Top 100 The Most Difficult Thing Quotes
#1. The most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious.
Dick Gregory
#2. I think the most difficult thing had been scaling the infrastructure. Trying to support the response we had received from our users and the number of people that were interested in using the software.
Shawn Fanning
#3. The most difficult thing about writing; is writing the first line.
Amit Kalantri
#4. 'Swan Lake' is the most difficult thing to portray for a female ballet dancer; it really requires such specific qualities of articulation, agility, strength, and the arm work is something that takes a lot of training.
Benjamin Millepied
#5. To be a gluten-free vegan is, like, the most difficult thing you can possibly be.
Zooey Deschanel
#6. The most difficult thing a failure can do is accept his identity or status
Nathanael Kanyinga
#7. Only the four corners of the background remained. It was terribly difficult to fix my eyes on all of them at the same time. My experience was that the most difficult thing of all in art is painting in all four corners at the same time.
Arnulf Rainer
#8. To combine telling an interesting story with brilliantly written characters is the most difficult thing to do.
Greg McHugh
#9. Comedy is the most difficult thing to do. Easily the most difficult.
Christopher Lee
#10. It's never easy to write a song. It's the most difficult thing I do.
Sting
#11. In an artist's life, death is perhaps not the most difficult thing.
Vincent Van Gogh
#12. The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.
Thales
#13. Josh Billings said, It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too. Human beings have always employed an enormous variety of clever devices for running away from themselves, and the modern world is particularly rich in such stratagems.
John W. Gardner
#14. To get the hippie out of certain characters is probably the most difficult thing for me. I was not a hippie by choice but by birth.
Melissa Leo
#15. Spiritual realization is theoretically the easiest thing and in practice the most difficult thing there is. It is the easiest because it is enough to think of God. It is the most difficult because human nature is forgetfulness of God.
Frithjof Schuon
#16. As Rilke says, there are no classes for beginners in life, the most difficult thing is always asked of one right away.
James Salter
#17. The most difficult thing in this world is to adopt the spirit and attitude of a warrior. It is no use being sad, complaining, feeling unjustly treated, and believing someone is doing something negative. No one is doing anything, and certainly not to a warrior.
Paulo Coelho
#18. That is the most difficult thing of all. It is far more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself correctly, then you are truly a man of wisdom.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#19. The most difficult thing for me is to leave the New Jersey Devils, a great organization that I have a lot of respect for, and our fans that have been great to me.
Ilya Kovalchuk
#20. The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.
Amelia Earhart
#21. The most difficult thing I have ever had to do is follow the guidance I prayed for.
Albert Schweitzer
#22. I find that the most difficult thing in prose narrative is linking one thing with the other. The link might just be a sentence, or even a word. It sums up what has gone before and prepares one for what is to come.
V.S. Naipaul
#23. To punish is the most difficult thing there is. A society such as ours needs to question every aspect of punishment as it is practiced everywhere: in the army, the schools, the factories.
Michel Foucault
#24. Certainly the plagiarism, and dealing with the fallout of it, was the most difficult thing I've ever faced since I started writing.
Nora Roberts
#25. In Buddhism balance is the most difficult thing, because it is overlooked.
Frederick Lenz
#26. I think that the most difficult thing is allowing yourself to be loved, so receiving the love and feeling like you deserve it is a pretty big struggle. I suppose that's what I've learnt recently, to allow myself to be loved.
Nicole Kidman
#27. 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.
Seve Ballesteros
#28. I know I must trust, even when it's the most difficult thing to do.
Jaye L. Knight
#29. If you read a part that you want to play, and you already know you have actors you want to work with but it's not on the page, it's not going to be on the screen. So that is the most difficult thing to do for a producer, is to get a script that attracts this kind of talent.
Jerry Bruckheimer
#30. Being a champion and staying that way is the most difficult thing to deal with. Everyone sees you as a target. They want to bring you down.
Tomoki Kameda
#31. Giving interviews is the most difficult thing about being a gymnast.
Gina Gogean
#32. Bipolar and its accompanying symptoms and behavior presentations are a medical condition, not a moral or character flaw! This is the most difficult thing for people to understand.
Aspen Morrow
#33. It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.
