Top 100 Difficult Task Quotes
#1. I said kiss me again." A sultry smile curved her lips. "Would that be such a difficult task to perform?"
Christ almighty, she wanted him to kiss her again. And she was ordering him to do so.
Monica Burns
#2. Add-1 with four digits caused a larger dilation than the task of holding seven digits for immediate recall. Add-3, which is much more difficult,
Daniel Kahneman
#3. Of course, running a coalition government in a country like India is a difficult task. More so when Congress leads the coalition, since most of the political parties were anti-Congress. To have a coalition, to run a coalition government, you require a lot of adjustments, a lot of flexibility.
Pranab Mukherjee
#5. My first biography written in '73 was not 'Journey To The Moon.' It was 'Return To Earth.' Because for me, that was the more difficult task - disappointment.
Buzz Aldrin
#6. We are used to thinking of doctoring as a solitary, intellectual task. But making medicine go right is less often like making a difficult diagnosis than like making sure everyone washes their hands.
Atul Gawande
#7. Well she was bright; and she danced ... And my function in life was to keep that bright thing in existence. And it was almost as difficult as trying to catch with your hand that dancing reflection. And the task lasted for years.
Ford Madox Ford
#8. No other task in this world is as difficult as understanding a woman and her mind.
Mosiur Rehman
#9. It is not a very difficult task to make what is commonly called an amusing book of travels. Any one who will tell, with a reasonable degree of graphic effect, what he has seen, will not fail to carry the reader with him; for the interest we all feel in personal adventure is, of itself, success.
James Fenimore Cooper
#10. There are many causes of violent deaths in America - murders and traffic accidents - that we do not approach with the same 'no price too steep, no task too difficult' approach that we take toward al Qaeda.
Dennis C. Blair
#11. My task as a language arts teacher is to provide texts that are not so difficult that my students shut down in frustration and not so easy that my students don't push their thinking.
Kimberly Hill Campbell
#12. They cannot understand that the figure of a laborer - some furrows in a plowed field, a bit of sand, sea and sky - are serious objects, so difficult but at the same time so beautiful, that it is indeed worth while to devote one's life to the task of expressing the poetry hidden in them.
Brenda Ueland
#13. To sense when a teenager needs understanding and when misunderstanding is a difficult and delicate task. The sad truth is that no matter how wise we are, we cannot be right for any length of time in our teenagers' eyes.
Haim Ginott
#14. But also out here in this dreary, difficult war, I think history will record that this may have been one of Americas finest hours, because we took a difficult task and we succeeded.
Richard M. Nixon
#15. You can remove someone from your mind, but the most difficult task is removing them from your heart. No matter how bad a nigga treats you, once you love him, that love for him still misses him when he's gone.
Jessica Watkins
#16. No matter how difficult a task may look.. Persistence and steady action will get you through
Lucretius
#17. Fate being unfavorable( or without god's grace, even an easy task becomes difficult to accomplish)
Chanakya
#18. Unless we repeal the illegal Byrd amendment, American exports will be vulnerable to retaliation, and the U.S. will continue to face a difficult task convincing other countries to make their laws comply with international rules.
Jim Ramstad
#19. A guest is really good or bad because of the host or hostess who makes being a guest an easy or a difficult task.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#20. The greatest and most difficult task of a writer is bridging the gap between reality ... and the unimaginable
Jason W. Blair
#21. A woman can make a man feel older or younger than his years if she so chooses. Being a woman is a terribly difficult task since it consists principally in dealing with men. Women were made with a sense of humor so they could love men instead of laughing at them.
Will Rogers
#22. Overcoming the world. And thus finding it. For we must not only be in it and above it, but of it too. To love it for what it is- how difficult! And yet it's the first, the only task. Evade it, and you are lost. Lose yourself in it and you are free.
Henry Miller
#23. We will not put a lid on opinions. On the contrary, it is more important than ever that political debates are open and free, even on the most difficult issues. Especially on the most difficult issues. The task is to encourage controversial debates in a form that strengthens democracy.
Jens Stoltenberg
#25. How teach again, however, what has been taught correctly and incorrectly learned a thousand thousand times, throughout the millenniums of mankind's prudent folly? That is the hero's ultimate difficult task.
Joseph Campbell
#26. The future is in your hearts and in your hands. God is entrusting to you the task, at once difficult and uplifting, of working with Him in the building of the civilization of love.
Pope John Paul II
#27. How difficult the task to quench the fire and the pride of private ambition, and to sacrifice ourselves and all our hopes and expectations to the public weal! How few have souls capable of
so noble an undertaking!
Abigail Adams
#28. You may have been too quick to admit the difficulty of a specific task. The question is "how many times have you tried dealing with it"? Don't say it's difficult if you haven't tried it!
Israelmore Ayivor
#29. To give another person the benefit of the doubt was about as difficult an everyday task as anyone faced.
Owen King
#30. If you have to eat two frogs, eat the ugliest one first.
This is another way of saying that if you have two important tasks before you, start with the biggest, hardest, and most important task first.
Brian Tracy
#31. Don't change yourself for anyone, you may struggle a lot to do so...
