
I suppose that every time there is difficulty. I remember about Space Mountain: It took us ten years before we found the technology that would allow such a ride. And during these ten years, I had a model that I kept, waiting for the technology we needed.
~By John Hench ~
The difficulty with becoming a patient is that as soon as you get horizontal, part of your being yearns, not for a doctor, but for a medicine man.
~By Shana Alexander ~
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
~By Winston Churchill ~
Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.
~By Niels Bohr ~
It's often difficult for us to act compassionately, but sacred art eases the difficulty by ennobling us.
~By Huston Smith ~
It seems that the greatest difficulty is to find the end. Don't try to find it, it's there already.
~By Tom Cora ~
I think the biggest difficulty is that when I'm here in America, there's a necessity of using English, so I really have a great sense of really wanting to learn, but unfortunately when I head back to Japan, the necessity vanishes and so does my enthusiasm about learning.
~By Chiaki Kuriyama ~
It's the difficulty we had with Mr. Bean, actually, when it went from TV to film. You certainly discover that you need to explain more about a character.
~By Rowan Atkinson ~
The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.
~By Zane Grey ~
It is a high patriotic duty that we support and sustain the men who have been placed in position of difficulty, burden, responsibility, and even danger as the result of our suffrages.
~By Bainbridge Colby ~
The chief difficulty which prevents men of science from believing in divine as well as in nature Spirits is their materialism.
~By H. P. Blavatsky ~
I have a great deal of difficulty with those who live in a hugely prosperous country telling people in the developing world that they should be deprived of a critical source of energy.
~By Lee R. Raymond ~
This is the problem for which revolutionary theory has yet to find the right solution, if there is one. The difficulty is that the economic interests of the two classes are antagonistic.
~By Garet Garrett ~
I think one ages and one dates. I tend to have a good deal of difficulty in liking some of the new poets.
~By James Laughlin ~
Give yourself an even greater challenge than the one you are trying to master and you will develop the powers necessary to overcome the original difficulty.
~By William Bennett ~
The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.
~By Homer ~
I remember the difficulty we had in the beginning replacing magnetic cores in memories and eventually we had both cost and performance advantages. But it wasn't at all clear in the beginning.
~By Gordon Moore ~
The difficulty with the present state of affairs is that there is no legislation on the sources of funding for the Polish film industry. There is no legislation concerning filmmaking. And, there is no legislation on television that would be beneficial to filmmaking.
~By Andrzej Wajda ~
Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood.
~By Saint Aurelius Augustine ~
You have very accurately described the difficulty of presenting my books on film: many of my characters are alone most of the time, and when they do talk, what they say is mostly lies. That can make for a pretty confusing film.
~By Thomas Perry ~
Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.
~By Charles Caleb Colton ~
One would think that in writing about literary men and matters there would be no difficulty in finding a title for one's essay, or that any embarrassment which might arise would be from excess of material. I find this, however, far from being the case.
~By James Payn ~
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
The difficulty of writing a good theatre play set in new reality was even greater given that the level of similitude to life that is allowed in a film would not work on the stage.
~By Andrzej Wajda ~
I know my own soul, how feeble and puny it is: I know the magnitude of this ministry, and the great difficulty of the work; for more stormy billows vex the soul of the priest than the gales which disturb the sea.
~By John Chrysostom ~
In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men the great difficulty lies in this: You must first enable the government to control the governed, and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.
~By Alexander Hamilton ~
Have the courage to face a difficulty lest it kick you harder than you bargain for.
~By Stanislaus I ~
The best opinion now is, that there are multitudinous forms which are not sufficiently differentiated to be distinctively either plant or animal, while, as respects ordinary plants and animals, the difficulty of laying down a definition has become far greater than ever before.
~By Asa Gray ~
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
~By Abraham Lincoln ~
Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.
~By Edward R. Murrow ~
Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.
~By Thomas Beecham ~
In that sense, film is superior, but the difficulty is your lack of control as a writer.
~By Terry Southern ~
The accumulation of skill and science which has been directed to diminish the difficulty of producing manufactured goods, has not been beneficial to that country alone in which it is concentrated; distant kingdoms have participated in its advantages.
~By Charles Babbage ~
What parent has it easy? I just never make the difficulty of it an obstacle. I just do it.
~By Marlee Matlin ~
Russia is a part of European culture. Therefore, it is with difficulty that I imagine NATO as an enemy.
~By Vladimir Putin ~
The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
~By John Berger ~
By no means do I anticipate screening those who come on to campus... And I have no difficulty if a bishop across the country or some local pastor may say that's not Catholic teaching - that's fine.
~By William P. Leahy ~
The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.
~By John Maynard Keynes ~
The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
~By Epictetus ~
Let there be no illusions about the difficulty of forming this kind of a national community. It's tough, difficult, not easy. But a spirit of harmony will survive in America only if each of us remembers that we share a common destiny.
~By Barbara Jordan ~
No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.
~By J. P. Morgan ~
God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan by which great blessing can come out of the difficulty.
~By Peter Marshall ~
It is fatal for any body of workers to have forever hanging from the fringes of its skirts other bodies on a level just below its own; for that means continual pressure downward, additional difficulty to be overcome in the struggle to maintain reasonable rates of wages.
~By Florence Kelley ~
And from the first time I picked up a basketball at age eight - I had a lot of difficulty when I first picked up a basketball, because I was a scrub - there were things that I liked about it.
~By Julius Erving ~
Because of the tension and difficulty, I remember trying to do the silliest things when we weren't rolling cameras, anything to lift the spirits. But once on set, it was important to have full concentration.
~By Madeleine Stowe ~
The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.
~By Arthur Schopenhauer ~
The best way to avoid a bad action is by doing a good one, for there is no difficulty in the world like that of trying to do nothing.
~By John Clare ~
Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty.
~By Henri Frederic Amiel ~
I can't recall any difficulty in making the C language definition completely open - any discussion on the matter tended to mention languages whose inventors tried to keep tight control, and consequent ill fate.
~By Dennis Ritchie ~
The greatest difficulty with the world is not its ability to produce, but the unwillingness to share.
~By Roy L. Smith ~
I have always believed that I should have had no difficulty in causing my rights to be respected.
~By Eli Whitney ~
Owing to the difficulty of obtaining horses, Mr. Henry returns from this place. In descending the Mississippi I will request him to pay his respects to you.
~By Zebulon Pike ~
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.
~By Paul Dirac ~
Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models.
~By Bill Bradley ~
I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty.
~By James A. Garfield ~
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