Josh Billings
#34. The most difficult thing asked by our young is not our earnings but our ears.
Malcolm Forbes
#36. To change, that is the most difficult thing to accomplish.
Isabelle Adjani
#37. Usually, the most difficult thing to do is photo-real stuff. Something that has to actually look like the real world, because it's just so difficult to do that. We're just so used to looking at the real world, our brains instantly see when something is not quite right.
Dave McKean
#39. The most difficult thing about an easy match is to make a weak opponent play bad football.
Johan Cruijff
#40. The most difficult thing is to recognize that sometimes we too are blinded by our own incentives. Because we don't see how our conflicts of interest work on us.
Dan Ariely
#41. The most difficult thing in baseball is to be consistent. You can have one good year, but if the next is bad you're defrauding everyone.
Francisco Rodriguez
#42. Landing the airplane I think is the most difficult thing that I've every learned to do in my life.
James Lipton
#43. Making a decision to sell is the most difficult thing we do.
Walter Schloss
#44. The most difficult thing in any negotiation, almost, is making sure that you strip it of the emotion and deal with the facts. And there was a considerable challenge to that here and understandably so.
Howard Baker
#46. It's easy to make something with a million style-lines. Simplicity is the most difficult thing to achieve, and that's how I approach design - very minimal, pare it down, perfect.
Keith Michael
#47. The most difficult thing about being well known? Getting out of a hotel room at 4am.
Jack Nicholson
#48. I just want to be healthy and stay alive and keep my family going and everything and keep my friends going and try to do something so that this world will be peaceful. That is the most ambitious and the most difficult thing, but I'm there trying to do it.
Yoko Ono
#49. Boxing has been the most difficult thing I've ever done. The biggest challenge in my life. I was a boxer. That was hard. Everything else is pretty easy.
George Foreman
#50. Do the most difficult thing if that is what will pay you. Dust the Rust if you Must. Success never comes with ease.
Israelmore Ayivor
#51. To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.
Oscar Wilde
#52. The most difficult thing for me is a portrait. You have to try and put your camera between the skin of a person and his shirt.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
#53. I always believed in the YouTube community and myself. I saw something there. The most difficult thing was others not believing in me. I had a lot of friends in Los Angeles who really thought I was crazy for leaving a steady acting job to start on YouTube.
Rosanna Pansino
#54. Probably the greatest challenge and the most difficult thing you will face in mortal life is to learn to control your thoughts. In the Bible it says, as a man "thinketh in his heart, so is he." Those who can control their thoughts have conquered themselves.
Boyd K. Packer
#55. The courage to be is the most difficult thing for any human being.
Cornel West
#56. The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.
Leo Buscaglia
#57. But anyone who's done a musical knows; whether you're dancing or not, physically it's the most difficult thing you can do.
Hugh Jackman
#58. I just think the most difficult thing to displace is privilege.
Sean Connery
#59. Perhaps the most difficult thing is shooting scenes set 6,000 feet up in the mountains of Mexico.
Bruce Beresford
#60. The most DIFFICULT thing for individuals to do when they become part of a team is to sacrifice, it is much EASIER to be selfish.
Pat Riley
#61. The most difficult thing is what is thought to be the simplest; to really see the things which are before your eyes.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#62. Surrender is the most difficult thing in the world while you are doing it and the easiest when it is done.
Bhai Sahib Singh
#63. Getting started is the most difficult thing to do; once you file it out, they rest of the journey is as soft as the straw. Be a good beginner.
Israelmore Ayivor
#64. I found the most difficult thing when you became successful - when I had the record album, it won Album of the Year - that you were cut off from the source of your material. Your material was everyday people, and you were kind of cut off from that, and you had to work at it.
Bob Newhart
#65. Rejection is the most difficult thing to over come !!
Harsha
#66. The most difficult thing about my job is that I do a lot of 19-hour days. It's really difficult to have a life, never mind a relationship. I don't have any regrets, really. I'm quite content. I'm very stubborn and persistent. I just keep working.
Kim Cattrall
#67. Having a true faith is the most difficult thing in the world. Many will try to take it from you.