When you are completely changed, people wants the old one to get back again, which would be a difficult task ever for you...
Giridhar Alwar
#32. The most original thing a writer can do is write like himself. It is also his most difficult task.
Robertson Davies
#33. It is not so difficult a task as to plant new truths, as to root out old errors
Charles Caleb Colton
#34. I have been cautioned to talk but be careful not to say anything. I do not consider this a difficult task.
Mark Twain
#35. The more we try to improve our schools, the heavier the teaching task becomes; and the better our teaching methods the more difficult they are to apply.
Jean Piaget
#36. To be enlightened is to be aware, always, of total reality in its immanent otherness - to be aware of it and yet remain in a condition to survive as an animal. Our goal is to discover that we have always been where we ought to be. Unhappily we make the task exceedingly difficult for ourselves.
Aldous Huxley
#37. The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.
Soren Kierkegaard
#38. Students frequently misbehave because they (1) want and need attention from adults and peers, (2) are trying to avoid a difficult or unpleasant task (too difficult, too easy, too boring), or (3) for some older students, revenge.
Barbara D. Bateman
#39. I am deeply impressed with the gravity and wisdom with which most federal judges approach the responsibility of sentencing. It is a difficult, soul-searching task at best.
Robert Kennedy
#40. For one human being to love another human being: that is perhaps the most difficult task that has been given to us, the ultimate, the final problem and proof, the work for which all other work is merely preparation.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#41. The possibility for such collective healing holds tremendous transformative power that remains as yet untapped. It is difficult for people to imagine the freedom and energy that would be released if our society were to seriously embrace this task of collective gender healing in community.
William Keepin
#42. This is probably the most difficult task we have ever given ourselves, which is to intentionally transform the economic development model, for the first time in human history.
Christiana Figueres
#43. There's a rapport that any photographer is going to have with his subject matter. And if you don't have a rapport, you're going to find the task of photographing it difficult.
Bruce Barnbaum
#44. The layman always means, when he says reality that he is speaking of something self-evidently known; whereas to me it seems the most important and exceedingly difficult task of our time is to work on the construction of a new idea of reality.
Wolfgang Pauli
#45. It is always easy to shine in the dark mud! Choose the difficult task: Amongst the pearls under the sun, try to shine more than them!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#46. With a novel, you're the director and the screenwriter and everything else, except that you have to write it knowing it will all be performed inside the head of the reader. So it's a difficult and lonely task.
Jason Henderson
#47. It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors; for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favor of that which is old.
Charles Caleb Colton
#48. The task of the strategist and leadership team is to reduce uncertainty in the areas that they can directly influence in order to pursue attractively difficult objectives.
Max McKeown
#49. It takes time to change established mindset. It is a difficult task. But we have five years. This is not about Modi ... Modi is only one of its 1.2 billion people ... This is a people's task.
Narendra Modi
#50. When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
#52. I think directing yourself is a monumental task. Just to self edit as an actor, you work for some directors who don't give you a lot of feedback so you have to do that. That's a difficult thing to do as an actor.
Ashton Kutcher
#53. Yes, it's a man's world, but that's all right because they're making a total mess of it. We're chipping away at their control, taking the parts we want. Some women think it's a difficult task, but it's not.
Cher
#54. When we are working at a difficult task and strive after a good thing, we are fighting a righteous battle, the direct reward of which is that we are kept from much evil.
Vincent Van Gogh
#55. I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.
Andrew Carnegie
#56. The achievement of psychological maturity is an individual task-and so is increasingly difficult today when man's individuality is threatened by widespread conformity.
C. G. Jung
#57. The difficult task of knowing another soul is not for young gentleman whose consciousness is chiefly made up of their own wishes.
George Eliot
#58. I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement.
Ovid
#59. Whenever I have endured or accomplished some difficult task
such as watching television, going out socially or sleeping
I always look forward to rewarding myself with the small pleasure of getting back to my typewriter and writing something.
Isaac Asimov
#60. If architecture had nothing to do with art, it would be astonishingly easy to build houses, but the architect's task - his most difficult task - is always that of selecting.
Arne Jacobsen
#62. To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after than to explain all things by conjecture without making sure of any thing.
Isaac Newton
#63. What is to be sought in designs for the display of information is the clear portrayal of complexity. Not the complication of the simple; rather the task of the designer is to give visual access to the subtle and the difficult - that is, revelation of the complex.
Edward Tufte
#64. It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
William James
#65. Try to tell the people of America about Dr. Gerson's merits and ... results ... I wish you the best in your difficult task.
Albert Schweitzer
#66. My friends, this body - perhaps more than any other gathering in human history - now faces that difficult task.
Leonardo DiCaprio
#67. If you start to revise before you've reached the end, you're likely to begin dawdling with the revisions and putting off the difficult task of writing.
Pearl S. Buck
#68. If Jesus gives us a task or assigns us to a difficult season, every ounce of our experience is meant for our instruction and completion if only we'll let Him finish the work. I fear, however, that we are so attention-deficit that we settle for bearable when beauty is just around the corner.