Steve Prefontaine
#68. Of course the most difficult thing on the violin is always intonation. The second one is rhythm. If you play in tune, in time with a good sound that's already high level. Those three are the main things.
Ruggiero Ricci
#69. The great sage Thales once put the general matter succinctly "Oh master," he was asked, "what is the most difficult thing to do?" "To know thyself", he replied. "And the easiest?" "To give advice to others.
Robert Trivers
#70. The most difficult thing in music is still to write a melody of several bars which can be self-sufficient. That is the secret of music. While the technique should be as perfected as possible, that is a lesser essential Anybody can acquire a brilliant technique Melody alone permits a work to survive.
Darius Milhaud
#71. For me, the most difficult thing is that I am learning melodies on guitar from some songs whose melodies were not meant to be played on guitar. Ever. They were intended mostly for keyboards or melodic percussion.
Dweezil Zappa
#72. Accept yourself as you are. And that is the most difficult thing in the world, because it goes against your training, education, your culture.
Rajneesh
#73. The most difficult thing to adjust to, apparently, is peace and contentment.
Henry Miller
#74. The most difficult thing is the organization of people and the expression of your intentions. It's very easy to have a picture in your head and to imagine that you've told everybody about what you need.
Neil Jordan
#75. Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.
George Sand
#76. But I think traveling around and going around the world and making arrangements for moving around is the most difficult thing, 'cuz you don't know what's going to happen.
Brian Epstein
#77. Sometimes the most difficult thing to do is to believe in yourself, the reason it is so hard is because it is worth it.
Tonny K. Brown
#78. It is rightly said that the most difficult thing in chess is winning a won position
Vladimir Kramnik
#79. The trick to not getting mired in the past and missing out on the future lies solely in our ability to let go and move on, yet this seems to be the most difficult thing in the world for most people (including myself) to do.
Mandy Hale
#80. The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch someone else do it wrong without comment.
T.H. White
#82. The mind is crazy thing. To be focused is the most difficult thing.
Marina Abramovic
#83. The most difficult thing for a wise woman to do is to pretend to be a foolish one.
W. Somerset Maugham
#84. One day he will be in my place and what he will learn then is that trying and holding on are complicated and challenging things, but the most difficult thing in life is to love fiercely and then let go.
Twinkle Khanna
#85. Then you shall judge yourself," answered the king. "That is the most difficult thing of all. It is far more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself rightly, then indeed you are very wise.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#86. Maintaining marriage seems to be tougher than fatherhood: apparently it's the most difficult thing in the world.
Kelly Slater
#87. Sell is tough. It's the worst, it's the most difficult thing of all.
Walter Schloss
#88. Crowds are the most difficult thing for me these days because I have to walk with my head down and my eyes averted. There's still that part of me that wants to hold my head up, make eye contact and smile.
Cameron Diaz
#89. The most difficult thing about Time, I have learned, is doing it.
Roger Zelazny
#91. I am facing the most difficult thing of my life, my own greatest failure.
Richard Paul Evans
#92. I fantasise about what the future could be in terms of aesthetic and psychology. It's the most difficult thing to do because you have to start from the past - your favourite architect, your favourite song - you take it all with you.
Raf Simons
#93. I think comedy is the most difficult thing in the world, I really do.
Martha Graham
#94. The most difficult thing to understand during conversation is silence.
Henry David Thoreau
#95. Perfection is something we should all strive for. It's a duty and a joy to perfect one's nature ... The most difficult thing is love. A loveless, driving person that just competes in the rat race is far from perfection in my book.
R.D. Laing
#96. People are the most difficult thing in the world to change
Gena Showalter
#97. I've been living for 17 years, and I've noticed human relations is the most difficult thing to understand ...
Seohyun
#98. The worst, the most difficult thing I think is that the more you become intrigued by science and the information is out there, the more you are aware of the paucity of your own knowledge.
Robin Ince
#99. You have to tell your children about the world they live in, about the discrepancies, about the things that don't work ... So you have to bring it up with a scientific orientation so they learn to ask questions, and learn how to say the most difficult thing in the world: 'I don't know'.
Jacque Fresco
#100. The most difficult thing is to know what we do know, and what we do not know.
P.D. Ouspensky