Beth Moore
#69. Once we realize that the boundaries between work and play are artificial, we can take matters in hand and begin the difficult task of making life more livable.
Daniel H. Pink
#70. Most sports require you to master the movements of only your own body to be successful. The combat grappling arts, such as jujitsu, require you to become the master not only of your own movement but also that of your opponent - a far more difficult and complex task.
Renzo Gracie
#71. To explicate the uses of the Brain seems as difficult a task as to paint the Soul, of which it is commonly said, that it understands all things but itself.
Thomas Willis
#72. It is an incredibly difficult task to lead people from self-centered consumerism to being servant-hearted Christians. It is not a task for fainthearted ministers or those who don't like to get their religious robes wrinkled. But it is what the Great Commission is all about
Rick Warren
#73. The question really is how do we get Embassy Officers into the minds of the American business community. That is a much more difficult task than understanding a statistical matrix.
Lawrence Eagleburger
#74. I leave to the militarists the difficult task of trying to explain to us how these wars have served to shape character or to promote the progress of civilization or to achieve the reign of justice on earth. So far, they have not come forward with the explanation.
Elie Ducommun
#75. The reformer," Douglass explained in 1883, had "a difficult and disagreeable task before him. He has to part with old friends; break away from the beaten paths of society, and advance against the vehement protests of the most sacred sentiments of the human heart.
James Oakes
#76. We are well aware of the task ahead of us in what will be a very difficult match but which we all dream of playing.
Zinedine Zidane
#77. If you imagine that I have the smallest desire to receive your hand as a reward for having performed a difficult task to your satisfaction you're beside the bridge, my child! I've no fancy for a reluctant wife. I want your love, not your gratitude.
Georgette Heyer
#78. Every morning I offer my body, my mind and any ability that I posses, to be used by Thee, O infinite creator, in whatever way Thou dost choose to express Thyself through me. I know that all work is Thy work, and that no task is too difficult or too menial when offered to Thee in loving service.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#79. And each time the cowardice that deters us from every difficult task, every important enterprise, has urged me to leave the thing alone, to drink my tea and to think merely of the worries of today and my hopes for tomorrow, which can be brooded over painlessly.
Marcel Proust
#80. We were well aware that the end of the fighting would not automatically settle the problems arising out of the war. The establishment of peace after the fighting is over has always been a
difficult task.
Harry S. Truman
#81. Bringing 17 crore people to the doors of the bank is a huge task and I commend all the bank officials for the same. It is not difficult to open a bank branch, it is difficult to get 17 crore people to open bank accounts.
Narendra Modi
#82. Politics is so difficult, it's generally only people who aren't quite up to the task who feel convinced they are.
Alain De Botton
#83. If you are facing a difficult task don't put it off. If you do it will just keep tormenting you.
Joyce Meyer
#84. The teacher's task is not a small easy one! She has to prepare a huge amount of knowledge to satisfy the child's mental hunger. She is not like the ordinary teacher, limited by a syllabus. The needs of the child are clearly more difficult to answer.
Maria Montessori
#85. It is difficult batting in artificial light with a red ball but it's a horrible task for umpires to make a judgement, particularly if they're going by light meters.
Adam Gilchrist
#86. Interpretation is a task that we repeatedly have to take up and start again from the beginning, Sisyphus-like. But, as Camus said, we must always imagine Sisyphus happy, and this is not so difficult when it's a matter of texts that reveal important truths about being human.
George Pattison
#87. It was important to one's confidence, she'd found of late, to wear something one loved when facing a difficult task.
Manda Collins
#88. It is easy at any moment to surrender a large fortune; to build one up is a difficult and an arduous task.
Livy
#89. What we can do, we must do: we must use what we are given, and we must use it the best we can, however much or little help we have for the task. What you have been given is a hard thing
a very hard thing ... But my darling, what if there were no one who could do the difficult things?
Robin McKinley
#90. The Israeli military plays more than a critical role in defending the citizens of the Jewish state. It also plays an important social, scientific and psychological role in preparing its young citizens for the challenging task of being Israelis in a difficult world.
Alan Dershowitz
#91. I was just studying with my father, a very difficult task for me since he was a great, great Qawwali singer.
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
#92. Every difficult task that comes across your path - every one that you would rather not do, that will take the most effort, cause the most pain, and be the greatest struggle - brings a blessing with it.
Lettie B. Cowman
#93. We will liberate our country from the occupying forces and put an end to relations between Russia and the Chechen State, no matter how difficult the task may be.
Aslan Maskhadov
#94. Learn to respect a craftsman's talent, to realize that a task done well seems easy but is terribly difficult.
David Morrell
#95. I took the repeal of the Corn Laws as light amusement compared with the difficult task of inducing the priests of all denominations to agree to suffer the people to be educated.
Richard Cobden
#96. It is Easy to be a Hater. Go for the difficult Task: be a Lover!
Paulo Coelho
#97. Sometimes, I feel promoting a film is a more difficult task than acting!
Emraan Hashmi
#99. When it comes to social consequences, they've got all different people acting in different ways, very difficult to even have a proper criterion of success. So, it's a difficult task.
George Soros
#100. I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.
Mahatma Gandhi
